This is the bittersweet moment a loving girlfriend married her terminally-ill husband on his hospital bed.
Cola Glenny, 22, said 'I do' to Felix Glenny, 23, as he lay in Medway Maritime Hospital Kent, suffering from incurable bowel cancer.
Felix was able to make it out of his bed to celebrate the 'perfect' day afterwards with his new wife, while their two children Ralph, two, and Pearl, four months, looked on.
Ceremony: Felix Glenny married Cola Glenny in a ceremony at Medway Maritime Hospital yesterday
He was admitted to hospital in November after suffering for several weeks with what he thought at first were stomach cramps.
But after being admitted to hospital on 11 November, doctors found a large tumour in his bowels.
Although they were able to remove it, further tests showed that the cancer had spread and Felix had only weeks to live.
After finding out last week that the cancer is terminal, Felix and Cola decided to marry as soon as possible, and invited their friends and family to a ceremony conducted by the hospital chaplain yesterday.
'It was perfect': The two were married in a ceremony at Medway Maritime Hospital, where Felix has been since November
Speaking to MailOnline tonight, Cola said: 'After a second operation last Friday they discovered that the cancer had spread everywhere. That's it now, there’s no stopping it.
'When they told us I had to leave the room – it was too much to take it.
'After it all settled down and we got our heads round it as much as we could, Felix just said he wanted to get married as soon as we could. We arranged it for yesterday.
'We had talked about getting married even before he was ill - and when we found out the cancer was terminal we wanted to do it straight away.
'Felix managed to get out of bed and we went over the the social club and had a ceremony – the Chaplain from the hospital came over and gave us a blessing.'
'It was a really nice day and everyone really helped us out. All of our family was there and a lot of our friends.'
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