A couple who cancelled their ceremony on the wedding day has opted to donate the $30,000 reception venue and the expensive food to the homeless people nearby.
A 25-year-old Purdue University pharmacy student, Sarah Cummins, who didn’t want her canceled $30,000 wedding to go to waste threw a party for the homeless instead.
On Saturday, at the swanky event center that she had booked for the reception in Carmel, a suburb just north of Indianapolis, USA, about a dozen veterans from a local organization were among guests who dined on bourbon-glazed meatballs, roasted garlic bruschetta and wedding cake.
She told the Indianapolis Star that she and her fiance called off the wedding a week ago. She declined to give a reason, but said they were left with a nonrefundable contract for the Ritz Charles and a plated dinner for 170 guests.
Cummins said she decided that rather than throw away the food she would bring some purpose to the event, so she contacted homeless shelters in the area. She cheerfully greeted and welcomed her guests when they arrived to attend the Saturday party.
“For me, it was an opportunity to let these people know they deserved to be at a place like this just as much as everyone else does,” Cummins said.
Several local businesses and residents donated suits, dresses and other items for the guests to wear. Attendee Charlie Allen, who has spent three months at a homeless mission, received a donated jacket.
“I didn’t have a sport coat,” he said, tugging gently at the lapels. “I think I look pretty nice in it.”
Like other guests, Allen said he was grateful for the invitation. “For a lot of us, this is a good time to show us what we can have,” he said. “Or to remind us what we had.”
Three of Cummins’ seven bridesmaids, along with her mother and aunts, came to support her. Guests dined on chicken bre@st with artichokes and Chardonnay cream sauce and wedding cake.
She said her ex-fiance, Logan Araujo, footed most of the bill for the wedding contract, with Cummins and her parents, along with one of Araujo’s family friends, paying the rest.
Cummins said that when she approached Araujo about donating the dinner, he agreed to what he believed was a selfless way to handle the situation.
She said she was not sure, however, what she will do with the wedding dress. “It’s too painful to think about,” she said.
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