Marry Me Live Guest Post

Wish Upon A Wedding, founded by local San Jose based wedding planner, Liz Guthrie is the first wedding specific non-profit dedicated to wedding wish granting. Because of Marry Me Live’s participation in Wish Upon A Wedding, I had a chance to sit down with Liz and discuss her organization. I was very inspired by her words and wanted to share with you some very heart warming things that are taking root not only in the Bay Area, but across the nation.

Wish Upon a Wedding was conceived from the San Francisco Dream Wedding Giveaway, which awards a wedding to a couple in need, with respected wedding vendors donating their services to award the wedding couple with a “Dream Wedding”. From that concept, Liz wanted to take this idea national, enabling national wedding vendors a way to give back through a formal 501-c non profit, while also benefiting wedding couples all over the country.

Wish Upon A Wedding’s growth has all been organic. Liz relies on word-of-mouth to convey the message, and that message has spread like wildfire. There are already 20 chapters everywhere from Northern California, to Houston, to Indiana, and New York City.

One of the main messages that Liz wants to spread is not only about giving back to wedding couples with terminal illness, but also to send a message of tolerance. Wish Upon a Wedding supports same sex marriages and asks all wedding vendors who participate in Wish Upon a Wedding to support the cause as well.

The Wish Upon A Wedding Mission is large and the expansion plan to boot. Liz plans to expand nationally in the immediate future with international chapters in a couple of years. With a noble cause that allows so many to give back, finding wish granters should be no problem. I look forward to seeing how Wish Upon A Wedding evolves and grows.