Our wedding was a dream! We were beyond excited to get married in Phuket, Thailand in February 2018. All because it was on my vision board, and I said, “Why not? Let’s #ThaiTheKnot.” Our entire wedding day radiated with joy and was extremely emotional. You can see it on our faces and the faces of …
Written from Jaramogi’s perspective. When I met Vanessa, through random (but not so random) conversations, she told me that whoever proposed to her would have to get her mother’s and older brother’s permission. With that advice as the backdrop, our engagement story begins about 5 months before Vanessa’s involvement. When I knew it was time …
They say all it takes is the smallest of irritant inside the mantle of an oyster to create a pearl. In a shell (pun intended), that is the basis for how our two worlds became one! October 2014 is when the ball got rolling on what is now our marriage. After spending ~4.5 years living …
Jaramogi Kareem Adams (my husband) was born in a small South Carolina town called Rock Hill. His journey would begin the moment his mother named him. Jaramogi in ki-swahili means “one who travels often.” Kareem is Arabic for Honorable/Generous. His mother meditated over his name prior to his birth and decided she wanted him to …
As a Dominican woman with a first name that means Butterfly in Greek and last name that is as French as the province of Champagne, I was destined with my bubbly personality to never sit still. I was born in the Dominican Republic, in a beautiful city called Santiago de los Caballeros. I came to …