April | 2016 | 27 Miracles Blog

That was the headline 27 years ago when Diane and Don were married. You might be asking yourself, who is Diane and Don? Well they are a couple of lovebirds married 27 years ago of course. But all kidding aside, Diane Jenson is a Professional Wedding Planner for The Wedding Party as well as Co-Director for the Association of Bridal Consultants in Central Florida. It is not often that we get to write a story about a fellow wedding professional.

Here is a little history on the happy couple in Diane’s own words

“After seven long years of dating, Don finally proposed to me and two years later we were married. It was a beautiful day on April 22, 1989 at 4pm when we exchanged our marriage vows at Mead Gardens in Orlando. The weather was picture perfect! The headline in the Orlando Sentinel read “The day that dreams are made of.”

When you ask Diane why she became a Professional Wedding Planner she said, “I have such a heart for planning a couple’s wedding. I remember the excitement of the planning and how I wanted everything to be so perfect on our special day, This is why I can truly relate to how a bride feels as she entrusts me to help make her wedding the dream of a lifetime.”

I asked Diane about that love that she shares with Don for 27 years and how she feels about him now. Diane simply stated, “we are a very happy bride and groom who love the Lord, each other, family and friends. We have enjoyed spending these twenty-seven years together through good and challenging times. I am so thankful to God for giving me the man of my dreams. We look forward to many more happy years together. ”

What an amazing story of love to see one of our own happily married. Today from the entire team at 27 Miracles we want to wish Diane and Don a lifetime of love, happiness and romance always. Happy 27th Anniversary!!! Thank you for letting us share that special year of “27” with us.

Most recently a group of Association of Bridal Consultant Planners and students alongside other wedding professionals came together to make a terminally ill bride’s dreams come true.

Here is Diane speaking at our January meeting this year at the warehouse for A Chair Affair, where Diane coordinated the transformation of a warehouse in to a design concept for wedding professionals to learn about design concepts with Tracy and Jennifer our speakers of the evening.

But never too busy to stop and have fun at one of our other ABC meetings and test out the photo booth…”ok is this thing working? ” CLICK!!! “oops I guess we missed a shot.”

CLICK!!! “Oh my goodness be ready

“Ok we got one!”

“Now we are in business!”

So as you can see we always aim to have fun and get silly…and that is what it is all about….share your talents…find a friend in your profession in the industry that you can work with….help each other….and make dreams come true for brides and grooms!

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When Jingshu and Xingyuan decided to get married, they wanted to come to Florida from China to plan their special day. They wanted to have the time-honored traditions from China.

They started their wedding day having a traditional wedding ceremony. Jingshu looked beautiful in her wedding dress selected by Xingyuan.

There was a red carpet brought from China for the bride to walk on as she stepped out of her limousine. The red color represents a good future in China. In the Chinese tradition, the groom taking the bride from bride’s house on a red carpet will be good luck for the new couple on their wedding day. When the bride walked out of the limousine this started the tradition of the red carpet for this day.

The red carpet was also placed at the ceremony site where the bride and groom were to be married. The ceremony was translated by the best man in to Chinese. The couple’s ceremony included traditions such as lighting of the unity candle and warming of the rings.

Now that the ceremony was done, it was time for some romantic pictures in downtown celebration and on the golf course as they watched the sunset.

The happy couple returned to Celebration Golf to admire their reception decor and preapre for the fun.

After the ceremony, the bride changed in to her traditional red dress so that they can have their tea ceremony. This is the first time that the bride addresses the groom’s parents as mom and dad and the same for the groom. The tradition is that the bride serves a special blend of Chinese tea to his mother and father and the groom serves it to her mother and father. They bow at their feet as a sign of respect because they are the elders that should be respected and sought after for advice.

The bride then changed in to her party dress to enjoy the evening reception. After dinner there were many toasts with traditional wine brought from China. This was followed by the cutting of the cake. They followed the time honored tradition that they will respect each other’s faces and feed each other without smashing the cake.

The happy couple enjoyed Karaoke all night with dancing. Look at the smiles on this group of folks, enjoying the best day of this couple’s lives. There was not a language barrier here to help share in this couples wedding day. A great time was had by all…..