For James Anderson, everything was put into perspective when his pregnant girlfriend Brandi went into labor with their first daughter a week before her due date — he decided that he couldn't wait one more minute to marry her. “I just couldn’t shake the idea of her having the baby without the ring on her finger,” he told KHOU. “The only thing I felt was regret that I didn’t do it a long time ago.”
After rushing to North Hills Hospital in Texas, James put his plan into motion. While Brandi was waiting for an epidural, he told her that he had to run to the store real quick. Baffled, Brandi couldn't imagine what he could possibly need from a store at that exact moment.
Next, James stepped out of the room and told the nursing staff that he wanted to get married.
“At first, we didn’t think he meant now," said Ashleigh Campbell, one of the nurses. "Once he told us, ‘yeah, we want to do it here,’ I think pretty much the general censuses was, 'Aww.'”
The nursing staff sprang into action; Campbell called up her dad, who is a preacher, to come perform the ceremony. The rest of the staff began decorating a special delivery room for the pair. Meanwhile, James was jewelry shopping, picking out the perfect ring for his bride-to-be.
When Brandi's water broke, she was wheeled into the decorated room. The couple's six-year-old son joined them as the ring bearer.
"When we started this, there was a calm that came over the room, a quietness," the pastor said. "The best I can say was it was peace. This was something that was very special."
Half an hour after the ceremony, the couple's daughter, Janelle, was born. Congratulations to the newlyweds — and new parents!
—Kristen Klein
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