Crane Chandelier Project, take 2

We had SUCH an amazing time with everyone last week!! What a wedding.... It was so great to have so many people we love there with us!

We just returned today from our honeymoon (it was a wonderful week), and there are so many things I would like to write about.

For now though (I am a TIRED girl), I just wanted to send a link to the Wedding Co.'s blog - we were featured, with pictures and everything! How flattering! And how excited we are to be able to donate many of our 1001 paper cranes from the wedding to a great cause. The Wedding Co. is sponsoring the Crane Chandelier Project, and donating $0.50 for every crane received. This money will go to cancer research. Please check out their website at www.theweddingco.com. We are going to ship our paper creations off as soon as we are able!

Sarah Chapin took this lovely photo of the cranes at our wedding. I hope she doesn't mind I used this photo! There are others that show more action, but this one is nice of just cranes. I am not sure if you can tell from this photo just how many 1001 turned out to be!! These strings were LONG!!

Crane Chandelier Project

What is the MOST exciting thing about this is that we made these cranes for ourselves, but they are going to be charitably re-purposed after our wedding. We got an email from a good friend (who is coincidentally getting married two days after we do). She knew that we were in the midst of crane-making, and stumbled upon a blog that mentioned the "Crane Chandelier Project," which is the work of a Toronto artist. The project is to collect 10,000 total cranes, from brides and grooms. The bride and groom sign the crane with their names and the date they are getting (or did get) married. For every crane that is given for the project, 50¢ is going to be donated toward cancer research. Sebastien wrote to the organization hosting the event (The Wedding Co.), and said, "Hey - I know that you are trying to get cranes, and that you usually get them one at a time - would you be willing to still donate 50¢ per crane, if we donate 800 of them?" (or some thing like that).
They said YES!, and so we are psyched! That is $400 (at least!) that we will be able to donate. I am so happy we can do this.