Face transplant recipient marries

Fellow burns victims Dallas Wiens, right, and Jamie Nash dance during their wedding reception in Forth Worth, Texas on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Picture: Ian C. Bates Source: AP

AN AMERICAN man who received the nation's first full face transplant has married a fellow burns victim at the site where he was injured.

Dallas Wiens, 27, married Jamie Nash, 29, at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, reports The Dallas Morning News.

The couple met in 2011 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth while participating in a support group for burns victims.

Wiens had spent months in the hospital after his accident at Ridglea Baptist Church, in which his head touched a high-voltage power line. Doctors there crafted a featureless face for him that qualified him to receive a full-face transplant in a Boston hospital. Wiens has already undergone more than 30 surgeries to restore function and form to his face.

Nash received burns to 70 per cent of her body in a car crash in 2010, after texting while driving. She wore a pink gown for the ceremony that exposed the scarring on her back and arms.

Both the bride and groom have been married before and have three children, aged 5, 6 and 10, between them.

"Things happened that I didn't think ever could be possible for me, and you made them possible," Nash said, during the ceremony. "You gave me hope, and you gave me tender love that I will always treasure."

The groom, Dallas Wiens, became the first in the nation to receive a full-face transplant after a 2008 power line accident. Picture: Ian C. Bates

The couple made their entrance to the reception to Bruno Mars' Just the Way You Are.

"I think their confidence in their healing process and getting better just made them a perfect match," said Ethan Gloger, a wedding guest and member of the administrative staff in Parkland's burn unit.

Dallas Wiens weds Jamie Nash, a fellow burn victim he met at a hospital support group. Picture: Ian C. Bates

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