Matters of the Heart Precede Love and Marriage in Florida
Angela Horan and Gary Bergstrom met online more than six years ago. Both have overcome serious health issues she a heart transplant, he a motorcycle accident.
Angela Horan and Gary Bergstrom shared their first dance as a married couple. They wed March 20 at their seven-acre property in Myakka, Fla.Credit.Zack Wittman for The New York Times
By Tammy La Gorce
April 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In a pandemic landscape where big weddings still don’t make sense to many, the wedding that Angela Horan and Gary Bergstrom put on March 20 at their seven-acre property in Myakka, Fla., did to them, somehow. Though at the time, Floridians were being encouraged not to gather in groups of more than 10, Ms. Horan and Mr. Bergstrom said they knew most of their 300 guests had been vaccinated or had Covid antibodies. And given the magnitude of the hurdles they had scaled as a couple, they decided an extra-large celebration was worth the risk.
It wasn t the typical first date after Angela Horan and Gary Bergstrom met at Seasons 52 in Sarasota on March 17, 2015.
They had come together through the Plenty of Fish dating site, and unlike many who launch profiles, they were honest with each other about everything.
Almost everything.
Horan did leave out one important tidbit. She was wearing a control unit and battery pack that ran her left ventricular assist device. Simply put, she had a mechanically controlled heartbeat. Nowhere on her profile did it say, I am dying, Bergstrom said.
About the couple
Reside: Myakka City
Ages: Angela is 42; Gary is 53
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