Irish Wedding News
18/06/2013
Chris Clark, 41, proposed to his girlfriend, 30-year-old Charlotte, within minutes of finding out his cancer was terminal.
Mr Clark had started suffering from pains in his side while he was away on holiday. When the pain only continued to increase, and he was feeling tired and had lost his appetite, a series of tests in July 2012 revealed he had secondary cancer. Then, last September, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer which had spread to his stomach. The couple were told the tumour was terminal and nothing more could be done.
Chris said: "I already knew I wanted to be married to Charlotte so when they said it was non-curable I knew what I was going to do.
"When I was told the news it was like an explosion, I felt deaf and a bit disorientated. I just got up and walked out as they said I've got to have more tests."
They sat in the hospital waiting room for five minutes when he asked his girlfriend to marry him before he had to undergo further tests.
Months before Mr Clark was given the diagnoses, his partner had made an online scrapbook of her dream wedding, which helped her with the quick turnaround in wedding plans. It included everything she wanted for her wedding including the venue to the design of her wedding dress.
"The whole day was just like the wedding I had dreamed of. We have been together for six years, and have always known we would get married, but had been taking our time," she explained. "Even though Chris hadn't asked me yet I would save links and pictures in a folder on my tablet that I would want in my future wedding.
"When we decided to do a wedding in ten days the preparation I had done was a God-send, and made things lots easier.
"We were lucky as loads of family and friends have businesses that are involved in weddings in someway.
"Chris's brother has a marquee business, we have a friend who is a photographer and another who is a florist. The wedding more or less planned itself! The whole day was just how I had dreamed."
The pair married at St Gregory's Church in Offchurch, Warwickshire, on October 6 2012, surrounded by 100 family and friends, including Chris's children Connor, 20, Logan, 17, and Sennen, 15, from a previous marriage.
Following their wedding, Chris - a freelance photographer who once served in the Navy - started seven bouts of chemotherapy and has already defied the statistics as doctors said the average life expectancy from the point of diagnosis was six months.
Charlotte said: "We are all hoping and praying the cancer hasn't grown. We're trying to live a normal life and we are very pragmatic about the future.
"We count our blessings every day. We keep thinking it could be ten times worse. Chris is feeling pretty good at the moment so we're making the most of that. He's my inspiration."
(JP/CD)
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Bride Organises Wedding For Terminally-Ill Husband
A bride-to-be organised her dream wedding in just 10 days after her terminally-ill husband proposed, the Daily Mail has said.Chris Clark, 41, proposed to his girlfriend, 30-year-old Charlotte, within minutes of finding out his cancer was terminal.
Mr Clark had started suffering from pains in his side while he was away on holiday. When the pain only continued to increase, and he was feeling tired and had lost his appetite, a series of tests in July 2012 revealed he had secondary cancer. Then, last September, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer which had spread to his stomach. The couple were told the tumour was terminal and nothing more could be done.
Chris said: "I already knew I wanted to be married to Charlotte so when they said it was non-curable I knew what I was going to do.
"When I was told the news it was like an explosion, I felt deaf and a bit disorientated. I just got up and walked out as they said I've got to have more tests."
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They sat in the hospital waiting room for five minutes when he asked his girlfriend to marry him before he had to undergo further tests.
Months before Mr Clark was given the diagnoses, his partner had made an online scrapbook of her dream wedding, which helped her with the quick turnaround in wedding plans. It included everything she wanted for her wedding including the venue to the design of her wedding dress.
"The whole day was just like the wedding I had dreamed of. We have been together for six years, and have always known we would get married, but had been taking our time," she explained. "Even though Chris hadn't asked me yet I would save links and pictures in a folder on my tablet that I would want in my future wedding.
"When we decided to do a wedding in ten days the preparation I had done was a God-send, and made things lots easier.
"We were lucky as loads of family and friends have businesses that are involved in weddings in someway.
"Chris's brother has a marquee business, we have a friend who is a photographer and another who is a florist. The wedding more or less planned itself! The whole day was just how I had dreamed."
The pair married at St Gregory's Church in Offchurch, Warwickshire, on October 6 2012, surrounded by 100 family and friends, including Chris's children Connor, 20, Logan, 17, and Sennen, 15, from a previous marriage.
Following their wedding, Chris - a freelance photographer who once served in the Navy - started seven bouts of chemotherapy and has already defied the statistics as doctors said the average life expectancy from the point of diagnosis was six months.
Charlotte said: "We are all hoping and praying the cancer hasn't grown. We're trying to live a normal life and we are very pragmatic about the future.
"We count our blessings every day. We keep thinking it could be ten times worse. Chris is feeling pretty good at the moment so we're making the most of that. He's my inspiration."
(JP/CD)
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