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Last Chance to Buy Tickets Online for Get Hitched, Give Hope!

October 21, 2008 – 10:06 pm

Only two more days until Get Hitched, Give Hope!!!  

It’s been a lot of late nights here, complete with glue gun burns (check my index finger on Thursday, you’ll see!), inky fingers, some paper cuts, and loads of coffee.  Despite it all, we are SO excited that the day we’ve been planning for all year has finally arrived!

Online ticket sales end tonight (Tuesday) at midnight for our bridal benefit and showcase!  Click HERE for tickets and the latest on what’s up for bid and raffle!  We’ve got some GREAT items for brides, grooms, and just regular ol’ joes, too!  Not to mention the swag…. OH the swag!!!

If you didn’t make the cut off, don’t fret:  we’ll have tickets at the door!  Here’s a timeline of some of the happenings for the evening!

 

  • 5:00-6:00 Industry-only Cocktail hour.  If you’re a member of the wedding industry or a member of the media, join us early for special giving and schmoozing!
  • 6:00-8:00 Silent Auction, Raffles, the Pamper Suite, Photobooth, Wandering Couture, and the Bridal Showcase, all emcee’d by the famous and fantastic Brooke and Monti from Movin 92.5fm!
  • 8:00-8:30 Live Auction
  • 8:30 on: Closing treats
See you guys there with your party shoes on!!!!
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October Events Not To Miss!

September 27, 2008 – 12:10 pm

I love the fall- the leaves, the air, the hot cocoa, the scarves, the sweaters.  October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so it’s only fitting that two of these events are centered around that!  Here are some great events I’d LOVE to see you at:

Sunday October 5th- Join us Get Hitched, Give Hope gals at the Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer to support City of Hope’s breast cancer research, education and treatment. You can join our team HERE!

Thursday October 16th- An event like no other, our friends Sharlane Chase and Jesse & Travis of True Colors are hosting their yearly celebration and exhibition of couture wedding and event planning at Urban Unveiled.

Thursday October 23rd- The Get Hitched, Give Hope Auction and Benefit, where you can get gorgeous goods for your wedding while giving back.  Help us raise $50,000 to grant wishes for breast cancer patients through auctions, raffles, and donations.  Click here for the latest details, sponsors, goods, and for tickets!

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Get Gorgeous Goods For Your Wedding By Giving Back

August 20, 2008 – 3:32 pm

Finally. It’s “The” Announcement. The one that you all keep hearing about, but maybe you already heard through the grapevine cause we’re not very good at keeping secrets.

For the last 10 months, myself and five other gals in the wedding industry have been working on something very, very special.

It all started out over a bit of wine, as all great ideas do :) We wanted to do something great for our community while creating a buzz in our industry. So we created Get Hitched, Give Hope, Seattle’s first non-profit organization aimed at brides, grooms and the wedding industry that is dedicated to raise money for great causes!!

Our Event: October 23rd at the newly renovated Arctic Club Hotel

Our Draw: Get Gorgeous Goods While Giving Back. Top notch vendors and businesses have donated some great items that are useful for your wedding (and most can be used by anyone, so drag your moms and co-workers over too!). There will be drinks, apps, auctions, raffles, and of course, the famed jellybeans, wink wink!

Our Featured Charity: The Making Memories Foundation. They are sort of like a “Make a Wish” for adults, granting wishes to stage 4 breast cancer patients. We want to be able to grant like 12 wishes… which means we’ve got to raise something like 50 grand. We’ve got a great community and wonderful friends and clients, so there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to!!! We’ve been SO INCREDIBLY FORTUNATE with our wonderful sponsors, so we anticipate that every dollar donated (through auction, raffle, and money raised at the event!) will be going straight to MMF! Bid it up!

Our website is HERE.

Tickets are HERE.

Donations can be made HERE.

Check out our lovely fantastic and most awesome sponsors and friends HERE.

See how your business can be involved HERE.

See more about our founders HERE, but specifically Michelle Engvall, Barbie Hull, Kelly Simants, Eliza Truitt, Michelle Loretta, yours truly.

See you THERE!!!!

OH, and if you’re going, you’re a sponsor, you’re a friend, you’re a client, or you’re a believer, spread the word by embedding this tile on your website or blog or email! Help us pack the house!!! You can either use this graphic tile, or embed this code that automatically links to the GHGH site:

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Get Hitched Give Hope

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It’s Not Prostitution If It’s For Charity

August 20, 2008 – 10:59 am

That’s right, the person who pays the most gets to take you home (or around town anyway).

Recently Seattle Metropolitan Magazine held their annual Seattle Celebrity Singles Charity Auction in a swanky unfinished loft in downtown Seattle. Local singles (and non singles alike!) bid on local “celebs” and their awesome packages all for a great cause: the Moyer Foundation’s plight to help children in distress. Over $20,000 was raised as folks bid on their favorite football star, musical actress, Google CEO, PNB dancer, actor, and many more. It was a super opportunity for me to hang out at yet another party (DANG I love this job!), snap some fun pictures documenting a great cause with my pal Jeff LaPlante, and scope things out for our own upcoming charity event!!

My favorite moment of the entire night was watching Portland’s local celeb emcee Poison Waters and Q13’s Lily Jang put two patrons against each other in a hot bidding frenzy over one oh-so-dreamy Google CEO and his, eh hem, package. I had the best seat in the house to document this all go down, right in the middle of the superserious bidders. I think McGoogle brought in the highest bid, even. Good on ya’ chickie! You just did a great thing for many, many, kids!

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