Charleston area widow seeks ring lost in Las Vegas chapel

Three days after getting married, Will Mulroy’s heart stopped in an emergency room in South Dakota. Tammy Bishop, his widow, is now asking strangers in Las Vegas to look for the gold band he lost during their honeymoon celebration.

The couple said their vows on Oct. 20 at the Viva Las Vegas Chapel. They boarded a party bus to tour the Strip. At a bar, Mulroy looked down at his hand. The ring was gone. Bishop said he began to cry immediately.

“We got to a bar. He looked down and his band was gone. He lost it. He started crying,” Bishop said.

Bishop said Mulroy had mentioned the ring was two sizes too big because he had recently lost weight. She believes it may have slipped off while he was on the bus or when he moved into his wheelchair. It could also have come off while he rolled along the Strip. The couple backtracked their steps and asked the bus driver to help, but they could not find it.

The next morning, Bishop joked that he had not even worn the ring for 24 hours. “I said it’s not a big deal; we will buy you a new one, but now that he is gone it is a big deal to me,” she said.

Bishop and Mulroy met in July 2023. They began dating in March 2024. One week after they started their relationship, Mulroy was in a motorcycle accident. He was paralyzed. He kept asking her to marry him. This summer, she agreed.

On Oct. 4, Bishop’s birthday, Mulroy told her he had planned a wedding in Las Vegas. Everything was booked, and her friends were invited. “It was a perfect day,” Bishop said. “He was on cloud nine.”

Mulroy worked at Fleet Farm and had experience working with party buses. The couple had plans to start their own party bus business. Bishop described him as a hands-on man who could fix things himself. “He was very savvy, very mechanically inclined, could fix things, just that guy,” she said.

Mulroy died three days after the wedding. Bishop said he was in a lot of pain on the drive home. He mentioned going to the ER as soon as they returned to South Dakota. The next morning, he was congested, so she told him not to go to work. She could not wake him and called 911. Doctors declared him brain dead. He was on life support for 24 hours. His heart stopped three times in the ER.

“It would mean a lot. The rings were blessed, and that was our wedding ring, and that was him and how much it meant to him. That’s why it means so much to me,” Bishop said.