Wish Upon a Wedding.

A few months ago I donated 4 lessons at a $200 value to a charity called Wish Upon a Wedding. Wish Upon a Wedding is a non-profit wish granting organization that provides weddings to couples who are facing a terminal illness and serious life-altering circumstance  no matter what sexual orientation. I found this organization randomly one day while I was just looking at wedding blogs and doing research on starting my own wedding planning business. I quickly fell in love with this organization and when I saw I could donate services to help them raise money I knew that it was something I needed to do.

The fundraiser was an auction. People could go on their website and "bid" on the services in which they would like as a gift or for their own wedding/event they may need it for. There were so many business on there that donated their servies, it was so nice to see! In the dance category there were 3 dance services. Assemblé Weddings (formerly known as Alex Krol Dance) happened to be the only dance business located in the Boston Area. Once the bidding was over, it lasted about 3 months, the winning person happened to be a mother of the Groom, getting a gift for her son and his fiance'. What a  great gift!! With that final bid we were able to help raise $150.00 toward Wish Upon a Wedding!

It just so happend to turn out, I knew the groom, Seve! I use to work with Steve at the Beverly, MA office with Eliot Community Human Services! SMALL WORLD!!!! I was very excited to hear that he was the winner of the lessons and I couldn't wait to get started teaching he and his soon to be wife their dance for their September 8, 2012 wedding.

I started teaching my "couple" in the middle of August in a cute town called Wakefield in the gazebo that is there over looking the lake. It was a great location to teach. Now that the days are shorter, our lessons started at 7:30- there were lights for us! This location just might be my "studio" for now....

More on their wedding soon!! (its today)...Im hoping to get some pictures of their dance!

Side Note: I have decided to change the name of Alex Krol Dance. As I am looking to do more than just dancing and I felt that Alex Krol Dance just didn't "fit". The name I have decided to change it to is Assemblé Wedding Inspirations.Assemblé is a ballet term defined asFrench: “step put together”), in classical ballet, a movement in which a dancer’s feet or legs are brought together in the air and the dancer lands on both feet.  To Assemble is to bring or call together in a group or a whole. I felt that this was perfect! Weddings are a large gathering of people coming together. With this I hope to soon offer professional services other than dancing, such as hair, photography and wedding inspiration.