Dawn Weston was diagnosed with an incurable case of cervical cancer last year at the age of just 24.
She was told that she only had months to live and in a matter of weeks arranged a wedding so that she could marry her long time love Daniel, before she passed away.
"When Dawn began complaining of crippling back pain in 2013, she went to the doctors, but she was never offered a smear test, as at 24 she was too young," her husband Danial told Caters News.
A month later she returned to the doctor and was given a smear test which showed abnormal results. Dawn was given a treatment and a biopsy and eventually diagnosed with cervical cancer.
"Dawn wanted to get married before she started gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, so she could keep her hair and some colour in her cheeks. It was a perfect day – I am so thankful I was able to fulfil Dawn’s last wish of becoming my wife," said Daniel.
Only a matter of days after her wedding, Dawn had to undergo intensive chemotherapy treatment which caused her to become severely ill and for her hair to fall out. Just four months after her wedding, Dawn passed away.
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Her family are now petitioning for a change in the law in the UK so that women under the age of 25 can have routine smear tests.
