Bride ties the knot by her dying father's hospital bedside

• Elisabeth Linde, 31, couldn’t imagine not having her father at her wedding
• Dad Stuart had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer
• So the bride decided to have a ceremony by his hospital bedside

A woman has captured the moment she walked down the aisle at a hospital so she could tie the knot with her husband in front of her dad as he lay on his deathbed.

Elisabeth Linde, 31, was devastated after her dad’s diagnosis of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer, which saw him bedridden at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

Wanting her father by her side when she wed her then long-term boyfriend, 33-year-old Devin, she moved up the date of her fast-approaching wedding on June 4, 2024.

The Long Island native rescheduled the wedding to take place in the hospital, with the ceremony unfolding at his bedside, on June 3.

Elisabeth Linde, 31, couldn’t imagine getting married without her father by her side – so she ultimately moved her wedding to his hospital room

A viral TikTok captures the bride and groom at her father’s bedside, just two days before he passed away from mesothelioma at age 56

‘My dad was one of my biggest supporters. He had to be there,’ Elisabeth told the New York Post.

In the four-part TikTok series, the nurse can be seen holding a bouquet while walking down the hospital aisle, squinting through tears, as staff and guests lined the hallway.

She then meets the groom – as well as the eight-year-old son they share – at her dad’s bedside, and gives him a peck on the cheek before taking his hand.

‘You’ve been so amazing… You filled the role of [my dad] so gracefully. And I just appreciate it so much,’ she cried to him.

‘And we wouldn’t have the life we had without you. And thank you, I love you so much.’

‘Love you,’ Stuart can be heard answering.

The following day, on June 4, the couple told Stuart that Devin would be taking wife’s last name of Linde in order to keep the family name alive.

‘My dad has three daughters but he always wanted a son to carry on our last name,’ Elisabeth told the Post.

‘We asked his permission to take the last name “Linde” so that our son can be the person to do that.’

What’s more, she added, she and Devin had been drug addicts, and her father had helped them get clean while pushing her to finish her nursing degree.

Just two days after the wedding, on June 5, the former Wall Street executive passed away at the age of 56.

Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive form of cancer with a poor prognosis, even if caught early, with only 10 per cent of patients surviving longer than five years after the diagnosis, according to Penn Medicine.

Many more succumb to the cancer mere months after getting the diagnosis.

Elisabeth, meanwhile, has been overwhelmed by the positive response on TikTok, with the first of the four-part series documenting the moments surrounding her wedding garnering more than 50 million views and 2.6 million likes.

‘It was really a special and beautiful way to honor my dad,’ she told the Post.

‘We didn’t lose anything from having it at the hospital… We just gained this great family memory.’

Thousands of TikTok commenters were similarly moved by Elizabeth’s tear-jerking anecdote – with many sharing similar stories.

Thousands took to the comments to admit they’d shed a tear at the story – with others chiming in to shared they’d also gone through with hospital weddings for the sake of a sick loved one

‘I literally cried watching this,’ one wrote.

‘No because if i was a nurse there i be balling my eyes out,’ a second agreed.

‘Can we talk about how the healthcare workers just there silence cheering on and supporting you,’ a third pointed out – to which Elisabeth responded: ‘They were absolutely amazing.’

‘I did the same thing for my dad while he was battling cancer last year. It was the best decision I have made in my entire life,’ a fourth reflected.

‘I got married in the hospital beside my dads bed and he passed 3 hours later! You looked incredibly beautiful,’ a fifth chimed in.

‘Congratulations. And what a beautiful gift for your father,’ a sixth praised.

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