Driving down the 405 freeway yesterday, I experienced what is most common on the streets and highways of Los Angeles: midday traffic.  But I also had a new experience; one I will not soon forget.  

Out the corner of my eye, I saw a large black Mercedes with a young African-American girl sitting to the far right-side of the back seat.  She caught my eye because she sat slouched with her head down, almost as if she wished she could simply disappear.  Black jacket hood covering most of her face, although it was not cold outside.

As I pulled up a little more, I could see why this young girl was fading quickly into the backdrop in the scene of this car.  Assumedly, her parents, sat in the front seat.  Dad behind the wheel while mom sat in the passenger seat yelling and waving her index finger…at her Dad.  

Both took turns yelling and pointing their index fingers at each other.  And every second that passed by, I watched the girl shrink more and more.  I wanted to pull up on the side, roll down my window and say (in a not-so-gentle way), “Really, you can’t figure out a better way to communicate in front of this young girl?!?  You are the adults here, right?”  But I never slowed down.  

My heart was saddened.  I felt for the little girl as my lane began to outpace theirs and I continued on my journey.  As I write this post a day later, I still feel for her.  The tears she must cry in the dark of night when no one is around.  The poor communication skills she’s learning that will undoubtedly find their way into her classroom, friendships, relationships and later in life, in the workplace and her own marriage.

We wonder how kids can be so violent.  We trivialize their inability to control rage. Well, they’re learning it from somewhere and I hate to be the bearer of reality…it’s not all coming from the television screen.

Question: If you happened to be seated in the backseat of that car when this argument broke out and were given an opportunity to speak into the lives of those parents, what would you say?  And how would you say it?

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

Last week, I wrote a blog post on changing the conversation about marriage around the world and asked each of you to join me in being that one voice in your group of friends who refuses to “husband bash” or speak poorly about marriage.  I asked you to commit to being the one to elevate the conversation.

That blog post received close to 2,000 views and we had hundreds and hundreds of women join this Club that day.  The message resonated.  It struck home.  And I’m so glad it did.

Our words are powerful.  Every word that flows from our mouth contains the power to grant life or death.  We can speak life into our marriage.  We can speak life into our friend’s marriage.  We can speak life into every leaving creature simply by parting our lips and allowing an audible and understandable sound to depart.

What so many of you promised last week is that you’d elevate the conversation in your core group of girlfriends.  Among your family members, you would build your husband up and speak well of marriage.  You didn’t say you wouldn’t face challenges in your life, you simply committed not to dwell on them.  You’d focus on the positive and view marriage through the lens of gratitude and grace.

I consider it a blessing and honor to be a member of this Club.  And I’m so grateful to each of you for making the choice to change the conversation and elevate the discussion about marriage around the word.

Question: So, are you in?  Will you help us elevate the conversation about marriage in your immediate group of friends and family?

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

Hands down, the best concert we’ve ever attended.  No set design.  No background singers.  No band.  No dancers.  Just Garth, his acoustic guitar and a concert performance that ranks somewhere around “brilliant.”  Keith held my hand the entire time and I could not have asked for a more wonderful night.  It just doesn’t get any better than this.

Question: What is your favorite concert memory?

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” -Dave Meurer

I love this quote. I read it for the first time last week on someone’s Facebook page and immediately thought about how perfectly it described my marriage.  Keith and I are incredibly different.  I am easily amused and if you’re around me for longer than 20 minutes, you’ll probably hear me laugh out loud at least 3 times.  I’ve worked on adding a filter to my conversation over the years but I pretty much just shoot from the hip.  I’m completely open about our marriage and my life overall.  

What I’ve just described about myself is the polar opposite of Keith.  Although he loves this Club and celebrates its purpose, he’s an incredibly private person.  He’s probably one of the only people still not on Facebook or Twitter and he refuses to go anywhere near it.  So many of the topics I discuss on this blog takes him pretty far out of his comfort zone.

He carefully crafts any statement that leaves his mouth and he does his best to take everyone’s feelings into account before speaking or making a decision.  He’s completely open and honest with me but that’s only because he trusts me deeply.  He is a guarded person in all other regards.

We are extremely different.  But that’s what makes our relationship so wonderful.  Just knowing him has made me a better person.  He inspires me to be a kinder, gentler, more loving and humble person each day.  And If you spoke with him, he’d say the same thing about me.

We are no different from every other couple who must learn to communicate in their spouse’s language.  We challenge each other.  We strengthen each other.  We celebrate our differences because we know we are exactly as God created us, a million quirks and all.  We respect each other immensely and it’s our differences, not our similarities, that cause us to rise a little more each day to be the person God has called us to be.

I am grateful for my husband.  I am grateful for our differences.  I am grateful for you, our readers, who continue to join us on this wonderful journey in life as we learn to speak, live and act in love first.

Question: Which of your husband’s differences do you respect most?  What is something he does naturally – different from what you do – that has inspired you to grow and become a better person?

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

In November, when I went to Las Vegas, it was under very different circumstances.  This time, it’s not because my husband’s flight was rerouted there at the last minute (thank goodness!).  It’s because I’m going to see my favorite entertainer of all time: Garth Brooks!

Keith always jokes about our first conversations over the telephone almost 9 years ago when we were getting to know each other.  He wanted to know about my favorite music.  As an African-American woman, born and raised in Los Angeles, he had an idea of what my favorite music might be.  And he was dead wrong.  I’m a die-hard country music fan (yes, the kind who watches the ACM Awards and dreams of sitting in the front row of the CMA Awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN).

And if you followed my American Idol voting frenzy last season, you know I watched the show live every week for the first time since it debuted 10 years ago and voted for country crooner Scotty McCreery as many times as my hone would allow.  I actually sat through commercials for that kid!

As much as I love country music, that’s how much Keith hated it.  When we first met, he loved every kind of music, and I mean every single kind…except country.  I was determined to make him a fan.  

One-by-one I began playing him my favorite songs: I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack, I Could Not Ask for More by Sarah Evans, The Dance and Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks, It’s Your Love by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw and the list goes on and on.  None were a hit.

Finally, in a last ditch effort to make the hubby a country fan, I played Real Good Man by Tim McGraw.  And it was a hit!  After that song, he began falling in love with the entire Best of Tim McGraw compilation and country music finally had a new fan.  When he proposed to me, overlooking the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, he did so while playing a CD of my favorite country songs .

So this weekend, in his never-ending expressions of love, he’s taking me to see Garth Brooks.  I’ve been trying to get tickets for at least a year but each time I tried, within a few minutes of them going on presale, the good seats would always be taken.  But four months ago, it finally happened.  I was able to get great seats for this weekend!

We’re going with another couple, good friends of ours, and Keith will be taking me to my third country music concert.  He took me to see Shania Twain at Staples Center almost 8 years ago and then to see  Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at the same venue 3 years later.  Now, he’s going with me to see Garth Brooks in a small theatre singing acappella with nothing but his voice and a guitar.  

Now, that’s love what I call love…

Question: What do you have going on this weekend?  What are you looking forward to doing with the family?  Share it with us here in the comment section below.

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

One of the things I love most about the New Year is we are given another opportunity to create the life we most desire; our best life.  There is nothing mystical or magical that occurs between 11:59pm on December 31st and 12:01am on January 1st.  But somehow, everything just feels different.  We determine within ourselves (whether through written resolutions or verbal confirmation) to do a few things a little different.

Well, I’d like to challenge you to do something with me for most of the remaining days of January.  They say it takes 21 days to create a new habit and there’s one good habit I’d like to make a part of my inner being.  So I’m kicking off a new challenge for myself beginning this morning (feel free to join me)  and by the end of this month I pray it will have become a permanent habit in my life.

I’ve mentioned this Proverb before but it’s worth repeating: “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.”  I truly believe this.  In every area of our life, we can speak life or we can speak death.  Our positive thoughts and words attract light.  We have all been given the power to change our lives for the better or for the worse.  And what we say, do and believe plays a major role in that change.

So here’s the first half of this daily challenge: Wake up every morning and spend at least 60 seconds saying thanks and listing all the things you are grateful for that day.  You can do this while laying in bed staring at the ceiling, making the bed, while drinking a cup of tea or coffee, eating breakfast, brushing your teeth, etc.  It doesn’t matter when you do it, as long as it’s done in conjunction with the very first thing you do in the morning.

The second half of this daily challenge is to declare (either out loud or internally) that you will focus on everything you have to be grateful for that day and will acknowledge challenges but will not dwell on them.  Your thoughts will remain focused on everything you have to be thankful for in your life.

There are many roads leading to happiness, but all of them, must at some point merge with Gratefulness.  So for the next 21 days, I will make a choice at the beginning of each day to be grateful.  And before this month concludes, my hope is this daily acknowledgment will become a part of the fiber of my being.

If you feel compelled to go on this 21-day challenge too, let me know in the comments section below.  And if you’re already doing a different challenge this month, to kick off the new year, please share that one too (feel free to leave the link).  I’d love to know about all the great challenges out there.

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

I’ve never done a Question of the Week and I can’t promise this will become a weekly occurence.  But I’m loving it for this week.  One of our most faithful readers, Paula, made a thought provoking statement in the comments section of yesterday’s blog post.  It caused me to send out the following question on our Facebook and Twitter pages and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

Here’s the question: Why is it culturally acceptable (almost universally) to talk about our children’s successes in public but the same is frowned upon when celebrating one’s husband or marriage?

Please leave your thoughts below in the comment section.  I would love to hear them!

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

I just had a thought.  It’s a grand thought.  But a doable one.  When I began HWC in 2010, it was meant to be an antithesis for a world fascinated by divorce, one that seems to be okay with dysfunctional portraits of marriage being portrayed as the norm in nearly every form of media, and has made walking away from a lifetime commitment after just a few months acceptable.

It wasn’t the report by Pew Research or subsequent articles like this one in the Washington Post reminding us of the cost to society when marriages decline.  My purpose was far more simplistic.  It was the disgust I felt in the pit of my stomach every time I watched a television ad for Desperate Housewives or each time Bravo television rolled out another “Real Housewives” series which depicted the poorest of marriages as normal and turned wives into caricatures.

It came from a desire to know the marriage I’ve enjoyed all these years is not extinct.  That it’s not an anomaly.  I wanted to know I wasn’t the only one who didn’t feel like marriage was supposed to be difficult; a daily grind.  I hoped there were other women who loved marriage as much as I did and adored their husbands as much as I still do.

But yesterday morning, on the first day of the new year, I had a thought.  I shared it with Keith.  What if, in every corner of the world, there were women like me?  Women who were proud of their marriage and didn’t boast or brag about it to others but simply didn’t hide it.  In conversations when other women were male bashing, rather than shrinking back and remaining silent, spoke up about the beauty of men and the blessings of our differences.

What if one million women, around the world, decided they were going to change the conversation within their inner circles?  They wouldn’t disregard the challenges many of their girlfriends are having but would simply take the time to show the other side.  The good stuff.

I believe in the power of words.  I believe if you wake up in the morning and say you are going to have an extraordinary day, it happens.  I believe when you not only set a goal but are determined to achieve it and will not allow your mind or words to say otherwise, you will succeed.  I believe a man is exactly as he thinketh.

I’ve watched it happen right before my eyes.  Girlfriends who have loathed their marriage and had nothing positive to say about their husbands, decide to do nothing different but focus on the good.  When speaking to their girlfriends and family, they’d only share the good stuff.  I bet you can guess what happened over time.

They began to experience more of the “good stuff” until that’s almost all there was remaining.  Of course, they still have some ups and downs, but that is a natural part of life.  Every aspect of life.  But they’ve changed the most important relationship in the world, they’ve increased the bond with their partner for life, their husband.

Just one simple change: their mindset.  And with one simple adjustment: their words.  They’ve completely changed their marriage.  Every bit of it.  Can you imagine what would happen if our Club grew to 1,000,000 members who all changed the mindset of just one friend?  Who through sharing their own experience in marriage, were able to convince one friend to focus on the good?  To get them to do something I once heard said, “Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouses positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.”

In doing this, we will be changing the conversations of at least one million more women who will change the conversations of another million women and the conversations changed will be endless.  And then the stats we’ve heard for the past 25 years, some of which are quoted below, can also change.  Not just in the US, where these quotes originated, but around the globe:

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- “The effects of the decline of marriage on society are striking. The failure of parents to marry and stay married leads to more crime, poverty, mental health problems, welfare dependency, failed schools, blighted neighborhoods, bloated prisons, and higher rates of single parenting and divorce in the next generation. Nearly every major social problem has deep roots in the failure of adults to form and sustain healthy marriages.” -Bill Doherty, 2006

- “You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty – finish high school,
marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families
who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.” -William Galston, White House Administration

- “The collapse of marriage is the principal cause of child poverty in the United States. . . Overall, some 80% of long-term child poverty in the United States is found among children from broken or never-formed families.” -Robert Rector, 2003

- “The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.” -Wade Horn, 2004

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As Diane Sollee, founder of Smart Marriages once said, “They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.”

Together, let’s change the conversation.  I’m in!  We may not get to 1,000,000 wives in 2012, but with the current ongoing trend of 150-300 new women joining this Club daily, we’ll get there.  And with you continuing to spread the word, we’ll get there even faster.

So here’s my question for you: Are you in?  Will you help us change the conversation about marriage around the world?

Until tomorrow, my friends…make it a great day!

This has been a fantastic year for HWC! Earlier this week, one of my blog friends, Paula, listed her top 10 most popular blog posts of 2011.  I loved it, so I decided to borrow the idea.  The only difference is all the blog posts on this list were written within the final quarter of the year. The reason for this is the daily blog section of HWC wasn’t added until October (an exciting addition for us).  Before that time, it was an article-driven site and I only posted 1-2 articles per month.

Without further ado, here are the 10 most popular blog posts for 2011:

#10: God Bless That Man! - Ah, the adventures of learning how to cook.  My first experience with cooking for my husband took three trips to the grocery store, a mad search for a vegetable called prosciutto (I know, it’s meat…but I didn’t know that then) and a day that ended with a wonderful lamb & feta cheese lasagna but caused me to avoid the kitchen for the next 8 years. 

#9: Poem for My Husband - Excerpt from post: Marriage is what we make of it.  Our thoughts and words dictate so much of our life, (“As a man thinketh…”), and when we know that and begin to speak positive words about our marriage, life and husband, we find that what we have spoken turns out to be exactly what we have lived.

#8: I Missed! - This is one of my personal favorites because it was a huge lesson I learned in 2011.  Until this time, I thought I knew Keith’s “love language” and had been loving him based on that presumption.  It wasn’t until recently that I learned I was loving him the way I’d most like to be loved and it was time I learned how to speak his language…fluently.

#7: Simple Acronym for Marriage - Excerpt: In marriage, there is an acronym I’ve found to be the most effective in helping a couple grow in love, become more patient with each other and remove common frustrations within most relationships.  A.E.O.D: Accept Each Other’s Differences 

#6: How This Club Came to Be - Excerpt: [Keith] was laughing so hard, mainly because the thought was completely random and seemingly came out of nowhere.  He reasoned, not only was the name of the Club incredibly corny, but I also had a jam packed work schedule that barely allowed time to enjoy something as simple as a frozen yogurt.  Touché..

#5: Top 10 Marriage Blog of 2011 - Press Release: Stupendous Marriage, the online authority for marriage blog rankings, has released their 2011 list as voted by their readers. Nearly 2,000 readers cast their votes for the Top 10 Marriage Blogs on the web. Happy Wives Club claimed the #2 spot.

#4: Project Happily Ever After - Excerpt: There are certain things we have determined to do – intentionally – every day.  So in writing this post, I thought about things my husband, Keith, and I do daily. Without fail.  To continue on our path to Happily Ever After.  And here’s our Top 5. 

#3: Making Marriage a Priority – 5 simple ways to let your hubby know he’s priority #1 no matter how busy you may be.  Excerpt: One of the questions I’ve seen come up most over the past couple weeks, as the Christmas season has kicked into high gear, is how to keep one’s marriage and relationship a priority during the busiest time of the year.  It’s tough.  I can relate.

#2: What Are You Thankful For? - Although this post wasn’t tough to write, I certainly wondered if I was revealing too much.  I am an open book when it comes to my marriage which can be tricky at times because Keith is such a private person.  He loves this Club and loves the reason it was founded so he allows me to share alot more than he’d otherwise be comfortable revealing.  In this blog post I talk about our inability to conceive and what we’ve gained from this experience.

#1: Don’t Blink - My personal favorite blog post this year.  It’s the story of how and why I went from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and back in a matter of a few hours and why I was dancing in the car like a madwoman at 4am trying to stay awake.  I love this post…but then again, I’m definitely biased.

Thank you for visiting Happy Wives Club this year.  I truly appreciate each and every one of you and hope we’ve inspired you as much as you’ve inspired us.  This will be my final blog post for 2011.  I plan to take the next few days off to simply enjoy time with my hubby but look forward to chatting with January 2nd.

Happy New Year and as always…make it a great day! 

Yesterday, I celebrated eight wonderful years of marriage to my best friend, lover, chief encourager and husband.  Every day I’ve awoken since 2003, he’s inspired me to be a better friend, person and wife.  He’s accepted me just as I am, with my innumerous flaws and quirks, and never insisted I change or get better but rather simply inspires me by his unconditional love.

For those who’ve noticed I’ve not blogged much over the past week, please forgive me.  The last week of December around the Weaver household is always jam packed.  My husband is a Christmas eve baby (this year we celebrated his 40th bday), we then celebrate Christmas with family, our wedding anniversary is the 27th and then just a few days later we celebrate New Year’s eve.  That’s four holidays in just one week.  Whew!

So if you’ve been looking for my normal daily postings, I promise I’ll get back to that right after the New Year.  But something tells me we’re all so busy during this time of year, it’s possible few have noticed.

A couple days ago, Keith and I took our favorite 7-year old (our niece, Jayla) ice skating, and I wasAlthough I’m nearly 30 years her senior she teaches me so much. reminded of how amazed I am that I get the opportunity to inspire people daily through this Club.  I’d not been on the ice in at least 20 years so I wasn’t sure if I’d even remember how to stay upright.  Jayla had gone ice skating a few weeks prior for a friend’s birthday party so she was feeling pretty confident.  That was, until we hit the ice.

The first 10 or so times around the ice, I was watching others who skated slightly better than us (most people were wobbling around trying to figure out how to skate and many kept finding themselves sliding across the ice on their buttocks).  After watching the moves of those managing to stay on their feet, I felt myself becoming more and more comfortable.  Enough so, that I stopped gripping the outer ice rink wall with my right hand.

Jayla, on the other hand, was still getting the hang of it.  She asked that I hold her hand and we’d just skate together until she became comfortable.  Around the 10th or 11th lap around the rink, she was ready to let go of my hand and skate on her own.  But she wanted me to stay close by just in case she fell.

Near the 17th or 18th lap around the rink, she was feeling good and no longer needed me to stand watch.  As I skated 6 or 7 feet behind her, I saw her begin going up to others who were struggling to skate asking them, “Would you like me to help you skate?”  This was a 7-year old who’d just remembered how to skate herself, and she was now offering her help to kids twice her age.

At one point, as she began to feel more confident, she saw a few people take a tumble on the ice andJayla on her own with Auntie Fawn well into the backdrop. commented, “I don’t think many of these people know how to skate.  They just keep falling.”  Watching as her confidence increased so quickly made me chuckle a bit inside.  She was offering to help while she was still learning herself.

I immediately began thinking about this Club.  I’m a marriage advocate, not a counselor.  I distnguish the two greatly because a marriage advocate inspires and encourages, a counselor counsels.  I am inspired by this Club as much as I hope to inspire.  Many of the things I do daily in my marriage I’ve learned from members of this Club.

Each and every day, you inspire me.  You encourage me to be the best wife I can be to my husband and you inspire me to love without limits.  My goal is to encourage you to inspire others through your love for marriage and your husband.  When you’re sitting among a group of women who begin husband-bashing, my hope is it will be your voice that rises above that situation and turns the discussion positive.  It only takes one person to completely change the course of a converstion. 

So today, as I’m thinking of the past 8 years with my husband, the ice skating excursion with my niece, and this Club, I am incredibly grateful for all three.  You have taught me so much.  Not that your intention was to teach, but my objective was to learn and thus the two go hand-in-hand.  So thank you for inspiring me as I hope to inspire you.

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

It’s Christmas morning and I don’t know that anyone will read this blog today other than me so I’ll keep it short.  Yesterday, we celebrated Keith’s 40th birthday and today I woke up so grateful for all that has happened in our lives in the past year.

I didn’t grow up exchanging presents at Christmas time and we’ve continued that tradition in our own family.  But I did grow up being reminded every Christmas of why we are here and how love should precede and dictate every action in our life.

Love is the precise reason this Club was founded and why I continue to make the time to blog no matter how hectic my schedule gets.  This is a place for each of you to share your thoughts, hopes, and love for your husbands.  There are few places where we can feel safe to simply speak kindly and excitedly about love, marriage and our hubbies.  

Know that this will always be a safe place to do that.  So go ahead, brag about the love you have, the wonderful husband you’ve been blessed with and your lovely marriage.  We enjoy hearing about it so brag on, my friend, brag on.  Most of us do this on the Happy Wives Club Facebook page so feel free to join us there, as well.

Question: What do you like to do each year on December 25th?  What are your family traditions?

With love on this beautiful day,

P.S. Here are some pics from the past couple days.  Christmas in Los Angeles sure looks different than most places in the US.

Standing in my driveway this morning, this is what it looked like: Clear blue skies, sunny, and our country flag just waiting for a little wind to blow so it can wave to all those who pass by.

Seizing the moment to relax.  Sipping homemade apple cider while feeling the flames of this fire and typing on my computer.  This is a beautiful Christmas morning.

This is a photo my sister’s friend took from his office, 15 minutes from our home, two days ago.

Earlier this week, Keith and I had the pleasure of attending our first Tuesday wedding.  Have you ever been to a mid-week wedding?  It was our first and we had an absolute blast (they even had cotton candy at the dessert bar).  

The bride is the daughter of a Happy Wives Club member I met last year when interviewing her for the Sage Wisdom column of this site (see interview here).  We discovered we lived only minutes from each other and instantly knew we were kindred spirits.  Our families have since become wonderful friends and we couldn’t have been more delighted to support this beautiful bride and her handsome husband at the start of their new journey.  

After returning from the wedding, I posted on our Facebook fan page and on Twitter the following question, “I attended a fantastic wedding last night. If given the opportunity to give your best piece of advice to a woman on her wedding day, summed up into one sentence or phrase, what would it be?”  

There were so many wonderful answers I wanted to share a few of them with you:

1. “Complete honesty, trust, respect and support by both of you.” -Paula Swanson

2. “Never let the sun go down on your anger.” -Janette Smith

3. “Never disrespect your husband. Never put him down to anyone, especially your children. Build him up and appreciate him.” -Eve Aguilar McNamee

4. “Remember that just because you CAN say something, doesn’t mean you should, and be generous with one another always in all ways.” -Barbara Brooks O’Rourke 

5. “You don’t have to be right. You can’t take back what comes out of your mouth, so guard your mouth. He will NEVER be perfect, it’s impossible, and neither can you, so don’t expect him to be.”-Annett Davis

6. “Don’t strive to be right all the time, because you can easily be right…by yourself.” -Twitter @KVuli

7. “Communication is key. Talking will save you from a lot of misunderstandings. Cold shoulders dont work!” -Twitter @TendayiKunaka

8. “You know each other aren’t perfect, but you are perfect for each other!! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!” -Heather Robinson

9. “Be grateful for everything your man does for you, and let go the things he doesn’t.  Great happiness can come from enjoying the blessings you get! And great sorrow comes from dwelling on the things you didn’t get.  Just enjoy every moment you have with him!” -Ginger McKinley

10. “Keep the fire burning. If you get distracted for too long there is always something to put out the flames.” - Kasey

Question: Which of the responses above were your favorite?  And if given the opportunity to give your best piece of advice to a woman on her wedding day, summed up into one sentence or phrase, what would it be?

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!