VANESSA SPURLOCK: We met because of cancer but we don't circle our whole life around what that is.

For the five years that I've known them, I can't imagine now not having them in my life because they're totally a part of family now.

KISHA MORGAN: When you're with those friends, you forget about your diagnosis that you had because you'll have friends that may help you through those times.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: Each year we try to do something just to celebrate us.

It could be we go to a movie, we go out to dinner, maybe a girl's day.

I was sitting at work and I was like, 'Gosh, what can we do this year that's different than something we've never done?'

So I called... BECKI WINES: Tiffanys Bridal.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: And I started off with, 'Hi, my name is Vanessa and I have a crazy question for you.'

BECKI WINES: She wanted to know if we could let her borrow some dresses.

She explained a little bit about what she wanted to do, that they just wanted to celebrate.

They were cancer survivors and just wanted to kind of glam up and dress up and just celebrate life.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: So it turned into looking for a dress to doing a photo shoot for Tiffanys.

BECKI WINES: We had probably about five or six dresses for each lady.

so when they came in, they could try those on and they could find that one that made them feel beautiful.

PAIGE HEATH: I loved every minute of being brought into this group.

I jumped at the chance being a breast cancer survivor myself, just to be able to share in their joy and elation and just share the happiness.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: It was like we were 16-year-old girls just in somebody's closet and you get to pick whatever dress you wanted to put on.

KISHA MORGAN: I felt absolutely amazing and beautiful and there's so many different types of dresses that you can get, you know, and to shape your figure.

My figure is different.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: With a breast cancer diagnosis, your mental change, your emotional change, your physical change, and we get to see that every day.

But when we came in here, it didn't matter if we thought our bodies may have had whatever imperfection, whatever scar, whatever flaw, all of it was just absolutely beautiful.

BECKI WINES: Vanessa had mentioned, our bodies don't look the same but we're still the same people, and I just wanted to give them a time where they could feel like that person that they felt like they are in the inside.

Maybe their bodies changed, maybe they look different.

When they look in the mirror, they don't see the body that they saw a few years ago but they're still the same person.

SHANNON BEASLEY: It was kind of a healing process, really, being here and and feeling beautiful and seeing the dresses and being with other women and seeing how they looked just as beautiful is very empowering.

VANESSA SPURLOCK: Survivor means to me that, yes, there is no longer a tumor that exists, but that I've survived more than just a tumor.

I think that being a survivor gives you a whole new life.

We have so many young people now that are like, you know, they're like living to die.

As a survivor, no, we are dying to live.