Homeless Fairytale Wedding: Homeless couple marries outdoors!!

Nan Schrack and Mark Neville have been together for 14 years, the last five of them on the streets.

They've had a streak of bad, bad luck: They lost their mobile home in Seffner, Neville's job as an air conditioning mechanic dried up and day labor jobs disappeared, reports TampaBayOnline.com.

Today, Schrack, 53, has a brain aneurysm and emphysema. Neville, 58, wants a place where he can care for her and keep her safe.

Enter Jim McNeil, a church volunteer at First Presbyterian Church of Brandon who often treks up and down State Road 60 with meals and clothes for the homeless.

He set out to arrange a wedding for them.

McNeil found some proper clothes for the couple to wear, took up a collection for a set of wedding rings and arranged a small reception.

Now that the couple are legally wed, they have access to more housing programs.

Before too long, hopefully, the couple will also have a place to live, with running water and a roof, said an Americorps*Vista volunteer with the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County.

But some things never change -- the wedding was an outdoor affair.

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