No, she's not dead...just seriously injured. Miriam Gakenia,31, and her fiance James Mwangi, 27, had
gone to buy wedding items but were injured in a road accident at
Kiangwachi area along Nyeri-Nairobi highway on Tuesday, December 15.
Their wedding was to take place at Dominion Towers Deliverance Church
today, Saturday December 19.
Gakenia suffered a right hip
joint injury and a broken right arm while Mwangi's right hand was
injured. He had been treated and discharged but she could neither sit
nor stand. The couple exchanged their vows at
Outspan hospital today, with nurses as her bridesmaids.
"The wedding had to go on. We had prepared for six
months. The devil was not going to get in the way. She would have become
my wife even if she had lost her legs," Mwangi explained.
Gakenia said from her hospital bed: "I informed my doctor of the wedding and told him we were not ready to postpone it."
She
said the hospital agreed to hold the wedding on its grounds. Nurses and
matron Jane Wamucii escorted her to the location on her bed.
Gakenia
and Mwangi had difficulties putting on their wedding rings as their
hands were in casts but they exchanged their vows in what Reverend
Stephen Mungai described as "a first in Nyeri".
It was also
difficult for them to sign their marriage certificate and to share their
wedding cake, but these paled in comparison to the exchange of vows at
the emotional ceremony.
"I have never conducted such a wedding.
It shows far love can go. It is a lesson in sticking with your vision
regardless of hurdles, and eventually reaching your destination," the
reverend said.
The couple did not have a photo shoot after the
wedding but was taken to a private room at the hospital where Mwangi sat
by Gakenia's bed for hours.
Gakenia, a system administrator at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, will remain at the hospital for six weeks.
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