My name was Thelma Chinenye Odigwe but you can call me Mrs. Thelma Chinenye Bamiduro 😊
I got married to the love of my life a few years ago, I still cannot believe how blessed I am to be with the love of my life. Sigh! It has been such an amazing journey, to say the least.
I met him while I was studying accountancy at the University, he was in his third year when I resumed.
It was a long stressful, tedious first semester for me. I was sixteen years old and new to all the hustle and bustle of university life. From processing my school fees on E-transact to registering my courses for the semester, to setting up my university online portal and so on. The list was endless, and it seemed unending, in the midst of my chaos Olatunde saw me, found himself an amazing wife, me! š
I strolled into a business center on campus with my oily-sweaty face; I wanted to make some photocopies. I met him there o, but baba said I could go before him. I said, ādonāt worry I will wait my turnā. But he insisted that I made mine copies first, after some seconds of going back and forth. I agreed to make the photocopies.
Then he started to make small conversations, I was not interested, to be honest. I was too tired for any form of conversation. Well, he was able to squeeze out my name and department that day.
Only for him to come looking for me in my class a week after. He found out the classes I had and the venues. He was waiting patiently for me just outside one of my classes.
I did not see him, I just heard some voice say, Thelma! I looked back only to see this boy I had met the previous week.
oh! Hi was what I said when IĀ saw him, he was the last person I was expecting to see or talk to again but all I could muster was Oh! Hi. LOOL! I’ d later find out that, that my short phrase, “oh! Hi! demoralized my husband-to-be at that time.
May I speak with you?Ā He said.
Out of curiosity, I walked with him down the hallway and “lowkey” I thought it really sweet of him to come all the way to look for me.
That was the beginning of a friendship that transitioned into a relationship and eventually, he proposed to me three years after I graduated from the university.
The wedding preparationĀ was the most stressful thing in my entire life. If it was up to me to plan my wedding, I would have wanted something simple, private and intimate. But as I am the first child and daughter of my parents, they wanted to celebrate big and Olatunde’s family is way above the average class in the society.
The only compromise I think we were able to come to was to choose the people I wanted at my party; it was a strictly by invitation affair.
Thus, we kept telling ourĀ friends and family to endeavor to get an invitation card and come with it to the wedding.Ā We tried our best I tell you, but then not everyone was able to get an invitation card or came to the wedding with the invitation.
They took the matter of the invitation card with levity, they thought they could still gain access to our wedding with or without the wedding card.
I was not surprised when after the wedding, I was hearing people lament about how disappointed they were or how angry they were that they dressed up, spent hours doing their make-up, spent money on fuel, time in traffic only to get to the weeding entrance was legit asked to step back without an invitation card.
Those were strict orders my husband and I gave to the bouncers, we just could not compromise or risk having unwanted guests at our wedding party for many reasons.
And so is the Kingdom of heaven, It is like a wedding ceremony- only people dressed finely and can identify themselves as invitees to the wedding ceremony will gain entrance. Jesus Christ said, “the kingdom of heaven is like a king who threw a wedding banquet for his son. Sent out servants to call in invited guests but they did not come”-Ā Matthew 22:2-3
We are saved but do we really have access to heaven if the world ended today? For some of my family friends, they thought to be close friends was enough to get them in but it was not enough. We need to be in constant check of our lives to see if it pleases God.
And for you haven’t accepted the invitation of Jesus Christ, please do not miss out on the most beautiful wedding ceremony in life.
Nobody should miss out on the bliss of heaven. May God give us the grace to have beautiful, wedding garments to enter into heaven in Jesus name. Matthew 22:11-12