Dear Reader

I have compiled a list of stationery you would need for your Wedding.  Some are nice to have, but not essential.

Before the Wedding

• Wedding Invites
• Maps
• Envelopes
• Save the Date

During the Wedding

• Order of Service
• Wedding Programms
• Table Seating
• Table Numbers
• Name Cards
• Menus
• Thank you cards
• Guest Book & Pens
  

After the Wedding

• Thank you cards for gifts
• Wedding Album

Kind Regards

Minette

Graphic Designer

Artistic Bliss

The notion of “soul mates” has been around a very, very long time.
However, there are several viewpoints as to how to describe “soul mates” … even on how to spell it! Some people spell the term as a whole word, soulmate and others, including us, prefer to keep it as two words, soul mate.
Soul Mate Descriptions
Reincarnation: Some believe that a soul mate is someone with whom a person has shared other life times through reincarnation.
The soul mate could be a friend, business partner, parent, child, sibling, spouse or other family member. These soul mates can be of the same or opposite sex.
Other Half: Others believe, like the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, that a soul mate is a person’s “other half”. This concept was the basis of the movie, “The Butcher’s Wife” where the idea of “split-aparts” searching for one another was explored.
People all over the world believe that we are all searching for someone to make us whole and to share our journey of life with.
A dictionary definition is: One of two persons compatible with each other in disposition, point of view, or sensitivity. Someone for whom you have a deep affinity . A person temperamentally suited to another.
Predestination: The movie “Still Breathing” examines the thought that people are drawn together as soul mates by destiny or fate and that being with our soul mate is something we have no control over. This idea of predestination and connection even after death between soul mates was also examined in the movie “What Dreams May Come”.

Making Life Come to Life: Richard Bach describes soul mates as “A soulmate is someone who has the locks to fit our keys, and the keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we; we can be loved for who we are and for who we’re pretending to be. Each of us unveils the best part of one another. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person were safe in our paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ”
Profound Connection:Thomas Moore, in his book Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship, page xvii, describes a soul mate as “someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.”

Feeling at Ease With one Another: We don’t believe a soul mate is the ideal or one and only person in someone’s life. Our definition of soul mates is people who together want to work on making their marriage a great one. Their relationship feels like a natural fit, and although they need to work on their marriage, it is not hard to do. When soul mates first meet, there is an immediate sense of being at ease and connected.

General Belief: Most believe that soul mates can accept and love every part of the other’s personality and that life with a soul mate is easy and natural.

Soul Mate Challenges
Although you may assume that a partnership of two soul mates should be able to handle challenging times well, that may not always be the case. Just because they are in tune to one another, are each willing to take responsibility for their role in contributing to the conflict, and are both committed to making the marriage a successful one — the marriage can still fall apart if other essentials such as love, respect, and communication are missing.
Many people have probably already married their soul mates and simply don’t realize it. The danger in believing in the concept of soul mates is taking your marriage relationship for granted.

If you start looking for perfection in your spouse, or think that everything in your relationship should immediately click, and that there won’t be any problems, you are setting yourself up for a dose of heavy disillusionment.

There can be temptation to bail out of an unhappy marriage because you think your spouse isn’t your soul mate. If you think that marrying your soul mate will mean a life free from hard times and conflict, you are not facing reality.

If you think you’ve not married your soul mate, don’t just walk away from the relationship for that reason alone. Spend some time getting to know yourself a bit better first. You can’t find your soul mate if you haven’t found yourself.

You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.

The History of Wedding Invitations
By Kristyn Hammond, eHow Contributor .updated: July 14, 2010

Wedding invitations are common throughout history.
Wedding invitations notify intended guests of wedding festivities and should make a strong first impression on those receiving them. Often small and elaborately designed, these common stationary items have a long and purposeful history.

.Prehistoric Times
The earliest wedding invitations were simple declarations of intent written on Bulgarian and Peruvian cave walls. These declarations translated very simply as “Getting married. Bring meat.”

Middle Ages
Town criers announced common weddings during the middle ages, when illiteracy and the lack of printing presses made reading invitations impossible. Monks made the earliest printed invitations for the noble class.

Industrial Revolution
Thanks to the advent of the printing press and metal plate, engraving made printed wedding invitations possible during the industrial revolution. As literacy became more prevalent, printed invitations also became more practical.

Victorian Era
The first mass-produced, mailed invitations were sent during the 19th century, Victorian era. Postal services via horseback delivery became common, so invitations were sent in double envelopes for protection.

Modern Day
Today, wedding invitations come in a variety of materials, colors and sizes. They are still sent in double envelopes—a tradition set during the Victorian era. Perhaps destined to become a future tradition, strict rules of etiquette have formed around addressing invitations in modern times.

History of wedding invitations

This article presents a brief history of wedding invitations taken from wikipedia.com

The middle ages and before:

Prior to the invention of the Printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447, weddings in England were typically announced by means of a Town crier: a gentleman who would walk through the streets announcing in a loud voice the news of the day. Traditionally, anyone within earshot became part of the celebration. In the Middle Ages, illiteracy was widespread, so the practice of sending written wedding invitations emerged among the nobility. Families of means would commission monks, skilled in the art of Calligraphy, to hand-craft their notices. Such documents often carried the Coat of arms, or personal crest, of the individual and were sealed with wax.

From 1600 onward:

Despite the emergence of the printing press, the ordinary printing techniques of the time, in which ink was simply stamped onto the paper using lead type, produced too poor a result for stylish invitations. However, the tradition of announcing weddings in the newspaper did become established at this time. In 1642, the invention of metal-plate engraving (or Mezzotint) by Ludwig von Siegen brought higher-quality wedding invitations within the reach of the emerging middle class. Engraving, as the name implies, requires an artisan to “hand write” the text in reverse onto a metal plate using a carving tool, and the plate was then used to print the invitation. The resulting engraved invitations were protected from smudging by a sheet of tissue paper placed on top, which is a tradition that remains to this day. At the time, the wording of wedding invitations was more elaborate than today; typically, the name of each guest was individually printed on the invitation.

The Industrial Revolution:

Following the invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder in 1798, it became possible to produce very sharp and distinctive inking without the need for engraving. This paved the way for the emergence of a genuine mass-market in wedding invitations. Wedding invitations were still delivered by hand and on horseback, however, due to the unreliability of the nascent postal system. A ‘double envelope’ was used to protect the invitation from damage en route to its recipient. This tradition remains today, despite advances in postal reliability.

Modern Times:

The origins of commercially printed ‘fine wedding stationery’ can be traced to the period immediately following World War II, where a combination of democracy and rapid industrial growth gave the common man the ability to mimic the life-styles and materialism of society’s elite. About this time, prominent society figures, such as Amy Vanderbilt and Emily Post, emerged to advise the ordinary man and woman on appropriate etiquette. Growth in the use of wedding stationery was also underpinned by the development of thermography. Although it lacks the fineness and distinctiveness of engraving, thermography is a less expensive method of achieving raised type. This technique, often called poor man’s engraving, produces shiny, raised lettering without impressing the surface of the paper (in the way traditional engraving does). As such, wedding invitations – either printed or engraved – finally became affordable for all. More recently Letterpress printing has made a strong resurgence in popularity for wedding invitations. It has a certain boutique and craft appeal due to the deep impression that is possible. Many letterpress firms that specialize in wedding invitations are small start ups, rather than large printing companies. Laser engraving has also been making headway in the wedding invitation market over the last few years. Primarily used for engraving wood veneer invitations, it is also used to engrave acrylic, or to mark certain types of metal invitations.

51. “To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
–Karen Sunde
52. “Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire…”
–A. C. Swinburne
53. “Love is friendship set on fire.”
–Jeremy Taylor
54. “Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.”
–Unknown
55. “Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile…”
–Unknown
56. “I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow.”
–Unknown
57. “The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.”
–Unknown
58. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
–Unknown
59. “If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.”
–Unknown
60. “If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.”
–Unknown
61. “Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.”
–Unknown
62. “Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet.”
–Unknown
63. “The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
–Unknown
64. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.”
–Vincent van Gogh
65. “Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.”
–Lope de Vega
66. “Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.”
–Paul Verlaine
67. “When a heart finds another, what’s a cloud more or less in the sky?”
–Wolf and Page
68. “The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
–Josiah G. Holland
69. “From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.”
–Unknown
70. “The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
–Sir Hugh Walpole
71. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
–Erich Fromm
72. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
–Sam Keen
73. “The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
–Victor Hugo
74. “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
–Antoine De Saint-Exupery
75. “Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
–Germaine De Stael
76. “The life and love we create is the life and love we live.”
–Leo Buscaglia
77. “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
–Ivan Panin
78. “Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
–J. Isham
79. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
–Lao Tzu
80. “The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.”
–Unknown
81. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
–St. Augustine
82. “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
–Thomas Fuller
83. “Paradise is always where love dwells.”
–Jean Paul F. Richter
84. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
–Honore de Balzac
85. “We are all born for love… it is the principle existence and it’s only end.”
–Benjamin Disraeli
86. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
87. “Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
–Elizabeth Browning
88. ” When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ”
– Dr Suese
89. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
–Herman Hesse
90. “So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
91. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
–Bruce Lee
92. “She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
–Byron
93. “….A simple I love you means more than money….”
–Frank Sinatra
94. “How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning.”
–Thomas Campbell
95. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.”
–Sophocles
96. “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
–Mark Twain
97. ” Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’ re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU… The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her… ”
– Unknown
98. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
–Henry David Thoreau
99. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
–Alfred Lord Tennyson
100. “All love is sweet, given or returned.”
–Percy Bysshe Shelley

Top Love Quotes & Sayings of All Time

The following is our collection of Quotes about love or Romance that we feel are the top quoted quotes of all time. We have not placed these quotes in any particular order. Make sure to check them all out, they are great! (See what users like yourself ranked as the top Love Quotes.)
1. “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”
–Ingrid Bergmen
2. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin6. “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
–St. Augustine
3. “My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.”
–Ibn Abbad
4. “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
–Margaret Anderson
5. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
–Janos Arnay

7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
–Aristotle
8. “Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
–Aphra Behn
9. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”
–Sarah Bernhardt
10. “In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.”
–Bliss and Cerney
11. “Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…”
–John Dunne
12. “What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…”
–Elizabeth Barret Browning
13. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…”
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14. “Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
–Robert Browning
15. “But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.”
–Robert Burns
16. “She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
–Lord Byron
17. “Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.”
–Lord Byron
18. “I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.”
–Roy Croft

19. “You’re nothing short of my everything.”
–Ralph Block
20. “The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”
–Euripides
23. “I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. “I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.”
–Andre Gide
25. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
–Robert Heinlein
26. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
27. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”
–Victor Hugo
28. “It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.”
–Jaka
29. “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
–John Keats
30. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
–Helen Keller
31. “… See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.”
–Gretchen Kemp
32. “When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.”
–Amy Lowell
33. “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
–Christopher Marlowe
34. “Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
–Christopher Marlowe
35. “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”
–Alphonse Marie de la Martine
36. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
–Mignon McLaughlin
37. “We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.”
–Pablo Neruda
38. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it…you and you alone make me feel that I am alive…Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
–George Moore
39. “In love there are two things: bodies and words.”
–Joyce Carol Oates
40. “I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.”
–Rumi
41. “I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
–Vita Sackville-West
42. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery
43. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery
44. “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
–George Sand
45. “Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.”
–Robert Sexton
46. “My heart is ever at your service.”
–William Shakespeare
47. “The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”
–William Shakespeare
48. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
–Alexander Smith
49. “I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.”
–Song of Solomon
50. “Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.”
–Srzgarakarika

Real Life Love Stories.

Lovely Coincidence – by Unknown.

In 1945, there was a young boy of 14 in a concentration camp. He was tall, thin but had a bright smile. Every day, a young girl came by on the other side of the fence. She noticed the boy and asked him if he spoke Polish, and he said yes. She said he’d looked hungry, and he said he was. She then reached in her pocket and gave him her apple. He thanked her and she went on her way.

The next day, she came by again, bringing with her another apple which she gave him. Each day, she walked by the outside of the fence, hoping to see him, and when she did, she happily handed him an apple in exchange for conversation. One day, he told her not to come by anymore. He told her he was being shipped to another concentration camp. As he walked away with tears streaming down his face, he wondered if he’d ever see her again.

She was the only kind soul he’d seen across the fence. He made it out of the concentration camp, and immigrated to America. In 1957, his friends had fixed him up on a blind date.

He had no idea who the woman was. He picked her up, and during dinner began talking of Poland and the concentration camp. She said she was in Poland at that time. She said she used to talk to a boy and gave him apples daily. He asked if this boy was tall, skinny and if he had told her that she shouldn’t come back because he was leaving.

She said yes.

 It was her, the young girl who came by every day to give him apples. After 12 years, after the war and in another country…..they had met again. What are the odds? He proposed to her on that very night and told her he’d never again let her go.

They are still happily married today. Now that, my friends, is a love story.

Miracles do happen, and there is a greater force at work in our lives.

Wedding  Proverbs, sayings and Quotations

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
- Douglas Jerrold

Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
- Beverly Nichols

Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore….but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil Gibran

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook

Ask the child why it is born; ask the flower why it blossoms; ask the sun why it shines. I love you because I must love you.
- George P. Upton

Marriage is ever made by destiny.
- George Chapman

Two human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley

Wedded love is founded on esteem.
- Elijah Fenton

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old English Rhyme

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part.
- Book of Common Prayer

When you meet someone who can cook and do housework–don’t hesitate a minute–marry him.
- Unknown

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love’s young dream.
- Thomas Moore

He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt

Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
- Book of Common Prayer

Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily Bronte

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
- Horace

He is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare

Heaven give you many, many merry days.
- William Shakespeare

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
.- Milton

Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William Shakespeare

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, vices & virtues floated around and were bored, not knowing what to do.

One day, all the vices and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than ever… Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea:

“Let’s play hide and seek!”

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: “I want to count, I want to count!”

And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek Madness, all the  others agreed. Madness leaned against a tree and started to count:

“One, two, three..” As Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.

Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon…

Treason hid in a Pile of garbage…

Fondness curled up between the clouds…

and Passion went to the centre of the earth….

Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake…

….whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking. And Madness continued to count: …

“seventy nine, eighty, eighty one…”

By this time, all the vices and virtues were already hidden – Except Love.

For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide. And This should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.

Madness: “…ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven…”

Just when Madness got to one hundred………Love jumped into a Rose bush where he hid.  And Madness turned around and shouted:

“I’m coming, I’m coming!”

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because Laziness had no energy to hide.

Then he spotted Tenderness in the Horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the centre Of the earth.

One by one, Madness found them all – except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.

Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness: “You only need to find Love and Love is hiding in the rose bush.”

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rosebush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.

Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands. Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes. Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love’s eyes with a pitch fork.

“What have I done? What have I done?”  Madness shouted. “I have left you blind! How can I repair it?”

And Love answered: “You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, You can be my guide.”

And so it came about that from that day on, ….Love is blind and is Always accompanied by Madness.

Dear Reader,

HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (Written by kids)

You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. — Alan, age 10

No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with. — Kristen, age 10 (Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!)

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then. — Camille, age 10

HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. — Derrick, age 8

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON? 

Both don’t want any more kids. — Lori, age 8

WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough. — Lynnette, age 8 (isn’t she a treasure)

On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. — Martin, age 10

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?

I’d run home and play dead The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns. — Craig, age 9

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

When they’re rich. — Pam, age 7

 The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that. – - Curt, age 7

The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It’s the right thing to do. — Howard, age 8

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them. — Anita, age 9 (bless you child)

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN’T GET MARRIED? There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn’t there? — Kelvin, age 8

And the #1 Favorite is…….

HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK ?

Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck. — Ricky, age 10

1. Blow your spouse a kiss as you walk through the room. Smile, and let your eyes twinkle mischievously.    You might remain silent, or you could say    something such as, “Catch!” or “This is for you!”Surprise your spouse by kissing the back of his (or her) neck as he sits in a low-backed chair that gives you easy access to his neck, such as a dining room chair or a computer chair. (For an extra reaction, you might lick his neck one or two strokes with your tongue after you kiss it)

2. Give her (or him) a brief neck and shoulder massage.

3. Leave a sweet message on his (or her) voice mail.

4. Send a short but sweet email. (Don’t send your spouse a sexually explicit email at work. Save those for his or her personal email account.)

5. Write a one sentence note that describes a specific trait or quality that you love about your spouse, such as “I love your beautiful blue eyes that remind me of the sea.”Or you could write, “I love your fabulous shoulder muscles that make you look so strong and sexy.” Put this note in your spouse’s purse, lunch, or brief case, or on his (or her) bed pillow.

6. Give your spouse a lingering, wet kiss, accompanied by a full body hug. (Many relationship gurus advocate that couples do this at least once every day.)

7. Hug your spouse and scratch her back at the same time. If you’re lucky, your spouse will also scratch your back while you’re scratching hers.

8. Give your spouse a compliment. Be specific, such as “You look great in that new pullover—I love how that color looks on you!”

9. Tell your spouse once specific thing you appreciate that he (or she) does. For example, you might say, “I really appreciate how hard you work to bring in extra income,” or “You’re a great dad—always so patient with the kids!”

10. When you’re at the grocery store, pick up something special for your spouse—a favorite candy bar, a choice piece of fruit, a small plant, one long-stemmed rose, a special cheese, a festive balloon, etc.  When you get home, say “I bought something special just for you because you’re so special.” Or wait until later and leave the item with an ‘I love you” note for her (or him) to find.

11. Look for some little act or chore you can do for your spouse to make his (or her) life easier. For example, without asking, Lee will often empty the wastebasket in my office for me when he sees that it’s full.  Or I might offer to make a phone call for him to save him time on a busy day. These types of gestures say “I love you and want to show you that I care.”

12. The next time that you have to buy a birthday card for someone, also buy five or six cards that your spouse would like. They might be romantic cards, thinking-of-you cards, or funny cards. Once every week or two, drop one in the mail to your spouse to arrive at the office or home, or leave a card in the car on the driver’s seat or some other place for him (or her) to find.

13. When you get “take-home” food containers in a restaurant, later secretly take your spouse’s container out of the refrigerator and decorate it. You might draw two hearts linked together with your names on the hearts and write “I love you” on her (or his) box.

14. Look for poems or song lyrics that you can give your spouse to communicate your loving feelings. Check out http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/ to find lyrics to beautiful love songs, love quotes, and romantic poems. You’ll also find a great selection of love song lyrics at http://www.theromantic.com/lovesongs/main.htm .Just print out some of your favorites (use special paper to make it more special) and keep them back, ready to pull out and give your spouse with a note that says, “This expresses just how I feel about you.”

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