Wedding Gifts

We are so excited to have you at our wedding! We also have a lot of stuff already and feel that your well wishes are better appreciated without a traditional registry. As such, please see below for our preferences for wedding gifts.

Donations to Preferred Non-Profits & Charities

We are both passionate about donating to charitable organizations and non-profits, and hope to contribute more over the years. We both have several charities that we admire and donate to regularly, where we would greatly appreciate you send any gifts you wish to give. Please feel free to give as much or as little as you feel comfortable with to any of the below organizations in honor of our wedding.

Preferred Charities:

Organizations the Help People:

These organizations are national and local to our community of Ohio, working to improve the everyday lives of us and our neighbors through equitable provision of healthcare and justice across a diverse population. With Ohio’s ongoing legislation targeting women, LGBTQIA+ communities, communities of color, the incarcerated, and other vulnerable individuals, it is important to protect the rights and improve equitable access to services and communities for all.

  • ACLU of Ohio
    • Donate Here for ACLU
    • Mission Statement: “To champion and expand constitutional and other fundamental rights and to pursue racial, economic, gender, and social equity for all Ohioans using all the tools of integrated advocacy without political partisanship; to fight in both principle and practice for the best ideals of fairness, freedom, and justice; and to advance our mission through an anti-racist, intersectional lens with determination, agility, practicality, and hope.”
  • Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
    • Donate Here for Planned Parenthood
    • Services: “Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio provides essential reproductive health care services to generations of Ohioans in our communities. Our caring and knowledgeable staff provide a wide range of services; including testings, treatment, counseling, and referrals.”
  • The Trevor Project
    • Donate Here for The Trevor Project
    • Mission Statement: “The Trevor Project’s mission is to end suicide among LGBTQ young people”
    • Services: “The Trevor Project estimates that more than 1.8 million LGBTQ young people seriously consider suicide each year in the U.S. and could benefit from our services. Our trained counselors connect with LGBTQ young people 24/7, 365 days a year.”
  • Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
    • Donate here for Doctors without Borders/MSF
    • Services: “We provide independent, impartial medical humanitarian assistance to the people who need it most. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries”

Organizations that Help the Environment:

These organizations are dear to our hearts for their support of animals and the natural environment we all enjoy. With the changing landscape we find ourselves in, largely due to the negligence and recklessness of human enterprise, every day highlights a greater importance to preserve what we still have and protect our ecological diversity. These organizations embody this mission to protect and nurture our natural environment.

  • Marine Discovery Center
    • Donate Here for Marine Discovery Center
    • Mission: “Widely recognized as a regional resource for the Indian River Lagoon, the Marine Discovery Center is centered on education and outreach in an effort to preserve, protect and restore the lagoon for generations to come”
    • Services: “Tagged as the most biologically diverse estuary in North America, the Indian River Lagoon boasts more than 4,000 species and spans 156 miles down Florida’s east coast — providing countless ways to engage the public. Programs at MDC for all ages are designed to offer hands-on, feet-wet learning opportunities through classes, camps, lectures, boat and kayak eco-tours with certified naturalists and teachers”
  • Clean Air Task Force (CATF)
    • Donate Here for CATF
    • Mission: “Decarbonize the global energy system to address climate change. We push the change in technologies and policies needed to get to a zero-emissions, high-energy planet at an affordable cost. We imagine a world where the energy needs of all people are met efficiently without damaging the atmosphere”

Direct Gifts to the Couple

If you still would like to give a direct gift to us, you are welcome to help fund our honeymoon to Orlando (10 days at Disney/Universal) the week after the wedding! Feel free to Venmo Sarah (@seaside1508; cell: 610-737-4187, with notification so I know who/what/why!), or provide cash or check at your convenience. This money will go towards drinks/food/amenities/souvenirs and travel/park expenses. If you prefer, we can also put this money towards house expenses (just moved in this past January), just specify and let us know!

And while we won’t be having a traditional wedding registry, if you would like to gift us something physical/sentimental, we would be more than happy to accept it. There will be a table at the event where you are welcome to drop something off. Or if you would like to mail something, our address is: 637 Woodsfield Dr., Columbus, OH, 43214