Your wedding day is meant to be the start of a beautiful life together, and for Yolanda and Nathan it still is, it's just going to be a very short one.

Yolanda Blamires from Melbourne has terminal cancer. The 22-year-old was diagnosed before their special day and married her "best friend" knowing their time together as husband and wife would be tragically brief.

The couple met in 2013 at Monash University where they were both studying, and connected immediately, becoming best friends who watched endless episodes of Breaking Bad together while eating pizza.

It took almost two years for them to admit their feelings for each other.

It was then, Yolanda told That's Life magazine, that her father noticed a yellow tinge in his daughter's eyes which soon spread to her skin.

The condition is known as jaundice and is known to be connected to liver function.

After a visit to the doctor, Yolanda was told her platelet count was high. She says she immediately thought "that can be a sign of cancer".

A week later, she returned to the doctor with her mum, only to be told she had a 7cm tumour on her liver. Yolanda says she "sat in shock" as the specialist delivered the news.

Life as she knew it was over. Yolanda and Nathan on their wedding day. Image: Lauren Starr, Little Star Photography

The young student struggled to tell her boyfriend that she was now battling liver cancer and it was left to her mum to deliver the news to him while the three were at dinner.

Nathan burst out crying.

Yolanda told Nathan he didn't have to stay.

"You don't have to stay with me. You didn’t sign up for this."

But Nathan wouldn't hear of it and has stuck by her side ever since, supporting her when the then-21-year-old was told the cancer was terminal.

"At 21-years-old, I had just months to live," she told the magazine.

All Yolanda could think of was how the diagnosis would affect her family and friends after she was gone.

A month later, during a bushwalk together, as they approached a beautiful waterfall, that Nathan got down on bended knee and asked Yolanda to be his wife.

She said "yes" immediately and they began planning their wedding as quickly as they could, managing to organise a beautiful event in just three months.

The couple married knowing they were living on borrowed time. They enjoyed their first dance together as husband and wife knowing it could be the last time they ever danced together.

Determined to make the most of their time together, the newlyweds travelled to New Zealand and Fiji.

"Our love might burn briefly, but it burns bright," Yolanda said.

She's still with us, 18 months after her devastating diagnosis, and credits her husband for her survival.

"A course of chemotherapy has shrunk the tumour by half, but it's believed I have a year left to live," she said.

Nathan has taken a step back from his career, working part-time to pay the bills, ensuring he can spend as much time with Yolanda as possible.

They've had all the difficult conversations, including Yolanda telling her husband she wants him to meet someone else after she is gone.

"I want you to meet someone," she told him. "I want another girl to be as happy as he's made me."
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