{"id":1072,"date":"2012-09-30T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/30\/marriage-made-in-emergency\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T13:28:06","slug":"marriage-made-in-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/marriage-made-in-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage made in Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AN UNLUCKY break has landed a local couple in the history books at the Coffs Harbour Health Campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Saturday the hospital hosted only the second wedding since it opened more than a decade ago, and despite a rollercoaster lead-up to the ceremony, the nuptials went off without a hitch.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The wedding plans of Erin Singleton and Ferando Caceda Manrique were thrown into chaos on Thursday when a skateboarding accident left the groom with compound fractures of his fibia and tibia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After lengthy surgery on Friday, the wedding, planned for the Bonville Anglican Church, was alternatively off and on, and then off again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Saturday morning doctors ruled the groom couldn&#8217;t leave the hospital, and with guests arriving from Peru, New Zealand, Perth, Brisbane, Leeton and western Queensland, the hospital courtyard was the only option.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;I can&#8217;t thank the staff at the hospital enough for doing all they did to make the wedding happen,&#8221; the now Mrs Caceda said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Also a big thank-you to Rev Sally Miller and my bridesmaids and especially my cousin Alina, who did an amazing job getting the wedding back on track.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The ceremony was witnessed by nursing ward staff and other patients and after Fernando was returned to the surgical ward the official guests moved on to Sawtell for a groom-less reception.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t my ideal wedding, but thanks to the support of so many it proved more memorable than we could have ever imagined,&#8221; Mrs Caceda said.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN UNLUCKY break has landed a local couple in the history books at the Coffs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1173,68,1142,134],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-emergency","tag-in","tag-made","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}