Loretta and Niyi remind me of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; beautiful, powerful, stylish, classy yet very down to earth and simple. The first thing that catches your attention about Loretta is her beauty then her simplicity and as you get to know her more; her spirituality shines forth. She is such a complete woman; a Proverbs 31 Woman, a Daughter of Zion.
Niyi on the other hand is a gentleman to the core; there is no pretense or faking it in this dude, what you see is what you get and above all, he has such a beautiful heart. Everyone is drawn to Niyi; he has been that way since primary school. I celebrate you both and I pray that God will continue to bless and keep you.
Enjoy their pre wedding pictures and story...
Loretta's Story
In my opinion, three years is a long time to get to know someone.
Somehow Niyi made it seem a lot shorter. I met him towards the end of Uni and
at a point when I had no plans to be in a relationship. My focus then was
getting a degree and moving on to greater heights. BUT! We happened and
everything in me felt at peace with him. Also being the spiritual type, I was
more than certain he was the one.
A friend of mine and now one
of my bridesmaids, Doreen Mufadzi, who happens to be the friend Niyi and I had
in common, put up my picture on my birthday in 2012. Little did I know that the
picture had earned me a secret admirer in Niyi. We soon became good friends and
spent a lot of time sharing and debating our views on a wide variety of topics
and life in general.
Fast forward 2 months, we planned our first official date in January
of 2013. We agreed to meet up at Euston station while I was on my way from
Manchester to spend the weekend with a friend and now bridesmaid, Susan Omeiza.
Ever the gentleman, Niyi after dinner offered to drive me all the way to her
house in shooters Hill as he didn’t feel comfortable with me taking the public
transport on a snowy and cold wintery evening. I was intrigued by the gesture
and obliged to his request…
From that moment things
naturally progressed and Niyi has since been a source of encouragement and motivation.
I choose to spend the rest of my life with no other person than the man that
understands and compliments me. Surprisingly, he stated his intentions in the
early stages of our friendship. Let's just say that he knew what he wanted,
found it and likewise. It's been over two years of learning about each other,
learning to sacrifice for one another, learning to love the right way and above
all learning to put God first together. May I add that the learning is a never
ending process but our unity lies in the fact that life is a lot more bearable
when you find someone that shares in your joy and pain, sees you for who you
truly are at your best and worst and makes a decision to stand by you through
it all and beyond. In him I found the qualities I needed.
Niyi's Story
When I saw her for the 1st time, I kind of said to myself Whao! Who’s
that cute young thing! At first I wanted a friend we had in common to play
cupid but then I thought naa… I can do this! We randomly started chatting and I
instantly found myself captivated by her innocence. I went and stalked her
social media platforms and I saw pictures of her and a guy whom I at the time
thought was her boyfriend and I was like ouch…with that sinking feeling hard on
my knees… in my mind I was like “that was over before it started!”
..A short while later we randomly got chatting again and I asked “so
how’s your boyfriend? The fine yellow paw paw I saw in one of the pics in your
profile” Naturally with everything crossable in my anatomy crossed, hoping
she’d say “oh he’s just a friend”. I got my Eureka moment as he thankfully
turned out to be her only brother.
I straightaway told her that I
will be the guy that’ll marry her. The statement was made with a combination of
hope and a little bit of fear. Hope because I really wanted it to be so and
fear because that could really be the initiator of my ‘best before’ stamp!
Something in me was convinced though. That inner voice said “she really might
be the one”. As the inner voice grew louder I had to dig deeper; what type of
friends she hung with? Who were her biggest influences? What was her mother
like? Naturally by that point, her beauty had already captured my imagination
but the more I got the answers the more I got to know her and the more I got to
know her, the easier it was for her personality to capture my heart!
This girl doesn’t just have a
beautiful face... she has a beautiful heart too!
All this while, I had been
away but immediately I returned, I scheduled our 1st date. Booked a table at a
decent Chinese restaurant and drove to Euston in anticipation. There she was,
just arrived from Manchester in all her glory #TheMissingRib. Haven spent a splendid
afternoon wining, dining and chatting away, the chemistry was obvious and more
importantly I quickly established that her comfort around me was her way of
sewing a seed of trust in me. Loving and respecting her was the easiest part
and if the last three years is to go by, we’re in for an exciting marriage!
May God continue to bless our
union and may honor never depart from our relationship. AMEN
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