Wear your loveFall in love with how you feel not how you look.

As you plan your wedding and as you choose your wedding dress it is important to come from a loving, kind and empowering place. Have an intention not to crazily transform your body to fit into a dress on the big day and wear your love. Don’t get me wrong – health, wellness and exercise is so important. However it is more than that! Love the amazing body inside the dress instead! As a bride, embrace your individual style, your shape, even your bumps and love, love, love ‘you’ a little more today than yesterday. Accentuate what you already know and feel is beautiful about your self and work with your body (don’t go against it).

Choose a dress that really embodies who you are as an empowered woman. Be with words that connect you into you, for example beauty, femininity, sacredness, romantic, goddess, magical, classic, poise, comfort, grace, luxurious, free spirit, uniqueness, quality, sensuality, magnificence, ecological-consciousness and self love. Learning how to love your body means picking a dress that represents who you are, not who you think you should be. Fall in love with how you feel, not how you look, and as you do this you will completely be in love with the dress you have chosen.

Be a bride who feels her most amazing! If I was to ask you ~ Who is she? She has the freedom to dance, laugh, eat, drink and be so beautifully happy. She is present, mindful and at ease as she embarks on her sacred journey with her partner. She joyously and gracefully embraces each moment, as she creates beautiful memories with the person she wants to hold and be held by, the person she is absolutely at home beside, with full abandon, safety, vulnerability and play.

Don’t forget to ask yourself who are you as you step into this sacred part of your life.

I love these words and I share them with you.

Today I asked my body what she needed which is a big deal

Considering my journey of not really asking that much

I thought she might need more water

Or protein

Or greens

Or yoga

Or supplements

Or movement

But as I stood in the shower

Reflecting on her stretch marks

Her roundness where I would like flatness

Her softness where I would like firmness

All those conditioned wishes

That form a bundle of

Never-Quite-Right-Ness

She whispered very gently

Could you just love me like this?

~ Hollie Holden