去年年底，比彻姆接到一个模特代理公司打来的电话，说想请她担任一场婚纱时装表演的模特，并承诺报酬丰厚，且会在有线电视上转播。伊薇特欣然接受了这个邀请，并激动地把这个消息告诉了她的未婚夫。
When Yvette Beauchamp got a call from an agent late last year asking her to model in a bridal fashion show, she excitedly told her fiancé, Ric Feinberg. The show paid well and would even be seen on cable television.
国际在线报道：伊薇特·比彻姆今年39岁，是一位减肥锻炼器材的示范模特，同时也为电视购物节目里的产品展示作模特。 去年年底，比彻姆接到一个模特代理公司打来的电话，说想请她担任一场婚纱时装表演的模特，并承诺报酬丰厚，且会在有线电视上转播。伊薇特欣然接受了这个邀请，并激动地把这个消息告诉了她的未婚夫。
披上婚纱 仍被蒙在鼓里
今年1月22日，当伊薇特身着象牙色的Oleg Cassini(美国高级时装品牌)礼服、头披白纱，随着颤动人心的婚礼进行曲步入甬道的时候，她还不知道自己是真正的新娘。在她身后的两名女子也身着婚纱在音乐声中行进，所以她以为自己只是在进行时装表演。由于一心想着表演，她也没注意到一个极不寻常的情况：观众们都穿着正式的礼服。当看到她的母亲和父亲也在场时，她还是没有猜到这是她的婚礼。
伊薇特说：“如果那天是我的生日的话，我也许会猜出是怎么回事了。可是，谁能想到自己会有一个意外的婚礼呢?”
疯狂大胆的未婚夫
伊薇特的未婚夫范伯格今年44岁，是佛罗里达州坦帕市的一位律师。他的朋友们赞赏他既富于创造力，又很疯狂。范伯格在一次看电视里的时装表演时突然冒出这个主意，于是策划了这场秘密的婚礼。他的朋友们表示羡慕他的勇气，但认为策划秘密婚礼既紧迫又有压力。一些女性朋友对范伯格说，如果她们的男朋友给她们一个秘密婚礼，她们会非常生气。但范伯格了解伊薇特，他说：“伊薇特喜欢惊喜。”
曲折的恋情 浪漫的求婚
伊薇特和范伯格是在2002年秋天相遇的，6个月后，他们开始约会。范伯格的第一次婚姻以离婚告终，伊薇特则离过两次婚。范伯格说：“我向伊薇特求过差不多60次婚，最初没有打动她，她还没认定我是能跟她走完余生的人。”曾经有一次伊薇特已经同意跟他结婚，但又反悔了，伊薇特说：“我只是不想仓促地做任何事。”
之后，伊薇特发现自己怀孕了，而这时她又和前夫相遇了，似乎旧情复燃。8个月后，当伊薇特出现在范伯格面前时，她给了他一个惊喜——举着一块纸板，上面写着“你愿意娶我吗?”范伯格回答说：“绝对愿意!”
婚礼开始秘密筹划
1年后，也就是2004年，他们的女儿雪梨出世。12月份他们搬到了佛罗里达州的圣彼得堡市，这时伊薇特又怀孕了。这时，范伯格的秘密计划已经展开了行动。当伊薇特问他什么时候结婚时，他就想方设法推脱。最后，他答应在2005年3月在他们的院子里举行婚礼。然后到坦帕领取结婚证书。
与此同时，范伯格得到了伊薇特好朋友诺拉·冈瑟的支持。诺拉也是一名模特，她联系到一家电视台专门播放婚礼节目的频道的制片人，制片人同意转播这场秘密婚礼。另一方面，范伯格劝说大卫婚礼用品商店(伊薇特的婚纱就是范伯格从这家商店买的)的老板，举办一场婚纱时装表演，以便把婚纱借给秘密婚礼上的其他模特穿。
范伯格把婚礼地点定在迈阿密的国家酒店，并准备好了一切事宜。然后，他秘密同一个模特经纪公司交涉，请他们“聘请”伊薇特作婚纱模特。之后，范伯格又静悄悄地邀请了约50位亲友，伊薇特的父亲专程从洪都拉斯飞到迈阿密。
激动人心的惊喜时刻
当亲友们都已经在酒店的礼堂里就座，伊薇特步入甬道时，她看见前方有一个老年男士背对她站着，以为他是扮演新娘父亲的模特。于是伊薇特走过去从身后挽住他的胳膊。但是直到走到了甬道的一半，伊薇特才发现：这个人不是模特，而是她的父亲!她发出吃惊的尖叫。这时她又看见甬道尽头的范伯格和他们的女儿，以及站在范伯格身边的、他最好的朋友帕特里克·史密斯。伊薇特又是一声尖叫。
当伊薇特走到他们身边，她似乎已经被极度的惊喜弄得晕眩了。范伯格对她说：“我们现在就要结婚了。”
婚礼当天的晚上，伊薇特把范伯格 “拷问”到深夜3点钟。最后，伊薇特知道了秘密计划里的所有细节。她说：“我不可能有比这更好的婚礼了!” When Yvette Beauchamp got a call from an agent late last year asking her to model in a bridal fashion show, she excitedly told her fiancé, Ric Feinberg. The show paid well and would even be seen on cable television.
What Ms. Beauchamp didn"t know was that she had just been booked for her own wedding.
On Jan. 22, when Ms. Beauchamp stepped out on the runway to throbbing dance music in an ivory halter dress by Oleg Cassini, she said she still had not figured out that she was to be a real-life bride. After all, two other women were also parading in bridal gowns. "I was just hamming it up for the cameras," explained Ms. Beauchamp, a 39-year-old brunette with a giant smile whose work as a fitness model includes demonstrating exercise equipment on televised shopping shows.
In her zeal, she said, she failed to notice that the unusually boisterous audience was in formal wear and included her mother, Gloria Beauchamp, and Mr. Feinberg"s father, Dr. Sidney Feinberg, who had brought along his Yorkie clad in a tiny tuxedo jacket.
"Maybe if it was my birthday I would have guessed something was going on," Ms. Beauchamp said, maintaining she was clueless. "I mean, who would ever think of a surprise wedding?"
Mr. Feinberg, a 44-year-old lawyer in Tampa, Fla., whom friends describe as either creative or crazy, in equally admiring tones, got the idea while watching a fashion show on television. Some of Mr. Feinberg"s friends said they envied his courage but thought planning a secret wedding rather stressful. Several women told him they would kill their boyfriends if greeted by a surprise ceremony.
"Yvette likes surprises," Mr. Feinberg said. "She"s the kind of person who loves it when someone asks their girlfriend to marry them on the Jumbotron at a hockey game."
The couple met in fall 2002 and started dating about six months later. "I probably asked her to marry me 60 times," said Mr. Feinberg, whose first marriage ended in divorce. "Initially it didn"t strike her that I was going to be the man she"d be with the rest of her life." At one point she agreed to live with him, but then broke it off altogether. "I just didn"t want to rush into anything," said Ms. Beauchamp, a veteran of two divorces.
But larger forces seemed to take hold. First Ms. Beauchamp discovered she was pregnant. At that, the couple reunited. Eight months later she surprised Mr. Feinberg again with a cardboard sign on which she had written "Will you marry us?"
"I said "absolutely," " Mr. Feinberg recalled.
Their daughter, Sydney Marie, was born a year ago, and in December the family moved into a house by the water in St. Petersburg, Fla. - whereupon Ms. Beauchamp discovered she was pregnant again.
By then Mr. Feinberg"s secret plan was unfolding, so when Ms. Beauchamp asked about setting a date he was evasive. Finally he agreed to a March ceremony in their yard, and then took her to Tampa, where they applied for a wedding license.
Mr. Feinberg had meanwhile enlisted Ms. Beauchamp"s best friend, Nora Guenther, who is also a model. Both knew that the fashion show had to appear genuine, so Ms. Guenther contacted the producers of a Learning Channel show that features weddings. Mr. Feinberg then persuaded the David"s Bridal store where he had bought the wedding gown to orchestrate a fashion show, with dresses on loan to other models.
Mr. Feinberg settled on the National Hotel in Miami for the event, and hired caterers and a makeup artist. He sealed the deal by asking a modeling agency in Orlando to "hire" Ms. Beauchamp. Then he quietly invited about 50 friends and relatives, including the bride"s father, Hector Beauchamp, who flew in from Honduras.
While guests gathered inside the hotel, the penthouse suite was transformed into a dressing area for Ms. Beauchamp and other models, who were really obliging friends of Ms. Guenther"s. The plot thickened when Ms. Beauchamp showed up with her own makeup artist, provoking whispered debate over whether she was in on the plan or just a diva.
At last, with guests in their seats, it was time for Ms. Beauchamp"s aha! moment. As she moved down the runway, she encountered a man facing away from her who looked to be posing as the father of the bride. She grabbed his arm from behind.
That man was no model, but she was halfway down the runway before she realized it was her father. "I was so focused on the show, and on what I was supposed to be doing," she said later.
Between screams she made her way to Mr. Feinberg and their daughter, gathered with Patrick Smith, the bridegroom"s best friend.
"We"re going to get married right now," Mr. Feinberg told Ms. Beauchamp, who seemed stunned and pleased as Mr. Smith, a Florida notary, officiated.
That night, the new Mrs. Feinberg grilled her husband until 3 a.m. "Once I knew, I started putting things together that people had said and done," she said. "All those lies!"
"I couldn"t have had a better wedding," she added, laughing. "But I told Ric I"m still waiting for my check for the fashion show."
