Wish Upon a Wedding
Time: Shelly Sundstrom knew she didn't have much of it. Days, hours, minutes were slipping away – but Sundstrom knew what she wanted to do.
She wanted to marry Jay Ellison. And he wanted to marry her.
But when? And, more problematically, how? Neither of them had the stamina to plan a wedding. Shelly, 48, had advanced lymphoma, and her doctors had given her mere weeks to live. Jay, also 48, had serious health issues of his own; he had been battling multiple sclerosis for years.
A friend of the Seattle couple placed a call to Wish Upon a Wedding, a new charity that grants weddings and vow renewals to people diagnosed as having fewer than five years to live. Volunteers with the charity blasted into action – and three weeks later, Shelly was walking down the aisle and exchanging wedding vows with Jay.
