Wedding Ideas - Cancer

Posted: For the past year, Akron Children's Hospital has been a second home for Ohio couple Sarah Lewis and William Cramer. Their 4-year-old son Billy has collectively spent six of the last 12 months there receiving treatment for neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that starts in early nerve cells and is most common in infants and young children.

This is the love story of Samantha and Kyle; how they met, fell in love and then unexpectedly found out that their path to happy-ever-after was not going to be an easy one. Like many other people today who are in search of finding the perfect life partner, Samantha and Kyle met online at a Christian dating site in 2013.

This man's love for his late wife has only blossomed. Don Jaquish's beloved wife, Babette of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer, back in 2006, according to ABC News. Sadly, she died late last year.

Photo caption: Brent and Emily Stoller on their wedding day in Rancho Mirage, CA. Photo credit: Amy & Stuart Photography Which band do we want? What color should the groomsmen wear? Can our rehearsal dinner video montage be made to resemble A-Ha's "Take on Me"?

Posted: Print Article Shannon O'Hara wasn't going to let cancer be the focus of her big day. The 28-year-old from Redding, Connecticut, dreamed of wearing her mother's veil on the day she walked down the aisle to her fiance, Jeff, according to The Mighty.

As excited as Amanda Crowe Free was for her Dec. 13 wedding, she knew a very special person would be missing: her 6-year-old daughter Azalee, who died of cancer in November 2013. But thanks to Free's friend and wedding photographer Ashley Frantz, Azalee was at the West Baton Rouge, Louisiana nuptials in spirit -- and in photos.

A boy who has cancer popped the question to a very special lady in his life. Gideon Robinson, a 5-year-old who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last year, has grown close to nurse Sarah Richards while undergoing treatments at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.

When Swift Myers, who's battling bone cancer, woke up after almost 11 days in an induced coma, he knew exactly what he wanted to do next: marry his girlfriend of almost two years, Abbi. "I thought he was joking at first," Abbi told The Huffington Post of the proposal.

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A diagnosis will bring out the best and worst of you and your partner. It has the potential to tear your relationship apart or bring you closer together more intimately than you could have imagined. As the saying goes, it's not about what happens to ...

Le père de Heather Duquette, d'origine américaine, a été diagnostiqué en 2012 d'une leucémie. Malgré cela, il a décidé, coûte que coûte, de l'emmener jusqu'à l'autel. En 2012, Ralph Duquette, un Américain de 61 ans apprenait qu'il avait un cancer, une leucémie plus précisément. Mais ce n'est pas la maladie qui allait vaincre cet homme courageux.

When planning a wedding you have expectations and ideas of what your big day should be, right? Sometimes life gets in the way of that. After 11.5 years of living with cancer, I'm getting married at the end of October 2016, and cancer has been the perfect trial and error for this entire process.

Posted: Print Article Nail polish can't cure cancer, but when applied correctly, it can sure help a cancer patient's outlook on life. When Valerie Brosdal was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in August 2013, her husband, Ralph Kapostins, sought to lift her spirits by taking her for a pedicure.

I strongly believe everything happens for a reason. Had terminal cancer not happened to me, I would not have been able to inspire my closest friends and family to appreciate the beautiful gift of life a little more and live more appreciative and positive lives with my story.

Posted: Seven years ago, Netis Negron -- a single mother of three living near Phoenix, Arizona -- was diagnosed with breast cancer. Recently, the 36-year-old learned that the cancer had spread to her bones. Because she doesn't know how much time she has left, Negron decided she wasn't going to wait any longer to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a bride.

Celine Dion left Las Vegas to care for her husband René Angélil during his battle with throat cancer. Now, as she prepares to jump back into her residency show at Caesar's Palace, the 47-year-old opened up to USA Today about the decision to return to the stage despite her husband's failing health.

Right now everyone's talking about a "new year, new you." While that makes for some catchy ad copy, there's really no way-no matter what you do-to start over and get a new you. We're all, each one of us, stuck with ourselves. But there's hope!

Posted: Print Article Just days before 19-year-old blood cancer patient Gabby Jones died, the Indiana teen received a wonderful gift from her family and the medical staff at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health. On February 2, Gabby and her family learned that she had contracted a deadly fungal infection that her already compromised immune system was too weak to fight.

Posted: Print Article My boyfriend proposed to me on a romantic walk along the California coastline. As he asked me to be his bride, the sun was shining, and the wind was blowing through his short, chestnut hair. But it wasn't blowing through mine.

Posted: Print Article Josie Metz's father won't be there to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. But thanks to California photographer Lindsey Villatoro, the 11-year-old was able to experience what it might be like anyway.

Giving birth is usually an emotional experience, but this particular birth story is an especially powerful one. On Sept. 18, Colorado birth photographer and videographer Sarah Boccolucci had the opportunity to document the birth of baby Levon, the son of Jessica Li and her fiancé Cagney Wenk.

Image via iStock.com/prudkov Two years ago, Hope R., 50, decided she was done with relationships for good. Four previous marriages had left her skeptical about the idea of true love, and trying to meet someone online seemed more trouble than it was worth.

Within the span of three months, Dede Daniel was met with both devastating and heartwarming news. First, in November, she learned she had stage 2 breast cancer. Next, in January, her boyfriend Stephen Long proposed. Dede reached out to her favorite Atlanta radio show, The Bert Show, to share her story and also ask for an affordable venue recommendation for her Sept.

Illinois couple Destini Schafer and Brandon Thomas planned to elope in Jamaica this month, but instead, Schafer is in the hospital battling stage four stomach cancer. So Schafer's nurse, Ashley Shipley-Lovekamp, arranged a wedding ceremony ceremony for the pair in the courtyard of Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois on May 6.

I was diagnosed during one of those rare, rainy Southern California Octobers. In the fog of my shock and the chemo, physical therapy was just another box to check. I didn't do the research like I typically would have. I didn't try to find the PT whose education and experience were the perfect fit for my new, complex needs.

Posted: Print Article 1) If you're estranged, bury the hatchet. It's a chance to clean your lenses. She's the mother of your kids and if anything happens to her, your children will be devastated. Do it for them. 2) Her emotional well-being is not your problem, but it is your concern.