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Charity Wedding Event

I feel like this could be fun if put together correctly...

A charity wedding event!

 

Here's how it would work...

Just like a normal charity event, you have to get people together that are willing to attend and would also be willing to purchase a ticket to the event.

Now we have our people all buying a ticket.  Let's say there are a couple hundred.  I'm imagining a scenario where...  Let's say it's a wedding between two famous people.  Or two historical figures.  Or two fictional characters!  How cool would that be right?

Now everyone gets assigned roles.  Or maybe they put in for a bid to play different people in the wedding. Or to play different guests.  Then for the duration of the night, you get to play that person.

Just like a normal wedding there would be a ceremony.  Then there would be a cocktail hour.  After the cocktail hour there'd be a dinner and then after that there would be a dance with live music.

Obviously the biggest hurdle will be expenses.  If everyone pays for a ticket, that money will be the pot of money being donated to whatever cause the money is going towards.  So in order to donate the most possible, keeping costs down will be crucial.

Ideally, all of the services would be donated services.  So all of the things that go with a wedding would need to be donated... Renting of the facilities, the cake, catering, photography services, DJ or live band services.  This is going to be the toughest part as I imagine most of these services that charge, especially at the peak of wedding season might just not be able to donate.  It's not that they don't want to... but it just might not be an option.  Maybe they aren't super profitable in the first place and giving up a free night just might be really hard for them.  They might also be booked up.

For those reasons maybe this event could take place during the wedding off season.  Or maybe we could sacrifice some of the official/legitimate things for our own doing.  Perhaps instead of a DJ, just have laptop hooked up to a borrowed PA system and we play our own music.  Or maybe just try and find someone with a big enough house to host the charity wedding... Or just a church with a rec hall or something.  Maybe a community center.  It would be sweet to be able to have some kind of snazzy location, but possibly not realistic.  As well it would be super cool to have a professional photographer, but we could always just setup a makeshift Photo Booth thing and maybe just have an art student, or a fledgling new photo business that's just starting out that we could pay significantly less to than a big name photographer.  Plus it would be a chance for that photographer to get their name out there and for people to see their handy work.

The food could just be something basic.  Maybe?  We order pizzas.  Ok, not THAT basic.  But... Perhaps we just go with a local restaurant that's willing to provide some food at a discounted rate.

But I think it could be cool to have one of these events every year.  And each year we try to get bigger and better with the donations.  We try to get people to pay a little more for the tickets and donate more services so that the total amount of money that could be donated to the charity or cause would continue to increase each year.

If the event got REALLY big, maybe it could get news coverage or something like that to raise awareness for the cause too.  I think it would be awesome to have it almost be like a part theatrical production where there is almost a script to follow for each character.

Like that strange uncle, or aunt that tells all sorts of outlandish stories.  Or perhaps the bride and groom could be super interesting fictional characters.  Like Katniss Everdeen is marrying Harry Potter.

What?  I know!  Right?

Or someone gets to come as Ben Franklin.  Because why not?  It would almost be like a halloween costume wedding... Zombies get married.  Who wants to be the Zombie bride?  Ok, we're going to raffle that spot off to raise even more money.  Or maybe one year we recreate a historically significant wedding.  Princes and Princesses.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air marries Princess Jasmine.

I can show you the world!  With a romantic magic taxi cab ride through the streets of Bel-Air.  Complete with dice in the mirror.  Or maybe the magic flying carpet has dice in the mirror?

I really think the ideas are endless.  Yes, it would be a LOT of work... and there are certainly better ways to raise money for charity.

But come on... wouldn't this be a REALLY fun event?  I think it would!

So everyone put your best dressed up outfit on and say "I do" to raising money for a charitable cause with a mock theme wedding.