by J. Groff
Summertime is made for celebrations and family gatherings but there is just something special about a July wedding.
There have been 3 wedding celebrations in the past 3 days! MashaAllah I LOVE WEDDINGS!!! I can not express the beauty and joy of witnessing a bride celebrate one of the most special days of her life. It’s a heartwarming experience and it always brings back lovely memories and joy of every wedding I have attended.
My love affair with weddings officially began at age 6. My mom’s best friend was getting married and I wore a pink miniature cinderella wedding dress. It had little pink roses on the sash around the waist and down the front. Sewn into the hem were small bells that softly tinkled as I swished and danced around and around. If you ask me what my auntie was wearing that day I honestly could not tell you because on that day, in my mind, I was the bride.
Since then I have been swept off my feet by every love story-romantic-wedding movie there has been. Off the top of my head some of my favorites were: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, The Sound of Music (nice wedding scene at the end), The Best Man, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Best Friend’s Wedding, and my favorite to date -27 Dresses (who in their right mind could resist being in 27 weddings!!! ooooohhhh just the thought gives me goosebumps!!)
Family, friends and neighbors all come together to celebrate and welcome the new couple. The little girl in the princess dress who dreamed of being bride has finally had her moment to shine and become the Queen Bride. Beautiful.
May Allah bless and protect the newly formed couples! Don’t you just love weddings?
Committed to a lifetime of loving weddings 
Teacher~Tamara
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You know what’s also fun? When a couple renews their vow. I think it’s even more fun just even from a design angle – what would the sister wear now versus what she wore then. By the time of the renewal, she would have lived life and come into her own more…how would that be reflected in her dress?
Something to think about, yeah?
Asalamualaykum,
My husband and I renewed our vows after being married for almost 5 yrs. Initially we basically eloped and none of our really close friends and family were there to attend the ceremony. So when we did it the second time it was a union of the two families. I found some coordinating dresses for all of my attendees on sale and the were all different designs but of the same fabric and I thought that was such a telling statement. As a family we were all cut from the same cloth just in different manners. The marriage/wedding brought us all together.
T~T
oh yeah and the colors then were cream and gold (and you know I’m trying to have another renewal ceremony!) with fall colors this time…