A bride-to-be has launched a heart-breaking campaign to raise funds for "last chance" life-saving treatment instead of wedding presents.

Emma Houlston, 31, has aggressive inoperable ovarian cancer and her only hope of treatment is not funded by the NHS.

The treatment is expected to cost £114,000-a-year.

Emma, and her fiance Matt Lees, brought forward their wedding to take place around the corner from the hospital, between appointments, this Saturday.

The couple wrote a heartfelt message to would-be-guests, asking them to donate to a fundraising page instead of offering gifts.

They initially set a target of raising £150,000, which they hit in just 12 days.

She said: "I've tried a number of treatments but I've run out of options.

"The only hope I have left is immunotherapy - a treatment that's seen miraculous results for my cancer, but one that isn't available on the NHS.

"The costs we face for this treatment are terrifying but when the only other option is giving up and dying I'm determined to find a way to keep myself alive", she added.

"We've organised the wedding in a month and it has been very rushed but Matt and I just can't wait to be married.

"People were asking us what we wanted as gifts. We don't need anything - apart from money for the treatment.

"If we do run out of money - and I don't know when that would be - we don't know what will happen. Raising this money is, for me, the difference between life and death."