A British nurse went through with her wedding by herself after her husband was stuck outside of the country due to a visa issue.

Hazel Taylor met her now-husband Kareem Kowaitly in Abu Dhabi when she was working there during the pandemic, according to SWNS.

“I went as a nurse, because a nurse’s salary isn’t great in the UK. I love the NHS but it doesn’t pay enough,” the 36-year-old said, referring to the UK’s publicly funded National Health Service.

Taylor said that she planned to work in Abu Dhabi for a year to save money for a house.

“Then COVID happened, and it was bad from a travel point of view.

All of our leave got cancelled, we couldn’t travel and we got hit with mandatory overtime, but the one good thing was I met my husband,” she added.

Last year, Taylor and Kowaitly, 34, went to the UK for vacation. Kowaitly proposed and the couple decided to build a future there.

The couple faced several roadblocks to their “happily ever after.”

Due to not being Muslim, Taylor was not allowed to marry Kowaitly in the United Arab Emirates.

Taylor was also blocked from marrying him in the UK because she had not been living in Britain in the past six months.

The couple ultimately decided to marry in the country of Georgia in simple ceremony in front of a few cows.

“We planned to get married and do the paperwork in Georgia and then have a wedding party in the UK very shortly after,” Taylor told SWNS.

“But when everything kicked off in Ukraine we did the paperwork and got married early.”

Kowaitly officially applied for his spousal visa in May and the newlyweds secured a spot for a UK wedding for September. However, their problems were far from over.

“When we applied for a visa decision, the waiting time was 12 weeks,” recalled Taylor. “Our plan was that even if he got rejected, he would be able to get a tourist visa for the wedding, but we didn’t even get a decision.”

“The visa didn’t get processed in time — nothing happened at all.”

Taylor said that she and her husband had family come in from all over to celebrate the big day.

“My dad had flown over from Australia and other people had traveled from Europe, so we just had a party,” Taylor said.

“I made the wedding cake into cupcakes and turned the flower bouquet into a flower arch, and I drank lots of tequila.

“I tried not to cry and think I only cried twice,” she added.

Taylor contacted Rehman Chishti, a member of the British Parliament, who told her the wait time for the visa had doubled to 24 weeks, according to SWNS.

There had been “an unprecedented surge in passport applications,” said one of Chishti’s assistants.

Taylor blasted the delays and said that Kowaitly has proof of savings, no criminal record and a multinational employer that is happy to relocate him.

“If it was a complex situation I would understand. It just seems unfair,” Taylor said.

“Ultimately I would love him to be in this country, but I know I’m not the only person in this predicament. It doesn’t seem right. It was supposed to be a 12-week decision — to double that midway through the application seems really unfair. You’re so powerless.”