They should have gathered to see her walk down the aisle.
Instead, friends and family packed a Long Island church yesterday to say goodbye to a woman gunned down in last week’s gruesome pharmacy massacre.
There were tears and even a little laughter as more than 200 people remembered Jaime Taccetta, one of four people coldly gunned down at a Suffolk County drugstore.
The mother of two was buried in the white dress she would have worn to her October wedding.
“It is not what we had planned,” Father Michael Maffeo said at the funeral service. “It is not what Jaime had planned. The dress she is wearing, she had much better plans for.”
Those in the front pews of St. Joseph’s Church in Ronkonkoma chuckled as Maffeo fondly recalled Jaime as “clumsy.”
“She won’t walk into walls anymore,” he said.
Taccetta, 33, a physical therapist, was due to marry longtime boyfriend James Manzella, who was outside Haven Pharmacy in Medford last Sunday morning as Taccetta was picking up a prescription.
Cops say that’s when David Laffer, looking to steal painkillers, walked in and brutally murdered Taccetta, of Farmingville; fellow customer Bryon Sheffield, 71, of Medford; cashier Jennifer Mejia, 17, of East Patchogue; and pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, of Centereach, who was also buried yesterday.
Laffer, 33, and his wife, Melinda Brady, 29, have been arrested in connection with the killings.
Kim Caucky, Taccetta’s ex-sister-in-law, said Taccetta’s daughters, Miranda, 16, and Kaitlyn, 5, were in counseling.
“We’ll be there for them,” Caucky vowed.
Meanwhile, Haven Pharmacy customers went to Forest Hills for Queens native Ferguson’s funeral at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church.
His girlfriend, Karen McDermott, clutched his white pharmacist’s coat.
“He has the patience of a saint. He was selfless. I will love him until I take my last breath, and he knows that,” she said, weeping.
In the midst of a divorce, Ferguson reconnected with St. Francis Preparatory classmate McDermott via Facebook.
Michael Gerel, the slain man’s cousin, described Ferguson as a role model.
“It was the wrong place, wrong time. It never should have happened to him, or anyone else who was killed that day,” Gerel eulogized.