Blessings All Around and New Life Pastoral Counseling Helping Bridal Couples to Succeed

Helping you plan your life together from "I Do" to Forever.

Blessings All Around, one of Long Beach’s leading sites for mobile wedding ceremony planning and Officiant services, just announced that Blessings All Around is teaming up with New Life Pastoral Counseling for premarital counseling services to wedding couples. New Life Pastoral Counseling provides integrated counseling services for numerous counseling needs.

New Life Pastoral Counseling, one of the most modern integrated pastoral counseling locations in Long Beach, CA, helps couples were they are. The programs used recognize each couple at their spiritual level. From quality of service to overall level of professionalism, the high level of service that bridal couples expect from Blessings All Around and other wedding vendors, can be found at New Life Pastoral Counseling.

“Blessings All Around, is so excited to work with New Life Pastoral Counseling. So many couples wish to start their marriage with all the right tools. They don’t want to become another divorce statistic. Premarital Counseling, can give them that great start.” said Lisa Johnson, Assistant to Rev. Chester.

Blessings All Around will continue to provide the same high quality mobile Officiant services within the Los Angeles County and Orange County areas. Blessings All Around can be found across the WeddingWire network, which includes WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee.

For more information, please visit the Blessings All Around or New Life Pastoral Counseling websites.

###

About
Rev. Angela Butts Chester, is a pioneer in the field of family destiny fulfillment. As a Pastoral Counselor, she blends a motivational spirit with a love for helping others, into a system that shows families how to keep the happiness, love, prosperity and abundance within the household.

Following in her family’s footsteps, she became an ordained minister in 2005. Starting a family ministry was a must for Rev. Chester, thus Blessings All Around was born. This blessing ministry not only focuses on marrying couples, but various ceremonies that form bonds and traditions; ways to keep the family together.

Rev. Chester has taken her expertise to the Internet. As the host of I Do Radio, she discusses wedding issues to assist engaged couples with ceremony dos-and-don'ts and wedding vendor issues.

As the author of Before You Tie The Knot - A Premarital Counseling Workbook For The DIY Couple, Angela Chester Ministries, focuses on keeping you on track and faith focused.

Can You Bless My Dog?

Saturday, October 2nd, I was a part of a wonderful experience. The annual Interfaith Blessing of the Animals in Long Beach in association with Justin Rudd. I just love the community projects and events that Justin hosts (My kids participate in the Saturday beach clean up).

Saturday, I knew that I would enjoy being around all of the animals, but this was more exciting than I had imagined. I've always had a dog or cat in my life growing up, so I was really looking forward to it. Little did I realize that I would leave, just as blessed as the animals had been that day.

I got doggie kisses from a beautiful poodle with red ribbons and a good hand lick from Lola the bull dog. There were so many animals, it's now hard to remember all the names. But I do remember how great I felt during the event. The love the animals had for their owners and the love the owners had for their 2 or 4 legged family members was just great.

I look forward to being a part of this great blessing event, every year that I can.

Gulf Oil Spill Day of Prayer, Sunday, June 27, 2010

Blessings All Around and Angela Chester Ministries join with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for a day of prayer. Gov. Bobby Jindal has called for prayer in Louisiana, for perseverance in coping with the environmental crisis caused by the oil spill in the Gulf. The day of prayer is Sunday, June 27, 2010.

State senators in Louisiana have designated Sunday as a day of prayer aimed at seeking an end to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. On Wednesday, Louisiana state Sen. Robert Adley won unanimous approval of the resolution, which invites people of all faiths from within the state and around the U.S. to focus on divine intervention to find a solution to the crisis.

“You don’t have to live in Louisiana to understand the pain and anxiety that the families are feeling. Seeing the pictures of the birds covered in oil is heart wrenching. The oil spill affects all of us - East coast, West coast, Gulf coast.”, explained Angela Chester Ministries’ Spokesperson Rev. Angela Butts-Chester.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry also has declared Sunday a day of prayer in his state.

Rev. Angela Butts-Chester is a Pastoral Counselor in Long Beach, Ca, with Angela Chester Ministries. She offers Officiant services with Blessings All Around and hosts I Do Radio. Rev. Chester is the author of Before You Tie The Knot –A Premarital Counseling Workbook for the DIY Couple.

###

Share

Wedding Wire and Blessings All Around Make Great Partners

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, has just announced that Blessings All Around is officially WeddingWire Rated 2009! WeddingWire created the annual Rated program to honor wedding professionals, like Blessings All Around for their excellence and to help brides and grooms easily find the right wedding professionals to match their needs.

“We are excited to unveil WeddingWire Rated 2009, now in its third year. With hundreds of thousands of reviews, WeddingWire has made it easy for engaged couples to find the nation’s very best wedding professionals,” according to Sonny Ganguly, WeddingWire’s Chief Marketing Officer. “WeddingWire Rated is an excellent way for businesses to showcase their continued success in the wedding industry.”

Blessings All Around has a 5 Star rating, making us eligible to hold the Rated title on the WeddingWire Network. Each review has been written by our former clients and includes detailed ratings and insightful descriptions of their experiences with our services. These reviews not only enhance our credibility, but also help differentiate our business within the WeddingWire Network.

Blessings All Around and Rev. Angela Butts Chester, would like to thank our past brides and grooms for taking the time to review our services on WeddingWire.

If you are a past client of Blessings All Around and have yet to provide us with your feedback, visit the Blessings All Around WeddingWire page and review our services today.

We're Getting A Facelift

Every spring many women decide to follow in the tradition of their mothers - in with the new out with the old - Spring cleaning. Well, I decided to do the same thing with my website.

After months of back and forth with design, color, font choice and the like, it is finally done. The new website offers the same info as the old one, with some added perks. We've added a "partners" section.

The partners section informs our brides of the vendors that we work with. These are the vendors that will take extra care of you and in some cases, will offer some form of discount or additional service.

Working with other wedding vendors is a great resource for the brides that come to me. I want to make sure that the brides that use Blessings All Around as their Officiant service are also exposed to other top notch vendors that provide the various services they may need.

So here's to a wonderful Spring 2010 and to a great 2010 wedding season.

Shamrock Boutonnieres From Martha Stewart Living

Photo: Martha Stewart Living

Saint Patrick would have approved of these little green accessories. According to popular legend, the fifth-century Christian missionary to “heathen” Ireland used a three-leaf clover to explain the Trinity. . . (more)

Jocelyn del Carmen and Christopher Tanabe

Photo by:David Bayless

The bride, 42, is taking her husband’s name. She is an ophthalmologist at and a partner in the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a multi-specialty group practice there. She graduated from the

Dr. Jocelyn-Louise Flores del Carmen and Christopher Thomas Tanabe were married Saturday at the Stanford Memorial Church in Stanford, Calif. The Rev. Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life at Stanford University and a Unitarian Universalist minister, performed the ceremony.

The bride, 42, is taking her husband’s name. She is an ophthalmologist at and a partner in the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a multi-specialty group practice there. She graduated from the University of Texas and received her medical degree from Harvard.

She is the daughter of Josefa Flores del Carmen and Rolando del Carmen of Huntsville, Tex. Her mother retired as a secretary in the Office of Student Life at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, where her father is a criminal justice professor.

The bridegroom, 41, is an engineer who manages a software team at the Oracle Corporation, suppliers of software for information management, in Redwood Shores, Calif. He graduated from Stanford.

He is a son of Joanne Tanabe and Thomas M. Tanabe of Cupertino, Calif. The bridegroom’s father, a retired chemical and materials engineer, worked in Sunnyvale, Calif., for the Lockheed Martin Corporation.