Jen Bulik Dream Wedding: Planner Donates $50k to Stage IV Cancer Patient
Jen Bulik is looking forward to life. Despite being given a deadly prognosis, she will cast all cares aside on Saturday thanks to a perfect stranger who has attempted to plan Bulik a perfect wedding.
At 35, Jen Bulik was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. After five months of treatment she was told last month that she would only have six months to live. With few options, Bulik made a hard decision- she decided to choose life for as long as she could live it.
After hearing the grim prognosis Bulik told her boyfriend: "Let's get married." She had been dating longtime boyfriend Jeff Lang for six years, and while the couple didn't have a long future together she said she "wanted to focus on life" according to NBC. Her wedding plans included barbeque on paper plates in the back of her parents house.
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But those plans would never come to light because new plans were already being made by a perfect stranger. Wedding planner Erica Ota came across the couple's story on a Facebook page. Touched by the couple's love, she was ready to help.
"I just feel that in life there are opportunities every day to do extraordinary things for other people," she told the news station. "This was an opportunity I saw to do something for somebody else. So why not?"
On Saturday Bulik will receive the wedding of her dreams. Using Bulik's Pinterest page as inspiration, Ota set out on her task. She also persuaded Thirty Bay Area wedding vendors to donate $50,000 worth of goods and services to make Bulik's wedding fantasy a reality.
"It was my goal for them not to pay a dime," Ota said. "I thought to myself these people have already suffered enough, why not be able to give them a gift? A wonderful gift that they, and their families will never be able to forget."
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