Diabetic Brides – Divabetic

01/27/2023

Divabetic’s Bride’s Guide to Diabetes podcast

Make a vow to live well with diabetes.

Tune in to Divabetic’s Bride’s Guide to Diabetes podcast.

If you’re living with, at risk of, or affected by diabetes, planning or attending a wedding, this inside guide to one of life’s most significant celebrations is for you!

Mr. Divabetic officiates a full hour of diabetes information and inspiration featuring a guest list of wedding, food and fashion experts offering tips and suggestions for brides, grooms, attendants, and attendees. Brides living with type 1 diabetes share how they juggled blood sugars and last-minute nerves.

Guests include Jessica Issler RD, CDCES, Judi Wilcox RD, CDCES, Wedding Cake Designer Christine Campanelli, Celebrity Cookbook Author Holly Clegg, Divabetic Style Expert Catherine Schuller, and Former Brides.

Divabetic inspiration, Luther Vandross has been a choice of music for many brides and grooms. Many of his songs are still being played today. His emotion and topic of love are perfect for wedding music.

Released in 1989 on the album The Best of Luther Vandross: The Best of Love, “Here and Now” was a wedding super hit in the 1990s and was played at thousands of weddings as the first dance song for wedding couples. Here and Now peaked and number six on the Billboard Hot 100.

07/07/2021

Bride’s Guide To Diabetes

My maternal grandmother, Mary Zinni, living with diabetes, was married 100 years ago on June 12, 1921. She was a kind, hardworking mother of five. When my grandmother wasn’t preparing meals, she made her own pasta and sauce, cleaning and caring for her family, she was writing letters to help other family members and neighbors come to America. Although my grandfather didn’t know how to read or write, my grandmother read and wrote in English and Italian.

Her oldest granddaughter, Lynne, remembers finding her once she passed out at the bottom of the cellar stairs from low blood sugar. My mother says she took one shot a day (I assume it was insulin) and never spoke about her diabetes.

Unfortunately, my mother says my grandmother was born in the wrong era, which means she was ‘too bright’ for her time. However, her intellect was gifted to her daughters, granddaughters, great-granddaughters, college graduates, knowledgeable, and very accomplished women.

This year, two of her great-granddaughters were married! One in Newport, RI, and the other in Missoula, MT. Both weddings were delayed due to COVID. However, the year-long wait didn’t manageto dampen spirits or dim any of the dazzle! Each wedding was spectacular in its own way. If I am partial to one, it’s because I officiated it!

Enjoy helpful tips for those living with, at risk, and affected by diabetes on their ‘Big Day’ on Divabetic’s Bride’s Guide To Diabetes podcast.

07/07/2020

31 Days of Divabetic Podcasts: Day Seven

Divabetic (Divabetic.org) presents a month-long showcase celebrating 10 years of diabetes podcasting. Each of the featured podcasts spotlights our favorite guests, topics, poems, games and/or musical inspiration. Enjoy!

On Day Seven we’re spotlighting our Bride’s Guide to Diabetes podcast from June 2011. If you’re living with, at risk of or affected by diabetes, planning or attending a wedding, this inside guide to one of life’s most important celebrations is for you!

Thanks to Thomas AE for sharing their work on Unsplash.

Mr. Divabetic officiates a full hour featuring a guest list of wedding, food and fashion experts with tips and suggestions for brides, grooms, attendants and attendees. Guests include Jessica Issler and Judi Wilcox, certified diabetes educators, Christine Campanelli, wedding cake designer, Holly Clegg, celebrity cookbook author, Catherine Schuller, fashion stylist, former brides and more.

“I’m so glad this Bride’s Guide to Diabetes podcast is so popular,” says Max ‘Mr. Divabetic’ Szadek. “I love every minute of it right down to Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Sex & The City sound bytes.”

Thanks to Alekon for sharing their work on Unsplash.

And if there were any doubt, here’s our favorite Wedding Song: Here & Now by Luther Vandross. Enjoy this live performance of Grammy winning single ‘Here and Now’ at Royal Albert Hall in 1994.

Divabetic’s monthly podcasts are dedicated to Music Lovers living with, at risk and/or affected by diabetes. We aim to be the epicenter of the circle of care, a link between patients and their health care providers, a translator of clinical speak and a bridge between denial and acceptance, fear and confidence

Divabetic was inspired by the late music legend, Luther Vandross and created in 2005 by Max ‘Mr. Divabetic’ Szadek, who, as Vandross’ assistant of 14 years, witnessed his boss, mentor, and friend struggle in silence and solitude with the diabetes and its related complications. Since its inception, Divabetic has presented outreach programs in 15 major U.S. cities, reaching hundreds of thousands of women, their families and health care professionals.

Experience more of our GLAM MORE, FEAR LESS philosophy at divabetic.org