article_snippet.sent: After deciding to get married, the couple had barely 48 hours to organise the ceremony, which was complicated by requiring permission from the Archbishop of Canterbury
article_snippet.sent: The law allows couples to marry in hospital if one of couples is desperately ill and that did not apply in this case.
article_snippet.sent: But a law dating back to Henry VIII gives the Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury special dispensation to allow weddings in hospital for 'pastoral reasons'. '
article_snippet.sent: The Bishop of Bristol had to write to the Archbishop of Canterbury Canterbury to get special permission for we to marry in the hospital
article_snippet.sent: and we are so grateful The Bishop of Bristol agreed.'
article_snippet.sent: we were married by Bristol Children's Hospital's chaplain, Rev Stephen Oram, who was very excited to be sharing this occasion with we.'
article_snippet.sent: After deciding to get married, the couple had barely 48 hours to organise the ceremony, which was complicated by requiring permission from the Archbishop of Canterbury