Canceled Wedding Produces Money for Charity

Kyle Paxman canceled her wedding six weeks before it was to take place, but decided to turn the planned party into a fund-raising event for charity, reports The New York Times.

Ms. Paxman invited her guests to write checks to CARE, the international aid group, and to the Vermont Children’s Aid Society.

She selected CARE after seeing an ad for the charity that showed women striding across a desert, and four of them saying to the camera, “I am powerful.” The idea of supporting strong women, she says, was particularly appealing to her, she says, as she was declaring her independence from the man she planned to marry.