Tuesday 20 August 2013

Scoop on CNN Isha Sesay's love story.



Isha described her wedding as magical and I could just feel their love.
In an intimate chat about their wedding, Isha Sesay and Leif Coorlim talked about how they met in 2008 through work on a CNN project but started dating in 2011 when Isha asked him out for a drink :-).

On their favorite thing about each other, they had this to say:

Isha says her favorite thing about her husband is his "kindness." She explains: "He has an extraordinarily large heart, and every day he does something that impresses me and makes me want to be a better person. He’s truly a special soul."

For Leif, the best thing about Isha is how outgoing she is. "We can’t take 10 steps in the building without her stopping to talk to somebody. She’s best friends with her dry cleaner, waiters in the restaurant down the road, even her dentist. It’s that kind of open-heartedness, that I truly am in awe of and love about her," he said.
The couple described their wedding as "fun, relaxed, romantic, elegant and unconventional".

We'd been planning this as an outdoor wedding for eight months. It was supposed to be outside in the Mandarin's English Gardens, but thanks to an early heads up about bad weather from CNN meteorologist Jen Delgado, we decided just last Wednesday to move the entire event indoors! She was our guardian angel -- we will forever be grateful to her! Given the quick turnaround, we gave the decorator and florist Britt Wood complete design freedom. So we had no idea what he would do with the ceremony space and were completely blown away by how he transformed the ballroom. It was breathtaking.

Leif had no idea I had planned a surprise performance of his favorite love song at the end of the ceremony. I booked a singer to perform Elton John's "Your Song." Once the officiant told Leif he could kiss me, she started singing from behind the drapery which was framing our altar. Then she suddenly came out from behind the curtain, surprising Leif and all our guests.
Isha narrates the story below:
We asked CNN's Don Lemon to MC our dinner and he did a fantastic job of bringing everyone into the mix. We had a number of planned speeches but Don did what we in TV call "ad libbing" and went completely off script, calling out people to come up and give impromptu speeches. The result was an evening of great emotion; there was so much love and laughter in that room.


Happy married life to the lovely couple. They look good together.It's nice to read love stories :-)

Source:Huffingtonpost

11 comments:

  1. Wow..had tears in my eyes.they sound truly in love.bless their marriage

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  2. Beautiful!breathtaking!lovely couple,lovely decor,lovely cake

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  3. So na dis oybo man come carry Isha's hips that don't lie?ok o

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  4. Wow! Nice love story. I wish a happy married life.

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  5. Oyibo too like beta ting. So I don miss out. All my dreams of marrying Isha.....anyway,I'll still wait.

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  6. I luv the last pic..the way Isha gazes @ him wth the look of love:)and also the fact that they both gave each other lovely wedding surprises:Isha the love song and leif the honeymoon destination surprise.just lovely.am a hopeless romantic

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  7. If only naija will read this kinda stories and borrow a leaf and not buying fake designer clothes!

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  8. Lmao@ anon. Naija men are busy trying to reap where they did not sow. Out to dupe rich desperate girls,they don't know the meaning of love & romance is out of the question.

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  9. Hate love stories!I thnk reality sucks!

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  10. Pls where is Isha from?who knows?which part of Africa? Or is she American?

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