Followers of my blog will recall that in January, I
posted about America’s first non-profit wedding wish granting organization Wish Upon A Wedding. Since this week is their National Raise Awareness Week, I like to give you some updates about this organization.
As of my previous post about Wish Upon A Wedding, there are now twenty chapters nationwide, (with more chapters opening soon in Colorado, Arizona, Portland, Miami, St. Louis, Ohio and Nevada) headed by some of the industry’s most renowned leaders:
Presidents:
• Sasha Souza, National
• Kevin Covey, LA/Orange County
• Stella Inserra, New York
• Ivy Robinson, The Carolinas
• Eliana Baucicault, Atlanta
• Mary Alice Sublett, Tennessee
• Heather Hamilton Sims, Houston
• Shelby Tuck Horton, DC
• Elisa Delgardio, Orlando
• Ali Phillips, Chicago
• Daniela FageÍ´́t Seattle
For those wishing to qualify for Wishes, you must be unmarried legal citizens of the United States, over the age of 18, who have been diagnosed with less than three years to live.
To apply online, please click
here to request one of three wedding types: URGENT (Up to 10 guests, in hospital or at bedside); BOUTIQUE (up to 25 guests, in home town of applicant); ROMANTIC (Up to 50 guests, at any WUW destination).
For those wanting to be Wish Granters, please click
here for more information on how to start helping them make Wedding Wishes come true.
Wish Upon A Wedding's first wish recipients are Florence and Michael, hailing from Elk Grove, CA, who will be getting married March 13. To read about their amazing story, please click
here.
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