Double blessing as couple weds against all odds

It was double blessing for a Kiambu couple after a woman who was slated to get married delivered a baby a day before the wedding.

However that was not to hinder the couple from tying the knot. Francis Mungai and his bride Veronica Kaniu were looking forward to exchanging their marriage vows last Saturday at PCEA Kiganjo Church in Thika.

As fate would have it, the wedding would not happen at the church as they had earlier planned and envisaged. The bride, who was pregnant, developed labour pains and got admitted to Thika Level Five Hospital.

After examining her, doctors recommended a caesarean section and on Thursday, Ms Kaniu delivered a bouncing baby boy.

However they were not ready to postpone their wedding for anything the couple sought to have Kaniu discharged, a request that was rejected. Stuck between a hard place and a rock, the groom called a crisis meeting comprising relatives and friends and they resolved to go ahead with the wedding but only change the venue.

While speaking in an interview Mungai the groom said, “We had no alternative but to do our wedding here at the hospital. The doctors told me that my wife was not in a position to go home for the wedding and so I requested them to permit us go ahead with our plans here.”

It was, therefore, double blessings for the couple when they summed up the joy of welcoming a newborn baby boy with the exchange of their marriage vows at the hospital.

 

 

There was a light moment at the hospital as some staff, doctors and nurses, became part of the brief wedding.

According to the bride, “I have no words to express my joy and happiness since I never expected the wedding would go on. I don’t have enough words to thank God for what he has done to us as a family. I am very happy that I delivered safely and we have now crowned the joy of welcoming our newborn son with exchanging our wedding vows.”

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