Bridal couple spend big day serving their wedding food at a shelter

Bridal couple spend big day serving their wedding food at shelter

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the world, people have learned the importance of lending a helping hand. This couple really wanted to make a difference, and donated their wedding food to a shelter. Not only that, they also spent their wedding day serving the food to those in need.

Melanie and Tyler Tapajna from Ohio, USA were meant to have a 150-guest wedding. They paid in advance to secure their venue, DJ and food. However, the venue cancelled due to the pandemic and they had to make new arrangements.

A bit disappointed but not surprised, the couple decided to put their money to good use.

“Since we’d prepaid for the food, we could have had the wedding somewhere else and still invited everyone, but it didn’t make sense,” Melanie tells the Washington Post. “I turned to Tyler and said, ‘What would you think of donating the food instead?’ ”

The couple got in contact with Laura’s Home, a shelter in Cleveland for single women and mothers with children, and organised to have food worth $2000 (R33 751) delivered to serve 135 people.

Their only request was that, following their small ceremony, they could serve the food at the home themselves.

Melanie and Tyler tied the knot on August 15 in the bride’s grandparents’ backyard, with a dozen family members present. After the ceremony and still in their wedding attire, they made their way down to the shelter to serve their wedding meal, provide by food truck Betty’s Bomb-A** Burgers.

Maintaining social distancing and hygiene measures, the pair spent their wedding day serving food to those in need. And they wouldn’t have it any other way.

“We just felt it was wrong to have a big wedding during this time, especially when so many people are struggling,” Said Melanie.

They plan to continue this spirit of giving back by donating to a charity every year on their wedding anniversary. They hope their big day inspires others to do the same.

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