Jon Batiste privately married Suleika Jaouad before her bone marrow transplant
Jon Batiste quietly married Suleika Jaouad, his longtime girlfriend, in February. She had been diagnosed with leukemia for the second time. "We got married the day before I was admitted to the hospital to undergo my bone marrow transplant," she told "CBS Sunday Morning." Jaouad continued: "We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating. That's when Jon first brought up the topic of marriage to me. So, we've had eight years. This is not, you know, a hasty decision!" She added that her diagnosis wasn't actually a factor in the two tying the knot.
Source: cnn.com