The following events took place between 5th March 2016 and 4th March 2017(add dramatic music):
5th March 2016
It was a warm, sunny(duuh, you said warm) Saturday and it was a beautiful day for me to turn 25. Grey had convinced me to skip a class I was going for that day so that we would celebrate my birthday with our friends. Well, it turned out to be a warm, sunny (again, duuh) Saturday for me to get engaged to the love of my life.
13th August 2016
The following weeks after this, we would talk endlessly about the wedding date and we set the date to 13th August 2016. We only had to continue waiting for only 6 months! ,we both shared the date with our families and guess what! They flipped! oh, our mothers flipped! So turns out one of the major reasons my mother gave him her blessings to ask my hand in marriage was because he assured her that the wedding would not be so soon. After alot of back and forth we both gave in because after all we still needed to plan for the introductory ceremony for our families to meet and the dowry ceremony and not forgetting we didn't have the money to pull off a wedding so soon.
So 13th August ended up being the date when our families first met! and NOT the wedding date but a beautiful day indeed
3rd December 2016
Our families loved each other and a second ceremony was to be planned. We were still determined to set the wedding date and agreed on 3rd December 2016. It looked like the ideal date as we would have the dowry ceremony in October then get married in December. It was a plan! The perfect plan! We even won a spot to go for a wedding event where we stood the chance to win a honeymoon package and other prizes.
We went for the event and ended up winning a 2kg cake! A 2kg cake! who serves a 2kg cake at a wedding??? Funny thing is, we both left the event convinced it was a message from God telling us.."wait".
3rd December 2016 ended up being the day we had our dowry ceremony and it was beautiful!!
4th March 2017
I remember crying on the phone talking to Grey telling him that I do not think God wants us to get married and he calmly told me that maybe it was about time we prayed for a wedding date. In all honesty, I had heard people say that they prayed for a wedding date and God answered but I always wondered if it was their own thinking or just a random number popping in their minds as they pray. I agreed to it and we prayed for a couple of days and God revealed the date 4th March. (I know, I know, it just has to happen to you for you to understand).
So the date was set, 4th of March! and the day was amazing! God came through beyond our expectations!
The best thing about this day is, we cannot take any credit for anything that happened that day, God sent people to give towards the wedding, we got free stuff, discounts, 800 guests showed up with so many gifts! and we even won a free makeover for the wedding and a honeymoon package! It was a day that had us in tears seeing what the Lord had done.
So why do I share this, it is to encourage any one of you waiting on God for anything, for those who have given God a deadline for showing up in their situation. To tell you that His timing, His plans are P.E.R.F.E.C.T. It is never in vain to wait on God, if we had insisted on our dates, we would have struggled planning for the wedding, maybe even ended up in debt without knowing that God had already planned it out from the moment we met and all we had to do is to submit to His will and trust that He is more than able to do what we ask or to give us what we ask for.
Ephesians 3:20-21: Now to Him who is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.…
