Monday, February 14, 2011

My Love Letter

Today marks the day where the "world" tells us to love, but I first and foremost must say that love is an act that is to be illustrated to our loved ones daily! Just as Jesus loves us, we must be willing to display the same type of affection to ALL. But as Janelle and I continue to grow and learn more of our role in marriage, I can't help but be reminded that God calls us to love our wives just as Christ loves the Church (Ephesians 5:25-28) and gave Himself up for it! I'm grateful that during one of our conseling sessions with Pastor Sterling from Kettering Baptist Church, he illustrated what the picture of God's love for the Church (His people) looked like! If you have the time, take a deep look and study of Psalm 22:12-18. Once that study concluded with Pastor Sterling that evening, we were in awe and primarily I was taken away by how strong God's love is towards us and as a husband I am to express that same committment and love to my wife!

With God, I am continuing to love my bride-to-be! I am learning to love Janelle with every emotional ability. To say "I love her" is not enough for me! Every part of me needs, wants and will be committed to her on that day we take our oath before God.

Therefore, it was only fitting that the 1st thing I said to her today was, "Happy I Love you everyDay"! I love you Janelle!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Signed... Sealed... Delivered

Hi everyone! It has been a while since I have posted anything to the blog. So what better way to use my 1st entry of the year, to talk about the first thing we did as far as marriage preparation for 2011. Well…it all started in late December when Janelle and I started to think of ideas for our Save the Dates. We visited a number of sites for ideas, but at the end of the day we reached out to our close friend Ashley Contee to spearhead the design of our Save the Date. We had a few pictures in mind to use from our Engagement Photo session, but decided to let Ashley use her creativity and decide on the picture and style that met the theme we were looking for. Over the next couple of weeks, Ashley worked diligently with us to ensure she met all of our expectations on a perfect design and as you can see from the image below, she came through big time for us!


Janelle and I would like to give Ashley a BIG THANK YOU for all her hard work and stylish design. She did an awesome job putting the Save the Dates together, so we genuinely hope our guest enjoy them as much as we do!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

BM Dressess



If there was one thing I knew for certain about the BM dresses, I knew I didn't want the typical dress that you often find in bridal salons, as I am usually not a fan of those. As I began my search I looked everywhere from Department stores and websites to a few different bridal salons. Some of the places we visited were Macy's, Nordstrom's, JCREW, Alfred Angelo and the list goes on. I definitely recommend looking at bridal websites of some of the above department stores as they had some of the best options to choose from.

On MLK weekend, my BM's and I visited a few different shops and tried on several different dress options. This was probably the best thing for us because we really got a chance to see what really worked best for each person. One of the things I learned form this experience was that dresses can look totally different on the body versus online/magazine/catalog. If I were to have chosen the original dress that I liked without seeing it on, I think I would have been disappointed...lol.

So even after mentioning everything above about bridal salons, we actually purchased our dressess from Hitched Bridal Salon, in Washington DC (interesting... huh). But they have a very fun and stylish BM collection. I really enjoyed working with the ladies from Hitched; they were very pleasant and informative about various styles and fabrics.
5 more months or 151 days- Almost there!!!