I would like to introduce something I will be doing annually starting now. Each year, I will donate an entire wedding package to a charitable organization as a way of giving back to the community and supporting the people who often go uncelebrated. I love hearing what issues are close to peoples hearts and I will choose based on my time spent with the couple and learning about their passions and why an organization of their choice is deserving :) The announcement will be made in the couples wedding blog post right here so keep checking back! I really can’t wait to embark on this!
So! Let’s kick this thing off! I am happy to announce that Katie and Tim‘s package will be the donation of 2009 and is going to a great organization in Thailand and Cambodia, Mercy Ministries Foundation. Katie and I first became friends while helping out at the Chiang Saen Babies’ Home in the good ol’ days of 2006, and since, have both been back to volunteer solo (and I am certain there may be more to come!). Instead of giving favours to the guests at the reception, Katie and Tim donated those funds, in addition to the ‘kiss-moolah’ as I so fondly refer to it, to the Foundation. (Nothing like kissing for a cause!) There is no comparison to the joy the kids who live in the home share and I doubt there is a more fulfilling duty then raising children with such vivaciousness for life. I can hardly think of a better organization to get this thing rolling!
I dug out the photo album from our time in 2006 and scanned in some (very crumby) images.
The image on the left is of Katie and I directly after coming out from having our hair washed (complete with a head massage, oh how divine!), dried and straightened in Chiang Saen. When I mean straightened I mean stick straight. All for $3 (that is with a pretty big tip). As you can see, I step outside and my hair already started going frizzy. at the ends. The image on the right is Katie with Rachel who she sponsors. :)
Here I am earlier this summer with just a few of the kids. :)
Keep checking back! In the new year (oh and you say that is a far way off. Believe me.. we will be there before you can say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” — I always wanted an excuse to blog that word) I will be making another announcement :)
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