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Becoming Beauplan

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Some of our favorite kiddos! What you’re about to read might make your head spin. It might seem unbelievable. Trust me, I couldn’t make this up if I tried. The road to Wood and I’s wedding was nothing short of an adventure. We got married a week ago and it’s taken me all of that time to even process how we made it to “I Do.” Our wedding from the get go wasn’t going to be “traditional” per say. As a Haitian, having a Caribbean beach wedding is definitely not the norm and I guess for an American it’s not either. On both sides it feels a little big extravagant or as Haitians would call it, “bougie.” We never viewed it as that or had that in mind as our goal. Choosing a location at the beach is just what made sense to us. It was the happy medium and the perfect background for two families from separate cultures coming together as one. Our desire has always been simple.   In the end, simple is what we achieved, but the road getting there was much more complicated. After g