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Cate Edwards, the daughter of former presidential candidate John Edwards and the late Elizabeth Edwards, married college sweetheart Trevor Upham yesterday. The couple wed beside an altar candle lit in her mother’s memory. After the ceremony, they welcomed friends and family into the sprawling Edwards home in Chapel Hill, N.C., where they mourned Elizabeth’s death from breast cancer 10 months ago. John Edwards hosted the reception on the lawn. “We want this to be really happy and joyous; that’s what my mother would want,” Cate Edwards said before the wedding at the Chapel Hill United Methodist Church. “There are a lot of sort of small ways that she’s infused into the day,” added Cate, 29, who got engaged to Upham , 30, her boyfriend at Princeton, late last year. For Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Upham, the day was one they will never forget, and came as a welcome respite from the turmoil her life has seen over the past few years. First, her mother’s breast cancer returned and spread, and then her father was forced to admit an affair with Rielle Hunter that produced a daughter, Quinn, now 3. The