Brothers and Sisters

Choosing to become baptized is an important step in your spiritual life. It shows your genuine love for the Creator and your desire to live the best life you can.

No matter if you are 50 years old, or you're wishing to have your newborn child brought into the loving gracing of the Creator, we are there to provide the ceremony you desire.

Spiritual and religious ceremonies are available. Not sure which to select? Which one sound like you.

Spiritual

1. You were brought up in the church, but you no longer wish to practice your faith.
2. You believe in a higher power, but you want your child(ren) to make their own decisions about religion
3. You are an Interfaith couple and this is a neutral compromise

Religious

1. You were brought up in the church and wish to pass on the traditions
2. You do not have a church home at this time, however, still want to have the blessing of baptism
3. You are new to Christianity and wish to complete your journey with God
4. You are older and wish to renew your commitment to God. Now you understand.
   

No matter where you are in life, deciding to turn over a new leaf and start fresh is a great decision. Don't hesitate any further. We are here for you!

Call or visit us now!
Rev. Angela Butts Chester (562) 209-2083
www.blessingsallaround.com

Wedding Planning Radio At It's Best

Have you heard? I Do Radio is the best wedding planning web radio site. Top ranking for "wedding planning radio" and "wedding ceremony planning radio", we are dedicated to giving our bride's all they need to plan their wedding.

Listen in via BlogTalk Radio or iTunes to various wedding vendors across the nation. Have a question regarding hiring a wedding planner or selecting a cake for your reception? Get great advice from the vendor themselves.

Asking the questions that you want answered. Tune in everyday.

Blessings All Around in Long Beach to receive WeddingWire Bride's Choice Awards™ 2011

Long Beach Wedding Officiant Rewarded for Top Customer Service and Professionalism with Prestigious Annual Award.

Long Beach, CA – January 26, 2011 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce Blessings All Around has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for wedding Officiant service.

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Blessings All Around stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Blessings All Around for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Blessings All Around is among the very best wedding Officiants within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee.

“We would like to thank our past clients in the Los Angeles County and Orange County areas for reviewing our services; thereby nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011. We are devoted to professionalism and customer satisfaction. Our goal is to give every bridal couple the wedding ceremony they’ve always dreamed of.” said Rev. Angela Chester, Blessings All Around's owner. “Whether an eloping couple that wants a private wedding, or a grand evening ceremony; we are there to celebrate each couple.”

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today.

WeddingWire’s formal transition from the 2010 recipients will occur in early February. For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

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.

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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.

Interfaith Blessing of the Animals for Household Pets & Some Exotic Animals

Interfaith Blessing of the Animals for Household Pets & Some Exotic Animals
More than 300 animals to be blessed

BRING YOUR PETS

WE WILL BLESS THE PETS, Sat., Oct. 2, 2010 at noon. The Interfaith Blessing of the Animals presented by Haute Dogs and Justin Rudd is free to the public and their pets.

Seniors, families, singles, and children, are encouraged to bring their dogs, cats, birds, lizards, rabbits, pot-bellied pigs, fish, tortoises and turtles and other well-behaved pets. Some exotic pets are being brought from a professional wildlife education organization include Exotic and out-of-the-ordinary guests at this year's Blessing will include:
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red Tegu
4 7' albino Burmese python - can grow to be the length of a school bus making them the third largest type of snake in the world!
- Bobcat
- Fennec
- Porcupine
- Two-toed Sloth
4 Serval wildcat - Leptailurus serval, is a medium-sized African wild cat under 50 lbs. and is one of the only cats with both spots and stripes and can jump incredibly high to catch its food!
- pig
- chinchilla
4 Monitor lizard - is a scavenger that eats the food lions and other carnivores leave behind. They are also related to the Komodo dragon, the largest and scariest lizard on the planet!
- opossum
- Dumeril Boa
- Horse
- Lamb

WE WILL ALSO HAVE a moment of blessing, silence and vigil at the beginning of the service for pets who are unfortunately involved with sport dog fighting and other inhumane, unethical treatment.

After brief words from each of the faith leaders (listed below), the menagerie of participants will have the opportunity to line up single-file to be blessed by the faith leaders who will be dressed in traditional garb. Olive branches and holy water will be available. Choose one, or get blessed by all of the clergy (listed below).

THE EVENT will last approx. 45 minutes. It's important to recognize and honor the great bond and relationship between pets and their people. The religious leaders will talk or pray briefly on the interconnections among all living beings.

SPONSORS
Justin Rudd's nonprofit 501c3 Community Action Team (C.A.T.), Gazette Newspapers, and Haute Dogs.

ON-SITE VET
Dr. Greg Perrault, Cats & Dogs Animal Hospital in Long Beach.

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.

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Before You Tie the Knot Book Tour Visits The Man Registry

Rev. Angela Butts Chester is on book tour as many of you know. Today she is featured on The Man Registry's blog. This is a great site for grooms to visit to find out what they need to do and how to do it.

During this stop, she doesn't just talk about the book, Before You Tie The Knot, stop by and let us know what you think:
Before You Tie the Knot Book Tour Visiting The Man Registry

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.

DeShai Roberson on I Do Radio

DeShai Roberson of Oh So Chic Wedding & Event Planning has been planning & coordinating events in San Diego for 5 years. With a degree in Interior Design and a passion for color, DeShai loves to present her clients with new and fun ideas to make their event unique and "cleverly stylish".

DeShai has spent the past few years building and nurturing relationships with some of San Diego's most sought after vendors. Her warm personality and vibrant spirit is what makes couples entrust their most memorable day in her hands.

DeShai will be featured on I Do Radio, Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 10 am PT/1pm ET. Please join us as she shares her wedding planning advice.