So here I am re-thinking my favors, and the thought of donating to the American Cancer Society is crossing my mind over and over. FH's mom passed away from cancer 4 years ago and my aunt is currently battling lung cancer. I think it would be really special to make that donation and present our guests with the bracelets and little notes stating that we have made such donation and in whose memory.
Have any of the past brides done this before? can you show me your pics? How you set it up etc? Thank you so much!
D's Girl
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My Father passed away of Cancer and I am 99% doing the same thing. Would love input as well
LuckySevens
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That is such a thoughtful gift and I think your guests would really appreciate that in lieu of a favor for themselves.
evnme
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we donated to Long Island Cares (who feed the homeless on LI) we arent going to give anything out to our guests. we're going to put a sign in a frame on each table telling them that we made a donation in honor of our wedding.
October Bliss
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Hollie aka hmpena did this. She put the bracelets in a white box with a red ribbon (her color) and sealed the ribbon with a monogram sticker. If you do a search for her name and favors you should be able to find a pic. They looked beautiful.
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FH and I decided to do a donation to Children's Hospital Boston. His family is very involved with fundraising for Children's, so it seemed a natural choice. Children's actually provides either place-cards or scrolls that say, 'A donation has been made in your honor to Children's Hospital Boston.' We're doing a $1500 donation, but just found out that our companies will actually match our donation (bringing it to $3000!!!). Definitely see if your company will match charitable donations if you decide to do this!
We're planning on placing a scroll at each place-setting.
We are doing donation cards through the I Do Foundation. They arrange for the donation to get to the organization and you can order cards for your guests to inform them of the donation. I think we are going to put a card at each seating with the menus
ML110
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we donated to the Lance ARmstrong Cancer fund.... as we gave each guest a yellow ' Livestrong' bracelet that was wrapped in tulle with a little tin of mints, and then on the tag, we explained the donation..... we said somethng like ' to honor our loved ones affected by cancer, a donation has been made to the Lance Armstrong cancer fund' i have to say that everyone loved the idea!! and we still see a lot of our guests wearing the bracelets even 8 months later... you can't say that about other favors and i figured even if they got thrown away or something, at least this way the money went to a good cause.... good luck!
D's Girl
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Posted by ML110
we donated to the Lance ARmstrong Cancer fund.... as we gave each guest a yellow ' Livestrong' bracelet that was wrapped in tulle with a little tin of mints, and then on the tag, we explained the donation..... we said somethng like ' to honor our loved ones affected by cancer, a donation has been made to the Lance Armstrong cancer fund' i have to say that everyone loved the idea!! and we still see a lot of our guests wearing the bracelets even 8 months later... you can't say that about other favors and i figured even if they got thrown away or something, at least this way the money went to a good cause.... good luck!
Great idea! Thank you
kissy27
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This is my re-post from 06 board
We did donation favors to the National Parkinson's Foundation in memory of my grandma & The American Diabetes Association in memory of my grandpa!
We did little favor boxes (3x3x2) filled with chocolates & have attached a scroll with a poem explaining the donation...I will have a picture soon!
M&S Sept12006
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Posted by ML110
we donated to the Lance ARmstrong Cancer fund.... as we gave each guest a yellow ' Livestrong' bracelet that was wrapped in tulle with a little tin of mints, and then on the tag, we explained the donation..... we said somethng like ' to honor our loved ones affected by cancer, a donation has been made to the Lance Armstrong cancer fund' i have to say that everyone loved the idea!! and we still see a lot of our guests wearing the bracelets even 8 months later... you can't say that about other favors and i figured even if they got thrown away or something, at least this way the money went to a good cause.... good luck!
Do you have any pics of it???
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We are doing the same...we are donating to the Huntington's Disease Society of America in memory of FI mother...we are filling favor boxes with personalized m & m's and attaching a scroll on top explaining the donation.
TEDNJENN
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We had Donation favors for our wedding and I was so happy we did. My mom died from cancer 12 years ago and DH mom was battling lung cancer at the time of the wedding. She made it to the wedding but died 6 weeks later. Even though my mom was not there pyshically I know she was there spiritually on our special day.
We did a donation to NY Cares. We are putting a 'Big Apple' cookie at each place setting that explains the donation.
Mrs. Powell
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We had Donation favors for our wedding and I was so happy we did. My mom died from cancer 12 years ago and DH mom was battling lung cancer at the time of the wedding. She made it to the wedding but died 6 weeks later. Even though my mom was not there pyshically I know she was there spiritually on our special day.
Here is a sample of our donation scrolls.
This is really nice.
M&S Sept12006
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Posted by TEDNJENN
We had Donation favors for our wedding and I was so happy we did. My mom died from cancer 12 years ago and DH mom was battling lung cancer at the time of the wedding. She made it to the wedding but died 6 weeks later. Even though my mom was not there pyshically I know she was there spiritually on our special day.
Here is a sample of our donation scrolls.
Oh these are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats exactly what I was looking for!!!!!!!! Im so sorry about your mom and you MIL
TEDNJENN
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Posted by TEDNJENN
We had Donation favors for our wedding and I was so happy we did. My mom died from cancer 12 years ago and DH mom was battling lung cancer at the time of the wedding. She made it to the wedding but died 6 weeks later. Even though my mom was not there pyshically I know she was there spiritually on our special day.
Here is a sample of our donation scrolls.
Oh these are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats exactly what I was looking for!!!!!!!! Im so sorry about your mom and you MIL
Thank you.
AlwaysSnow
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We made 2 donations to the Susan G Komen Foundation. One in memory of my aunt and one in honor of a friend's mother. We made cards and ribbons, pinned the ribbons to the cards and put one at every seat at the wedding.
