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Wedding Inspiration

Our niece, Kelly, and her husband Bill, had the most beautiful wedding reception. It was filled with family and friends. The room seemed to have a heartbeat, pulsing with love and laughter. It is the inspiration for Aubrey and Todd's wedding in the eBook "Enough Kindness to Fill an Empty Heart" that I am currently writing.

Their Saginaw reception was at the historic Temple Theatre. From the theater website: The theatre known as the “Showplace of Northeastern Michigan” was facing demolition. In 2002, the family of Dr. Samuel Shaheen purchased the Temple Theatre and the adjoining three story building which includes the Grand Ballroom. After an investment of more than seven million dollars, the “Showplace of Northeastern Michigan” has been returned to her original glory.

Photos taken by Black Sheep Chic. Click to go to their website.

That evening the Grand Ballroom was filled with chandeliers, glittering table runners, a magnificent staircase, and gleaming polished wood floors which all reflected light throughout the room. Even with all the glitter, candles and chandeliers, the visible love between Kelly and Bill was the brightest part of the evening.

Aubrey and Todd's Wedding in the eBook I am working on - Enough Kindness to Fill an Empty Heart

Aubrey and Todd meet and fall in love in the book, "New Beginnings" and their wedding follows in the book, "Enough Kindness to Fill an Empty Heart." (The book will be available in 2019.) Even though these eBooks are not part of a series, I wanted Aubrey and Todd to be a minor part of my new book. Aubrey is one of my favorite characters. She is strong, loving, and faithful. She is a combination of many of my friends' best traits. I've had fun finding fashions, flowers and candlelight for the wedding on Pinterest. Links to these are found in my Board on Pinterest, Book Inspiration - Enough Kindness to Fill an Empty Heart. Click on this board to go to Pinterest.

Aubrey's dress

Annie's dress

Annie's flowers

Aubrey's flowers

Candlelit Aisle at the church

Brianna and Max Wedding in New Beginnings

"The guests were pleasantly surprised to see the bride and groom waiting to welcome them on the front steps of the Cathedral."

"Todd had come for several weekends in a row to work on the flower beds in the garden overlooking Lake Huron."

"When they arrived in Tawas, they found the backyard of the Forney cottage had been transformed into a beautiful garden reception venue. Brianna, Aubrey, Riley and Annie had spent hours going to thrift stores buying beautiful old china plates to have on the tables. They all were an assortment of sizes and colors. The tables were beautiful. Strung above the tables were the lines with hanging strings filled with flowers and three dimensional decorations."

The evening began to get dark and the LED Falling Raindrop lights set the mood.

Pink Cake Box

Whenever I need inspiration for a wedding cake I find it at the Pink Cake Box website.

The beach themed cake for

Max and Brianna

The beautiful flowered cake for

Sarah and Joseph

Elise Remembers The Wedding Song

When Elise and Everett were married a song from the trio

Peter, Paul and Mary
The Wedding Song

was included in their wedding ceremony. It was inspired by a verse in Genesis 2:24.

The words from the song she remembered were,

A man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home.

They shall travel on to where the two shall be as one.

Mrs. Emerson realizes at the Thanksgiving meal that she is filled to the brim

with love from her husband and children.

Inspiration from East Side Soup Kitchen

Webber House

Obituary Inspiration

My eyes were pulled toward this obituary in the Saginaw News. When I read the description of Rosalie I knew immediately I wanted her in "A Light Shines Forth" - after talking with her daughter and emailing her granddaughter - I was so inspired. Thank you new friends. THIS IS FROM THE OBITUARY: From homesteading the farm to owning a local eatery, she raised her children by example of frugality and superior work ethic. She could stretch a penny into the next month and could feed an army on a squirrel. (And yes, thered be seconds.) Rose was a master gardener (often times with strangers stopping to admire) and was known to sleep on a cot along the row of dill to figure out how the deer got in. A canning magician, each year would produce a family squabble over who would get the last quart of dilly beans or tomato jam. An avid outdoors and fisherwoman, she raised and sold bait, smoked and sold fish, and was known to wrestle snapping turtles (for soup, of course) into her trunk on her way to pick blueberries. She was an excellent bowler, loved liver pate and cheap whiskey, produced miles of beautifully knitted and crocheted anything (no, really...anything) and was the dog whisperer of the family. For years she refused to use a microwave and she never used credit, boasting that the only plastic she owned was her laminated AARP card. She conducted her five foot self with grace and dignity but even at 85, she could swear like a sailor and wasn't afraid to take your money at the card table (or an IOU if you didnt have it). Affectionately known as Nonnie, she will be eternally missed by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren who claim that she first hung the moon and then scattered the stars.