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The Red Deer Team is still looking for local Wedding Industry Vendors, Businesses or generous individuals to provide their services or to become Corporate or Special Sponsors!
Give from the Heart to help us give this very deserving Couple the Wedding they have been dreaming of!

Email Heather at greencountyrentals@gmail.com or Lori at crystalorchidweddings@gmail.com for information.

OUR 2013 RED DEER WEDDING SAVIOURS WINNERS!

Red Deer Wedding Saviours is pleased to announce the Winning Couple in our Pay it Forward Contest and Challenge for Charity.  

Winning their October 19, 2013 Wedding are Karen and Maluk!



The 2013 Red Deer Wedding Saviours would like to congratulate 

Tiffany & Patrick...

and Jeannette and Joseph...

who are our Runner Up Couples. Their efforts in the Challenge for Charity were unbelievably enormous and their kindness and desire to Pay It Forward in their community will not be forgotten by us! We are all honoured to have met you and wish you the very best in the future!

Karen and Maluk raised a staggering 1,970 pounds of food for the Red Deer Food Bank which, combined with public voting, put them in first place and the Winners of their 
2013 Red Deer Wedding Saviours Wedding!






Congratulations Karen & Maluk!....And now... We have a Wedding to Plan for October 19, 2013!!

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OUR FINALISTS!



Meet our finalists!Red Deer Food Bank
 and follow their journey as they compete to collect food for the Red Deer Food Bank.
Karen & Maluk collecting food for the Red Deer Food Bank at Sobeys

KAREN LUTZ & MALUK AYOM KOK, Red Deer
Karen & Maluk collecting food for the Food Bank



TIFFANY JOHNSON & PATRICK CRISPIN, Blackfalds


Joe & Jeanette collecting food for the Mountain View Food Bank in Olds


JEANNETTE MOORE & JOSEPH CHAMBERS, Olds






HELP US PICK THE WINNING COUPLE!


VOTE BETWEEN APRIL 16 and 29!
(Each Voter can Vote only one (1) time, per day, for each Couple during the Voting Period.)



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Our Grand Prize Winner will be announced by May 1, 2013

Our 2013 – Red Deer Team Wedding Day will be

Saturday October 19, 2013!






We say farewell to our departing semi-finalists
and congratulate them for paying-it-forward in their communities!
Alaina and Craig wedding saviours semi-finalists kirsten and troy wedding saviours semi-finalists 

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OUR CONTESTANTS ARE BLOGGING!


ALAINA BOWERMAN & CRAIG CARRIERE, Red Deer

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We are as well as can be.  After the shock wore off, Craig and I are very excited. We have been busy as it is spring break and my youngest son just celebrated his 13th birthday. Yayyy a teenager, he keeps reminding me of this (like I need it).  Anyway, what we have been doing to pay-it-forward; I have been helping a lady, who hasmental health issues, learn to live outside of the hospital. It has been an interesting time spent with her.  I also help an older lady, who has diabetes, by driving her to and from appointments, when her husband can't. I am also applying for some volunteering and I will let you know how that goes.  As for Craig he is so busy working and doing courses, plus working after work to help make ends meet that he doesn't have much time to pay-it-forward.


KAREN LUTZ & MALUK AYOM KOK, Red Deer


Blog #2
Shovelling Snow


With garbage blowing around and realization our whole family condemns littering, we had an epiphany...Neighbourhood Clean-Up! We invited friends to help Sunday afternoon, but a freak snow storm hit Alberta Saturday night covering up all the trash. However, Maluk wasn't going to let the snow stop him from paying it forward and shoveled our elderly neighbour's sidewalk on Sunday!



Whisker Bingo KarenWhisker Bingo Maluk


Monday date night we sold tickets, checked winners, and cleaned up at a bingo in support of Whisker's Rescue Society (local stray cat rescue organization). It was a gratifying experience and an excellent chance to work together, learning new tasks as a couple.




Neighbourhood Clean-Up-Wedding Saviours

By Tuesday evening the snow had melted enough to reschedule our Clean-Up! This was a wonderful opportunity for family bonding... Galaxia (son) really enjoyed participating in our contest efforts. Our friend helped out too and we even got a few encouraging hollers from passers-by!


Sister @ Alzhiemers Presentation

It has helped Karen and her sister to hear stories from other families affected by Alzheimer's disease, so on Wednesday night they presented their story, coping strategies, and resources to a support group at the Red Deer Alzheimer's Society. Emotionally, this was rather difficult to prepare for, but the response made it all worthwhile.


We would like to thank Wedding Saviours and all of the gracious Red Deer sponsors for making this contest possible!




KIRSTEN LOWE & TROY MACMULLIN, Red Deer


Blog #2
The outcome of the pay-it-forward has been most rewarding. Troy feels pride and accomplishment knowing that by volunteering his time he can help better the cadets or his teammates. Even though he comes home tired at the end of the day he wouldnt change a thing. Because I am still having medical issues, the best way I can pay - it-forward is supporting Troy and doing anything I can do to help. We are, as a couple still hoping to get involved in the 'Gutsy Walk' for Crohns disease. Couples should try doing volunteer work together - it is rewarding in the end




TIFFANY JOHNSON & PATRICK CRISPIN, Blackfalds


Blog #2
Hey everyone, well we have been busy bees paying it forward in our community. It has been an amazing experience. We collected $171.70 for the women's shelter with our bottle drive. Today when I went and dropped the money off to them the look and the excitement in there voice was so exciting and made all the effort we put in worth while, no matter the outcome of this contest. Also the other week when I had delivered the sugar cookies and banana loaf to the shelter seeing all the people there that aren't able to afford meals for them self was so heart breaking that it made me feel really good we were able to donate items for them to be able to get a meal.

I never thought paying it forward in the community could feel so rewarding and bring us together as a couple and family. Seems the more we did the closer we became. I was very happy to see how much Patrick was willing to be involved and help me out. I would definitely recommend other families\couples to find there own ways to pay it forward in the community wither it be big or small, from donating money to even just helping someone at a grocery store all the help makes a difference.

Thank you for reading and following us on our journey in the contest so far, we look forward to the final chapter :)

Tiffany and Patrick


JEANNETTE MOORE & JOSEPH CHAMBERS, Olds


Blog #2
"We have been very busy over the past couple of weeks, looking for ways to Pay It Forward in our community. Not only did we want to volunteer both as a couple and as a family, we also Picking up meals on wheelsfelt it was important to incorporate something we work very hard at teaching our two young children, and that is the simple gift of Random Acts Of Kindness. We feel that offering to help perfect strangers, by doing an act of kindness without them asking, is an essential part of being a good citizen in your community.

We volunteered our time as a family, delivering Meals On Wheels to seniors and shut-ins in our town, who don't always have family support or help. How humbling, to deliver nutritious Jeannette and Joseph ready to delivermeals to people who really count on the kindness of strangers, on a daily basis. It is easy to get caught up in our own circumstances and feel like we have it hard. However, we didn't have to look very far to realize howWedding Saviours-Jeannette Joseph and family deliver meals on wheelsfortunate we are, and to be thankful for our own good health, our strength, our mobility, and for having each other. We take simple tasks like being able to prepare a healthy meal for granted. It was a much needed reminder to us, and our children, as to how lucky we really are. As heart warming as it was to watch our children bring a smile to the faces of the wonderful people we delivered meals to, they taught us far more about being thankful for what we have, than anything we could have done for them.

We also looked for ways to provide Random Acts Of Kindness in our community. Again, we didn't have to look very far to help perfect strangers! Twice we were able to offer a ride to two separate and very new immigrants to Canada, who didn't have a vehicle and were going to walk a far distance in the cold, from a store, to get home. We willingly gave them a ride, which only took a few minutes out of our day, to make a real difference in their day.  It felt good to help someone who needed it, but would not have asked for the help, when no one else around was offering. Our 10 year old son helped shovel snow off the sidewalk and deck at his Grandparents' house this past week, when they really needed the extra help. We had so much fun working together, that we didn't stop there....we kept going and shovelled their neighbour's sidewalk as well!

We have enjoyed our time, spent together, volunteering in our community, and teaching our children valuable life lessons and the importance of helping others, whether they are friends, family, neighbours or perfect strangers on the street! A little time and a lot of kindness can go a long way in making a big difference in someone else's day! And you might just find that it makes a difference in your own day! If we all opened up our hearts and performed one Act Of Kindness every day, what a difference it would make in the world! Remember, Random Acts Of Kindness are contagious, and will encourage others to continue that chain and Pay It Forward in their own way!"

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