Taltala: A wedding rudely interrupted by an uninvited guest called illness shifted from a ceremony hall to the conference room of a hospital, the bride retaining her shy smile as she said her vows with a tube in her nose.

Lawyer Heyra Javed, 28, was taken ill late on Tuesday even as the last guests at her haldi ceremony were leaving the venue.

"She was continuously vomiting and a scan revealed an obstruction at the junction of the small and large intestines. She had to be hospitalised," a family member said.

Unwell as she was, Heyra wouldn't postpone her wedding. Her nikah to mechanical engineer Shanawaz Ahmed took place as scheduled on Wednesday; only the setting was different.

Members of the staff at the GD Hospital and Diabetes Institute were among the few invitees as the bride, still wearing her Ryle's tube and intravenous channel, posed for wedding pictures she hadn't dreamt of.

"I still cannot believe the marriage took place. My family had been assuring me all day that I would be discharged by evening and we would go back to the venue in Beniapukur for the wedding," Heyra told Metro on Thursday.

The hospital's assistant manager, Mohammad Ashraf Alam, went looking for sweets after the shift in venue was decided. Around 15 wedding guests came along with the Qazi. They brought along cookies and coffee.

"We live in a world bound by protocols and policies. But we took a decision to rise above these...I think the bride's smile says it all," said Musrefa Hossain, chief operating officer of the hospital.