Posted on 07/17/2017 9:38:04 AM PDT by simpson96
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman didn't want her canceled $30,000 wedding to go to waste, so she threw a dinner party for the homeless.
A bus pulled up to the swanky event center on Saturday that Sarah Cummins had booked for the reception in Carmel, a suburb north of Indianapolis. About a dozen veterans from a local organization were among the guests who dined on bourbon-glazed meatballs, roasted garlic bruschetta and wedding cake.
Cummins told the Indianapolis Star that she and her fiance called off the wedding a week ago. She declined to give a reason, but she said they were left with a nonrefundable contract for the Ritz Charles in Carmel and a plated dinner for 170 guests.
"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.
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Cummins, a 25-year-old Purdue University pharmacy student, 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
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I wonder if she is liberal.
What happens in INDY...... stays in INDY.
That’s nice and all but $30k is ridiculous. Better it be used to pay off some of their student loans rather than us taxpayers having to accept their debt. An expensive wedding is nothing but look at MEEEEEE!!!!
My thoughts exactly.
“...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,”
The groom-to-be footed most of the bill. She paid for only a fraction of the part that was left.
I’d say this falls into the category of being generous with other people’s money. Yes, I think she is a liberal.
Let them eat cake.
WTF?
Sounds Biblical:
8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ 10 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
English Standard Version. (2016). (Mt 22:8–10). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
I'm not going to fault her and, frankly, it is none of our business what she did.
Probably not. A liberal would have sued the event location for her money back.
This sounds like a case of turning lemons into lemonade. The room and the food were already paid for and probably ordered if not already delivered when the wedding was called off. They could have invited a lot of their friends to chow down on the goodies, but they didn't.
What a wonderful way to get a tax writeoff for money that would otherwise be wasted.....I mean.....wonderful humanitarian effort by an obviously caring individual.....
That’s what Chelsea Clinton did with the mult-millions she was spending on her wedding. Oh, wait!
Does the bride have a tattoo?
If it’s none of our business, then why did she advertise it?
I thought of that passage too.
Or maybe it was mostly his fault that the wedding was called off?
It is doubtful even one cent could be claimed as charity.
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