'Instead of walking down the aisle to our song it was played as my fiancé’s coffin was carried into the church'

 Emma Jolly and Adam Barclay had planned the perfect wedding but after complaining of headaches a brain tumour took his life before the dad of two could marry.

But only three months before the big day, doctors discovered Adam had a serious brain tumour .

The 27-year-old died on the operating table days later, before he had the chance to say goodbye to his family.
Instead of walking down the aisle to James Vincent McMorrow’s ‘Higher Love’, Emma listened to the song as her fiancé’s coffin was carried into the church.
“It was the wrong aisle,” she says. “When it went quiet, all you could hear was crying. Every grown man in that church was sobbing.”

Adam Barclay with his children

Over 400 people turned up to pay their respects at the funeral in Watford as 'petrolhead' Adam was laid to rest in a coffin decorated with pictures of his favourite car.
“We wanted a coffin that celebrated him and didn’t represent death because he was so alive,” dental nurse Emma says. “He achieved more in 27 years than many people can achieve in a lifetime.”
Emma and Adam first met through their love of cars, even having their first date in a car park six years ago.