LOS ANGELES , California ( CNN ) -- Jessica Keenan tried on wedding dresses in a fancy Beverly Hills boutique , about 100 miles from the Santa Barbara , California , clinic where she gets blasted with chemotherapy once a week . Jessica Keenan , 34 , is getting married January 24 , thanks to the Dream Foundation . Keenan is 34 years old and battling Stage 4 breast cancer with faith , hope and a charity called the Dream Foundation , which helps terminally ill adults . ''You get a diagnosis and you never know how short your time is , '' Keenan said . `` I chose to believe there is going to be a cure . You still carry those dreams of getting married , having a kid . '' But Keenan and her fiancé , Curtis Jimenez , could n't afford a wedding -- their finances are sapped by her cancer battle . They rent from friends . Keenan wrote a letter to Dream Foundation , at the suggestion of her devoted nurses at the Santa Barbara cancer center . `` It all just started snowballing , '' she said . Her wish has been granted , thanks to Dream Foundation and flock of people she has never met . Think of the foundation as Make-A-Wish , but instead of trying to help desperately sick children , Dream Foundation assists terminally ill adults . Keenan 's wedding is a different , more lavish wish than most of the requests the foundation has been receiving in this tough economy . `` People 's needs are becoming basic , '' said the charity 's founder , Thomas Rollerson . `` We are getting wishes just to pay an electric bill , pay the rent , or help keep a promise to go to Disneyland to give them that memory in a time of hopelessness , doctors visits and uncertainty . '' Other dreams are simply for dying family members to be united with loved ones , last visits before last rites . Rollerson explains that with money tight , donors can still help without writing big checks . For example , people can donate frequent flier miles or hotel points . When corporate donors and philanthropists jump in , a Dream Foundation wish can turn elaborate . The foundation 's Web site is a bulletin board of heartache looking for relief . There 's Bruce , 31 , dying of Hodgkin 's lymphoma . He wants to leave New York state for the first time and take his wife and his 6-year-old son to Disney World . Remedios is a California woman with incurable cancer . She wants to treat the daughter who stands over her bed to a Quinceniera , a traditional celebration for a girl who turns 15 years old . Bone cancer is expected to kill Edward Lucas of Springfield , Missouri , in less than six months . He wants to celebrate his 21st wedding anniversary with his wife , Nancy , before he leaves her a widow with an adult daughter and three grandchildren . Their dream is a warm-weather honeymoon trip never taken . Edward was hospitalized and too weak to talk to CNN . `` I wanted him to have a trip or something to look forward to , '' Nancy said . `` A lot of people do n't realize there are dreams for adults too . '' The Lucas ' dream trip is coming together with the help of Dream Foundation , which is hashing out some of the flight and hotel issues to Florida . Back in California , Keenan 's wedding is speeding toward January 24 , thanks to dozens of corporate sponsors and a wealthy Texas do-gooder , Beverly Adams , who made a big financial contribution . The upscale boutique Monique Lhullier donated the dress . `` We 're a conduit , '' Dream Foundation 's Rollerson said . `` People are willing to help . They just need to know how and where . '' Keenan , a hairdresser by trade , was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 . She thought she had it beat two years ago when she met her fiancé on New Year 's Eve . She found out in March of 2007 the cancer returned . Her fiancé has remained at her side . `` When they met , they were just so into each other , '' said Lena Rueff , who first introduced the bride-to-be to her brother . `` He has been a rock for her . He packs snacks , games , books to the hospital where he stays with her . '' In the dress shop , she and the other bridesmaids cheer for Jessica . `` You look sexy ! '' Her hair is cropped short after all the chemotherapy . `` I like the long veil . '' Jessica pauses , realizing she 's not just playing dress-up with grade school friends . `` It 's overwhelming . I 'm anxious and excited , '' she said , standing in a room where some dresses cost more than new cars . `` I still do n't believe it 's going to happen . '' The bridesmaids stop cheering for a second and rub away tears of joy .
Jessica Johnson , 24 , has Stage 4 breast cancer . One of her dreams is to get married to defy her terminally ill prognosis . The Johnson Foundation is helping her dream come true . The foundation helps terminally ill people with their last wishes .