10/04/2021
Story Time: Meet Rev. David Brown and his sweet wife Lorene - two of my dearest friends in the wedding business.
I started So Chic 14 years ago this month and then, because of the time between bookings and planning and then the wedding rolling around, my first official So Chic wedding was 13 years ago this month. Rev. Brown officiated it which is how we met and we’ve been friends ever since. I refer him to any couple I get a chance to because I know he’ll put such love and care into their wedding ceremony and do it with such joy in his heart. He officiated yesterday’s So Chic wedding (that I can’t wait to share with you!) and as always it was a day filled with love and joy.
Lorene knows I love how I can always count on her chic dress and hat combo at every wedding so she always wears a new hat and sits in the back row until I spot her and from there the day is filled with chatting and laughter and the most kindness from two of the sweetest souls you’d ever encounter.
The last 18 months of being an event planner during a pandemic when your whole job is bringing large groups of people together for milestone events has admittedly been a heartbreaking, exhausting and anxiety inducing chapter of my career. Some days I am just so weary and tired. But getting to do events for amazing people with amazing people sure helps to re-energize and re-inspire me.
Here’s part of the blessing that Rev. Brown always does and it brings me a smile every darn time - I can even recite it in my sleep and hear it in his sweet voice. I hope it brings a smile to you as well. ❤️
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it
A song's not a song 'til you sing it
Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love 'til you give it away!