She was too sick to make her wedding, so hospital staff brought it to her

Hospital staff and the couple's family and church community lined the hallway leading into the hospital's chapel to celebrate the occasion. Here, staff members bring Maria Isabel Cipple Leon to the chapel for her wedding. – Photo: UNC Health, via Tribune News Service

Maria Isabel Cipple Leon, a cancer patient at UNC Hospitals in Charlotte, the United States, was supposed to get married in a wedding at her church earlier this month.

But when it became unclear if she would be healthy enough to leave the intensive care unit, her medical team and UNC’s chaplain’s office rallied together in under a week to put on a wedding at the hospital’s own chapel.