Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Media Roundup – The June-July Wedding Cans edition

Posted on July 5th, 2010 by Andrea
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Wow! Ever since we’ve crushed our goal, the news coverage has been absolutely amazing. While I know I will end up missing a few, here’s a roundup of the coverage Wedding Cans has gotten lately:
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper had Doug Clark do another follow-up story. He’s been wonderful, and has written about us serveral times. His [...]

15% and more wedding plans made

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Andrea
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After another round of weighing cans and we finally got over 85% today! 85.3%, to be exact. That means we’ve only got 15% left to go – about 1,500 pounds. Under a ton! YAY!
To add to the excitement, we’re making progress on wedding plans. We’ve started sending out invitations, and are still trying to track [...]

Video!

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Andrea
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Want to see the giant stack on our back porch? Hear us tell our own story?

Media blitz

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Andrea
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Tomorrow morning, bright and early at 4:20 am, we start a string of satellite interviews – which means you can catch us live from our living room on a wide variety of radio and TV stations – with a few interviews recorded for your later enjoyment.
Here’s the highlights of the schedule, in EST:
7:20 – USA [...]

Media Roundup #2

Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Andrea
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There will never be any way I can keep up with ALL the media coverage over the last few weeks – but here is a sampling of some of the stories since the last Media Roundup. Let me know if there’s been coverage you’ve loved!
Chicago Now – Shawna Coronado’s Gardening Nude post
Tonic.com – Interview with [...]

Huge Donation from Alcoa!

Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Andrea
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Alcoa Recycling has announced this morning that they will be donating 150,000 cans towards our goal. Both Peter and I are just blown away at the generosity of this donation, and the support that we have gotten the world around. This donation puts us firmly at 65%, with only  136,753 cans left to go. See [...]

News Roundup #1

Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Andrea
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Wow. The last 24 hours or so have been wonderfully busy! It’s so incredibly overwhelming, to be honest. The amount of love and support we have been receiving has made me tear up at least twice. As I type this, the CBS Early Show crew is here, setting up.
So first of all, thank you. Thank [...]

Melodic Embrace : Aluminum Art by E. Moises Diaz

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Andrea
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One of the most beautiful emails I have received today was from the artist E. Moises Diaz – a recycled metal artist who works primarily in recycled aluminum. He has made an amazing offer – he will be making a “Wedding Cans” version of his Melodic Embraces sculpture, and donating a percentage of the profits [...]

Donations & News Coverage

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Andrea
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First, welcome to all new visitors! The word we’re getting from Facebook and Twitter is that our TV story from KXLY was shown in Southeastern Idaho, Kentucky, and a few other places. Tomorrow morning there will be a story in the Spokesman-Review. We’re working on getting video to post here too!
Thus far, all this attention [...]

Woah! The news has broken!

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Andrea
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It has been an absolutely wonderfully crazy day! We were featured this morning on Offbeat Bride – one of my most favoritest websites ever. Very soon after that post, we’ve gotten quite a few more people in and around Spokane contact us with cans to pick up – YAY! In addition to that, it looks [...]