A woman is preparing for her own wedding and funeral after being given just months to live after a cancer diagnosis.
Kirsty Maxwell was diagnosed with a signet cell tumour in her stomach, which has since spread to her oesophagus and begun attacking her organs.
As a result of the diagnosis, the 31-year-old has brought forward plans to marry fiancee Nadia Huggan and the pair will tie the knot in a simple registry office service next week.
The Perthshire community of Alyth, where Kirsty owned two businesses, has rallied around the couple to raise more than £6,000 to cover the cost of her funeral.
Nadia said: “We’ve already spoken to undertakers and I’m already taking pictures of her with friends so we can put together a slideshow.
“I think she just wants anyone who can be there to be there and not remember her in a sad way.
“Our biggest fear is that coronavirus stops that and mean only a certain number of people are able to attend.
“We are actually going to the registrars to get married on the 29th.
“We’ve been engaged for a while and we wanted to do it properly with a big wedding, but because Kirsty doesn’t have long left we decided just to go with a couple of witnesses to get married.”
Kirsty added that her cancer is so rare that doctors at her surgery had only ever seen one case before.
She said: “I’m just zoned in on getting it all sorted so it’s not left for my family to deal with.
“I’ll also be able to have things the way I want but all the stressful things will have been done.
“I’m lucky in the sense that I have the opportunity to have a few months – it could have just happened and I wouldn’t have the chance to do all the things I wanted to do.
“The people of Alyth have been amazing. They’ve raised over £6,000, which is completely overwhelming.”
