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Bride sparks fury over outrageous catering solution

<p dir="ltr">A bride-to-be has caused outrage online after sharing her unusual catering solution for her wedding day, after admitting she has invited more people to her big day than she can afford to feed. </p> <p dir="ltr">The American bride, who is planning her wedding for October, shared that she has invited 250 of her closest friends and family to her nuptial celebrations, while only being able to afford to cater for 150 people. </p> <p dir="ltr">Posting her predicament in a wedding page on Facebook, she wrote, “Bride here. Seems the most expensive thing is catering.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“To save a little bit of money, we are inviting 250 people, expecting about 200 (to RSVP), and telling the caterers to prepare for 150.”</p> <p dir="ltr">She said that in order to cater for the extra people, she was planning to order fast food from Raising Cane’s: a popular chain of chicken shops across the US. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I suggested maybe getting a tray of chicken to supplement the missing food,” she said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Is this a terrible idea? Would I get the caterers to serve that chicken also, or just put it to the side and let the people serve the chicken themselves?”</p> <p dir="ltr">Many were stunned by the bride’s catering idea, with one person joking, “Oh, it’s a Hunger Games-themed wedding. Literally.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Another suggested, “If you can’t afford to feed 250 people, move your wedding date to save up enough for your guestlist or invite fewer people — the most reasonable option.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“Do not bring in fast food. The caterer will not, cannot, and should not serve your fast food.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Another person added, “Sucks for the guests, but also real sh***y for the caterer who will get blamed when there’s not enough food for everyone.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“If I come as an invited guest to your wedding and there’s not a plate for me, I am taking my gift back and self-serving all the chicken I can carry.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Shutterstock </em></p>

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Inside the resort that caters to overweight guests only

<p>A woman who weighs 229kg says she finally felt “accepted” after taking a holiday at a resort which only accepts overweight guests.</p> <p>Alice Young, 32, went on a holiday to Eleuthera in the Bahamas for a new UK tv show My 18-30 Stone Holiday, and stayed at a resort for people who weigh over 20 stone (127kg).</p> <p>“I would love to go back, I think it’s the perfect place to go if you have got body issues or self-esteem issues. You are accepted there,” she told the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/36-stone-newark-mum-visits-659526" title="www.nottinghampost.com">Nottingham Post</a>.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><img width="466" height="350" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/5b01e6bdfdb9a4fff4750ffaed2d94d4" alt="Alice Young said she finally felt “accepted” after staying at The Resort. Photo: ITV &lt;br /&gt;" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Alice Young said she finally felt “accepted” after staying at The Resort. Photo: ITV </em></p> <p>Called “The Resort”, the hotel has reinforced metre-wide sun loungers which can hold more than 254kg, and beds that are strengthened with two-inch steel bars. It also has a five-mile private beach, widened doorways and other features to help support the large tourist. There’s also an all-you-can-eat buffet open three times a day.</p> <p>The mum of twins went with a group of other plus-sized tourists for the show and called it an “amazing journey”.</p> <p>Ms Young, from the East Midlands of England, said: “It was amazing for people that have got similar problems to sort of realise that people have different issues but we’re all going along the same journey. It’s not size that matters, it’s what going on inside your head.</p> <p>“We all had issues that we didn’t necessarily want to talk about, but when we did talk about it, it became very therapeutic.</p> <p>“All of the issues we had were to do with mental health rather than overeating.</p> <p>“Being on the show has helped me to understand myself better, it’s certainly brought some things to light that have made me think a lot better.”</p> <p><img width="346" height="532" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/d793e052915c07914185c2c45cfd2508" alt="The full-time mum of five-year-old twins went with a group of large tourists for the show, &lt;span id=&quot;U631528388776h3G&quot; style=&quot;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;My 18-30 Stone Holiday. &lt;span id=&quot;U631528388776jnD&quot; style=&quot;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;Photo: ITV &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p> <p>Ms Young, who filmed the show in April, said: “It was a place where all the pressures of every day were taken away, so you could think about your issues a lot more.</p> <p>“I’m still in touch with everyone — we speak to each other daily, and we’ve got a really good group dynamic — it’s become like a support network really.”</p>

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This amazing school caters exclusively to homeless children

<p>There’s a school in San Diego, California that caters exclusively to homeless children. The Monarch School is one of only a few schools in the United States to be accessed by children without a home, and it does so by giving them access to showers, laundry facilities, meals, after school programs, and a complete roster of academic classes.</p> <p>Speaking with The Rotarian, Michelle Candland pointed out, “How can children focus on school if their tummies are growling, their shoes don’t fit, and they don’t even know where they are going to be sleeping the next day?” The Rotary club got behind the school soon after it opened in 1987 under the combined auspices of the San Diego County Office of Education, and the juvenile court system. Originally, the school was a two-room store front.</p> <p>With the efforts of the Rotary club, the school eventually moved to a 930 square-metre warehouse. Even in the larger space, classrooms were crowded, so Rotary threw its weight behind a US 15-million-dollar fundraising effort that saw the purchase of a 4,738 square-metre building. After an upgrade to the building, the school’s attendance rate improved, as did the student’s academic performance and grades.</p> <p>The name “Monarch” was chosen by students, referencing the way a butterfly emerges from its cocoon.</p> <p><em>You can <a href="http://monarchschools.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">learn more about the Monarch School here at their website</span></a>.</em></p> <p><em>Image credit: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MonarchSchool/timeline" target="_blank">Monarch School Facebook</a></em></p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/australians-living-in-3d-printed-houses/">Australians could soon be living in houses made by 3D printers</a></strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/shibani-the-handsome-gorilla/">This gorilla is so handsome, women are flocking to the zoo to see him</a></strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/car-covered-in-post-its/">Why did vigilantes cover this car in Post-It notes?</a></strong></span></em></p>

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Adelaide Fringe festival caters to the vision-impaired

<p>For the first time ever, vision-impaired and blind people had the chance to touch and feel the floats and costumes before the Adelaide Fringe Festival parade last night. &nbsp;</p><p>The parade, which kicked off the festival, consisted of 80 colourful floats and flocks of performers. It’s a spectacle that vision-impaired people had not been able to be part of but organisers hope that the “touch tour” would help the vision-impaired visualise the parade when they listened to it.</p><p>“It's really important because otherwise you wouldn't see anything or know what's happening,” Gloria, a vision-impaired student, told the ABC.</p><p>“It's better to have a feel because then you know what it's like instead of just hearing music,” added her friend Courtney.</p><p>Both student said that the touch tour helped them have a better idea of the parade.</p><p>“The majority of people who have a vision impairment lose their sight, so they've had sight before,” said Gaelle Mellis from Access2Arts who helped organise the touch tour.</p><p>“They might have really enjoyed going to the theatre or the Fringe parade, for example, and they think that they can't do that anymore, that that's closed off.</p><p>“What audio description does, because it's actually describing the visual elements it actually opens that experience up again.”</p><p><em>Image credit: Adelaide Fringe Facebook&nbsp;</em></p><p><strong>Related links:</strong></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/health/eye-care/2014/11/7-habits-that-can-prematurely-age-your-eyes/" target="_blank">7 habits that can prematurely age your eyes</a></strong></em></span></p><p><a href="/health/eye-care/2015/01/signs-of-eye-floaters/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Why you need to be wary of eye floaters</strong></em></span></a></p><p><a href="/health/eye-care/2014/11/what-your-family-history-says-about-your-eyesight/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>What your family history says about your eyesight</strong></em></span></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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