'I Married in a Care Home So Dad Can Give Me Away'

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Credit:  SWNS / The Spinney  SWMRmarry  A care home hosted a wedding blessing - so a 99-year-old could give his daughter away.  Fiona Butler-Clayton and new hubbie Richard Butler tied the knot in the Cotswolds.  Dad Henry Clayton was unable to travel the long distance to be with them due to his health.  But he was still able to do his fatherly duties at The Spinney - his care home in Chingford in London.

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00:00They enter into the life of the community as a new creation, and now as rich of a Führer,

00:23come to give their free consent and to exchange their vows of faithfulness to each other for

00:28the whole of their life together.

00:58Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him, in times of prosperity and health,

01:10and in times of trouble and suffering, and be faithful to him as long as you both shall

01:15live?

01:16I will.

01:18Now, of course, we ask, who's going to present Fiona to him?

01:21And that's going to be you, isn't it?

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