THE DAY (Part 2)

We made it to the reception center by 5:00pm with a few little wedding glitches like usual. We rushed through some more family pictures trying to be all done and ready by 6:30pm for the start of the reception. We had our reception at Aspen Landing in Murray off of Redwood and 6400 S. I loved it there. It was like a cute little cottage, perfect for a Valentine's weekend wedding. It was pretty much overcast all day with clouds, but nothing wet, which I was worried about. The day just seemed to go by so fast it didn't seem like we really could stop too much, I wish I could have done that a bit more, but there were just so many people to see and things to do. I loved it all. We stood in our line with our parents on each side for almost 2 hours! Wow, it went by really fast actually. I was a bit sad that I couldn't just sit and talk to some of those good friends/family for hours since they had come all that way. But, that's a wedding for you huh? It was fun meeting David's people and also getting him to meet all the people I knew. Anyway, it was finally time for the partying :) :) We cut the cake, did the bouquet and garter, and then my dad played the Wedding song traditional for our family by Kenny G. Then we did the daddy daughter and mother son dance - some people in tears - and then finally - the cute couple (hello, ... yep, us) danced our first dance!! We danced to Never Gonna Be Alone by Nickelback. Jeff my cousin was our DJ at the very last minute, which I loved so much. I totally wanted that. And then after 'the dance' we invited everyone else up to get their groove on. The crowd was a little slim at the end, but I didn't notice and just had fun before the night ended. We got all ready and headed out to sparklers and all our loved ones wishing us well. Oh... our car... was ... totally ... trashed ... really badly. We actually had to stop and wash it since we had a bit of a drive ahead of us. Yay!! What a day!!! It really was perfect. Loved it all. Wouldn't have changed a thing.

THE DAY (Part 1)

Okay there's really not much to write here that can explain the happiest day so far in life.... I got up and ready, drove to Stephs so she could do my hair and dropped of Lexie and Spring. Then David came over and we headed to the SLC Temple together. I loved that part. We were at the temple by 11:30am for our 1:00pm sealing. Parents were showing up shortly but we went ahead and just got started, I couldn't wait much longer :)... Anyway, I think the BEST part of our marriage was the TEMPLE. Of course, I've thought about it practically my whole life, but still it couldn't have been better. I loved walking into the sealing room and seeing so many family and friends from different times in our lives - all together. I felt so loved and supported, like wow, this is what I've been waiting for!!! Anyway, it was a beautiful experience, one I will always treasure. We got dressed in our Wedding clothes and headed out the doors of the temple about 30min after the sealing. All our crew was there to hoorah and cheer as we walked out the door, kissed, and had our huge grins on our faces. We have hundreds of pictures of these special moments. We then took a whole heck of a bunch of pictures with our different family groups. It was chilly outside, but I didn't notice too much, my dress was worm (that is totally not usual for me, I'm always cold!)... Then David & I took some couple shots with our photographer before we had to rush to Part 2 - the reception.... Couldn't have been a better day.