Bride Marries at Nursing Home So Mom, 89, Can Attend Amid Pandemic

Bride Marries at Nursing Home So Mom, 89, Can Attend Amid Pandemic
Courtesy of MJHS Health System
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When the pandemic put paid to a couple’s wedding plans, they chose to forge ahead with a smaller-scale ceremony. But one thing that the New Jersey bride was unwilling to compromise on was having her 89-year-old mother there.

For the last 13 years, Robyn Roberts-Williams’s mother, Dorothy Roberts, has been a resident of the Isabella Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care, a member of MJHS Health System, in Washington Heights, New York.