Bride-to-be who went into labor just THREE DAYS shy of her wedding marries her fiancé in hospital hours before giving birth - wearing a white dress made out of bed linens and a veil made of gauze

A bride-to-be who went into labor early has tied the knot with her fiancé in the hospital just hours before giving birth. 

Sara, 39, and Brandon Perry were set to have their wedding on February 16, but when the mom-to-be's water broke five weeks early, just three days before their big day, they were forced to move up their nuptials.

On February 13, the couple rushed to Saint Luke's East Hospital in Missouri, where they told hospital staff they were desperate to say 'I do' before welcoming their baby. 

And as luck would have it, just down the hall from the lovebirds was another patient and her husband, who was an ordained minister and agreed to marry Sara and Brandon on the spot. 

Sara, 39, and Brandon Perry were set to have their wedding on February 16, however, when the mom-to-be's water broke five weeks early, they were forced to move up their nuptials

Speaking to Good Morning America, Sara recalled the moment her water broke. 

'We were like, "OK, I guess we're not going to make it to Friday," so we went to the hospital,' she told the outlet.

Once they got to the hospital, the couple lamented to the hospital staff that they would most likely be missing their wedding day. 

And the nurses soon went to work to try to find a solution for the soon-to-be parents. 

'One of the nurses was talking to another nurse from down the hall, and I guess her patients were in there also getting ready to have a child and the husband is an ordained minister,' Sara explained.

'And he's like, "Well, hey, I could do it before I have my baby." And so their nurse came back and told our nurse [and] our nurse came in and told us. 

'She was like, "I know this sounds crazy. But if you'd like, we can have an ordained minister that's having a baby down the hall come and marry you two."' 

Sara and Brandon were overjoyed and immediately accepted because they had just received their marriage license the day before and it was still sitting in their car. 

On February 13, they rushed to Saint Luke's East Hospital in Missouri, where they told hospital stuff they were desperate to say 'I do' before welcoming their baby

Brandon added: 'It's what we both wanted so there's no reason to delay it.'

But Sara wanted to make sure she still felt good on her special day, so hospital staff got to work helping make her look like a bride.

Soon enough, she was donning a wedding gown made out of hospital linen. 

Sara explained: 'While we were trying to get everything ready and I was trying to fix my hair, the nurses had made up a veil out of gauze. 

'And then they got a bouquet of flowers together and they'd wrap that with gauze and I made a toga white dress out of a sheet that was on my hospital bed.'

The wedding fun - which included a bouquet toss with the nurses - concluded quickly and after just 30 minutes, Sara was in labor. 

And as luck would have it, just down the hall from the lovebirds was another patient and her husband, who was an ordained minister and agreed to marry Sara and Brandon on the spot

Nine hours after their hospital marriage, the couple welcome their newborn baby boy, Oliver, into the world. 

Although he had to spend the first few days in neonatal intensive care unit, Oliver has since been released, and is healthy and happy at home. 

'He's officially the sweetest Valentine I've ever received and we'll get to celebrate that for years to come, which is wonderful,' Sara told GMA.

The couple is hoping to have a destination wedding in the Caribbean or Mexico later this year.