: In a touching display of love and determination, a young couple from Kerala’s Alappuzha went ahead with their wedding Friday, not in a decorated auditorium, but in a hospital room after the bride was injured in a road accident nearly an hour before the ceremony.

Avani, the bride, was travelling back from a beauty parlour near Thanneermukkom when the car she was travelling in met with an accident.

She sustained a spinal injury and a fracture in her leg.

She was initially rushed to the Kottayam Medical College and later shifted to a private hospital in Kochi.

The wedding was scheduled to be held at 12:12 pm. at the Shakti Auditorium in Alappuzha, with the auspicious ‘muhurtam’ falling between 12:12 and 12:25 pm.

Even as the accident sparked panic among both families, doctors confirmed

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