Ali will then tie the knot in October 2019. The bride, who was born and raised in Ashland, Kentucky, sparkled in her white wedding dress and fought back tears as her father related how her accident left “her jaws wired shut, with tubes down her throat.” As the moving country tune from Heartland started, he grabbed the lead and said to his daughter, “I’ve been practicing my sign language, Ali,” in a tone that altered. He then gave her the original whiteboard that she had used to communicate after the accident.

Ali Kilman began crying uncontrollably as her dad wrote a song especially for her the moment Al Jones signed the ASL entrance music. As he watches his daughter run off with another man, the father sings, “I knew the love of a father runs deep, and I prayed that she’d find you someday, but it’s still hard to give her away.” Heartland’s moving 2006 country classic is the ideal choice.

The well-known film with Al and Ali addresses the requirements of deaf or hard-of-hearing parents as well as their hearing-impaired children. Perhaps the most heartbreaking and terrible wedding speech on YouTube was made much more real when the videographer admitted, “I cried as I was filming it.”