<div><p>Ronda Bivens and her longtime boyfriend Matt Mager have been an item since they were in high school, and they have 2 children together, so their marriage was just a formality at this point. But it was a small detail that meant the world to this young couple for a tragic reason. </p><p>Last February doctors found a lump on Ronda's ankle. At first they thought it was just a sprain, but they soon realized Ronda had an extremely rare form of cancer called epithelioid sarcoma.</p><p>Only 1 in 2.5 million people get this disease, and doctors had no faith that Ronda would survive, but Matt kept Ronda's hope alive with a promise that he would keep no matter what.</p><p>"I said if anything happens, we will get married somehow, someway," he told <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bride-incurable-cancer-wedding_us_591fa395e4b094cdba544e3a?utm_hp_ref=relationships&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=gn_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023" target="_blank">Huffpost</a>. </p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/1-12.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/2-12.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/2-12_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>The next year was almost unbearable. Ronda had her right leg amputated and went through <a href="https://www.shared.com/a-6-year-old-cancer-patients-final-wish-will-have-leave-you-feeling-so-many-emotions/" target="_blank">chemotherapy</a>, but the cancer still spread to her lungs and even her brain.</p><p>"They said, "˜We can just do what helps.' But everything they've done has just made it worse," Matt said.</p><p>"It's financially wrecked us, and I've had a front row seat to my best friend dying. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. It's very emotional."</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5.jpeg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5_GH_content_550px.jpeg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5_GH_content_650px.jpeg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>After an emergency room visit last week, doctors told the couple that Ronda had just days to live. So they decided to make the most of their situation, and in a few hours they had arranged a last-minute wedding.</p><p><strong>Click the next page to see Ronda and Matt's ceremony.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ronda was lying in a hospital bed at her home with a morphine drip in her arm when she said "I do" to Matt. The couple had quickly assembled their friends and family, a preacher and someone from the county clerk's office to make everything official.</p><p> There wasn't a dry eye in the house as the couple kissed. Amanda Dalton, a friend of the couple, spoke about their <a href="https://www.shared.com/he-sits-outside-this-room-all-day-when-i-found-out-why-my-heart-ached/" target="_blank">incredible love</a>:</p><p>"He's been there nonstop for her since the beginning," she said.</p><p>"He loves her unconditionally. That's the truth."</p><p>Matt simply says that "she wanted to have a beautiful wedding, and I wanted to give her that."</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/7-7.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/7-7_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>The couple spent their "honeymoon" reminiscing about the ceremony earlier that day. </p><p>"She woke up last night and she was so excited about the wedding," Matt said. </p><p>"We sat there and talked about it for an hour. She asked to see the wedding photos. We looked at them, laughed and cried and held each other."</p><p>There's no telling how much more time these two have together, but we know it's not enough.</p><div><div><div><amp-youtube height="9" width="16" layout="responsive" data-videoid="U6tJhTEaQzs"></amp-youtube></div></div></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Ronda shared a warning to others about her condition, because her life might have been saved if it was caught earlier:</p><p>"If you find a bump of any sort go to the doctor. Go to a bunch of doctors for second opinions. Maybe if I did, instead of believing all these other <a href="https://www.shared.com/her-doctor-told-her-the-lump-was-nothing-to-worry-about-now-she-has-just-months-to-live/" target="_blank">misdiagnoses</a>, things would be different."</p><p>If you want to help cover Ronda and Matt's medical costs, you can visit <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/3s6q8t4" target="_blank">their GoFundMe page</a>.</p><p><strong>Share this remarkable love story with someone you know!</strong></p></div>