A YOUNG woman with terminal cancer has revealed her dying wish ? to be a bride for a day.
Steph Knight, 21, has made her poignant request on a bucket list of things she wants to do before she dies.
She has no plans to marry ? but still wants to try on bridal gowns and have her own mock hen do with family and friends.
Pretty Steph, a former teaching assistant, was diagnosed with bone cancer Ewings sarcoma in 2009 and had to have her right leg and part of her pelvis removed.
She went into remission for just over a year but on New Year's Day was given the devastating news that the cancer had returned and she had just months to live.
Her sister Rachel Cross, 31, said: ?Making the list has kept Steph busy.
Fun ... Steph before her diagnosis at a bar
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?She has spent so much time in hospital and she feels that she has wasted it. She is determined not to waste any more time.
?She has always wanted to get married and have lots of babies but has found it hard to have a partner while undergoing treatment, despite being a very pretty girl.
?She wants to at least have tried on dresses and had a hen do before she goes. It doesn?t matter that it?s not for real.
?We?re planning to go all out for the hen do. The local landlady and our friends have been talking about naked butlers or maybe even a stripper ? if Steph allows it.?
Other wishes on Steph?s list include enjoying a cocktail night with naked waiters, going on a spa weekend and a trip to the theatre.
Bucket list ... included meeting the BGT judges
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She also wants to complete her childcare qualifications, do a skydive and enjoy a weekend break with all 16 members of her family and her dogs.
Steph has already ticked off one of her wishes by meeting the Britain?s Got Talent judges Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams in 2011.
Mum-of-three Rachel added: ?Steph is such a selfless person. For her it?s more about memories for us as well as fun experiences for herself.
?She wants us to have good memories of her rather than all the hospital memories.?
Steph, from Braughing, Herts, was diagnosed with cancer when she was 17. Doctors found a tumour the size of a tennis ball in the back of her pelvis.
By the time treatment started it had grown to cover the whole right side of her pelvis.
Still smiling ... Steph keeps up her spirits with cupcakes at a wedding
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She responded well to ten rounds of chemotherapy and three lots of radiotherapy in the first year and went into remission for a year.
But the soft-tissue cancer came back and further chemo failed to work.
In October last year Steph had her right leg and part of her pelvis removed but after the op doctors found the cancer returned to her stump.
The previously benign tumours in her lungs had also grown two centimetres each.
On New Year?s Day doctors told her and her family they would not be able to save her life and could only now try to prolong it as much as possible.
Rachel said: ?New Year?s Day was awful. The doctors said Steph would never be free of the cancer, but they would manage it as best they could.
?They told us the cancer had returned to her amputated stump and chest and lung area. Then ten days later a consultant confirmed the cancer was terminal but they would do what they could to keep her with us for as long as possible.?
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