The Goodness of America
Canceled Plans Lead to Good Deed
When an Illinois couple canceled their wedding plans, they decided to use the money that was supposed to pay for catering their wedding to feed the less fortunate at Thanksgiving.
Planning a wedding during a pandemic is hard, particularly when Americans have found themselves at the mercy of overreaching state and local governments. Emily Bugg and Bill Lewis had originally planned to marry at a hip warehouse in the West Town neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, with 150 guests from all over the country. But with ongoing COVID restrictions, seemingly without an end in sight, the couple did not want to continue to delay their nuptials. Instead, they got married at City Hall in Chicago on October 1.
The couple then teamed up with their caterer, Big Delicious Planet, to take their catering deposit and use it to prepare 200 Thanksgiving dinners for Thresholds, an organization for which Emily works that supports individuals with mental illness and substance-abuse issues. Because of the pandemic, Thresholds was unable to host its usual Thanksgiving celebration for its clients, so the donation was enormous.
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