Couple overcomes groom's illness with Skype wedding (Reuters)

Sunday, March 6, 2011 6:01 PM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Calif. pair whose start plans appeared thwarted when a lung infection landed the groom in the separation ward of a infirmary got mated anyway over the weekend, in a start conducted over Skype.

Samuel Kim and Helen Oh, both 27, had friends and family members motion from as farther absent as their autochthonous Korea and from New York to their designed start start in the gray Calif. municipality of Fullerton on Saturday.

So when Kim began expulsion up murder terminal week, he was initially too nervous to verify his bride for fear of feat her grief, he told Reuters.

When he finally did verify Oh later in the week, the pair temporary a solution by retentive the start via the Web recording conferencing system.

"Guests said it was inspirational, they rattling admired my betrothed for being healthy to stand at the table in the manner that she did, lonely and not glaring the whole time," Kim told Reuters from his bed at UCI Medical Center in Orange.

"She was healthy to stop her connector and I was healthy to stop my ground, not glaring or anything," he said.

Oh said the Skype start was not the perfect artefact to hit a ceremony, but that guests were happy.

"He said he module attain up for it, he promised me he's going to be the best husband in the world," Oh said. "He felt rattling intense that he wasn't there."

The Sat afternoon start used five live cameramen at the couple's high-tech Asiatic faith capturing the start for guests watching on jumbo screens, and for Kim himself watching on a laptop in the hospital's separation ward.

Kim's infirmary is less than 10 miles from the church, and he said he did not feel extreme from the start and the 500 guests there.

The professional-style show included split-screen images and an audio crew that gave Kim his cue, before his face was to materialize on screen.

Kim's infirmary shack was decorated with flowers that nurses bought with their own money, he said.

Oh said that she does not assign Web technology lonely for making the start a success. "I couldn't hit finished it without God," she said.

Up incoming for the couple: the honeymoon. Kim astonied Oh with plane tickets to Europe, where they module meet town and Prague, after he recovers from his lung infection.

Kim said that he expects to yield the infirmary this week.

(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Jerry Norton)


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