Newly weds Amy and Shane Faul had a wedding present of a special kind delivered on their happy day when baby "No Name" was born at 3:50am at the Nambour General Hospital on their wedding day.

Barry Leddicoat

FATHER'S Day does not get much bigger than this.

Shane Faul became a dad and a husband all in the same 24 hours last Sunday.

Shane, 24, and his fiancee, Amy Taylor, 23, welcomed their first son into the world at 3.59am on Sunday – six weeks before he was due to arrive and 10 hours before they were due to exchange vows in a Father's Day ceremony at Rydges Oasis Resort in Caloundra.

The two had been packing their bags for their wedding and honeymoon when Amy's waters broke at 1pm on Saturday and she instead began concentrating on packing a bag for Nambour General Hospital.

By late that afternoon, the Caloundra couple had to make a call on whether or not to cancel the wedding, but with 70 guests – including family members from three states – on the way, and no sign of labour, they took a gamble on going ahead with the wedding before the baby came.

"Because I was 34 weeks, I was borderline," Amy said.

"They said they wouldn't stop me if I went into labour, but I had a steroid injection to help his lungs if he came early, which they said could delay my labour by 24 hours, and so we thought we'd still get married."

Baby Faul had other ideas, though.

Shane, who had left the hospital late that afternoon so that he and Amy would not see each other on their wedding day before the ceremony, got a call early the next morning to come back to the hospital because his wife-to-be was in labour and things were happening – fast.

"They didn't think I was going to make it in time," he said.

A healthy baby Faul was born weighing 2892 grams – six pounds six ounces in the old money – and after a night of little sleep, Amy left him in the special care unit of the hospital and took a four-hour leave pass from the hospital to get to Rydges and prepare for the wedding.

The couple said the ceremony held special meaning for them, having brought a child into the world that morning.

"I love this husband. He gave me this family. We're a complete family now," Amy said.

"We had a 'hand ceremony' and the vows went, 'These hands will hold your first child with love,' and we thought, 'Wow, we've already done that'.

"We were all in tears. The photographer was in tears. The celebrant was in tears. As soon as I came out, I just burst out crying. I was wiping tears from Shane's eyes."

The couple cut the wedding cake immediately after the ceremony, leaving their guests to party on at the reception without them, and they forfeited planned photographs at the beach to instead have some pictures taken with their new baby.

"If it had come down to it, we would have had the celebrant come up to the hospital to do the ceremony. The baby was always the priority. But after we had him, it was, 'Yeah, go ahead with it,'" Shane said.

Amy said she just took the labour one step at a time and stayed relaxed.

"I think for us, because we just did what we wanted to do, it hasn't really felt like a big, dramatic story," Amy said.

The couple had set their wedding date for the nearest possible weekend to their third anniversary of coupledom and never dreamed they would already have a family when they exchanged vows.

"We were starting to think he might come early but we never though he'd come that early," Amy said.

The couple said Rydges had kindly offered them a free night and dinner to make up for the wedding night they missed, and Treetops of Montville had allowed them to postpone their honeymoon.

The couple expect the first week of September to be a big one for the next few years, with Father's Day, their son's birthday and their wedding anniversary all in the one week.