People magazine to publish Elizabeth Smart wedding photos

SALT LAKE CITY — The bride wore a white dress. The groom a traditional Scottish kilt.

People magazine has the exclusive photos from Elizabeth Smart's last-minute marriage in Hawaii.

The new issue that hits newsstands on Friday has a picture of Smart in her wedding gown on the cover.

On "Good Morning America" Wednesday, People magazine's Betsy Gleick shared another photo from the magazine of the smiling couple running hand-in-hand on the beach next to the ocean in their wedding outfits.

Smart and Matthew Gilmour were married Saturday on the North Shore of the island of Oahu. They were married in the Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the morning, had a small lunch and reception in the afternoon and that night celebrated their marriage with a luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

"Things went very well. Her wedding went off without a hitch. She was elated she got what she wanted," said Smart family spokesman Chris Thomas who helped organize the wedding.

What Elizabeth wanted, he said, was "what every woman wants: a wedding with family and friends in a nice, private, intimate affair.

"The only way she was going to get that was to get married in an unscheduled ceremony outside of Utah," Thomas said. "It came together almost overnight. She called and asked, 'Can we make it happen?'"

When asked whether Smart was paid anything by People for the opportunity to get the exclusive pictures and story, Thomas would not directly answer the question.

"She's not a celebrity," he said. "Her intention was to tell her story. They called and were very cooperative, and worked with her in telling the story of her engagement while not being intrusive. They approached her and because of her relationship with them, she was more apt to work with them."

Since Smart and Gilmour, from Scotland, announced their engagement in January and that they were to marry in the summer, both families have been continuously hounded by the press about wedding details, Thomas said.

"The day the story broke, I got 200-plus calls from the media," he said.

One of those calls was from People magazine, which Smart had worked closely with before. In 2008, she granted the magazine what was then a rare exclusive interview. In 2005 when she was 17, Smart was listed in the publication's annual 50 Most Beautiful People issue.