Jade a picture of happiness on eve of wedding

Reality television star Jade Goody, who is dying from cancer, was a picture of happiness tonight as she flew by helicopter to the country house hotel where her wedding will take place tomorrow.

Goody, 27, was said to be “very excited” at the prospect of fulfilling her dream of marrying her fiance, 21-year-old Jack Tweed, before she dies.

Her publicist, Max Clifford, said she could expect “a day of surprises” at tomorrow’s wedding at at the Down Hall Country House Hotel in Essex.

“She is as well as can be expected and is very excited,” said Mr Clifford.

“She will spend the night at the hotel and I know they have a few surprises in store. I know for example they have made her a very big cake.”

The event has all the trappings of a celebrity wedding and TV cameras followed Goody’s every move.

A spokesman for Down Hall said Miss Goody had hired the four star hotel for the day and the wedding would be a private affair for invited guests only.

Goody has struck a deal with a magazine which will have exclusive access to the wedding pictures. Her wedding preparations have also been filmed by a TV crew in a combined deal reportedly worth almost £1m (€1.1m) to secure the future of her two young sons – Bobby, five, and Freddy, four – after her death.

Earlier today Goody looked happy and relaxed despite her illness as she posed for photographers and kissed Tweed outside her home in Upshire, Essex.

A tube was visible inside her left sleeve for her painkillers.

Goody ensured she would look her best and have a dazzling smile for her wedding pictures by visiting a central London dental clinic today to undergo teeth whitening treatment. She was accompanied by four female friends.

Goody even managed a joke about losing her hair through chemotherapy treatment when her four friends emerged from her house alongside her and wore joke bald skull caps in an apparent show of solidarity. They were all dressed in similar track suits.

Mr Clifford said Goody had spent today like any other bride preparing for her wedding. Friends and relatives have rallied around her as she made last-minute arrangements.

Goody has described how Tweed proposed after doctors told her that she was likely to die in the near future.

In September Tweed, was given an 18 month jail term after being convicted of attacking a teenage boy with a golf club.

He was released from prison in January on licence.

He must wear a monitoring tag, stay at his mother’s home in Essex, and not go out after 7pm.

Ministry of Justice officials have given special permission to allow the terms of his curfew to be relaxed tomorrow so that he can spend his wedding night with his new bride. But tonight he had to return to his mother’s home.

Goody’s “Happiness and Confidence Coach” said she took a faith healer to visit the bride-to-be in hospital on Monday evening.

Sue Stone said Goody was very open to the treatment and felt an improvement afterwards.

The healer placed his hands on Goody’s body in an attempt to clear negative “blockages”, she said.

“She immediately felt a change in one of her legs. She said she’s got more movement. She rang me and said ’thank you so much, I already feel different inside’.”

Ms Stone said she fully supported Goody’s decision to get married tomorrow.

“I think it’s perfect for her. She’s wanted to be the princess bride at the fairytale wedding and I think it’s wonderful.”