All photos courtesy of Kate TrianoLast Saturday I did a wedding contest to benefit a wonderful couple. This wedding inspired Liz Guthrie a San Jose, Calif., wedding planner and organizer of the contest to launch a nationwide nonprofit, Wish Upon A Wedding, which grants weddings to terminally ill patients. Wish Upon a Wedding is the World’s first nonprofit wedding wish granting organization, Wish Upon a Wedding provides weddings at destinations across the United States for individuals facing life-threatening illness. It is a chance for couples to enjoy a very special day, without any thoughts of existing health issues, while surrounded by their closest family and friends.
The couple married was Vanessa and Mike who met after graduating from the Air Force Academy. Mike deployed overseas during the war, while he was away Vanessa was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Throughout the wedding contest, Vanessa has undergone numerous cancer treatments. She took a break from the treatments long enough to have her dream wedding in San Francisco and honeymoon in Napa.
I was honored to design her personal and ceremony flowers...all yellows: Football mums, vanda and cymbidium orchids, billy balls, and Skyline roses and rose petals.When I came to deliver her personal flowers Vanessa was gorgeous, of course. What I remember most was her constant smile and laughter. What a beautiful person inside and out!
By celebrating the the strength and love of this amazing couple it is a great reminder of why I love what I do.
Congrats Vanessa & Mike!
-Leighsa
what an amazing program i love it!
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