BOSTON (WHDH) - A pair of Boston nurses who have a shared love and passion for helping the sick recently got married at a private ceremony after they were forced to cancel their planned wedding because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced.
Andrew Harte, a nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, married his bride and fellow Brigham nurse, Catherine Harte, on May 8, according to a hospital spokesperson.
“This was just our tiny version of not letting any of that bring us down or impact this phase of our lives that we were in and we intended to get married and start our lives together,” Andrew Harte said.
A Justice of the Peace and a photographer were the only ones who attended the couple’s private wedding in Boston.
“We wanted to get married. We didn’t want to delay the union any longer,” Catherine Harte said.
After volunteering for a furlough at her full-time nursing job at an outpatient surgery center, Catherine Harte jumped into the COVID-19 intensive care unit as a member of the ICU float pool.
“When the pandemic started, Catherine felt obligated to quit her job and be at the bedside of COVID-19 patients,” the hospital spokesperson said in a news release.
Andrew and Catherine were initially slated to get married in Georgia on May 9.
The couple says they hope their story can brighten up the hard days of the pandemic.
“There are far more days where it’s tremendously valuable to have someone who truly understands where you’re coming from,” Andrew Harte said.
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