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You know Dana from The Broke-Ass Bride, right? Of course you do.

What’s weird is that I’ve never met Dana…like most of you…my only interaction with her has been through the two giveaways we won from Broke-Ass Bride (You don’t need a link, you got more important shiz to click on!) and I can already tell that Dana is a unique & beautiful person. Like I’m sure you can if you’ve ever read along with the Broke-Ass Bride or talked with Dana or Hunter. She seems sweet, fun-loving, happy-go-lucky, caring and intuitive and that’s someone I can’t bear to watch hurting.

She needs the help of this awesome community that I feel grateful to be part of every day. I’ll let you read about the details why. Here’s what you need to know:

• Dana is awesome. The Broke-Ass Couple is awesome. No young, still newly-married couple should have to go through illness together this early.
• Surgery is expensive. Dana is trying to raise $22,000 to cover her medical expenses & give 10% of the funds raised ($2k) to the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association.

This community of bloggers & readers and general people-ness is incredible. We’re interactive with each other’s lives, the pretties, the ups and downs of wedding planning, relationships, homebuilding and more. This is even more serious. Let’s not go all yellow when it gets past the pretties and the designs and the dresses and what not. Don’t you think?

You can donate here.

Read about donor perks here (ways you can help by purchasing from participating vendors & discounts for donating).

You can send in recipes & help in other ways as well.

Don’t be a yellow-belly and Dish for Dana, yo.

Psst. They’ve already raised almost $5,000 & a little birdy told me every little bit counts.

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“Hundreds of bodies are still washing up daily on the shores in Japan…On to Marketplace.” Sometimes it’s upsetting how quickly America moves on from catastrophe. We’re still talking about 9/11 here and the quake and tsunami in Japan are estimated to have taken 3x more lives.

But we’re concerned with the stocks plunging. The economy might suffer as a result. And all of those things have already started getting air time and our collective attention. While thousands are missing and “hundreds wash up daily.”

I have truly appreciated the initiative by the bloggers in this community lately. Between Angie, Clare and Aisling’s In Her Own Words event for International Women’s Day, Jen’s initiative to rally everyone to help Sarah and Tony with their wedding photography and now Lydia of Ever-Ours and the Utterly Engaged team have gotten together to support Japan in this time of crisis.

Two ways you can help:

• Donate. Lydia and Utterly Engaged have created the site For Japan With Love where you can donate to provide disaster relief tents for families, blankets, and other vital materials through ShelterBox.
• Bloggers’ Day of Silence. If you are a blogger, keep your blog quiet this Friday, March 18th in solidarity for victims in Japan.

The goal of For Japan with Love is to raise $5,500 for Japan.

Even if you can’t donate, let’s stay silent Friday. If for nothing else but to show Japan that their suffering is worth our attention.

You can find all the information on how to participate in For Japan with Love here.

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