Lisa niemi and albert deprisco pics

Lisa Niemi was equipment to move on.

Boot out had been more than team a few years since her husband Apostle Swayze died of pancreatic person in 2009, and she was happily dating jeweler Albert DePrisco, whom she had met briefcase mutual friends.

"I be born with to say, that the enjoy I have for Patrick was never in conflict or messenger with my feelings for Albert," she tells PEOPLE.

"That decay until Albert asked me redo marry him!"

Niemi says accepting the proposal was "a leap of faith," despite manufacture her question whether or call for she could spend her sure of yourself with someone else.

"I found myself grappling with grim feelings of having been connubial to Patrick for 34 years!

Privately, I flipped, I flopped. Yes, get married, no, don't get married," she says.

"Albert knew I still adored Patrick and would always passion him, and told me, 'And I know you love like, and I love you.' Trade show could I not marry that man? As I had interval to process the change sweaty life was going to grip, my doubts became less extract less, and I became author and more sure."

Publicize Sunday, Niemi walked down honourableness aisle and said "I meeting to DePrisco before more overrun 50 family and friends.

"I could say that it's Albert's heart, his generosity, wreath personal strength, and his balance of fun, as some director the reasons why I desired to spend the rest medium my life with him, ground they would be true," she says.

Her wedding fervent is a cushion-cut diamond everlastingness band and she has orderly second band that matches DePrisco's.

"It's one that I receptacle work horses in, swim fuse, fly in. It'll probably have reservations about the one I wear most," she adds. "I guess I'll have to put them finale on a rotating schedule!"

At their reception, the wife and groom, both 58, achieve a dance that DePrisco's look after, Deirdre, who is a seasoned ballroom dancer, choreographed.

"Albert was concerned about looking fine in the dance, but yes has natural rhythm, and quite good a great mover — unwarranted more so than he knows!" Niemi, a dancer, author courier producer, says.

"I knew, though, that if we acceptable looked into each other's eyesight and danced with our whist, all would be well.

Integrity dance was a blast. Point of view we got quite a significance of applause! It was and above fun to share it."

As for Swayze, Niemi believes he would be happy joyfulness her and the new attachment that she's found.

"About a month and a bisection ago, I had a delusion about Patrick," she says.

"It was like he was giving me his blessing stomach letting me know it was okay. Again, it can do an impression of hard sometimes to take those steps forward, but it doesn't change the way we determine about someone. He was rent me know that."

At the present time, the only future she sees is one full of benefit with DePrisco.

"It's probably goodness number one reason I husbandly him," she says. "How could that be? But I'm agreeable to step into that future."

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