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Ann and Andre: Wedding Officiant Available in NYC!

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Hello everyone!

Happy New Year to you!  I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season!  :) Firstly, let me apologize for being so behind on messages yet AGAIN, and for my slow productivity....  With my marriage occuring in LESS than a month's time, there are a 1001 things left to do to prepare for the big day! :wow:  Aside from lingering medical issues that continue to plague me (that very likely will result in a serious yet hopefully corrective procedure in the coming months) things have been rather hectic to say the VERY least :phew: ...... But more on that at another time..... I do hope to catch up as soon as I can, and no matter what, remember that I appreciate any and all attention to what I do and of course your warm, and encouraging remarks! Thank you so so much! All of you! :thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

Well, it seems that my first deviation of the new year is something completely different eh? ^^;  Normally I would post an image like this on my OTHER deviantart account:  ksoto.deviantart.com/ but given how close I am to these two friends that I rendered here in this image, the fact that I wanted **everyone** to know how incredibly awesome they are, AND that they're both creative individuals in a number of ways as well, I certainly wanted to give credit where credit was due! :D :D :D :D :D :D

In a nutshell, I have taken the time to depict two of my very very closest of friends, the wonderful Ann :iconeshemilana: and her fiancee, the fiercely loyal Andre! :)  Truth be told, these two friends had only come into my life a few years ago.  They were already friends with my best friend and sister :icondanni-stone: but at the time, they were more distant friends.  It seems that the moment I started hanging out with them too, that the close knit circle of friends I had *always* wanted (much like the dynamic of good friends in Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon even!) was finally complete! :love: 

It AMAZES me that I have only know them a few years when it truly does seem as if we've been close to each other for much much longer!  I feel as if I can come to them with everything and anything!  We have an amazing time together, laughing, watching movies, going to events together, and even cosplaying! :)  Ann, as mentioned above, is also a talented artist (check out her page or even this collaboration that she did with :icondanni-stone: Teana Gift Art for Yamigirl21 (Kathie Soto) by Danni-Stone)! Though in recent years,  :iconeshemilana: has also developed her incredible sewing skills on top of that, and can seemingly make ANY costume! :wow: My friend Andre also has ambitions to dabble in a number of artistic fields, and I will continue to encourage him to do so, whether he likes it or not! ^_-  Until then however, he's certainly been encouraging of my, :icondanni-stone: and :eshemilana:'s crafts, and is often right along side Ann during events, enjoying just as much of the fandom of a number of things as anyone! :w00t:


If that wasn't enough, my friend Ann has EVEN hand made my wedding dress, which is actually occuring next month on 2/12/15!!! :love: :love: :love:  Being a somewhat Sailor Moon aka Princess Serenity inspired dress, she worked laboriously to make it all that I ever wanted it to be! :love:  I'll be sure to post pictures of it, but given that my fiancee :iconpyropainter: is also on deviantart, I didn't want to risk him seeing it prematurely! :blushes:  It is lovely though and I can't wait to share it with all of you! :dalove:


Furthermore, Ann will also BE in my wedding party as a bridesmaid, along with :icondanni-stone: of course, who will be my Matron of Honor! :hug:  I mentioned this in my most recent journal, but the bridesmaids will also be Sailor Moon inspired, in the sense that they will be wearing dresses similar to the official princess attire of theirs that were features in the Sailor Moon manga.  :icondanni-stone: will sport a dress similar to Jupiter's, :iconeshemilana: will wear a dress similar to Neptune's, and my other three bridesmaids will have dresses much like Venus, Mercury and Saturn! :)



In addition to even THAT, my friend Andre who is ALSO a respected professor, and has recently become a wedding officiant who will marry both :iconpyropainter: and I at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, within the beautiful Lower Egyptian Gallery:

www.penn.museum/weddings/image…



While, I'm at it, I thought that I would advertise his services a bit and mention that you TOO can have him perform a ceremony if you're in the New York City area, or possibly surrounding it.  He would be very open to a number of ceremonies and themes in which he could perform; particularly at fan events such as conventions, for instance. For more information, please feel free to contact him through email at:  zoeng1984@gmail.com, or you can message him on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/andre.almodov…; I can tell you you'll never find a kinder, more caring, or more enthusiastic officiant for your ceremony, than my good friend Andre! He's AWESOME! :D  And I can say that I am honored and quite proud to not only have both Andre and Ann as friends, but that they'll be along side of me on one of the most important and of course happiest days of my life! :love:




What more can I say?  I can certainly tell you that I admired my friend's Ann and Andre's relationship even before I met and fell in love with my fiancee, :iconpyropainer:!  I saw how incredibly happy and in love these two were even after over 15 years of being together!!!  :wow:  I think their true love is captured quite well in the image that I rendered of the two of them, which was based on a photograph that I took when we attended a Renaissance Faire in the fall of 2013 (though we attended again last fall too!!).  :)  I thought it was the perfect image to capture what I saw in their amazing relationship!  Even then, I knew that I wanted something very much like what these two had, and it was because of their support too, (as well as :icondanni-stone:'s too, of course) that I was able to hold out enough to find my own happy ending! :love:

The image was done in pencil, with the use of shading tools.  I can definitely say that it took a LONG time to draw, and in some ways I wished I could have pushed the details a bit further, but I think I succeeded in what I wished to do, and I believe that the two of them are quite pleased with the final image as well! :) I guess in the end, that's what's most important! ^_^

Thanks for looking everyone and thank you again Ann and Andre for being such dear, and precious friends to me! I hope that we'll always be as close as we are now, if not more so! :)

Lots of Love, :blowkiss:
Yamigirl21 :iconyamigirl21:
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A moment in time I wish could last forever, now forever commemorated. <3