Couple Moves Up Wedding Date After Both Are Diagnosed With Cancer Within A Week Of Each Other

perezhilton.com:

An engaged couple in Michigan has moved up their wedding date more than two months after both were diagnosed with cancer within a week of each other.

But now, they have proven to be remarkably optimistic through the ordeal, and they want to make the most of their life together — no matter what! Clay Slenk and Mariah Nelesen (pictured together, above) got engaged on the day after Christmas in 2020, and planned to tie the knot in June of this year.

The roadmap was playing out according to plan for the 24-year-old man and his 23-year-old bride-to-be. For the last year, they’d been busy planning their dream wedding and preparing to spend their lives together. Related: Kathy Griffin Celebrates Being Cancer-Free By Skinny-Dipping! Slenk told KTLA about the couple’s original summer 2022 wedding plans, reflecting on his initial hopes for a drawn-out process: Sadly, and unexpectedly, things completely changed over the span of just eight days back in January.

Nelesen told the outlet about what happened — first to her, and then to Slenk — after receiving a phone call from her doctor in the first month of this year: And a week later, it was Slenk’s turn for life-changing news.