Party Report: Get Hitched Give Hope ’10
Slideshow: Getting Hitchie With It.
Great silent auction items (dinner for two at Palisade, a custom wedding invite suite from Ephemera), super fun raffle prizes (a wine party from Januik Novelty Hill), and a really exciting live auction hour (one of the modeled gowns from La Belle Reve, a bachelor party package at Hotel 1000) allowed the amazing Get Hitched Give Hope team to raise a whopping $64,000 that will be used to grant wishes for stage four metastatic breast cancer patients.
You had to admire the energy of Movin’ 92.5’s Brooke (white dress) and Kel (not pictured here), who emceed the event, and you really had to admire the spirit of Brenda Chovanak (pink dress) from The Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation. Chovnak spoke about how wishes are granted and how many dollars are needed to grant each wish. At which point, it became much easier to raise your auction number for a Tiffany necklace, or a no-strings-attached $50 donation.
A commonly overheard comment at the event was, "It’s beautiful here!" Guests and sponsors alike were referring not just to the venue, the Four Seasons (which really is beautiful, as is its view of Elliott Bay), but the elegant and immersive environment (thanks to a slew of talents such as Aria Style and paper artist Celeste Cooning) and the delicious and elegant desserts from Tallant House, Radical Cupcake, New Renaissance Cakes, and others.
Another shot of the Four Seasons
I love these photos of the amazing Get Hitched Give Hope team and a smattering of sponsors. If you’re shopping for a wedding vendor there is no smarter place to start than the organizers of the event and the folks who donate to it. If they give this much to women and men they don’t even know, imagine what they’ll do for you.
Okay, yeah. This one needs an explanation. That’s GHGH’s Barbie Hull on top. She’s an amazing event photographer, a wonderful kook (I totally mean that with love), and a proponent of the face-down pose, which started innocently enough but is now a bonafide cultural phenomenon.
