However, like so many other events that had been scheduled for this year, COVID forced them to change their plans.
Instead of their big ceremony, Tyler and Melanie had to go with a small gathering in a backyard setting with only their closest family members there to see them tie the knot.
After the wedding was complete, the new married couple headed over to Laura’s Home which is a woman’s shelter in Cleveland that is run by the nonprofit organization, The City Mission.
And they made sure to bring all of the catered food from the wedding there with them.
Since it was already paid for and they didn’t want to see it go to waste, they decided that their best option was to donate it to the people who could use it the most.
But they didn’t just drop it off at the kitchen and leave.
Tyler and Melanie, still dressed in their wedding attire, got behind the counter, and served up all of their wedding food to the people in the shelter.
According to Inspire More, Richard Trickel, The City Mission’s CEO, said that this was the first time that anyone had donated their wedding reception food to the center.
He was quoted as saying, “They could’ve done a hundred other things, you know, and yet they’re choosing to do this, a real act of giving and compassion on a day that is the most important day of their life.”
Even though the original plans for their wedding fell through, the joy that Tyler and Melanie saw on the faces of all of the women and children that day surely made up for it.
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