Dear
Bride-to-Be:
When a bride puts her attention mostly
on the glamour, glitz and overly romantic “pomp,” it can drown out any intimacy
at her wedding and in her relationship.
“Weddings are increasingly notable for their amazing lack of intimacy, their evolution
into industry,” National Public Radio commentator Jacki Lyden stated in her story,
“Spectacle of Matrimony,” leading up to the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc
Mezvinsky in the summer of 2010. In our celebrity-driven, appearance-crazed culture,
weddings have “evolved into must-haves and appointment-list mega-spectacles,” Lyden
continued.
But it’s not impossible, even in large celebrity weddings, to
have a beautiful and intimate event when
the attention to detail also includes focusing on connections of the heart. Just
remember Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding the following spring:
large and grand, yet you could feel the open-hearted intimacy. It’s all about
where you put your attention.
If the wedding-planning swirl takes you away from the heart
of your relationship, then take a deep breath—(close your eyes and imagine what
it would feel like to breathe love into your heart)—and plan your wedding from
that centered, heart-full place. “Where your attention goes, there goes your life.”
Love.
Listen. Let go.
…with love from Cornelia(Above text excerpted from my new book, The End of the Fairy-Tale Bride {Volume One} For Better or Worse, How Princess Diana Rescued the Great White Wedding. Available on Amazon.com)
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