Cancelled wedding reception provides food for the homeless

That awkward moment when thousands have been spent on your wedding ceremoney and it all falls through, the next best thing could be to feed the homeless around you.

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It was supposed to be a beautiful banquet at Sacramento’s Citizen Hotel, overlooking the city skyline, and the deposits had already been paid.

When 27-year-old Quinn Duane called her mother to tell her that her wedding wasn’t happening, that the groom-to-be got cold feet, the woman and her husband, were shocked.

The Duane's had spent a whooping $35,000 on the wedding reception, making their shock very understandable.

So what do you do when you have a $35,000 catered banquet, with a canceled wedding?

Instead of calling off their daughter's wedding, the Duanes decided to keep the reception.

This time, in a touching move, they invited a different group of guests,the Sacramento’s homeless population,to a free, extravagant meal.

The family said they thought it was the right thing to do.

“When I found out on Monday that the wedding would not be taking place, it just seemed like, of course, this would be something that we would do to give back,”Kari Duane tells KCRA News.

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The first to arrive was a woman who lives in a shelter for those who can’t afford rent but are too old to work, quickly followed by many more.

The room began to be filled with children, individuals, families, even newborns.

The menu included salad, cauliflower, gnocchi, salmon, and tri-tip, similar to the food served at the hotel’s four-star restaurant, The Grange.

According to one homeless guest, it certainly beat the food prepared at homeless shelters.

“I think it’s very generous actually to lose out on something so important to yourself and then give it to someone else,” says Erika Craycraft, a homeless woman who came with her husband and five children.

The meal was a joyful occasion, so different from their typical endeavor to get three meals a day.

“When you’re going through a hard time and a struggle, for you to get out to do something different with your family, it’s really a blessing,” Craycraft’s husband, Rashad Abdullah, says.

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Quinn Duane, the would-be bride, did not attend, instead opting to stay home with her friends.

On Sunday, she and her mother will go to Belize on what would have been her honeymoon.