Breast Cancer Advice Center

Pink Ribbon (breast cancer) theme for wedding?

I am getting married next summer and would like to have pink as our color in honour of breast cancer awareness. My mom is a survivor and recieved excellent health care during her battle. We would like to make a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society with the money we will recieve as well. I'm looking for ideas on how we can tie this theme into our wedding.....ie: favors, invitations, etc. Thanks!

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1. my mum is waiting for the result of her biopsy right now! scary times for us, as you well know. so glad your mum is a survivor! good on her! i hope my mum is as lucky!
   for my dad's last birthday my mum did a 50/50 draw where all the guests bought tickets and the winning ticket holder received half the prize money and told us what charity they wanted the other half of the money to go to.
   with approximately fifty guests, we ended up with over two hundred and twenty dollars - half went to our neighbour and he chose the other half to the stroke foundation to receive the other half! it was a pretty cool idea, and yours is even better.
   so, i agree with the others - you don't want to go overboard with the pink ribbon thing, it is your wedding not a benefit. however you could have envelopes and donation cards at each table at the reception and ask your guests if they could each spare 'just two dollars' to tuck it in the envelope with their name and address. you'd be surprised at how many will put a couple of dollars in an envelope! and it all adds up! have a close friend or family member go round and pick up envelopes and put them in a safe place.
   you could have one or two dances throughout the evening and the d.j. announces if someone wants to dance with the bride or groom, they put a buck in the pot towards c.c.s.
   you could have a 50/50 draw! lol
   there are lots of ways of doing it without making your entire wedding about cancer!
   as for your wedding finery, wear a pink ribbon close to your heart, for your mum, and have your wedding party do the same!
   have a great marriage!
2. You could have donation cards at the front for people to pledge to donate money to Breast Cancer Awareness. You could also have pink bows on the pews. You could have a breast cancer ribbon cake or ribbons put on the large wedding cake. With your white wedding dress you could have tiny ribbons sewn on the veil. Also in your invitations tell everyone that you do not want gifts but you are asking for donations to Breast Cancer Awareness.
3. I think that is a great idea and you can easily tie the color into your wedding. However, I wouldn't go overboard on the whole "pink ribbon" thing. For example, I wouldn't put one on the invitation, you want to keep it like a wedding, not a benefit for the Cancer Society (I don't mean for that to sound cold in any way, but I can see how a lot of people might think it would be strange). You can use the color pink in everything though...flowers, decorations, bridesmaid dresses, groomsman ties, etc. A good place to use the ribbons would be to have bridesmaids each wear one, even groomsman if they're up to it, and of course you and the groom.
   
   When I got married we made little packages of flower seeds for favors. We used a stamp on little cellophane bags (you could use a pink ribbon for this), then we put a little card inside with poem (or something like that) and our names on it, then put some wildflower seeds in the bag (you could use all pink flowers or something).
   
   Everyone who knows you and about your mom will understand the importance and significance of the color whether you have actual ribbons all over the place or not.
4. First of all WOW! Behalf of all the families that has been through the tuff and ruff time of breast cancer---*Thank You*--- This is a great idea and i wish i would have thought of it.. Well Lets see for your favors i would contact the SBA (Susan B Anthony) and ask them to donate or have you purchase the Pink Ribbon Pins. You can also hand out gift bags, inc: a pamphlet, key chain, a pin, and i have even seen the little ribbon candies. As far as the invitations i would do the invitation like you would want it and include a pink ribbon pinned to it stating that extra donations would be great at the wedding-you could have a Representative come and give a speech Thanking all of your guest for donations, or have your mom speak. You could serve a Pink ribbon Martini, have Pink ribbon cookies--wow The possibilities are endless.. CONGRATULATIONS--And have a blast..GOOD LUCK IN LIFE AND YOUR MARRIAGE. ( In the martini-- i would put like a sugared rim with vodka and pink grapefruit juice--or a cosmopolitan)
5. You are a saint. That brought a tear to my eye, there are a lot of my family members that have had different kinds of cancers and it's touching to know someone wants to take their special day and help others.
   
   Ideas: Pink bridesmaids dresses.
   Favors: Pinkribbon pins
6. It is so great that you are doing this.
   
   I found a couple of favor links for you. Hope they help.
   
   http://www.pinkforpower.com/shop/pinkrib...
   
   http://www.centurynovelty.com/searchresu...
   
   This webiste has a pink ribbon garter and ring pillow:
   http://www.weddingmountain.com/c-380-bre...
7. I have to admit I'd find this a little uncomfortable if I were a guest (don't bash my sensitivity--I'm a breast cancer survivor, my mother died from it). I think a wedding should be a completely happy ocassion, celebrating a union and a future. Cancer is not happy, and does not suggest a long future. I'm fine with the idea of donating money to any good cause for any reason, but I think a cancer theme is an uncomfortable one for a wedding. Do the donation in place of a favor, and have a card at each place setting explaining that. But stop there.