POTENT Issue #2 - The Women's Issue

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was Ebenezer Woodberry Franklin Stirrup, a carpenter that migrated to Coconut Grove, Florida from Harbour Island, in The Bahamas. He went on to become one of the largest landowners of his time in Coconut Grove, as well as one of Florida’s first Black millionaires. This must be where Deana received her financial acumen from, one of her characteristics Henry noticed early on. The saying that everything happens for a reason rings true throughout their relationship. Just as a pair of lost keys led them to each other, a series of missed connections with a wedding coordinator led Deana to visit the official www.Bahamas.com website. There she saw the yearlong promotion being spearheaded by the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (BMOT), “16 Weddings, 16 Islands, 1 Priceless Day.” The promotion was an effort to showcase the many personalities of the different Bahamian islands as prominent wedding and honeymoon destination options. While the world is familiar with Nassau and Freeport, the BMOT wants to invite more people to get to know the Family Islands of The Bahamas; with over 700 islands and 2,000 keys, each one is uniquely different. Deana and Henry entered the contest, had all their family and friends vote online, shared their love story with the judges and to their surprise, were selected as one of the 16 winning couples to have an all-expense paid dream wedding in The Bahamas. With the assistance of the BMOT’s Director of Romance, Freda Malcolm, Deana was able to select her dream dress, dream set of rings, dream wedding and dream destination, as she was set to marry the man of her dreams. On Jan. 16, 2015, 16 couples on 16 different islands in the Bahamas, all marched down a powdery beach isle to say their vows at 16:00 hours (4 p.m.). On their own piece of paradise on Harbour Island at the Valentines Resort and Marina, Deana and Henry were among those couples. Their two children served as the ring bearers and 40 of their closest family and friends witnessed the intimate ceremony and the traditional Junkanoo performance. “To say being a winner is a dream come true is not enough to describe how we truly felt. It’s a full circle,” says Deana. “My family origin in the Bahamas, the winner’s reception at the Atlantis’s Oceans Edge – where we wanted our original wedding – our rings; the ease of the planning and the sheer joy seen on our family and friend’s faces. It felt like we received a kiss from God.”
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