Care home hosts wedding blessing so 99-year-old can give daughter away
Credit: SWNS / The Spinney
A care home hosted a wedding blessing - so a 99-year-old could give his daughter away.
Fiona Butler-Clayton and new hubbie Richard Butler tied the knot in the Cotswolds.
Dad Henry Clayton was unable to travel the long distance to be with them due to his health.
But he was still able to do his fatherly duties at The Spinney - his care home in Chingford in London.
On hearing of the couple’s dilemma staff there offered to host a wedding blessing to take place following the couple’s June wedding.
A care home hosted a wedding blessing - so a 99-year-old could give his daughter away.
Fiona Butler-Clayton and new hubbie Richard Butler tied the knot in the Cotswolds.
Dad Henry Clayton was unable to travel the long distance to be with them due to his health.
But he was still able to do his fatherly duties at The Spinney - his care home in Chingford in London.
On hearing of the couple’s dilemma staff there offered to host a wedding blessing to take place following the couple’s June wedding.
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00:00May it influence the life of the community as a new creation and now as Richard and Fiona
00:06come to give their free consent and to exchange their vows of faithfulness to each other
00:11for the whole of their life together.
00:30Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him in times of prosperity and health
00:53and in times of trouble and suffering and be faithful to him as long as you both shall
00:58live?
00:59I will.
01:00And now of course we ask who's going to present Fiona and that's going to be you Henry isn't
01:06it?