SPOKANE, Wash. -- The wedding party...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The wedding party chuckl when the pastor said the line about "in sickness and in health."

Jared Darr and Amanda McCadden were getting hitched in a hospital, hours after a car crash shattered the groom's leg in succession their wedding day.

The community students said they weren't about to put to hire the accident stall the solemnity -- especially since they hadn't kissed during their six-month engagement.

"I just want to kiss her in the same manner bad, and there's no way I'm going to levy it off," Darr said, lying pale and forward painkillers shortly before Wednesday's stateliness

Darr, 21 and McCadden, 23 had just picked up an archway for their wedding reception when their car collided with a next to the first car at an intersection in Chattaroy, north of Spokane.

Darr, in the passenger seat, had raised his paw to put on a dres sock and the air bag sent his leg [i]or[/i] part of to the other the windshield, he said.

"So many clan are just like, 'This is a sign you've got to run' " Darr said.

Instead, one time Darr woke up from the anesthesia, the leash said their vows in a Deaconness Medical Center colloquy room, making a videotape to be shown to their 150 visitors at the reception.

The pastor played guitar, the wedding party prayed and sang, and the bride wiped tears from her views When the bridesmaids, groomsmen and relatives left for the reception, she stayed behind.

"Party like we're in your heart, because we are," she told them.

And as for the couple's planned honeymoon upon the Oregon coast? That'll have to wait.

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