Held

Here we are wrapped up in your arms. Grateful and overwhelmed. Every day we are so much closer. The sun is rising over our fears.

I love this community. It’s always been fun and collaborative with so many like minded artists/entrepreneurs. But something shifted for me in 2008. I stopped by my friend Peggi’s floral studio to say hello and she told me something that stopped me from breathing. She said I have cancer and it’s a serious diagnosis. She said more after that but I couldn’t hear her. I just don’t know what she said after the word cancer. She was calm and explained the situation in her soothing Peggi-like way but I couldn’t hear her. I was too busy assessing the situation. I understood….

It was bad.
She’s still standing, she seems strong somehow.
I didn’t want to let her go.
If she’s willing to be brave than I am willing to be brave.
She’s a florist in the wedding industry she can’t afford to have cancer.
I want to help.

She was still talking and I probably interrupted her - I asked “Can I help? Can I rally people for you? If I do this people will know, are you ok with people knowing.?”

She said yes. I exhaled. OK good. I couldn’t deal with my feelings of losing her but I could fight for her. I hugged her tight and said let’s fight this. Let’s give it our all. I didn’t know how but I knew why. If you knew Peggi it was easy to know why she was one in a million and I was lucky enough to call her friend.

You wouldn’t believe what happened next. Three people who didn’t even know Peggi offered to spearhead the team with me. They didn’t know her but they knew they wanted to support her. Megan, Kate and Sabrina put in hundreds of hours and created a mini revolution (REVO). My incredibly talented big hearted friend Nina had already created a non profit called REVO and we worked closely with her and used her platform to raise money through an auction.

The whole community rallied behind this auction. People who loved Peggi and people that just knew of her and that she was one of us. It was a miracle. So many people donated that I often fell asleep emailing Sabrina and woke up to her responses. Mike took over more duties at Shewanders and gave me the freedom to help. The community rallied like no other. Ultimately we lost Peggi but she left being held by all of us knowing she had touched so many hearts.

I’m reminded again how great this community is. We are feeling held by you. Infertility can feel like such a lonely and disappointing path. It’s so hard to want a child and not know how to stop wanting one. The last year and a half since we found out IVF was a possibility and that we were on a timer has been intense. We have been trying to so hard to figure it out and keep running into negative test results. It’s so heartbreaking. Mike and I just want to say thank you. Thank you for rallying behind us. Thank you for your support. I’ve been in a bit of a daze trying to figure out how to verbalize what it feels like to be us being supported by all of you. I’ll probably never have the right words - for now, from the bottom of our hopeful hearts just Thank You. You’ll never know what this means to us.

Thank you for following our story and donating and sharing to our campaign.

I just wanted to share some old blog posts down memory lane.

San Diego Style Weddings Wynn Austin La Dolce Idea REVO weddings Bob Hoffman Shewanders Jacqueline Ashley Events Rae Florae REVO love

and the REVO heroes

Our Vendors

REVOweddings was founded on the premise of community and commitment to the Wedding Industry. The following Vendors have generously donated their services to REVOweddings in support of this year's sponsored member, Peggi Walker. We're proud to share our Vendors with you and hope you'll take some time to get to know them as the leaders, and givers, that they are!

Coordination & Planning

A Diamond Celebration

A.R. Affairs

Bella Sera Events Design

Bliss Events

Darin Dietz Events

Elite Events Management

I Do...Weddings!

Joyful Weddings

La Dolce Idea

Le Chic Wedding Consulting

Leslie Miller Events