Watch: New Jersey 4-Year-Old Totally Loses It During Stepmom's Wedding Vows

FORT DIX, NJ — A New Jersey military couple who got married over the weekend in upstate New York were upstaged at the altar by the groom's very emotionally in-touch 4-year-old son, who totally lost it when his new stepmom started reading a set of vows she wrote especially for the toddler. (Video below.)

Emily Newville, a senior airman at the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base in Burlington County, had barely begun to read the vows — "I want you to be safe and to try your hardest and to be a good person," she said into the mic — when 4-year-old Gage, the son of Marine Corps sergeant Josh Newville, burst into tears, launching himself face-first into her wedding dress and locking himself into a military-grade bear hug around her legs.

"Don't cry, buddy," the bride said, laughing through a few tears of her own.

Wedding guests, of course, couldn't get enough.

Here's the rest of Emily's speech for Gage, throughout which the 4-year-old continued sobbing uncontrollably:

I know that you and I will butt heads, but I hope with all my heart that as you become a grown man you will understand my methods and realize I have only done what is best for you and that I love you.

The last thing that I hope you learn is that you are a very special boy.

You are so extremely smart, handsome, and kind to others.

You have helped shape me into the woman that I am today, and I may not have given you the gift of life, but life surely gave me the gift of you.

"I was crying," the toddler admitted in a followup interview with NBC4 at their home near Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Then, during Emily's segment of the interview, her new stepson broke a second round of hearts by bursting into tears once again — right after Emily said she "couldn't be more thankful for how we've gotten to know each other."

Emily later said in an interview with CBS that she “wanted to involve him because when I was vowing to be Josh’s wife I was also vowing to be his stepmom. I wanted him to feel special and to remind him of how much he means to me. He had no idea that I had planned vows to him and at 4 years old, I really didn’t expect him to understand what was going on but his emotions tell a different story!”

And Josh, her new husband, told NBC: "It means an awful lot when you have someone who is willing to love your child as if they were their own."

Video of their now-shared son Gage losing it at the altar last Saturday has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in just a few days.

"I really hope that when I get back to my unit, the harassment's not too bad," the Marine Corps sergeant said.

Lead image via Emily Newville/Facebook