Unconventional Wedding News: Daughter Moves Wedding Day Three Months Earlier, Ceremony Administered in Hospital
A daughter scheduled to tie the knot with her fiancé this June had to move her wedding three months earlier just to ensure her father's presence, regardless of whether he sees and hears the ceremony or not. This came after Nickalena Monk found out that her father, Tom, could not make it to her originally scheduled wedding date.
Monk told her fiancé, Tom Bedwell, that she couldn't bear the idea of getting married to him without his dad, as she wanted to the ceremony to be administered in the presence of her father while she was holding her hand. Believing it would help his fiancée, Bedwell agreed, and the unconventional wedding finally happened in the Iowa hospital room of her father, who may had been physically present but unresponsive to the event happening around him.
Monk-Bedwell was unmindful of the fact that her wedding was far from what she had originally planned it to be. Her wedding dress did not fit her properly as it had not been altered yet to suit her but the good daughter and bride was determined to have the wedding attended by her father, even holding his hand, pretending that they were having the customary father-and-daughter dance.
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"It wasn't the wedding I dreamed of… most couples get married and go away … I spent the night with him in the hospital," Monk-Bedwell said.
Monk-Bedwell's old man was rushed to the hospital on February 28 after he complained of difficulty breathing. With his kidneys shutting down, liver failing, a blood clot in his lungs, only a miracle could revert his life back to normal. While the medical condition of her father would require his feet to be amputated, it was a procedure that didn't even push through as his condition was fluctuating.
Left without anything much to offer to improve his condition, Monk-Bedwell had a serious talk with one of his father's nurses. With the nurse revealing that, apart from undergoing several surgeries for the painful amputations, her father would also be dependent on dialysis for the rest of his life, she just knew he wouldn't make it to her wedding. In a nutshell, even if he had survived, he would only live a life of suffering.
Hence, on March 7, two days after the wedding, the family decided to remove Monk from life support and he passed away.
According to Monk-Bedwell, though, her June wedding is still happening.
