The wedding feast

Here is a modern spin on the parable of the wedding feast  (Luke 14:16-24).

Carol Fowler says she was fully prepared to lose the deposits she and her husband Willie put down on a lavish reception for their daughter's abruptly cancelled wedding. 

"We went home that evening and my husband woke up the next morning and I was in the process of cancelling out the venue and he said, 'No, what we'll do is donate it to Hosea Feed the Hungry,'" Carol told ABCNews.com. 

The poor are invited to take the place of the privileged as wedding guests.

A short while later the couple met up with Elizabeth Omilami, head of Hosea, to coordinate the event, which involved busing some 200 homeless men, women, and children to the reception hall for a four course meal complete with plenty of entertaining activities for the young and old alike.

They are grateful for the opportunity and let nothing go to waste.

Foster also noted that the experience of seeing all the empty plates was "eye-opening" for her. 

"You go to weddings sometimes and you see a lot of people really waste food," she said. "We take so many things for granted. These clients or guests, as we call them, they don't."

The host of the feast was pleased.