A wedding in the ICU: couple ties the knot at hospital to fulfill father's wish - WDJT
By Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) -- A couple said "I do" at Mission Hospital on Thursday to fulfill the wishes of the groom's father, whose health has been failing. Derrick Marotta and his fiancee Caylea Lautner traveled from New York to North Carolina to spend time with Marotta's dad, Joseph, at the end of May. "My health got worse, and I was looking at possibly not coming out of the hospital," Joseph Marotta said. He's officiated weddings before and had always dreamed of doing the same for his youngest son, Derrick. But Derrick Marotta and Caylea Lautner weren't planning on getting married until October 2023. "They could've had another reverend or something, but it wouldn't have been the same," Joseph Marotta said. With the patriarch's health deteriorating, the couple decided to push up the date of the wedding -- to May 26, 2022 -- an...