The couple have been engaged since 2019 and are planning to tie the knot on January 22 and then take a small family holiday with Miss Trevena's son Alex Morley and the couple's two children Seth and Maddy Trevena.

"It would be really nice if we could take the kids away somewhere for a couple of days, take a million photos somewhere nice," Miss Morley said.

"I think it will depend on how much we can afford at the time and how his treatment is going. Maybe the beach, maybe somewhere where he can get outside in nature a bit because he's always been a bit of a bushwalker and stuff and he can't do it anymore so see if there are areas that have that but are a bit more accessible."

Mr Trevena, 39, has selected his wedding ring and the couple is grateful to friends who have taken off a lot of planning pressure for the wedding and set up a GoFund Me page.

"We have had a very generous donor who asked to remain anonymous so we don't even know who it is who has booked the function room at the Bowling Club for us," Miss Morley said.

"That was organised by a very beautiful local author Kelly Rimmer, who is a friend of a friend. She said she found a local business who don't want to be named to donate the reception.

"I'm completely amazed by how much people are willing to help, the Go Fund Me was almost $4000 in the week before Christmas but for people to donate at all in that time is amazing."

Mr Trevena also wants to raise awareness of bowel cancer, saying it's the fastest growing cancer among people aged between 25 and 40 in Australia.

"You never hear about bowel cancer at all," Mr Trevena said.

"The biggest thing is we hope that more people need to get it on their radar."

Miss Morley said she always thought it was for older people.

She said people should look for any changes in bowel habits.

"Any blood is bad, it might not be anything dramatic but there should never be blood when you go to the bathroom so get anything like that checked," she said.

Mr Trevena, a former Canbolas Rural Technology High School student and employee of Electrolux, Ironbark Pet Homes and the Manildra Flour Mill, was 35 years old when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

He had radiation and bowel resection surgery, then nine months later he finished chemotherapy, just a few weeks after Maddy was born.

Mr Trevena remained cancer free for just over a year but in 2019, just weeks after he and Miss Morley became engaged he underwent more surgery in Sydney to remove half his liver, and the cancer growing in it.

After a long recovery and another six months of chemotherapy, there was once again no sign of cancer.

However, the cancer returned in early 2021 and a CT scan for sciatic pain revealed the cancer was now in his pelvis. He underwent another major surgery.

After that surgery, while being transferred to Orange Hospital for recovery and rehabilitation, he had a seizure, and it was discovered the cancer had spread to his brain.

Mr Trevena returned to Sydney for a craniotomy to remove the brain tumour. This was followed by whole brain radiation, and yet more chemotherapy.

Mr Trevena finished the latest round of chemotherapy in October of 2021 but a month later a routine scan showed the pelvic tumour had returned, and grown significantly, while he was still undergoing chemotherapy.

The cancer is inoperable, radiation is no longer an option, and chemotherapy no longer works. Doctors have started immunotherapy, hoping it may extend his life, but predict he only has another six to 12 months to live.

The Go Fund Me page was launched about a week before Christmas to help fund the couple's wedding and family holiday so there will be plenty of happy memories and photos for the children to look at in years to come.

Kildare Aromatics is donating candles toward the wedding but the couple is still searching for a photographer and flowers.

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