A wedding in the Chicago suburbs came together in less than 24-hours to give a father with stage four cancer the opportunity to lead his daughter down the aisle.

"We were just excited to be able to do something with him," bride Grace Benway said. "It means a lot to him."

Dan Benway, Grace's father, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago that has since progressed to stage four.

Grace Benway and her fiancé, Thomas Decourcey, are set to get married in Colorado next month. Though her father "did really want to try to make it" to the out-of-state ceremony, the rapid progression of his cancer forced them to make other arrangements, she said.

"This week, he has just been in a decline, and all the nurses were nice enough to kind of help us plan something," Grace Benway said.

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