Get Gus & Jessie To Their Wedding!!
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HI GUYS! A PUBLIC UPDATE TO SAY THANK YOU THANK YOU TO ALL WHO DONATED AND NO NEED TO DONATE ANY MORE!! WE GOT GUS AND JESSIE TO THEIR WEDDING ON TIME, THEY HAD AN EXQUITE AND INTIMATE WEDDING, AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU/US MADE THIS HAPPEN. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE MAGIC OF A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE A MIRACLE.
KEEP MAKING MIRACLES,
LOVE NICOLA.
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Our beautiful beautiful friends Gus and Jessie need our help getting them to their OWN wedding!!
They are getting married this weekend on Friday 12th August in a forest in Seattle.
They have been preparing for over a year, lovingly restoring and rebuilding a trailer from the inside out to take them on this gorgeous adventure into married life.
The Trailer is named Pierre. I'm not sure why. I will ask them when they are less stressed. But It's a great name.
Gus and Jessie are from LA and have chosen to have a private and sacred Ceremony in the forests of Seattle, with just their officiant, a photographer and a videographer, filming the wedding. Then in the fall they are having a celebration in Texas for all their families and friends, where they will be screening the video of this weekend's Sacred Marriage Ceremony in the Forest.
They have been working all year on this Trailer to enjoy during their wedding adventure. All year. It's been a labor of love that they have been sharing with their community on their blog and on instagram, and finally finally finished it last week. It is so beautiful and so meaningful, with so many precious and special touches.
Above their bed is a beautiful embroidered map of the US State Flowers that Jessie's Aunt Sharlene embroidered. Jessie posted a picture of it on facebook last week with a note that said that her Aunth Sharlene, who passed away last August, embrodiered this map of the US State Flowers decades ago and Jessie's mom and Aunt Joyce gifted it to her and Gus for their trailer. She said it was the first piece of art hung in their little house on wheels and they couldn't feel happier about it.
And this below is the final finished amazingly awesome love-filled home that they built with their own two hands and set off in last week to go get married.
The plan was to drive and camp and adventure through Yosemite and other beautiful parts of the Country as part of the getting hitched journey, which they did this past week. You can check out their pics at: #ragmopandgoosegethitched
But alas alas, 2 days ago they left for Lake Tahoe, on their way to Seattle, for their wedding this weekend, and 3 hours into the trip, calamity struck. Their SUV that they were driving overheated and the breaks on their car completely shut down while they were going downhill on a Mountain edge. Did I mention they had A TRAILER BEHIND!!
The car had overheated and everything just stopped working. The brakes stopped. The engine stopped. Everything just stopped. While they were driving. Down a Mountain.
They stayed calm. Amazingly. Survival instincts kicked in. (Thank you Evolution.) And as they were heading straight for a cliff, and Jessie saw Gus pumping at the breaks to no avail, she suddenly pulled the emergency break, and Gus somehow managed to steer the vehicle and the trailer to a pull stop on the side of mountain. Only then did Jessie let herself burst into tears.
When they got out the car, there was no cell reception, so they made a handmade sign (it's starting to sound like a movie.)
And finally got their car towed to a mechanic in Nevada, where they have been waiting and paying the past day and a half for it to be fixed. They have now found out that it's a problem with the engine that certainly can't be fixed in time for their wedding and may not be able to be fixed at all, so they are having it towed back to California.
And now, three days before their wedding, they are essentially stranded in a parking lot in Nevada, with their magical trailer full of their things and their animal babies, when they are supposed to be on their way to Seattle to meet their officiant for their forest wedding.
They tried to get a rental car but there isn't a rental car in the vicinity that can tow the wedding trailer, and their airbnb they have rented for their wedding night is a 12 hour drive from the parking lot in which they are right now stranded.
They and their little cuties (Scotty Pippen and Little Monster) are exhausted and trying to keep their spirits high, but this certainly isn't how anyone wants to go into a wedding that they have been planning and building for for over a year.
At the end of the day, we are all grateful that they are safe and alive, as are they. And they are super humble and would never ask for themselves, but can we rally as a community, can we raise enough money to get them a car?
Can we get people from every state, like the flowers from every state hanging over their bed, to come together and get them to the forest on time? Or can we find a car company that could come in and save the day and provide them with a vehicle to get to their Wedding?
I believe in miracles. And I believe in Love. And I believe that when we come together, particularly to honor an important and sacred rite of passage like the marriage of two beautiful, kind people, we can make magical things happen.
Let's share this far and wide. Let's give $7 or $11 bucks each and let's get Gus and Jessie and their animal babies to their wedding in the forest on time and give them a Wedding that they will remember forever and ever and ever...
And then we'll all get to see the beautful video!!!
Timing is obviously of the essence, so this is really a 24 hour situation. Can you share this now? With everyone you know??? Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!
From their hearts and from ours. Thank You.
(Gus and Jessie + Scotty Pippen and Little Monster.)
KEEP MAKING MIRACLES,
LOVE NICOLA.
ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN FOR POSTERITY AND INSPIRATION:
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Our beautiful beautiful friends Gus and Jessie need our help getting them to their OWN wedding!!
They are getting married this weekend on Friday 12th August in a forest in Seattle.
They have been preparing for over a year, lovingly restoring and rebuilding a trailer from the inside out to take them on this gorgeous adventure into married life.
The Trailer is named Pierre. I'm not sure why. I will ask them when they are less stressed. But It's a great name.
Gus and Jessie are from LA and have chosen to have a private and sacred Ceremony in the forests of Seattle, with just their officiant, a photographer and a videographer, filming the wedding. Then in the fall they are having a celebration in Texas for all their families and friends, where they will be screening the video of this weekend's Sacred Marriage Ceremony in the Forest.
They have been working all year on this Trailer to enjoy during their wedding adventure. All year. It's been a labor of love that they have been sharing with their community on their blog and on instagram, and finally finally finished it last week. It is so beautiful and so meaningful, with so many precious and special touches.
Above their bed is a beautiful embroidered map of the US State Flowers that Jessie's Aunt Sharlene embroidered. Jessie posted a picture of it on facebook last week with a note that said that her Aunth Sharlene, who passed away last August, embrodiered this map of the US State Flowers decades ago and Jessie's mom and Aunt Joyce gifted it to her and Gus for their trailer. She said it was the first piece of art hung in their little house on wheels and they couldn't feel happier about it.
And this below is the final finished amazingly awesome love-filled home that they built with their own two hands and set off in last week to go get married.
The plan was to drive and camp and adventure through Yosemite and other beautiful parts of the Country as part of the getting hitched journey, which they did this past week. You can check out their pics at: #ragmopandgoosegethitched
But alas alas, 2 days ago they left for Lake Tahoe, on their way to Seattle, for their wedding this weekend, and 3 hours into the trip, calamity struck. Their SUV that they were driving overheated and the breaks on their car completely shut down while they were going downhill on a Mountain edge. Did I mention they had A TRAILER BEHIND!!
The car had overheated and everything just stopped working. The brakes stopped. The engine stopped. Everything just stopped. While they were driving. Down a Mountain.
They stayed calm. Amazingly. Survival instincts kicked in. (Thank you Evolution.) And as they were heading straight for a cliff, and Jessie saw Gus pumping at the breaks to no avail, she suddenly pulled the emergency break, and Gus somehow managed to steer the vehicle and the trailer to a pull stop on the side of mountain. Only then did Jessie let herself burst into tears.
When they got out the car, there was no cell reception, so they made a handmade sign (it's starting to sound like a movie.)
And finally got their car towed to a mechanic in Nevada, where they have been waiting and paying the past day and a half for it to be fixed. They have now found out that it's a problem with the engine that certainly can't be fixed in time for their wedding and may not be able to be fixed at all, so they are having it towed back to California.
And now, three days before their wedding, they are essentially stranded in a parking lot in Nevada, with their magical trailer full of their things and their animal babies, when they are supposed to be on their way to Seattle to meet their officiant for their forest wedding.
They tried to get a rental car but there isn't a rental car in the vicinity that can tow the wedding trailer, and their airbnb they have rented for their wedding night is a 12 hour drive from the parking lot in which they are right now stranded.
They and their little cuties (Scotty Pippen and Little Monster) are exhausted and trying to keep their spirits high, but this certainly isn't how anyone wants to go into a wedding that they have been planning and building for for over a year.
At the end of the day, we are all grateful that they are safe and alive, as are they. And they are super humble and would never ask for themselves, but can we rally as a community, can we raise enough money to get them a car?
Can we get people from every state, like the flowers from every state hanging over their bed, to come together and get them to the forest on time? Or can we find a car company that could come in and save the day and provide them with a vehicle to get to their Wedding?
I believe in miracles. And I believe in Love. And I believe that when we come together, particularly to honor an important and sacred rite of passage like the marriage of two beautiful, kind people, we can make magical things happen.
Let's share this far and wide. Let's give $7 or $11 bucks each and let's get Gus and Jessie and their animal babies to their wedding in the forest on time and give them a Wedding that they will remember forever and ever and ever...
And then we'll all get to see the beautful video!!!
Timing is obviously of the essence, so this is really a 24 hour situation. Can you share this now? With everyone you know??? Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!
From their hearts and from ours. Thank You.
(Gus and Jessie + Scotty Pippen and Little Monster.)
Organizer and beneficiary
Nicola Behrman
Organizer
Burbank, CA
Jessie Caballero
Beneficiary
