Vendors throw wedding for free after learning bride’s mother had just months to live
Vendors throw wedding for free after learning bride’s mother had just months to live
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Alahna Leonardo’s mother, Malina Carnell, has been battling stage 4 colorectal cancer for two years. A group of strangers threw a wedding together in a random act of kindness for a young Kentucky woman after she received the devastating news that her mother had just months to live.
![[Alahna Leonardo and her husband Jordan celebrated their big day Wednesday after a group of community wedding vendors clubbed together to ensure that her mother could see her marry ‘the man of her dreams’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/30/17/03/5504da07-2708-497e-b72a-a3a36e345af1.jpeg)
Alahna Leonardo, a labor and delivery nurse, spoke out about her tragic news at the start of January, revealing to her local Louisville community on Facebook that her mother, who had been enduring an almost 2-year battle with stage 4 colorectal cancer, was told by doctors that they could do no more for her.
![[After battling cancer for nearly two years, Carnell, was given the devastating news in early January that she only had three months to live]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/30/17/34/78b06989-7217-44b5-974e-3987c2830b8b-2.jpeg)
Alahna’s mother Malina Carnell, a real estate agent, told The Independent that after hearing the family’s news, four of her daughter’s co-workers organized her entire wedding by contacting wedding vendors to get the ceremony urgently rearranged. And thanks to the team effort it went ahead on Wednesday.
Her daughter had originally planned to get married in April but her mother’s diagnosis meant she would not have made it. “It was incredible. We just got such an outpouring of love and community and they just all banded together. Before you knew it, they’d planned an entire wedding in just nine days”, Carnell said.
Everything from the photography to the caterers, to the venue, and even the flowers were arranged for her, she added. Carnell revealed that she received the heartbreaking diagnosis just two weeks before the wedding with her doctors revealing that tumors had spread all over her body from her neck to her lungs, abdomen, and even down to her spine.
