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Nothing takes the sting out of a cancelled wedding better than the knowledge that the deposit is going to a good cause. Just ask Sarah Cummins of Indiana, whose cancelled dream wedding was turned into a fancy day of extravagance for the local homeless population.
Cummins was to marry her fiancé, Logan Araujo, at the Ritz Charles in Carmel, Indiana, after a two-year engagement. One week before the event was to take place, however, Cummins and Araujo decided to call off the wedding. Besides the obvious sadness surrounding the decision, Cummins could not help but note that she and Araujo, as well as some of their family members and friends, were losing a non-refundable $30,000 deposit.
But all was not lost. Cummins and Araujo decided they would put the reception to good use. Cummins reached out to local homeless shelters and invited the residents to attend what should have been her wedding reception. “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 told Indystar.
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