AMAZING Life Chats: Annette Thurmon
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“An AMAZING Life for me means living your passion everyday and living for God everyday” – Annette Thurmon
If you have followed along with our blog you may have seen a few of our AMAZING Life Manifesto videos. We are extremely passionate about the fact that anyone can live their own AMAZING life. One day, while Liz and I were dreaming about life and what we could do to help inspire more people to follow their dreams, we came up with the idea for our “AMAZING Life Chats”. We thought that if we could also share other people’s stories and thoughts on living an AMAZING life then we would be able to inspire even more people to live their own AMAZING Lives.
So now that we thought of this fun little idea we immediately knew who we wanted to interview first…
We first met Annette in January of 2011 at the Style to the Aisle event in Baltimore. Check out some of our photos from the event over on our old blog here. Immediately we could sense Annette’s passion for life, plus she made some super AMAZING wedding gowns! We later found out that Annette was also an alum of Making Things Happen! Since then, we have stayed in touch with Annette through social media. We LOVE seeing her work and all her amazing new designs.
Earlier this year Justin & Mary asked us to be a model bride and groom for their Las Vegas workshop. Although Liz could have worn her AMAZING wedding gown, the workshop theme was a bit more Vanity Fair then our style was when we got married 5 years ago. :) So we reached out to Annette to see if she had anything that Liz could wear. Let me just say that Liz looked stunning in the Chaviano Couture gown that Annette provided! Don’t take my word for it though, see some of the photos over on our old blog here.
Thanks to Christy Tyler for the photo below.
Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago. As we were making plans to head down to the Southern Weddings Magazine V5 Launch Party, we found out that Annette would also be attending! So we reached out to her again to see if she would be interested in sitting down to chat with us. At the time we didn’t exactly mention that we would be video taping it for our blog! :) Fortunately she said yes anyway.
The morning after the party, we snuck into an unused conference room (unfortunately we couldn’t figure out how to turn on the fireplace) and sat down with Annette to chat about life, following big dreams and living your life passionately. I got to practice my cameraman skills while Liz practiced her hosting for the Today Show interviewing skills. :)
We immediately knew we were on the same wavelength when Annette said “An AMAZING life for me means living your passion everyday and living for God”
Enjoy what we hope is the first of many AMAZING Life chats below and be sure to leave Annette some love in the comments. Plus, Annette is also in the process of writing a book for couples with advice on marriage. Check it out here and pre-order your very own copy December 3rd!
Annette, thank you so much for being our first AMAZING Life Chat interviewee! :)