Vendor Spotlight: The Flirty Guide

The Flirty Guide is the fun, friendly, and fabulous San Francisco Bay Area wedding planning resource for brides and grooms looking for unique ideas and incredibly talented, reputable professionals. Stacie Tamaki first began working in the wedding industry 12 years ago as a custom couture bridal accessory designer. Over the years she became a web designer and developer then set out to create her dream resource to advertise her own wedding company on. The Flirty Guide represents her philosophy that wedding planning should be fun. Her accompanying Flirty Blog is full of swanky bridal showcases, wedding & event planning ideas and the everyday highs and lows of this former couture accessory designer now turned geeky girl.

Just last month Stacie expanded her reach to become a Goodwill Ambassador of the National Marrow Donor Program following the stunning and heartbreaking diagnosis that her 44 year old cousin, who is the mother of 2 young children, has a form of blood cancer similar to Leukemia. Tami urgently needs to find a stem cell marrow donor so that she can have a marrow transplant. Stacie has dedicated herself to finding Tami a marrow match through local donor drives and by encouraging potential donors to use mail-in test kits that can be ordered online.

For Asian Americans the odds of finding a matching donor are particularly poor. For any person in need their best chance of a match is someone within their own ethnic group. Keeping that in mind, would it shock you to know that of the 7,407,312 million registered donors only 32,639 are of Japanese American ethnicity?

If you want to help:
Please visit www.HelpingTami.org or contact the AADP.org to order a test kit. It only takes 10 minutes to fill out the registration form and use the cheek swabs provided. Mail the kit back and you will become a potential donor in the National Marrow Donor Program. You may be able to help Tami or other people in need. Are you willing to help?