Canceled Sacramento wedding leads to meal for homeless

[Omaha Steve]

Source: KCRA

By Tom Miller

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —After a groom-to-be called off a Sacramento wedding, the bride-to-be's family decided to turn the extravagant event into a feast for those less fortunate.

It was a phone call too shocking, too sudden for Kari Duane to believe. On the other end of the line, her 27-year-old daughter Quinn told her the wedding wasn’t going to happen.

Her fiancé had called it off.

Deposits for the $35,000 wedding were already paid and more bills were coming due.

FULL story AND video at link. Here is the shorter AP story that linked to this story: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b867f036bb9d4d90baa1dd20cafbdfac/canceled-california-wedding-leads-feast-homeless

Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/cancelled-wedding-ends-with-meal-offered-to-homeless/35906354

[shenmue]

1. ...

I'm glad she did something good.

[crim son]

2. A good family.

Sad for the bride, though.

[catrose]

5. According to horrible commenters

it's all her fault. When will I learn to not read the comments? What do people not understand about nonrefundable?

[TygrBright]

6. LUCKY for the bride, I think.

A certain amount of pain, expense and misery now, handled with grace and compassion, will be part of her life in the future.

Had the groom not realized he wasn't up for this, there might have been years of misery, expense and pain down the road.

Had they let anger, resentment, and rage get the better of them, what would be part of their lives forever would be exactly that.

admiringly,
Bright

[LuckyLib]

11. Well said. And by the end there would be at least 3 kids.

[dpatbrown]

3. I was so happy to see,

especially since I live in Sacramento. What a beautiful gesture. Heroes and Sacramento are becoming the new thing. This couple should have a parade too.

[840high]

4. This is wonderful.

[houston16revival]

7. What, no vengence?

No dudes to beat that groom into a pulp?

What's America coming to?

[IronLionZion]

10. Welcome to DU!

[V0ltairesGh0st]

8. sadness turned into hapiness....

This is how you turn a negative into positive ...even if you don't win.

[ejbr]

9. Some food place

should reimburse the family for their own public relations...but that would entail believing that corporate America cares about the less fortunate...

[murielm99]

12. That's what I thought, too.

They can gain a lot of good will and new business if they make some sort of deal with the family. Maybe they can't give it all back. They might lose too much money. But they could work out something.

[hedda_foil]

13. A beautiful gesture that few families would make.

And it even makes the whole affair tax deductible.