Happy Valentine's Day!!

There are special celebrations and feelings that the world share. We share JOY at our respective Christmas and we share LOVE on Valentine’s Day! If you became engaged CONGRATULATIONS!! Embrace your LOVE for one another. If on this Valentine’s Day you do not have anyone to share your love with continue to love yourself. You’re still marinating to be right for the right person in your life. I love this song by BeBe Winans" I Found Love(Cindy's Song) Cindy is his sister who is up in age(not an old woman)but had never married. Bebe said, she had very high standards for the man that would be in her life and guess what...SHE FOUND HIM!! He performed this song on the Mo'Nique show and the audience dispalyed affections of Love with their special someone. Our President of the United States Barack Obama and his wife First Lady, Michelle Obama was and is often critisized for showing affections of LOVE. If you are in LOVE it can be and is a BEAUTIFUL thing!







Celebrate your new beginning!

New Beginnings…Again

I’ve had the pleasure of working with a few couples where one or both parties were marrying for the second time and maybe even a third. No matter which number it is, the couple still search for ways to make their new wedding ceremony meaningful. Chance are they had the BIG ceremony before and do not wish to replicate it or they didn’t have one at all and want to experience it. I find that they want a ceremony that provides the focus on their new found love for one another. It’s about them and they usually don’t get caught up in who’s there and who had what at their wedding.

The remarrying couple’s unity reminds me of the rainbow. It has it many colors no two are the same and that could represent the different paths of their lives. Whatever the challenge was on that particular path that ended their previous relationship(s), the couple has found that one color in the rainbow that they will walk on together. The rainbow represent a new beginnings and so does this journey for the remarrying couple

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The Feeling of Happiness

If you became newly engaged this past holiday season, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I know that you are excited! Marriage is one of the three major events in your life the other two in my opinion are buying a home and starting a family. All of these events bring on live changes and are also a BLESSING!
So now that you have the ring, what’s next? Your thoughts are running at 100 MPH. The wedding date, finding the perfect dress, the wedding party and the list goes on and on. Being a married woman for almost 17 years I can tell that the way you are going to feel on your wedding day is a very special feeling that I can’t even put into words. Well, let me try….of course you’re going to feel like a princess in your gown or a king in your tux. Your heart is so full of joy. The butterflies in your tummy actually tickle and bring a smile upon your face followed by laughter. You know without a doubt that you love the person you’re getting ready to marry. That’s why a wedding about to take place! The feeling of your love at that very moment feels like the very first time you realized that you were in love with this special person. You may have had others and felt like they were the one and it turned out to be that they weren't. You remember who that was, right?!...LOL. The thought of you marrying this special person makes your body tingle and your heart is fluttering. It is an amazing and wonderful feeling. The bottom line is, this feeling is what happiness feels like.

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Photo By: Natarsha N Wright Photography for Michael Clark Photographers

Don't loose sight of the REAL reason...

I was watching Maternity Ward one Saturday morning. On this particular episode a young lady was pregnant with twins. Due to complications of the pregnancy she was put on bed rest in the hospital the remainder of her pregnancy. Her hospital stay ran into her wedding day. The doctor would not even release her for just those few hours to go and get married. They did not want to put mom or babies into any danger.

Most people probably would have postponed their wedding for a later date but she didn’t. She said, she wanted a wedding ceremony and reception and all that goes with it but it meant more to her and her fiancé to become husband and wife and start their family off right. No matter where the wedding took place. Weddings are beautiful and I love planning them. Although she was already with chlidren she did not lose sight of the reason for the wedding...the love that they have for one another. Her family brought her a beautiful off-white dress to the hospital. She had her hair and make-up done, and the original officiant performed the ceremony. The hospital staff surprised her with a decorated wedding arch and room. She cried so much and I was crying along with her.

It is soooo easy to get caught up in the glitz and glam of a wedding. Everything has to be a certain way, color, etc…and that is fine and is possible, if planned right, BUT don’t lose sight of the real meaning behind this celebration…..Your love for one another and the decision you made to become One Heart, One Mind and One Soul.

“The path of life is so narrow that two cannot walk on it unless they become One.”

Celebrate your new beginning!

Photo By: Natarsha N. Wright Photography for Micheal Clark Photographers

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