CHICAGO — You can make the argument Kate Cleaver had the ideal Canadian wedding: wearing a beautiful gown on a scenic lakefront property and having the Stanley Cup show up.

Cleaver was taking photos with her bridesmaids Saturday when Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw and members of his family pulled up on a boat with the Stanley Cup.

Before Cleaver walked down the aisle, she posed for photos with the cup and Shaw, who was wearing a red Blackhawks jersey, shorts and sandals.

"It was AMAZING to be surprised with the cup on my wedding day!!" Cleaver wrote in an email late Monday night from Niagara Falls, where she was on her honeymoon. "How many people can say they got at picture with the Stanley Cup in their wedding gown with their favorite player?

"I've dreamed of my wedding day since I was a little girl! It turned out to be all I ever dreamed of and MORE thanks to Andrew! Having the Cup there took my mind off of how nervous I was to walk down the aisle. I was so excited to be taking a picture in my wedding gown with the Stanley Cup!"

Cleaver was preparing for the wedding to husband-to-be Doug at her aunt's home on Roblin Lake in Ontario, the same lake the Shaw family lives on.

It's no coincidence Shaw crashed the wedding. His sister, Alex, was one of Cleaver's bridesmaids at the wedding, which occurred at Isaiah Tubbs Resort on West Lake in Picton, Ontario. Last year at Alex Shaw's wedding, Cleaver and Andrew Shaw were paired as a bridesmaid-groomsman.

Justin Breen says Shaw's day with the cup lined up with the wedding:

Each player from the Stanley Cup-winning team gets to spend a day with the championship trophy. The day for Shaw, of Belleville, Ontario, near Lake Ontario, happened to take place on the same day as Cleaver's wedding.

"Alex was in Kate's wedding, so [she] could not take part in Saturday's Cup events," said Shaw's mother, Darlene. "Kate was also in Alex’s wedding last summer and she walked down the aisle with Andrew, who was a groomsman. So the whole thing was fitting."

Cleaver also took photos with Shaw and the Cup in 2013.

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Kate Cleaver and the Stanley Cup on her wedding day Saturday. [Kate Cleaver]

Kate Cleaver also took photos with Andrew Shaw, her husband-to-be Doug and their son, Benjamin, and the Stanley Cup in 2013. [Kate Cleaver]

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