Both widowed in their 20s, couple finds love again

Jordan Rice lost his wife to cancer in 2011, after just two years of wedded bliss.

Jessica Moreland lost her husband following a motorcycle accident in 2009, two-and-a-half months after their wedding.

Fast forward to 2013, Rice and Moreland got married on June 22.

Watch their moving story below.

The video was shown at their wedding and has since gone viral.

The couple is now honeymooning in Italy.

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"I liken it to being a parent," Moreland tells ABC News of marrying again. "You love a child to death, but when you have a second child, you don't love them less."

Rice blogged about their wedding day:

"Family and friends, I’m overwhelmed in the very best of ways. I married the incredible Jessica Moreland (Rice!) this past Saturday and here’s a couple things that stood out: 1. If tears are the new macho, I’m freaking Rambo. 2. With no required proof to get a wedding certificate after being widowed, I could easily become a polygamist. 3. God’s grace to bring me this woman will forever astound me."

Rice and Moreland first met online, thanks to their respective blogs about dealing with grief and loss.

"I loved how candid she was. She described the raw emotion that I had felt on so many occasions," Rice, now 31, says of Moreland's blog. "I respected her for honouring his life. How much she adored him was something very powerful to me."

Rice friended Moreland on Facebook. Email exchanges eventually turned into dates.

"Jordan and I talked about this the first time we met — never feeling like we could be excited about a person again," 30-year-old Moreland tells ABC News. "We knew we would meet someone, but it would never be the same, and nothing could reach the pinnacle that it was before."

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"I cried as he was talking, and he got emotional as I was talking," she says of their first date. "He invited me to get together the next day."

The second date lasted six hours.

"When he left, I was flabbergasted. I knew my life was about to turn upside down," Moreland says.

Rice already knew she was the one: "I knew, 100 per cent, this was it."

Within weeks, the couple were planning a future together. To ensure they were making wise decisions "and not caught in la-la land," they sought premarital counselling with a therapist who helped Rice in the months following his wife's death.

"Either you guys are the kind of people who anticipate the other person's answer or you are the most compatible couple I have ever seen," the therapist told them after a relationship assessment test.

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The couple will make their home in New York City, where Rice preaches at Forefront Church.

"This story could have been scripted for a Lifetime movie," says Jordan's best friend of 13 years, Justin Jones-Fosu, who is in theological school in Mississippi. "They are handsome, beautiful, intelligent, quirky — but their relationship is really awesome. The fact that God could bring them together is almost too good to be true."

Rice is looking forward to a future with his new bride, knowing all too well to not take for granted each day they have together.

"We always laugh," he says. "I stare in to her eyes and feel so incredibly connected and hope and pray we have a long life together — though, that is not always promised."