3-year-old cancer survivor is flower girl at her bone marrow donor's wedding: 'She saved our daughter's life'
Skye Savren-McCormick was diagnosed with leukemia in 2016.
Guests were in tears earlier this month as a toddler walked down the aisle at the wedding of the woman who saved her life.
Skye Savren-McCormick, 3, served as the flower girl for bride Hayden Hatfield Ryals, 26, who was Skye's bone marrow donor.
"I always tell people they're smitten for one another," Talia Savren-McCormick told "Good Morning America" of Ryals and her young daughter. "Skye calls her 'Hay Hay.'
Savren-McCormick said that during the wedding, her daughter "stepped out and took a giant, handful of flowers and threw them on the ground. One of the bridesmaids said everyone was ugly crying."
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Skye was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia in March 2016, just before her first birthday. That same year, she had her first bone marrow transplant, from Ryals, and later, a vital infusion of cells. Skye's final transplant was April 2017.
Savren-McCormick said that Skye wouldn't have made it to her final transplant if it had not been for Ryals.
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"She was that sick," Savren-McCormick said. "I feel like Hayden is such a huge success in why Skye was able to beat leukemia."
Months after her transplant, Savren-McCormick and her husband Todd received a letter from Ryals who reached out through Be the Match, the organization to which Ryals donated her bone marrow.
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Ryals and the Savren-McCormicks exchanged texts and Facebook messages until Ryals sent Skye a gift for her third birthday. Inside the card was an invitation asking the toddler to be the flower girl at her June 9 wedding.
After Skye's doctors gave her a clear bill of health, she and her parents made the trip to Alabama. At the wedding rehearsal, Skye and Ryals embraced for the very first time.
"I walked up and I just dropped to my knees and all I could do was smile," Ryals told ABC's World News Tonight.
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Savren-McCormick said that her and Ryals' families hope to see each other again soon.
"They are going to be part of our lives forever," Savren-McCormick added. "She saved our daughter's life."