A bride-to-be who was diagnosed with cancer just three days after getting engaged organised her entire wedding while inside an isolation bubble.

Mother-of-two Katie Welsh, now 33, collapsed days after her boyfriend Dan Slawycz popped the question while on a romantic weekend away in February 2016.

After being rushed to hospital, Ms Welsh, from Manchester, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and told the tumour, which was pressing on her windpipe, would have killed her if left any longer.

While undergoing grueling chemotherapy, which caused Ms Welsh to lose her hair and 1.5 stone, she was kept in a sterile isolation unit for six weeks and only saw her children a handful of times.

Despite falling ill just five days before the ceremony, the wedding went ahead, with Ms Welsh now in recovery and well enough to return to work.

Ms Welsh said: 'I did all my planning from the isolation unit using an iPad. 

'I think a lot of my friends thought I was marrying Dan because I thought I was dying, but that wasn't it; neither of us knew I was ill when he popped the question.' 

Browsing the internet when she could not sleep, Ms Welsh treated herself to a glittery pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos, as well as arranging for a real-hair wig to be shipped from the US and organising her bridesmaids' outfits.

Ms Welsh was also forced to buy two wedding dresses after her dramatic weight loss meant the original option no longer fitted.

She said: 'I had a sparkly white beaded dress but when I got home and tried it on it was so heavy I knew I couldn't wear it.

'I had to order a second one; it had a big lacy skirt and a lot of people said I looked like Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City.

'I'd been 9.5 stone before and my weight dropped to eight stone.' 

Ms Welsh also recruited her future brother-in-law to be in charge of photography. 

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