The Pink Initiative

I wanted to wait until October to announce my partnership with this wonderful organization.

October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness and I think now is the most fitting time to share this with you all. I am so proud and excited to tell you that I have become an official sponsor of the Pink Initiative. To help explain this organization to you, I grabbed these quick facts straight from the website:

Who: Pink Initiative is a collection of wedding industry professionals and private donors dedicated to funding awareness, outreach, education and research for breast cancer.

Why: Breast cancer affects one in eight women in her lifetime. We’re helping because we can. Breast cancer survivor Tina Koral says it best in her memoir If I Just Breathe:

“The photographs from my wedding day show a joyful young couple, visibly excited to start a new life together. The promise of a happy home full of children shone in our eyes. The thrill of that day, of marrying my childhood love in a city filled with romance, will stay with me forever. What I did not know at the time was that along with something old, new, borrowed and blue, I carried a seven centimeter, rapidly growing mass of malignant cells in my breast. I was twenty-nine years old.”

Join us: If you are a wedding professional and would like to get involved, please check out the website.

As a way to help raise money and awareness for the research of breast cancer, I will be donating 10% of all October proceeds to the Pink Initiative.

In addition, as a way to help this become a year-round activity, I will continually donate 10% of all proceeds from any 2010 Boudoir session to the Pink Initiative.

I hope you all will help me in my efforts by booking a mini portrait session this month or a boudoir session next month!