Hospital staff helps father with serious illness attend daughter’s wedding [Video]

RIVERVIEW, Fla. — A man’s serious illness didn’t stop him from being able to attend his daughter’s wedding, thanks to the staff of one Florida hospital.

Timothy Chicoine, a patient at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South in Riverview, was able to watch his daughter Danielle marry her now-husband Steven Davis at a wedding in the hospital’s chapel on March 24.

Hospital staff members pitched in to not only decorate the chapel but to transform the conference room into a reception area with refreshments. Friends, family and staff were in attendance.

“It was beautiful, ” Timothy said. “The hospital did a great thing. It was incredible.”

Davis said when they asked about the wedding, they were expecting something small.

“Maybe in her dad’s room with a couple of people,” the groom said. “But this was incredible.”

Danielle, on the other hand, said she was left speechless.

“The whole hospital got involved,” she said. …