Anchorage: Widow seeks wedding ring lost in Las Vegas

Tammy Bishop is asking strangers in Las Vegas to look for a specific gold band. The ring belonged to her husband, Will Mulroy, who lost it the night the couple got married. Bishop says the loss has become a painful reminder of a marriage that lasted only a few days.

The ceremony took place on Oct. 20 at the Viva Las Vegas Chapel. After the vows, the newlyweds boarded a party bus to tour the Strip. Bishop said they stopped at a bar where Mulroy looked down and realized his wedding band was gone. He began to cry immediately.

Mulroy had told Bishop the ring was two sizes too big because he had lost weight. He believed it might have slid off while he was on the bus or while he was moving into his wheelchair. It is also possible it came off while he was rolling down the Strip. The couple backtracked their steps and asked the bus driver and others to help look, but the ring never turned up.

The next day, Bishop joked that he had not even had the ring on for 24 hours. Everyone laughed. She told him it was not a big deal and that they would buy him a new one. Now that Mulroy has died, she says the original ring matters much more.

Mulroy passed away just three days after the wedding. He was in pain during the trip home and mentioned going to the emergency room upon returning to South Dakota. The following morning, he was congested and Bishop told him to stay home from work. She could not wake him and called 911. Doctors declared him brain dead at the hospital. He was on life support for 24 hours and his heart stopped three times in the emergency room.

Bishop and Mulroy met in July 2023 and began dating in March 2024. A week after starting to date, Mulroy was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed. Bishop said there was anger at first, but Mulroy kept asking her to marry him. He proposed in the summer and told her about the planned Vegas trip on her Oct. 4 birthday.

Bishop remembers Mulroy as a practical and mechanically inclined person. He worked at Fleet Farm and had experience with party buses. The couple had plans to start their own party bus business. Bishop said he was the type who could fix things himself without calling for help.

Bishop hopes someone finds the ring. The bands had been blessed before the ceremony. She says the ring represents her husband and what the wedding meant to him. Finding it would mean a lot to her.