Okay, so the Big Day is arriving. Or perhaps it is just a dot on the horizon
that you are straining your eyes to see.
But it is there, and it is waiting for you. Whether you are looking forward to delighting
in the wonders of your wedding day, or you just want to get it over with and
step over the threshold to matrimonious joy; it will be one of the most
powerful days in your life.
Think about it. A
hundreds of years from now, when your great- great- great- granddaughter is
researching her ancestry, there are three big things the records will offer up
to her: the day you were born, the day
you died, and they day you got married.
No pressure.
The day of your wedding carries a lot of power,
energetically speaking. Why not put that
power to work for you, and make all that time between the date on the marriage
certificate and the date on the death certificate, full of joy and laughter and
amazingness?
Let me introduce you, or perhaps reintroduce you, to the
concept of setting an Intention. I’m
talking in the Law of Attraction woo woo sort of way, you know, like The
Secret? Don’t be afraid, it is pretty
easy, but can still have powerful results without you having to create a vision
board. Or chanting. Or looking at yourself in a mirror repeating
words back to yourself.
Put simply, an intention is a declaration to the Universe
(or God, or Tao, or whatever your higher power is – even if that higher power
is simply yourself) of what you are planning to have happen in your life. An intention is more than a goal. An intention is something that you put your
will into, your personal life energy, to make it come in to being. And it is more than a wish, which you hope
will be brought to you. An intention has
more force, more power, within it.
I like to think of an intention as creating the blueprint
for a design, and then sending it off to the manufacturing plant that will look
at your design, bring it in to form, and then ship it to you. That’s how it works. YOU are the creator. The Universe/God/Whatever is what builds it,
and then serves it up to you.
So. Let’s get back to
your wedding day, shall we?
What a wonderful and beautiful opportunity to look forward
with your wife or husband, and start to think about the life you wish to share
with this person. Will it be full of
laughter? Children? Travels?
Financial Success? What about
your relationship, do you intend it to be one of mutual respect, emotional
support, passion, or contentment? This
is a great opportunity to sit down with your guy or gal, and make sure that the
future you envision matches up in the long term.
Now comes the fun part: weaving these intentions into the
day itself. Perhaps you want to make
them part of your vows. Perhaps it will
guide your music selection. Or perhaps
you want to incorporate the symbolism into the décor, announcements, and
invitations. For instance: the color red for passion, the color light blue for
fidelity, or an image of a bicycle for balance.
Think about what symbols mean to YOU, they are more powerful that way. Maybe your idea of a bicycle is more about
health, or leisure, and not about balance.
One thought is to look through a dream dictionary for symbol ideas. However, the most important thing is YOUR
personal association with a symbol, which helps harness your personal power.
Get creative. Perhaps
you could put your intentions inside fortune cookies. Or hang the words on little slips of paper,
and hang them on a potted tree. You
could even get your guests involved, and have them write down intentions for
you two as well, and add them to your tree/whatever. Go wild.
I’m sure browsing around Peonies and Champagne you will be able to come
up with quite a few delicious ideas.
Whatever you end up doing, have fun with it. Remember, it is not about how exactly things
are done, or what symbols/music/colors are used. What is important is that you are putting
your intention into action, and by doing something with that intention,
whatever it is, you are adding more power to it. It becomes stronger, and easier for your
intentions to be made real in your life, and served up to you on a silver
platter. With these founding intentions,
your marriage will be guided every step of the way, to your Happily Ever After.
Here’s to a delicious life ahead!
Jillian Harrington is an Intuitive Life Coach, helping guide people down their path
to a delicious life. She blogs up lovely tidbits to help people live the
life they really want, if they could just get out of their own way to enjoy
themselves. When she’s not doing that, she is coaching people to
amazingness and building on-line programs to spread the good times. All
this and more can be found at jillianharrington.com
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