![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/stab-attack-mums-daughters-at-heart-of-wedding/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/127426824_mediaitem127426822.jpg&description=Image source, Natalie QueirozImage caption, Natalie Queiroz said she paddled in the sea in her wedding dressA woman who survived after being stabbed 24 times says it was "really important" to make her wedding "special" for her daughters.Natalie Queiroz, 46, was eight months pregnant when she was knifed in 2016 by a former partner in Sutton Coldfield. Her daughter who survived the attack as an unborn baby was one of the bridesmaids at Tuesday's ceremony.Ms Queiroz said the wedding in Cornwall to Simon Lyttle was "absolutely perfect".The mother-of-three said it "wasn't anything" about "what happened on March 4th" [the date of the attack].Ms Queiroz described it as a "very emotional day" at Polhawn Fort and said: "[With my daughters] we went the whole hog with the matching satin robes, matching dressing gowns, matching slippers, just really lovely. "[It was] really important to me to make it special for the girls... We've always been a tight unit."The wedding had to be with them at the heart of it."Image source, Natalie QueirozImage caption, Ms Queiroz said she found the sea "a very restorative and calming place"The couple would have got married in London, but they had two cancellations during the Covid pandemic.Thirty people attended in Cornwall, including her eldest daughter who gave her mother away and her other two girls, who were bridesmaids."[It's] our own little girls group," she said."They took me down to bring Simon into our family... they didn't give me away."In 2016 the mother suffered knife wounds to her heart, lung, liver and uterus and deep cuts to her wrists.Former partner Babur Karamat Raja was jailed for 18 years.Next year Ms Queiroz is to have a little finger amputated following "issues and complications".Image source, Natalie Queiroz Image caption, Ms Queiroz said the wedding was booked this summer, when she was on holidayFollowing the wedding, she said her new husband's family had "really welcomed" her and were "very kind"."I come with a shocking st){kind=link}
A woman who survived after being stabbed 24 times says it was “really important” to make her wedding “special” for her daughters.
Natalie Queiroz, 46, was eight months pregnant when she was knifed in 2016 by a former partner in Sutton Coldfield.
Her daughter who survived the attack as an unborn baby was one of the bridesmaids at Tuesday’s ceremony.
Ms Queiroz said the wedding in Cornwall to Simon Lyttle was “absolutely perfect”.
The mother-of-three said it “wasn’t anything” about “what happened on March 4th” [the date of the attack].