saundra820's biography
Once I figure out how to get the pictures I saved into the bio area, I will pull the thumbprint in photos section here. Mike and I love Jeff Dunham and SNL, especially Chris. He is good at imitating both Jeff and Chris. When I am sad about my father's passing, we either watch one of their movies or he mimics their voices. It always brings a smile to my face. The funny thing is... I said I wanted to marry someone like Chris. I found him, minus the addiction problems. Mike is big like Chris, but more solid like a wrestler. All of Mike's buddies call him big guy! I am so glad God put Mike into my life! He is an angel to me...my shelter in the storm. This man honor the scripture, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."
My bridal shower was on April 25th, 2009 at my church. I got at lot of stuff of my registry. My future mother in law made carrot cake for me. It started at 3pm and ended at 5pm. It was good to be around so many people that care for me. I have been running around like crazy going back and forth to Corcord, CA to San Jose, Ca. It was nice to take some time just for me to be pampered.
www.mygowns.com &nb sp; www.weddingmountain.com
White and Riviera Sky Trim Style 1797 Alfred Angelo www.alfredangelo.com
I am going to add silky straps to make it halter style pictured. I will use my grandmother's broach.
The broach is blue topaz with silver ribbon embellishments!
I will put it in the center/blue portion of bodice.
www.lovesbridaljewelry.com N1031XS (necklace) E1601XS (earrings)
www.weddingchannelstore.com (rhinestone headband)
Reception starts at 5pm in the atrium with appetizers and one hour free open bar. Then we enter ballroom at 6pm-11pm. They provide cake from Bijan bakery and ice sculpture of a heart and two doves that has a lite base.
There will be three votives with orchids in between each candle. Then toasting glasses in center. Then three more votives with orchids in between each candle on head table. The remember candle/flower arrangements will go at each end, behind organza bows.
There will be an ivy garland with organza bows on each side.
The orchids cool water lavender roses
My Favors will be at each place setting. 7 Lavender Jordan Almonds in white 3x4 organza bag with double heart silver charms.
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
Ceremony starts at 4pm. It is only 10 minutes to get to reception site. The service will last 25-30 minutes.
Alfred Angelo style 7008 style 6504 style MSKT-A Riviera Sky www.theknot.com
&nb sp; (the jewelry set)
Calvin Klein Black Super 100 Tux Bellagio Cornflower Vest and Tie Men's Wearhouse www.mwtux.com
www.houseofcanes.com Groom's Cane Groom's Top Hat
Bijan bakery will provide 4 tier butter cream cake. Bottom tier will be raspberry mouse and the second will be tiramisu, third rspberry, and top tiramisu. I will have the flowers like top left picture in between each tier. I want the heart decoration on the buttercream. There will be candles around cake with cake topper in center with tea light candle behind it. I have to angels sculptures to go on each side of cake, at the back of table.
www.weddingmountain.com Using one of these tea lights behind cake topper.
www.giftsintl.com (3x4 organza bags) www.ohnuts.com Michael's
Groomsmen Bride:Like this but with the roses below Bridesmaids (coolwater rose) (avalache, coolwater, medium pink) (coolwater rose, blue hydrangea,pink orchid) tree fern, glacier variegated ivy, misty, and phlox (Tweedia alternative)
Moms: Roses with misty and ivy and lavender ribbon. Groom: But his will have three lavender roses and phlox. (coolwater and medium pink)
Style of main arrangement with ivy and eucalyptus flowing down. The memory candle will be positioned like this. They will have casablanca lily, roses, ivy, tree fern.
Tweedia Phlox
Pink Cymbidium Orchids White Casablanca Lily mini carnation
eucalyptus
Glacier Variegated Ivy
MEANING OF FLOWERS:
White Rose: Unity, Spiritual love
Lavender Rose: Deep adoration
Pink Rose: Grace, Joy
Blue Hydrangea: Thank you for understanding
Ivy: Fidelity, I'm intoxicated by your love.
White Lily: Purity, It's heavenly to be with you.
Phlox: Our souls are united.
Carnation: joy, devoted love
Orchid: love, luxury, beauty, strength, thoughtful, affection, understanding
Eucalyptus: protection
Fern: confidence and shelter, sincerity
Misty(Caspia): I will be there through the storms in life.
Tweedia: Euphoric love
I will use Tweedia if Phlox is not available in blue at the time of my wedding.
Card Box Save The Date Card Bulletin for Ceremony
Invitations
Primary color is blue and accents colors are lavender and pink. I will be wearing white, instead of ivory.
I got this information of of PW: What Your wedding colors say about you.
Blue: Soothing, compassionate and cool, blue is the color of tranquaility and royalty. They are deliberate, introspective, patient, tending to be sensitive and wise. Serene and cool, blue denotes cautious partners who are fithful but require a calm and harmonious existence.
Purple: Symbolizes dignity, tolerance and value, royalty and luxury, witty. Tend to be unconventional and observant with multifaceted personality.
Pink: Represents a sensitive heart that is affectionate and nuturing. They have a maternal grace and compassion and desire for protection or shelter.
White: Denotes a fresh start for those who seek serenity and peace. Seek excellence and enlightment, as simplicity and recognition are constant ventures.
Santa Cruz, CA Lost Boys the movie was filmed here.
Alum Rock Park I am taking my engagement pictures here.
San Jose Sharks Hockey Stadium
Winchester Mystery House
Mike and I met on eHarmony. We first matched on February 11, 2008. We went out on a date February 15, 2008. We hit it off immediately. Our first date was a game of miniture golf then to the movies. That date went so well, we decided to go out the very next day, and so on and so on. By chance, Mike's cousin went to the same high school as me. She is one year ahead of me. When I first saw his bio, I thought he is cute, but saw he was a DJ and thought, "I wonder if he gets hit on a lot." "What the hell, take the risk...he looks like a lot of fun". I loved that he worked with youth sports, especially kids with challenges. He had such a great demeanor that I told him even if we didn't end up getting married some day, I knew I wanted to be his friend for the rest of my life. This was a few weeks into our dating relationship.
The reason I joined eHarmony was to honor my father wishes. He had a stroke August 14th, 2007. Was in a comma for 6 weeks and was starting to get better. He was still in the hospital when I joined in October 2007. It was a nice escape to deal with the pain of my father's recovery. I matched with a lot of people, but Mike was different. My dad was released from the hospital February 14th, 2008. We homecared him until he passed on September 28th, 2008. My dad really liked Mike and was so happy for me. He couldn't walk and we had to stomach feed him with a tube. My dad was so excited that at times he would try to wiggle out of bed. I would say, "where are you going?" He would say,"I got to go to work, because you are getting married." I would tell him, "thank you, but you need to focus on your recovery." I originally planned to get married summer of 2010, but my dad's hopes were lingering. I asked him if I set it for 2009, even if I had to wheel him down the aisle with me, would he fight. He said yes! His stomach stopped digesting in September, but the ball was in motion. My dad would what me to go on with my plans, since I had to reserve the reception site a year in advance anyways. Plus since I am 38 years old...the clock is ticking.
I know all this sounds fast, but my father knew he wanted to marry my mom on the third date. They got married three months after they met on July 20th, 1963. No kids until 5 years later. My dad considered my mom his best friend. I feel the same about Mike.
Mike's dad passed a few years before my dad. They happen to be buried at the same military cemetery as well. Mike's parent's got married July 5th. I decided to meet in the middle and chose July 11th. Mary(MIke's) mom says that my dad was a lot like Mike's dad(Steve). It was definately fate in my book. Mike has every quality I ever wanted or needed in a man. Even those little "I hope" dreams I mumbled in my mind to God in gest, Mike has. God truely wants to give you the desires of your heart! He also knows how much I love mushie girlie love stories of love at first sight. God has truely blessed me. I am at PEACE!
Ryan Willis is out of Los Gatos, CA. He will go anywhere. He did a wedding in Fiji once. I have him for eight hours. Most of my pictures will be taken at the Embassy Suites Hotel, prior to the wedding. My package includes him, his wife, and assistant photographer. I get two 11x14 prints and two 8x10 prints, proof album, 24 page custom-designed, magazine style 10x10 album with up to 55 images, and all digital files (approx. 600-800 images). Plus I get one hour engagement session free with package. He likes to get to know the couple and what angles looks best with each person. $4,600 in total. Thanks Mom!`www.RyanWphoto.com 14010 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032 408-358-8550
It is 6:30 in the morning the day of my wedding. I was stressed yesterday to tears. Nothing a few margaritas wont cure. Everything is in place! I look forward to spending the rest of my life with Michael. He is truly a blessing to me. My fears are gone. I wish you all love and happiness. Be blessed!
Saundra
Mom's entrance: In better hands-Natalie Grant
Bridesmaids: In my life-Beatles
Bride: You needed me-Anne Murray
Unity Candle: When God made you-Newsong & Natalie Grant
Exit: Feels like home to me-Chantel Kreviazuk
First lesson: Ephesians 3:14-19(New Living Translation)
When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of eveything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Second lesson: 1 Corinthians 13;3-10(The Message)
If I give everthing I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm backrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn'tforce itself on others,
Isn't always 'me first,'
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back, but keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; parying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
Gospel: John 17:20-23(The Message)
I'm praying not only for them but for those who will believe in me, because of them and thier witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind- just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. The same glory you gave me, I gave them, so they'll be unified and together as we are - I in them and you in me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, and give the godless world evidence that you've sent me loved them in the same way you've loved me.
Homily(sermon):
David's love for Jonathan leads him to search out Jonathan's lame son, Mephibosheth, to bring him to the banqueting table, and to restore King Saul's land to him - acceptance and inclusion -brokeness overcome.
We have no control over what life deals us. We "come as we are" into each new relationship. And it is our task and responsiblity, as well as our joy, to accept and include others in our lives. In marriage that acceptance and inclusion go far deeper than anywhere else in life, than in any other relationship. That's why marriage is often called the laboratory of relationships. It is in marriage that relationships are stretched, strained, pulled, prodded, pushed to limits unimaginable. But this is where we have made a commitment to last, to stay. This is to be the safe place for growing in the skills and gifts of relationship.
It's where 1 Corithians 13 works its way out in our lives...It's where we begin to comprehend the unity the Father shares with the Son, which Jesus prays his disciples might experience with one another...
It's where we begin on the road of discovering the height and width and length and depth of God's great love for us..."experiencing the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully."
Blessing of the hands:
Saundra, pleasea hold Mike's hands, palms up, so that you may see the gift that they are to you. These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, for lifetime of happiness. These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow and tears of joy. These are the ahnds that will comfort you in illness and hold you when fear or grief fills you. These are the hands that will give support and celebrate with you in your accomplishments.
Mike, please hold Saundra's hands, palms up, so that you may see the gifts that they are to you. These are the hands that will hold tight as you struggle through difficult times. These are the hands that will comfort you when you are sick or console you when you are grieving. These are the ahnds that will passionately love you through the years, for a lifetime of happiness. These are the hands that will give you support as she encourages you to fulfill your dreams.
Our prayer for you today is that both of you will use these hands to build a marriage where all your dreams come true. Let us pray. Lord, bless this marriage, as Mike and Saundra begin their journey down the road of life together. May they respact each other's likes and dislikes, opinions and beliefs, hopes, and dreams, and fears even though they may not always understand each other. May they rest in the knowledge that no matter what happens, by holding on to each other, things will work out for the best in Jesus name. Amen
Vows:
I, Saundra, take you, Mike, to be my husband, and these things I promise you: I will be faithful to you and honest with you; I will respect, trust, help and care for you. I will laugh and cry with you, in whatever endeavors we choose to embark on; I will forgive you as I have been forgiven; I will try to better understand ourselves, the world, and God: and look forward to spending the rest of my life with you.
First Dance: Could I have this dance-Anne Murray
Parent's: A song for mama-Boyz II Men
Wedding party: Beautiful life-Ace of Base
Bouquet toss: Any man of mine-Shania Twain
Garter Toss: Pride and Joy-Stevie Ray Vaughn
Last Dance: I could not ask for more-Edwin McCain
I wanted to let the women know that even if you don't loss the weight...it's okay. I had a lovely wedding and my husband fell in love with me big and I still felt beautiful on my wedding day. He didn't care if I lost a pound...all that matters is that you love each other. Bless you all who have found love as a voluptuous woman.
I found this on my facebook account. Happy Thanksgiving and wish you all the best.
...that a successful relationship requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Always with the same person, but deeper and deeper every time. Each time on a whole new level...together you open in love and discover the truth of your beloved anew. There is no limit to the beauty of your beloved. If you think you've reached the end, stop generilizing.
Go to IN GOD WE TRUST to get daily messages on facebook.
There have been some ups and downs, but I am happy with who I married. He truly loves me.
With you my mind can rest!
www.weddingaccessories.net www.zazzle.com
kissing menu I'll make up my own
Galaxy Blue Orchid Hibiscus in purple and green
www.dellables.com bali hai package
&nb sp; fondant color dark lilac
This was Lena and Noel 2010 wedding Honua Kai Lani Estate, Hi. They have more locations to choose from. Sometimes there are computer problems so call.
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$65 for each bench $6000 luxury tent package
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Low cost then having someone do them for you.
I personally know this woman and she is awesome.
Songs to play during fireworks display:
1)That's what friends are for
2)Because you loved me
3)I had the time of my life
4)Celebrate
To my true friends who gave me my last breath when spiritually I had none left. You are my light in the darkness. I came out of my cocoon to soar like a butterfly because you loved me the best you knew how.
If you belive they will come. I will return back to this from time to time but for now, my dream is in seed form. Who knows what tomorrow brings, but the dream helps me to believe and have hope for tomorrow.
Haggai 2:9 "The later glory of this house will be greater than the former."
Everyday I fall more and more in love with you.
Couples to hold hands and kiss after that blessing.
In honor of our love for movies.
Clicking the glass is a not, you have to work extra hard...
My Funny Valentine: Share a funny story involving both you and either the bride and groom.
Braveheart: Demonstrate a kiss for the bride and groom to copy.
French Connection: Share time honored advice.
P.S I Love You: Recite a proverb about any religion or philosophy.
blue moon rose Basil flower spike lavender
sterling rose
Pictures from original wedding with candles and guestbook and sign.
Try on flower for size.
