When kindergarten teacher Catie Corken married her fiance Kevin Zwier earlier this month, the 34-year-old knew she wanted to share the special event with her second family — the students and staff at Good Shepherd School in Golden Valley, Minnesota, where she has been teaching for the last nine years.
Now Catie Zwier, the bride told “Good Morning America” she was inspired to get married at the school after hearing about past teachers having students sing at their weddings, and then realized her Feb. 2 wedding would coincide with Catholic Schools Week, an annual celebration, which ran from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 this year. She took it one step further and proposed the idea of a surprise wedding on Feb. 1 at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church.
“Our principal was on board and so we called it ‘Fancy Surprise Day,'” Catie Zwier said. “The whole school was involved. The kids didn’t know. It was just a giant surprise for the whole community.”
