We have decided on a date. My girlfriend Dolly is already making arrangements as she has taken the liberty to be my wedding coodinator. I have been blessed with friends and family of Dolly who are wedding professionals. We plan to get married on May 6th and for our honeymoon to be May 8th through May 14. Pete should be getting the money from his mother's financial manager any day now. The money will then be handed to Dolly. She has put together weddings for other girlfriends as well. Please pray for God to have his way in all of this and for everything to work out for our best, for our benefit and in our favor. Please pray for this wedding to be awesomely blessed. Pray that nothing gets in the way of this wedding or honeymoon. Pray that both go even better than we hope! Please pray that our honeymoon is blessed beyond our wildest dreams! I know God has everything under control. Please pray that also that all the people I wish to invite, are able to come to my wedding. Pray for everything to go smoothly without complications and for God's favor in everything! Pray that there will be enough money to pay for everything as well! Pray for this to be an awesome wedding and honeymoon that we will never forget. God Bless You All!


Your sister in Christ

Janet

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janet....i am so happy for you....im praying god blesses you with a wonderful wedding day and honeymoon.....sister you have such a kind and loving heart and you deserve to be truly happy....may god bless you for many many years of happiness together...love you....oh im so tickled for you

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Lord please bless our wedding and marriage. Please bless all the preparations and provide for all our needs here. Please work to bring all the invited guests and let everything go smoothly. Let this honeymoon be a paradise beyond our wildest dreams. Let nothing hinder the wedding, preparations, or the honeymoon. Let everyone here be richly blessed. Thanks, in Jesus Name amen. Pete

Dear Lord,
Please bless Janet and Pete's wedding day. Please guide Dolly in her planning. Please help her stay below budget. Please bless all of those who attend the wedding. Please help them to find the money to have a wonderful time on their honeymoon. Thank You, Lord.

Sharyn

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Lord, Let Me Be On Fire For You!

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**The soil is the word and you are the tree.
Don't unroot yourself out of the good soil.
Stay planted in the word of God!**

Lord thank You for Janet and Pete. Praise You for their union at which You are the core. Bless them in all they do. Give them the blessings of Deut. 28. Continue to use them both, together and separately, as witnesses and prayer warriors for You. In Jesus Name. Amen! Are you out West yet, Janet?

KJV Genesis 24:63 ...Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her....

KJV Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

KJV Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 9 ... Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb....

KJV Revelation 21:2 ...I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

KJV 2 Corinthians 11:2 ...I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

KJV Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

KJV Jude (1:)20 ...Building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

KJV Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 33 ...Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.




....When you marry limited resources with unbridled ambition, you are going to need creativity. And that principle had a lot to do with our wedding planning.
I proposed to Gina after a lifetime of knowing her and a short three months of proper courtship....
....The marriage is king, we decided, and the wedding is not. The wedding has value only insofar as it serves the marriage. So it would be foolish to major on the wedding when the marriage is what really matters.
Because a wedding is a sacred occasion, the quality that matters in a wedding has nothing to do with the cake but with the spiritual meaning of the occasion. A marriage mirrors the relationship of our Savior to the Church, and the quality of the wedding that begins that marriage will be measured more by how it glorifies him than how it honors us.
The lasting memories people carry away from significant experiences are impressions, not details. Guests are more likely to cherish memories of the sacred and worshipful nature of a wedding than they are to remember the flavor of the cake.
We are called to do everything to the best of our ability, infusing our creative expressions with reverence to the divine author of all beauty. Beauty is an expression of worship, though it is not at all the essence of worship.
We will only be wed on one day, but we will be married for life, and what we emerge with from our wedding day is more important than what we leave on that day.
Since Gina’s father is a college professor, we knew he was not made of money, and we expected to pick up some of the wedding tab. After several family members from both sides offered to chip in, we ended up with about $5,000 to spend. (The National Association of Certified Wedding Coordinators estimates that the average wedding in the Southeast costs $17,517.) If money was tight, so was time—countless friends, a few of whom could have been Certified Wedding Coordinators themselves, had assured us that weddings took at least nine months to plan, and we had three.
So we got creative. First we composed a list of people who might have handy professional skills. Then we composed a list of things our friends and extended family might be able to contribute—say, a wedding dress. Along the way we made some decisions about what to focus on. We skimped on the cake, but we sprang for a top-notch floral designer. We passed on videography but hired a great photographer—we’d never watch the videotape, but pictures would sit on our mantle for years to come, and we guessed that our (future) kids would want to look at an album of our wedding.
Family connections were key to our success. My sister Katie was exactly the same size as Gina and had married only a year earlier. Her dress was not an old closet stuffer from Aunt Thelma’s house—it was a lovely, minimal, natural dress that was not overly formal and fit the summer bill perfectly. My lifelong neighbor (and church elder) is a professional wedding photographer. My uncle is an ordained minister, as is Gina’s dad. We drew on their talents. I am a graphic designer and another one of our church’s elders was a printer, so the invitations and the programs were a snap. We saved heaps of cash by avoiding prefab and pricey invitations. Much of the wedding set used to embellish the church setting came from our home, furniture that I had designed and constructed. The remainder of the stage set I fabricated out of finished steel, just four days before the event. The planning flew by, with neither fights nor massive outlays of cash.
We are both design modernists, with no taste for the busy, the frivolously ornamental, the, well, pretentious—so we knew the food and the music would be the biggest challenges. With the music, the battle was over before it had even begun—I called the symphony in search of an oboist and ended up finding a trio who understood exactly what we were looking for. I found our caterers by calling the most bearable name in the Yellow Pages. Fortunately they were willing to accommodate our vegetarian convictions and lack of interest in lavish meats. Gina, an accomplished culinary artisan, put the menu together in one sitting with the aid of her in-laws-to-be. (Others we know have skipped the caterers entirely and found terrific cooks in their own family or circle of friends.)
We chose clothes that would have lasting value. I bought a fine suit that I wear often to this day. I had my groomsmen pick up some handsome, black, casual Perry Ellis suits for less than the cost of a tux rental—which were added to their own closets after the wedding. The bridesmaids wore summer blue dresses that they could wear out or on Easter Sunday in the years ahead.
In the end, everything worked together like a brand new Japanese car. But the miraculous infusion of the Holy Spirit we experienced went far beyond anything we could have planned. We received heartfelt thank-you letters from family and friends for months afterward, testifying to the lives that were changed, relationships reconciled, and seeds of faith planted during a few amazing hours. We had set this day apart for Jesus, and he blessed it with his presence.
Not every couple will be as fortunate as we were, or as well connected to generous and capable friends and family. But our own experience has convinced us that the wedding day can be a tremendous experience—without months of agony in advance. Focus upon pleasing God, not yourself, constantly examine your priorities, and be creative—the amount of money you spend won’t matter a bit, and the event will embody what was in your heart all along.

April 1, 2002, re:generation quarterly, ctlibrary(com)

Frank and Gina May live on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
He is the president of One International, a design and technology firm.


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Congratulations!

May the commanded Blessings of the Lord be upon you and your future house!

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Hey everybody! I can't thank you enough for all of your awesome supportive prayers! I'm speechless! Thank you so much Lisa, Christy, Sharon, Nessa, youngip, and Carol! I agree with you youngip, about the wedding being more focused on the union before God with the emphasis being more on the marriage. I'll have to remind Dolly not to get too carried away with the extra stuff! God Bless You All! {{{HUGS}}}


Your sister in Christ

Janet

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Congraduations.....Lord Father Please Bless this union in Jesus' Name

Chris
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Be blessed, and congratulations!!!
We thank God because he is worthy
and he is good. We give Him all the Praise
and all the Glory!!!!

Be Joyful, all ye Saints, today!!!!

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But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 51: 15

Praise Be The Name of Our God, Jehovah, Who Hears Our Every Prayer!

Yes, whatever you do, keep the costs down! My Sister-in-law managed to have a wedding for about $200. No caterer, borrowed dress, homemade breide's maid dresses, married in parents yard (they lived on a lake then) and so on.... They didn't have a band, just recoreded music. Hey, it's not as nice, but it sure can cut costs. Of course, her wedding was a number of years ago, now, so.... even she might spend more today. I think her brother made the video and took the pictures (very gifted). They had a reception back in our state for the people who couldn't travel to Montana, so that added some cost, too. Not sure how much.

Congratulations! This is such a blessing for you! I am praying for you, as always, and for your marriage to be turly honorning to God.

David's bidal is offering $99 wedding dresses, right now, I just saw on TV today.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2005

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Hey Jerina! I thank you for your awesome support. Actually the wedding we are planning will be simular to the one you are recommending. Dolly has already recommended getting a wedding dress from David's Bridal. She knows her stuff. Dolly plans to rent me a vacation house on the Chesapeake Bay for a couple of nights. We will be having the wedding in the back yard of that house. Dolly will be cooking the food. Her good friend's mother, who is a wedding professional has agreed to put together some aspects of my wedding for a fraction of her normal cost. We still need to find a photographer. Unfourunately, Dolly's cousin's friend is unavailable in May. Dolly said if we can't find a friend to do it, it would cost $400 to go to a photographer direct! Then we would go $250 overbudget, and in that event, and Pete will not cough up the additional funds. So I am really depending on God to help Dolly find a friend of Dolly's family somewhere to do the photos for only $150. I have been pleading to God for his mercy in this department as he has had in every other. I know God has everything under control. I choose to believe that he has everything taken care of and covered and worked out. God knows the particulars that must be done to keep the wedding under $2000 and still have all of the fundamentals. We will be playing 80s tunes during the reception. I don't need a band. Please keep praying! God Bless You!


Your sister in Christ

Janet

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