{"id":3886,"date":"2015-08-12T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2024-03-29T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:46:07","slug":"chapel-of-the-flowers-bride-embracing-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/chapel-of-the-flowers-bride-embracing-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel of the Flowers\u2019 Bride Embracing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" title=\"Chapel of the Flowers Bride's Inspirational Story\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1022188-1193-e1438891104942.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel of the Flowers Bride\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have some pretty incredible couples walk through our doors. Once in awhile, we hear a truly inspirational story and Laura Lawson\u2019s story is one of those. She is a past Chapel of the Flowers\u2019 bride that is truly living life to the fullest!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You may remember Laura from our \u201c<a title=\"Chapel of the Flowers Love Story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/globe-trotting-love-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe-Trotting Love Story<\/a>\u201d post back in December 2014. Since December, <a title=\"Chapel of the Flowers' Bride Embracing Life\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/10\/health\/turning-points-bucket-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> featured Laura in a news article about how she is embracing life with a bucket-list and a \u201ccan-do\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Laura wasn\u2019t always as confident and outgoing as she is today. In her teenage years, she was bullied to the point where she no longer went to school. After sitting on the coach day after day, she felt unmotivated to do much with her life.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the movie \u201cYes Man\u201d, it sparked an idea to create a bucket-list to include small goals that she could accomplish and wanted to try. The list included things like dying her hair pink, joining a roller derby league and taking cooking class (which helped her lose weight). The list started small but has now grown to about 350 goals; which Laura has accomplished around 150 items off her list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/10\/health\/turning-points-bucket-list\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" title=\"Past Chapel of the Flowers Bride Laura Lawson\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chapel-of-the-Flowers-Bride-Laura.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel-of-the-Flowers-Bride-Laura\" \/><\/a>Just like in \u201cYes Man\u201d, the chain reaction of positive and fun activities lead to Laura\u2019s attitude towards life to change; as well as meeting new and interesting people that are still apart of her life.<\/p>\n<p>During her journey, she met her husband David. Four years after meeting, they decided to get married in Las Vegas (at <a title=\"Las Vegas Wedding Packages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapel of the Flowers<\/a>) since they didn\u2019t want to have a large wedding. Laura looked breathtaking in her blue-hued vintage inspired wedding gown as she said \u201cI do\u201d to the love of her life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" title=\"Chapel of the Flowers bride says &quot;I do&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1022188-1053-e1438891329307.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel of the Flowers past Bride\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The newlyweds finished their wedding getaway by having a <a title=\"Las Vegas Strip Photo Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/weddings\/photography\/sessions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas Strip photo session<\/a>, sky diving, sipping champagne on the way to the Grand Canyon, visiting the animals with a backstage experience at the San Diego Zoo and shooting some zombies with paint balls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" title=\"Chapel of the Flowers Las Vegas Wedding\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1022188-1182-e1438891490430.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel of the Flower Las Vegas Sign Wedding\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/10\/health\/turning-points-bucket-list\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" title=\"Chapel of the Flowers bride Laura Lawson Skydiving\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chapel-of-the-Flowers-Bride-Laura-1-e1438891528286.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel of the Flowers Bride Skydiving\" \/><\/a>We would like to congratulate Laura on her epic journey and courageous attitude towards life. We are hoping to see you again soon. Who knows maybe Chapel of the Flowers is on the bucket-list for a <a title=\"Chapel of the Flowers Vow Renewal Ceremony Package\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-packages\/renewal-of-vows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vow renewal<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some pretty incredible couples walk through our doors. Once in awhile, we hear a truly inspirational story and Laura Lawson\u2019s story is one of those. She is a past Chapel of the Flowers\u2019 bride that is truly living life to the fullest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117,870],"tags":[124,94,133,496,957,132,202,136,110],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-chapel","category-las-vegas-weddings-chapel","tag-all-inclusive","tag-chapel-ceremony","tag-destination-wedding","tag-elope","tag-elope-vegas","tag-international-wedding","tag-las-vegas-strip","tag-wedding-package","tag-wedding-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}