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Nina Marino, 19, and Joey Williams, 21, hoped to get married on Sept. Four inside the chapel at St. Joseph’s Children Hospital in Tampa, Florida. But their plans modified speedy simply someday in advance when docs informed the couple that Marino, who had terminal cancer, wouldn’t make it thru the night.

“The medical doctor encouraged us that, if we wanted to be married, we have to do it that day,” Williams, of Clearwater, tells PEOPLE. “It became plenty . Nina just stated, ‘Okay, permit’s do it.’ “

So they did. Just hours after the devastating verbal exchange with medical doctors, Marino turned into in a marriage dress in her clinic bed carrying a flower headband and carrying a bouquet in her hands. Because Marino changed into too susceptible to stroll to the health facility’s chapel, staff and family individuals scrambled to show the teenager’s room inside the extensive care unit into the right wedding ceremony venue.

“It wasn’t the marriage of our dreams however it changed into the marriage that made our goals come true,” Williams says. “It turned into sincerely crucial to her. It was one of the matters that she clearly desired to do, one of the things I wanted to do.”

Photos from the Sept. Three rite showed Williams and Marino surrounded with the aid of approximately 30 circle of relatives participants, pals, and clinic staffers they stated their “I dos.” Williams smiled in his tuxedo, and planted kisses Marino’s cheek.

“I was actually happy because I were given to marry my nice friend. I had wanted to do that for the reason that we started out relationship,” the widower tells PEOPLE. “It’s something we’ve known we wanted to do. I didn’t want her to die, however I knew that it was in all likelihood going to take place. So I wanted to do the whole lot that we wanted to do. She said within the sanatorium that she didn’t want to die without us getting married.”

As the group labored to prepare the final-minute wedding, the photographer they initially employed was unavailable. So, they referred to as on Nil Patel, of Patel Creative, who rushed to the medical institution.

“I became an absolute emotional damage on the interior, while trying to act calm and professional at the outdoor,” Patel tells PEOPLE. “The joy and strength absolutely everyone showed became some thing very profound to me. The entire family confirmed a kind of electricity for Nina I’ve never visible earlier than in my existence.”