“We Loved Everything”
I was serving at my local church, Soul Purpose Church, for over nine years. Josue came to the church one day because he had heard some Christian music on the radio which he liked and then heard the same song coming from the church. I was the one welcoming people that day. A year later he asked me to have some coffee and from there it just grew. We started dating and then we were married in four months!
Every year Josue would have a Memorial Day barbecue with his family and at the first one I attended, I met the kids and the sisters. We had a really good time and then his sisters had me join in a favorite game. While I was playing it, I turned around and Josue was on his knee, with my favorite cake (velvet) that said, “Will you marry me?”
I don’t really like attention, so I couldn’t react right away and I was kind of shocked about what was going on. But of course I said yes. We took a lot of pictures. It was very special, and I said, “You should have given me some kind of clue!” He said, “If I did, you would have known!”
We went online looking for venues. The ones in our area seemed overly expensive for what they were offering. When we visited Birchwood Manor, driving up and seeing their big white gates, I said, “Beautiful!” Josue saw my reaction and said, “This is it, “ I loved everything. We worked with Michael Marino III. He was awesome. He comes from a family that walks the same walk we do. There was even a beautiful scripture from the bible on one of the oldest pictures he had from his grandmother. To us, it was further confirmation. He knew what we wanted and communicated with us about everything.
“We went online looking for venues. The ones in our area seemed overly expensive for what they were offering. When we visited Birchwood Manor, driving up and seeing their big white gates, I said, ‘Beautiful!’ Josue saw my reaction and said, ‘This is it.’
