I Do Hawaiian Weddings

What better way can there be to bless your wedding day than to share your happiness with others? Here are some ways in which your wedding can touch the lives of people in need.

1. For those who have everything, and especially for second third weddings, ask your guests to donate to one (or several) of your favoirtie charities, or one of their own, in lieu of a gift. Direct them to justgive.org where you can register for the charity of your choice.

2. Arrange to have leftover food transported to a local homeless shelter.

3. The day after the wedding, have the flowers sent to a nursing home or women’s shelter.

4. Donate duplicate gifts to appropriate charities rather than return them.

The boarding pass read: ‘Radcliffe-to-Nechay’

Dianne Radcliffe-project coordinator, Seat Revenue Strategy, and Eduard Nechay-senior software test engineer, love airplanes so much, they decided to get married on one. The couple married April 7 onboard the Spirit of Delta Boeing 767 at the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, as family and friends, seated in first class as Diamond Elites, looked on.

“My husband, Eduard and I wanted a unique wedding venue and when researching different places I suggested we should keep it Delta-themed since we met at Delta and got engaged at the airport right before our Delta flight,” said Dianne.

Family and friends were sent ‘personalized’ boarding passes as a wedding invitation. In place of the designated city pair, the ticket read ‘Radcliffe-to-Nechay’. After the ceremony, guests received a small 767-300 model airplane as a wedding favor with the inscription, ‘Love is in the Air,’ and a mock boarding pass to return home.

In 1761, when infamous philanderer Casanova approached the mother of a 17-year-old girl he wished to marry, the woman fainted dead away. As luck would have it, she had had an affair with him 20 years prior.

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Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were making a film together in 1940 when Desi overheard an interview in which Lucy listed all the reasons she would never marry Desi, Outraged, Desi approached Lucy after the reporter left and announced that they would get married the next day. They did.

“Oh, Miss O’Hara, I’ve told you I loved you. I think you’re the most beautiful girl in the world. And the sweetest, the dearest, I know that I couldn’t hope that you would love me, so clumsy and stupid, not nearly good enough for you. But if you could, if you could think of marrying me, I’d do anything in the world for you, just anything, I promise!”

On December 21st 2005 Sir Elton John, 58 married his long-time partner, Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, 42 in a civil ceremony conducted at Windsor Guildhall, the same venue used by Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowels for their nuptials.

The reception, which set the couples back #1.75 million, featured 19,000 red roses and an original Ben & Jerry’s wedding cake topped by two tin soldier figures supporting guards-many-style helmets.

Making Memories sponsors Brides Against Breast Cancer: Visit makingmemories.com

Africa Street Kids sells wedding gowns and uses the proceed to feed thousands of kids throughout the country: Visit DonateWeddingGowns.com

WedAlert.com helps brides who cannot afford wedding gowns.

The Bridal Garden in New York City offers wedding gowns at a fraction of their original price and donates the profits to shelters and day care centers that serve kids in need.

Heavenly Angels in Need will work with a seamstress to turn your dress into a burial gown for parents who have nothing in which to bury their babies: Visit HeavenlyAngelsInNeed.com

When would now be the right time? That is a question I’ve asked myself over and over again and in offering a wedding business that has integrity and honor, now is always the right time.  IF you happen to remember this quote “Now is the right time,” when you call or email me, I’d be happy to give you 50% off your officiant services, making it just $95.00.  Let me know please… if now is the right time for you.  This offering is for June, July and August weddings for 2012.

Make it this beautiful…

A perfect day for a ceremony!

Leahi Park was a perfect place to be yesterday for an 830am wedding.  We were blessed with a light shower and then the moment the ceremony began, the sun peaked out and let its light shine though the white orchids that were sewn between the dangling crystals. Everything twinkled brightly as the bride and groom began their new day together.

Diamond engagement rings were popular with medieval Italians (1400′s) as they believed that the diamond was created from the “flames of Love.   Ancient Greeks believed the diamond reflected the flame of love, thinking them to be the teardrops of the gods.  Romans believed diamonds to have romantic powers, believing them to be spinters of falling stars that once tipped the arrows of Eros, the god of love.

Just a few ideas in case you are curious…
Buddhist: The bride carries a string of 21 ojuju beads, representing Buddha, the families, and the bride and groom.
Chinese: Use red flowers to symbolize luck, and to bring families together, incorporate the tea ceremony into your ceremony.
Greek: The bride wears red or yellow veil, symbolizing fire, which keeps her safe from evil spirits.
Native American: Corn figures prominently in the menu. Decor consists of a cornucopia of dried fruits and vegetable.
Irish: The bride (might carry a horseshoe) and a groom walk down the aisle together. Shamrocks figure prominently in the decor.

During the Victorian age in England, the wedding ring had even more of a symbolic and ritualistic position.  Young brides-mades at a wedding would take the wedding ring and press the wedding cake through it nine times.  This ensured that the unmarried virgin would meet her future love and be married within the year.

Just thought you might like to know!