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Dominique and Ariel planned their wedding around the theme of affirming of life as the bride goes through treatment for stage IV cancer, and their family and friends brought their individuality to the ceremony.
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00:09all of the sudden my sisters they all started dressing in white and I had a
00:15feeling what is happening it was not how we imagined it but exactly how it was
00:20supposed to be we created a Cuban Nigerian Afro-American German ceremony
00:27where we sent all the love we could give in the purest most intense way we could
00:33achieve
00:53I never thought I was going to be the girl that gets married was like oh and I
00:57want to wear white none of that but I also have cancer stage four lung cancer
01:02that I'm currently fighting
01:11we are a tinder couple just on the look for a summer fling and we stay together
01:17ever since the first thing I would say is she's very strong positive tolerance
01:22self-acceptance Wow oh my god we kept on saying it every year we're going to do a
01:32big wedding so we might as well just do it now because we have cancer I have cancer
01:39and we just don't know how long it is I also lost my hair off the radiation my
01:44whole system collapsed and I fell from the moment that I was diagnosed I have been
01:51dealing with this thing differently and she said I'm on a half pet wedding I was
01:58thinking wow it's too much but on the other hand it's her day her wish so we're
02:05poor she had so many treatments to go through and I didn't really know if she'd
02:11have the strength I was worried I said okay you basically learn to appreciate every moment and
02:19every opportunity to they say children choose their parents and I have to be thankful but you choose me
02:29because she really is a gift she told me that this wedding is about reminding
02:37everyone that we're alive right now and that we have to make every moment count
02:43and to be happy to be alive and I think that that's what she wanted all her friends to feel
02:54basically we planned this two months before it happened I just set up the whole theme living your
03:01life is golden is just wonderful because you just choose for yourself the best of the best there's a
03:08difference of like telling people what to do or inviting them to a new idea
03:20the Bride Maids we were thinking give us like a fun soul train line from the 90s
03:28when everybody's on the side and the disco people are coming out so we basically created that
03:47so I was thinking no I asked them if they would like to share vows or not but then as
03:51I was
03:51thinking about this no need for these promises already proven to one another yeah I think everybody
03:57agree you agree no that's being said
04:06by the power vested in me you are now officially made
04:23throughout the whole day there was always something happening
04:30people started to contribute with different performances that they all somehow set up it felt
04:37that that day that we could have created a new universe at some point there was a little
04:44foguing party people just strutted down the runways I have Afro-Cuban roots I have a wonderful
04:52husband who is Israeli our whole circle of friends is so diverse they just all bring their cultures to the
05:00table
05:09the thing that got me by surprise the most was that healing circle that we did
05:17each take your time come in and you go it's our chance to really say whatever we're gonna say
05:26your eyes are closed and you hear all these affirmations I love you and I want you to heal
05:32and stay strong it's so tough to deal with this but at the same time it's so rich throughout the
05:39whole time
05:40you could feel the love you could feel the energy and this is actually why it was so important for
05:45everyone
05:46to be there their space calmed down and they started to transport us on our chairs
05:51and that feeling was so comforting we want to show each other that we know what's going on but we're
06:01not sad
06:01we're together everybody started to touch us I felt you know they were trying to connect with me on my
06:10level
06:11of the heart the wedding for us was celebrating life and love
06:18and that feeling I will keep with me everybody wanted to be there you know they all showed up
06:26it was a true genuine healing
06:34it's an intense time for us but it was a true genuine healing
06:39then I don't think you need to be a shaman to make it happen you just need to say yes
06:56thank you absolutely
06:56it's very much karma
06:57the capabilities of the technique and things like that
06:58came together
06:59it WYSILE TO Mido

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