Sponsors Requested For Our Dream Wedding

You`ve got to be kidding! You are PARENTS and should be thinking about providing for your children`s future instead of planning a party for yourselves. The time for a wedding is past.

I will go ahead and "feel free" to tell you to go post some where else. This site is for brides who are looking for ideas and suggestions, not handouts! Gee, it would have been really nice for my husband and I to have had my `dream wedding`, (who even knows how much that would have cost!) instead we worked really REALLY hard for over a year, often staying home on the weekends to ration our gas that we still had left in our cars, so we could pay for our $12,000 wedding and still eat! We paid for over eight thousand of it ourselves, all while I worked for $8.25 an hour at the time, and my husband got laid off of work two months before our big day.After all said and done, we had a beautiful wedding and still had our pride!

Go to the Justice of the Peace. It`s not society`s responsibility to fund your damn wedding. Take care of your kids and quit spending your money on whores and crack. You must be an unemployed bum who begs on a street corner.

You pathetic lump of crap get a life.

For everyone`s info, my fiance and I were told by a neighbor that this is a good site for looking for a sponsor. I see we were wrong. We take excellent care of our boys and they`re our #1 priority. We have a seperate account for our wedding, which is now up to $21,895. We make more money than most of you I bet. So as far as a hand out, that`s not what we need. I know of people who sponsored different things and just thought I`d give it a try.

Well if you have that much money saved up, why are you asking for handouts? Mika, is right, you do have to take the good with the bad but to get upset or angry and tell us that you have thousands of dollars saved up after asking for sponsors is really amazing. I would think that you could have a wonderful wedding with that kind of money. What are you looking to have? A Jessica Simpson million dollar wedding based on handouts or are you looking to save your Wedding Savings thousands for someone else to pay for your wedding? What exactly are you looking to do here. I can tell you that for that kind of money, you can have a beautiful wedding. There are people on this board who have weddings for $5000 and $10,000 so since you have over double that, you can have a beautiful wedding too and just like Mika said, you have to take the good with the bad.

When did $21000+ become limited budget? Sorry Mika but this person is just a moocher!

Bride-to-be is probably broke off her a$$, b/c I find it very unlikely for someone to beg for sponsors when they have that much money in the bank.

Amen to that sister! She is just embarrased that someone told her where to go with her beggng a$$!

If you have that amount of $$ "saved" then use it for something that will really mean something..your childrens` college fund! You`ve had 2 children, the honeymoon`s over..a nice intimate ceremony is all that is called for at this point. A huge blow out wedding for OVER $20,000 that you cannot afford sounds horribly self-serving. Concentrate on providing your children with a solid future, your $20,000 should be a good start.

Wow!!! What was missed? What is wrong with finding a sponsor if you can? The inaugration was sponsored.

Monies saved can be put away for the future couples endeavor.

Some of you need to get a life or a clue. (You know who you are) How many of you who would turn down a free dress or reception hall?

We`re far from broke. But my dream wedding cost aprox. $42,000 and that`s why my neighbor suggested that we look for sponsors. Why the harsh replies? Are you people that upset in your own lives that you have to try to upset me. A local restaurant has offered us $500, and my son`s karate school offered $550. So sponsors are out there. There`s nothing wrong with asking for what you want. Thanks to the help from our families and the two sponsors, we now only need about $10,000 more. I`m confident that we will get more sponsors.

Despite what may or may not be going on here, we may be able to assist you if you have out-of town guests that will be unable to attend the wedding. Contact us PRIVATELY with `Party Pop` as the subject, and we can discuss from there.
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Everyone deserves to have a dream wedding even if they have 8 children. No one has a right to tell them to take care of their children because I am sure that they are or they would have the entire amount for their dream wedding. Also sponsorship is out there. I have had people sponsor my daughter`s trips through the Student Ambassador Program and through Girl Scouts. Yes I can pay for them as I have a good job and so does her father but I can do so much more for her when people help to pay for her trip. No I am not saying that it is the world`s job to pay for my daughter but many people love to see a child who is traveling the world, speaking different languages and learning from many different cultures. My daughter is 15 and I have paid the price to raise her and that is my job but I don`t call asking for help from businesses that offer the help, begging. I do not call it that at all. To them, it is a tax write off and they want to do it or they wouldn`t have those programs. No matter what, a bride should not be reduced to mean and hurtful names just because she wants to have her princess moment and her dream wedding. Just because you guys didn`t do it for your wedding, don`t stomp on her because she is doing it for hers and getting sponsors. Her question was for sponsors not for the opinons of the masses who feels that she is begging. That isn`t right. So many people out here have children and they love their children but sacrifice for themselves and I feel that they deserve to have at least a dream wedding. They are not on here asking for a car and a house, just for one day of true happiness. I guess I have never experienced such nastiness. I pray that you have your dream wedding and I really wish that I could help you out with something. Good Luck, God Bless and live long and happy.

I`m sorry I am probably old fashioned, but don`t understand the concept of a sponsored Wedding. You say a restaurant sponsored $550. Which I assume they took off that off the cost of your food? That I understand, but your son`s karate school, what do you have to do for them, is their name on something, or a poster has to be up ? I don`t think I would want that, can you explain what they get for their $500. I can see if you really need/want help your Limo might have a sign on it with the companies name, or your florist puts a small sign saying flowers by so and so, but this Karate thing has me lost.

Brides Mom, a sponsor is someone who helps to pay for the wedding. Her Son`s Karate school may know her well for the great work that she does as a parent. She could be the type of mom who helps them with fundraisers when they travel, she could be a car pool mom for them. So they want to help her out. They may ask that she put their names in the programs which is fine as you tend to thank people in your programs. When my cousins bakery donated the cake, she had to put up a little tent sign in front of the cake that had the bakery`s information. A little advertisement is all that they ask and some don`t ask for it at all.

I think sponsorship for an educational venture/sports team etc. Is FAR different from someone looking for freebies for a wedding they already have over 20K saved for. That said, the type of friends these people would have at their wedding WOULD indeed be a target population for a company`s advertising campaign. Hence all the "free" items given to the Trumps...the sponsoring companies knew that they were reaching their taget demographics.

So in actualilty, for the sponsoring company it is BETTER to provide some freebies in return for advertising to a couple of means rather than those with absolutely no $$$ to their name (because most likely their friends will be in the same economic standing..and who wants to spend an advertising budget on people who can`t afford your goods or service) From a business point of view trying to sponsor and indigent couple is just NOT going to give you a good return, it should be done just as charity donation. However, sponsoring a couple with means WILL provide valuable advertising in a lucrative target market.
ERGO, she just might get some good donations in return for advertising the companies providing the goods

But a karate school?

I think I would rather get a temporary extra job!

I concur!

This is the first time I have seen this thread. I have an understanding of both sides of this argument but each person has to judge how they feel individually. What might be good for one may not be the answer for another. I should know, I am from a city that was flooded and ravished by Hurricane Katrina. We lost everything we own in this life, everything we have worked to acquire. We don`t even have family pictures. Thank God our lives were spared but we lost many loved ones and are separated by many miles from others. I worked overtime for 6 months, watched sales and was very frugal with spending so my daughter could have a beautiful wedding. Her gown, six bridesmaids dresses, two flower girl dresses, all the shoes, decorations, invitations and everything else we bought were destroyed. Like many others, I had to choose between staying with and helping my family or move several states away to work. That was no choice, I chose my family. I was fired from my job after many years of faithful service. Dealing with death and seperation has been overwhelming to say the least. I have always been a very private and proud person but after all of this...I would love to be sponsored. No one could make me feel bad about seeing the look on my daughter`s face on her dream day...no one at all!!! She will have a wedding, just not the one she so richly deserves. Do what`s best for you, stop complaining about others and thank God your lives are still in tact. May God Bless.