Love’s Eternal Flame

For Stashane Davis and Doran Williamson, what began with a chance meeting at a Sunday morning service at the Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre in Kingston soon blossomed into love.

Just one month after their introduction, fate brought them together once more, at the church’s bonfire. It was then — illuminated by the soft glow of the flames — that their own fire was kindled.

After months of dating the two became virtually inseparable, and by December 2013 Williamson had begun hatching a plan to make it an extra-special Christmas for the woman with whom he already knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life. Christmas dinner — in the presence of her entire family — was the perfect time to do it.

“After dinner we all gathered in the living room toasting each other. When it was Doran’s turn to toast he started by listing my attributes, while my family members agreed. Then he pulled out a little gold box with a red bow on it. I was so shocked that I just walked off,” Stashane recalled.

Five minutes later, the teary-eyed bride-to-be returned and took her seat. It was then that Doran went down on one knee and finally popped the question. A resounding “Yes!” was the response.

Six months later — on August 29, 2015 — at the University Chapel, Mona, in a ceremony officiated by Reverend David Ewen, in the company of family and friends, the two said “I do.” Dressed in a sequinned David Tutera-designed mermaid gown, a radiant Stashane made her way up the aisle, as songbird Dawn Martin performed a smooth rendition of Etta James’s

At Last. The groom, decked out in a suit by Spokes Apparel, could hardly contain his joy.

The rustic Alhambra Inn proved a charming venue for the reception, during which the blushing bride serenaded her groom with a heartwarming performance of Cece Winans’s

I Promise, and the couple celebrated the beginning of a bond forged by fate. The pair honeymooned at both Sunset Beach Resort in Montego Bay and Couples Negril Resort.