Doctor and nurse tie knot in UK hospital amid COVID-19, netizens pour love

A doctor and a nurse, who had to cancel their wedding due to unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, recently got married in the ‘hospital’s historical chapel’. According to a press note released by Guy’s St Thomas’, Jann Tipping and Annalan Navaratnam tied the knot at the end of April in the Grade 2 listed chapel at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK. The couple had planned to marry in August, however, they decided to cancel as their families would’ve been unable to travel safely from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka. 

As they asked the hospital’s chaplaincy team if it was possible to have a wedding ceremony and decided to have a small scale private wedding in April, their families and friends attended the ceremony virtually. Tipping said that they wanted to have a ceremony while everyone was still healthy, even if it meant our loved ones having to watch us on screen. She added that they also wanted to make sure that they could celebrate while they were still able to. 

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According to the press note, Tipping said, "The chaplaincy team worked hard to get permission for us to be married, which we appreciated greatly at a time when so much was going on. A date was set within two weeks and we hadn’t bought my dress, our rings and other things we needed so we rushed to get everything done quickly”. 

While taking to Twitter, the hospital shared the ‘beautiful’ pictures from the wedding. Tipping even said that it was ‘nice’ being ‘just us’ as if felt ‘very intimate’. She added that it was ‘lovely wedding’ and the camel was ‘beautiful’. She even said that it was ‘surreal’ to get married where they both work. 

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Netizens wish them ‘nothing but happiness’ 

Since shared, the pictures have gone viral. With more than 20,000 likes, hundreds of internet users also congratulated the newlyweds. While some netizens called the wedding ‘elegant’, others wrote, “That is amazing. Congratulations to you both and well-done @GSTnhs for allowing these guys to get married in that beautiful chapel”. 

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