There were the blissful smiles of joy you might expect from any wedding day couple.

But for Emily Hayward and Aisha Hasan, their marriage was even more poignant.

Because fitness instructor Emily has terminal cancer and may only have months to live.

Despite the diagnosis, the happy couple refused to allow it to overshadow their special day.

There was a formal ceremony in front of a small family gathering at a register office.

But the full celebration took place two days later at Winters Barns in Nackington Road, Canterbury, which was attended by dozens of friends and family.

Emily, 24, from Herne, who is now living in Bromley with Aisha, 26, to be nearer to Royal Marsden Hospital, has a huge following on YouTube with her vlogs about fighting cancer.

And she shared her wedding video on her channel, which has been watched a staggering 66,000 times.

The former Chaucer School sixth former, who works at the King’s School Recreation Centre, was alerted to a problem seven years ago when a mole on her calf became inflamed, leading to a skin cancer diagnosis.

The couple have been together for four years, but wedding plans were hastened after a scan revealed Emily’s cancer had spread to tumours in her brain, for which she is receiving aggressive radiotherapy.

Her doctors told her that if there was anything she wanted to do in her life, to do it now.

That is when she decided she had to pop the question to her partner.

“The biggest sign of commitment is marriage and I wanted Aisha to know that if I do go, I was always committed to her,” she said.

But she was insistent that their wedding day would not revolve around her illness.

Afterwards, speaking on the video, the couple described their wedding as “the best day of our lives”.

Aisha said: “We already knew it, but it makes other people realise just how serious our relationship really is.”

Emily added: “We can’t thank everyone enough for their support and messages.

“It means the world to us.”

But there was no honeymoon for the couple.

The next day, Emily had to go back into hospital for emergency scans.

The radiotherapy has also started to make her long hair fall out, so this week she took the decision to have it all shaved off.

“To still have my hair seven years after I was initially diagnosed with cancer is pretty amazing,” she said.

“I can’t complain.”