I recently held a fundraiser for 3 cancer charities. It was highly publicised in my local paret and also the nationals. The papers when charting to me talked about if me and my partner are married or not. I explained that we were due to get married August 2011 but had to cancel it due to my health. The next thing I know they paper have rung around to see if they can get businesses to donate thier services for free to give me my dream wedding!
We were utterly thrilled! So my wedding is now booked for 6th June. So far everyone has been pretty generous.
Anyway it got me thinking about starting my own charity/foundation/fund and I thought maybe of helping to facilitate sick brides to get married. I used to be a wedding planned so I am pretty clued up! Plus my friend who wants to get involved is currently a wedding planner too. We are based in Somerset but would cover the whole of the uk.
I just wondered what you all thought of the idea and your honest pros and cons and the. If you had an idea for a name.
Thank you
They are some kind wonderful wonderful companies
Out there .
The company I work for have not even sent me a card.
Good luck for june
Love
Rosie x
Hi Naomi, what a lovely thing to look forward to, I am so pleased for you.
Re: possible charities, have you checked to see if anyone is already doing something similar? It sounds a wonderful idea but I know charity law is a pain in the backside (have to deal with bits of it regularly in my line of work) so I think it would be good to do some careful research before going too much further. I think you’d probably need to have a pretty tight definition of who qualified and criteria for selection, to say nothing of appointing trustees and all that legal jazz. So, you might want to restrict it, say, to “women who have a secondary cancer diagnosis” or “people with incurable and life-limiting conditions” or even “people meeting the criteria who live within 10 miles of X”. I know that sounds harsh but any charity would need to make tough decisions on allocating its limited resources and would be legally accountable for how it did so.
Hope that’s not too negative. For a complete contrast, one of the most moving ceremonies I have ever been involved with was a renewal of marriage vows for a couple one of whom was terminally ill with hepatic cancer (he died about 4 wekes later). That there is a place for such cermeonies, and someone able to bring gifts and skills to make them magical is in no doubt. I guess I just don’t like to think of your creativity being stifled by boring admin…
Whatever you decide, I really hope youe own day is magical and memorable.