UK bride dances with hospitalised dad: she brings wedding to his ward; staff help arrange the dance

For Sinead Jackson, having her father walk her down the aisle was one of the moments she had looked forward to most at her wedding. But just days before she was due to marry her partner, Stephen, her father, Leslie Healy, was admitted to hospital with a heart problem and was told he was too unwell to attend the ceremony.Rather than let the moment pass without him, Sinead found a way to share part of her wedding day with her father.

She visited him at Tameside Hospital in England, wearing her wedding dress, and the two shared a father-daughter dance on the hospital's acute cardiology unit.According to a report by PEOPLE, Sinead, 36, was due to marry Stephen on October 10 in Hyde, England. Her father had been taken to Tameside Hospital after experiencing shortness of breath and heart palpitations.

The report said doctors discovered he was in heart failure, leaving him unable to attend the wedding or walk his daughter down the aisle.The hospital confirmed that Leslie had been admitted to the acute cardiology unit shortly before the wedding.