This is the story of a newly-wed couple who didn’t forget to share their love and kindness with a poor homeless man, amidst their busy wedding schedule.
It is extremely heartwarming to know that many young couples are deciding to share their happiness and love they have experienced, during their marriage ceremony with the less fortunate ones in society. Some decided to give away their gifts of cash they received to an orphanage or to charity organizations, even to organize a wedding buffet for the homeless; there are endless such examples that comfort us, telling us that there is hope for our youth.
One lovely couple, Bronia Tindall and Fabrizio Clementi exchanged their vows at The Community of Saint Luke, Auckland, New Zealand.
After the service, the couple decided to cut the cake in the backyard of the Presbyterian church, as many of the guests were not able to make it to the wedding reception.
After the cake cutting ceremony, they did something different. They remembered to keep a big slice of cake with them. On their way to the church, as they headed for the photo shoot, they stopped to offer the slice of wedding cake to a homeless man.
It had so happened that, when they were on their way to the church, they had noticed this homeless man sleeping on the grass, barefooted, with his belongings by his side. They had remembered him through all the commotion and festivities of the wedding ceremony, and brought him a piece of their wedding cake.
“It was just a nice thought, and we had a lot of cake. It’s not the healthiest food to give him, but it was what we wanted to give to him,” Tindall told the New Zealand Herald.
The couple approached the man, spoke to him and offered him the cake. Their photographers, Ben Franks and Steve May, had an idea and an opportunity to capture this precious, graceful moment.
The couple then walked away but the photographers continued to record the homeless man’s reactions and later he shared his emotion with the newly-wed couple.
The homeless man cried, touched by their kind, unexpected and rare gesture, when the newly weds walked away.
“He was really moved. I think he thought we were going to tell him to move along,” said Tindall.
When other guests saw the bride and groom sharing their happy moments, they too went out of their way to give the man coffee, more cake, and some money. Clementi offered the man one of his cigarettes.
This was not this beautiful couple’s first act of kindness. Clementi, 49, is a doctor in Italy and has worked with the Doctors without Borders. Tindall, 39, who is a chiropractor, has worked with sex trafficking victims in Thailand. Clementi has taken in a refugee from Syria and another from Pakistan.
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Steve May has 20 years of experience taking photographs, but he said has “never seen anything like this before.”
“I don’t know anything about him, I’d like to know more. There are not many people that can make me cry,” May said. “It was only a piece of wedding cake, but it came from our hearts.”
