MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When Adam Myers and Sloan Braith get married Saturday, they’ll have a special guest present: The man whose bone marrow made their big day possible.

Jeremy Gitzlaff, of Pewaukee, Wis., donated the marrow last year that’s credited with saving Myers’ life from leukemia. Myers and Gitzlaff have been communicating via texts, email and Facebook this summer, but the wedding at scenic William O’Brien State Park will be the first time they’ve spoken.

The two men said Friday they expect it will be an emotional meeting for both of them — as well as the bride.

“She said she’s not going to put her mascara on until she meets him because she knows she’s going to bawl her eyes out,” Myers said.

Myers, 31, a cellphone and satellite TV salesman from North Branch, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2012. It wasn’t his first bout with cancer. His doctors think he got leukemia from radiation treatment two years earlier for skin cancer that had settled in his lymph nodes. They decided a bone marrow transplant was his best hope.