What's the Story Here?

Dawn of a New Beginning, originally uploaded by Tracie Taylor Photography.

Let me continue to clarify the reason for this blog. It's about the journey of getting married and being individual, waking up, being conscious, making things matter, making decisions and choices that fit with who you are and want you want.

It's not about commercial wedding planning. It's not about doing things right, following trends, following others but about following your heart. Listening to your heart, yourself, hearing yourself, becoming a person in your own right.

Everything that I choose to write about connects to those ideas. I coach people to think for themselves, trust themselves, have confidence in themselves, understand themselves and generally emerge on their wedding day with a strong sense of themselves so that they can take a whole person into their marriage.

It's also about life transition, change, rites of passage, life events and looking at the bigger picture. It's about putting heart and soul into something that has become increasingly soulless and about looking at the whole experience of getting married and planning a wedding as an opportunity to develop and grow.

And why? Because these are things that I care about. Because many people don't have the best experience possible when they get married and step into their new status in a bewildered and mildly traumatised state. It's got to be better than that. Greater than that.

I feel strongly about living in such a commercial world; a fanatical consumers society where bigger, better, faster and brighter are king and weddings are meant to be as perfect and sanitised as a Hollywood A-listers teeth. I feel bound to share my views, my ideas and experience in a way that can and may make a difference to someone else's experience and could and may change, just a little, how getting married and planning a wedding is perceived. That's what I hope, anyway.