We are thrilled to fill you all in on our exciting news! We found out Sunday via a late evening phone call, that we have been selected as Top 5 semi-finalists in a local contest to earn a FREE wedding, by Paying It Forward in our community, through an amazing organization called Wedding Saviours!!! This is very exciting for us, and we invite you to share in our joy and excitement as you follow our story and support us by "Liking" our link on my Facebook page, by voting for us if/when we make the Top 3 and by reading my blog posts here, as well as the ones on the website I will be required to post. Most of all, it is your love and support and all of you cheering us on from the sidelines that will keep us going and help us stay focused on our goal of earning a free wedding!
Our story started in January, when I attended the Bliss Bridal Fair in Red Deer with my sister, as a casual Bride To Be, with no set wedding date, not enough money saved up to plan anything and no plan set in stone to make any of our wedding dreams come true. I attended the Bridal Fair seeking inspiration and ideas. I didn't know what that would look like, however, I felt if I could surround myself with all of that creative energy, the inspiration I needed would come. And it did, in the form of a booth with a kind lady promoting a very worthwhile organization who would later prove to hold the key to our dream of a perfect wedding! She told me about Wedding Saviours, and how they "make the world a better place, one wedding at a time." I couldn't wait to come home and tell Joe all about the possibility of our dream becoming a reality! It would be a long process, and prove to be intense at times, but if we could stay focused on the bigger picture, it would be worth applying!
Wedding Saviours helps couples who have overcome financial and/or emotional hardships, to make their wedding dreams come true, by having them volunteer together in their community, as a way of paying it forward to earn a free wedding. The first step is filling out the online application and answering several questions about past and current volunteer experience, what situations we have overcome, what we are doing to move forward, how our family and friends would describe us and what winning this contest would mean to us. They carefully reviewed all of the applications and we were selected to be among the Top 5 finalists! Now the real work begins, as our task is to choose a worthy organization for which we would like to volunteer our time...together. That is the challenge! Not only to choose a place to volunteer our time, but to work it into our opposite and busy schedules, around raising our two young and energetic children! We must volunteer together, to help strengthen our relationship and solidify our bond as a couple. We are required to document our experience by taking photos, videos, and writing about how it has helped us grow as a couple. We will then face the Red Deer wedding team panel of judges sometime mid-April for an in depth interview, at which time they will select the Top 3 couples to move forward into the final round! These three couples must complete the Charity Challenge, by spending an entire day, working together at the Red Deer Food Bank. After that and one last round of public voting, the wedding team will choose one couple as the winners, who will be awarded a wedding, made possible by local businesses who have stepped up and donated their time and talents, by offering their services free of charge to make a very special couple's dream come true!
We are thrilled and honoured to have made it into the Top 5 to compete as semi finalists. We are prepared to do whatever it takes to compete, and you can sugarcoat it with volunteer work and call it Pay It Forward, but we are in it to win it! However, if we don't end up winning the wedding, we will still come out of this experience richer for having been a part of it. And I know that the memories we make, volunteering together, and teaching our boys the importance of giving back to your community will last a lifetime. I am anxious and excited to see where this crazy ride will take us! Stay tuned and follow along as we prepare to Pay It Forward!
We are thrilled to fill you all in on our exciting news! We found out Sunday via a late evening phone call, that we have been selected as Top 5 semi-finalists in a local contest to earn a FREE wedding, by Paying It Forward in our community, through an amazing organization called Wedding Saviours!!! This is very exciting for us, and we invite you to share in our joy and excitement as you follow our story and support us by "Liking" our link on my Facebook page, by voting for us if/when we make the Top 3 and by reading my blog posts here, as well as the ones on the website I will be required to post. Most of all, it is your love and support and all of you cheering us on from the sidelines that will keep us going and help us stay focused on our goal of earning a free wedding!
Our story started in January, when I attended the Bliss Bridal Fair in Red Deer with my sister, as a casual Bride To Be, with no set wedding date, not enough money saved up to plan anything and no plan set in stone to make any of our wedding dreams come true. I attended the Bridal Fair seeking inspiration and ideas. I didn't know what that would look like, however, I felt if I could surround myself with all of that creative energy, the inspiration I needed would come. And it did, in the form of a booth with a kind lady promoting a very worthwhile organization who would later prove to hold the key to our dream of a perfect wedding! She told me about Wedding Saviours, and how they "make the world a better place, one wedding at a time." I couldn't wait to come home and tell Joe all about the possibility of our dream becoming a reality! It would be a long process, and prove to be intense at times, but if we could stay focused on the bigger picture, it would be worth applying! 
Wedding Saviours helps couples who have overcome financial and/or emotional hardships, to make their wedding dreams come true, by having them volunteer together in their community, as a way of paying it forward to earn a free wedding. The first step is filling out the online application and answering several questions about past and current volunteer experience, what situations we have overcome, what we are doing to move forward, how our family and friends would describe us and what winning this contest would mean to us. They carefully reviewed all of the applications and we were selected to be among the Top 5 finalists! Now the real work begins, as our task is to choose a worthy organization for which we would like to volunteer our time...together. That is the challenge! Not only to choose a place to volunteer our time, but to work it into our opposite and busy schedules, around raising our two young and energetic children! We must volunteer together, to help strengthen our relationship and solidify our bond as a couple. We are required to document our experience by taking photos, videos, and writing about how it has helped us grow as a couple. We will then face the Red Deer wedding team panel of judges sometime mid-April for an in depth interview, at which time they will select the Top 3 couples to move forward into the final round! These three couples must complete the Charity Challenge, by spending an entire day, working together at the Red Deer Food Bank. After that and one last round of public voting, the wedding team will choose one couple as the winners, who will be awarded a wedding, made possible by local businesses who have stepped up and donated their time and talents, by offering their services free of charge to make a very special couple's dream come true!
We are thrilled and honoured to have made it into the Top 5 to compete as semi finalists. We are prepared to do whatever it takes to compete, and you can sugarcoat it with volunteer work and call it Pay It Forward, but we are in it to win it! However, if we don't end up winning the wedding, we will still come out of this experience richer for having been a part of it. And I know that the memories we make, volunteering together, and teaching our boys the importance of giving back to your community will last a lifetime. I am anxious and excited to see where this crazy ride will take us! Stay tuned and follow along as we prepare to Pay It Forward!
Sounds like a great adventure! Go team!
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