It was the saddest, yet most joyful wedding of the year.

On July 28 Aimee Chandler-Honnor, 23, of Oakbury Road, Fulham, married Oliver (Oli) Kaszas, also 23, of Southfields. A week later she died.

Aimee and Oli were childhood sweethearts, who met as 11-year-olds at Elliot School in Putney.

Aimee developed a brain tumour when she was 19, but underwent successful surgery. But the cancer came back in early 2005, and Aimee was taken ill while holidaying with Oli in Cornwall last month.

She was rushed to hospital, where it was found the cancer had returned and she had only a brief time left. Oli immediately proposed marriage and family and friends rallied round to give her the wedding of her dreams. Her friend went out to buy the gown.

It cost about £3,000, but on hearing Aimee's story, the shop gave it to her free of charge. On her wedding morning Aimee was baptised in the hospital chapel with her brother, Barry.

Early that afternoon she was brought from her bed in a wheelchair, but managed to walk down the aisle with her father, attended by her cousin, Melody, as bridesmaid. She also danced at the reception held afterwards.

Friend Phoebe Fraser said: "Aimee was my closest friend and a very special girl. The chapel in the hospital was decorated to her specifications and her cousin Melody did her make-up. Everyone who loved her was there and we were spilling out of the door.

"She looked beautiful and the smile on her face was immovable all day.

"To witness the love between Oli and Aimee was the most uplifting and magical feeling, and also the saddest. If I ever find love like I saw between the childhood sweethearts, I will be truly the happiest anyone can be."

Aimee died seven days later, on August 4, but not before her brother and her closest friends had themselves tattooed with her name so she could see they would never forget her.

Her grieving parents, Simon and Denise, say they are thankful she had just enough time to enjoy the happiest day of her life.