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.

Celebrate your new beginning!
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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