The day started really for me since I had to get up at 5:15 to be ready for my hairdresser/makeup artist to show up at 5:30, never mind that she didn't show up until 6:15! I was a little frustrated because I knew it would be an amazing, yet long day and I had already lost unnecessary sleep. But she did eventually show up, and though it was a long process.
We walked to the temple, while the Marriott is only a block away from the temple, it ended being a rather long walk, or maybe that was just because we were so anxious :)
Once we got in the temple I felt a little more calm, I guess all those horror stories of arriving late to the temple were getting to me. We signed the marriage certificate and went our separate ways to get dressed. Then we found each other again and went to the celestial room to wait. We waited, and waited, and waited. All the other couples waiting with us had left, and more had come, and some of those had left. At that moment I made Eric go ask what was going on because I was freaking out and was convinced that they had forgotten all about us. Well, apparently the couple who was in our room before us was 15 minutes late! Though late, it was eventually our turn. The sealing was just beautiful and amazing. Something we'll never forget.
Then we took nearly 2 hours of pictures. It was fun, but I was tired of pictures after all that. We got some awesome shots, I can't wait to get them back. There was one moment during the picture taking that I thought was really funny. We were standing on the steps in between pictures and Savannah, my 4 year-old cousin asked her dad, who was standing right behind us, "When is Shelley going to have a baby?" Oh goodness, Eric and I laughed so hard we could barely contain ourselves.
After the pictures we changed and went to find the car so we could head down to Midway for the luncheon, which we were already way late for. My friend brought the car down for us, and parked it. She told us the car was parked at the Joseph Smith Memorial third floor parking lot. We searched and searched and searched, well Eric searched while I sat on a barrier and rested my poor feet, but the car wasn't anywhere.
I called my friend again and asked her if there was a mistake. And low and behold, it turns out that the car was parked at the Conference Center! The Conference Center happens to be on the other side of Temple Square. I couldn't walk very fast in my heels, so I stayed and sat on the edge of a flower planter and waited for Eric to come back with the car. Luckily he rolled up just as I was getting really cold.
We raced up the canyon to make it to our luncheon. When we walked in everyone clapped, cheered and laughed. It appeared that in our absence everyone decided to share their favorite stories about the two of us. A lot of them were embarrassing as you can imagine.
There was a ton of food at the luncheon, for which we were both grateful, we were starving. Eric's parents had the luncheon catered by Panda Express... yum, it was the perfect thing!
Then what did we do? We went and took MORE pictures! These were our "bridals and groomals". We took them at the Wasatch Mountain State Park. The leaves were at just the perfect stage. I can't wait to see the pictures, though after all that picture-taking we were quite spent.
We made it back to the reception just in time to enjoy a caramel apple together before we needed to get ready for the reception. I wish we had lingered at the buffet table and enjoyed more of the food before we were swept away, that caramel apple was the only bit of our reception food that we tasted, well besides the cake.
I was a little frustrated that my flowers were completely off, apparently the flower supplier froze my lilies, but I decided to not let it bother me--there had to be a few hiccups along the way. But besides that the reception was absolutely beautiful, we were just astounded with how many people made it, and how well everything went. There were some people who really went out of their way to come, and it really meant a lot to us.
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| One of my favorite pictures! |
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| My niece Aleksa was a darling holding my skirt all evening. |
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| Heather and Cam showing their true selves at the reception. |
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| Annie and Ben standing around while we took TONS of pictures. |
My friend Missy, had spent the whole day Friday making us the perfect chocolate cake! It was absolutely delicious, I ate several pieces
I really wanted to have a first dance, but there really wasn't much dancing room, my dress was so huge and cumbersome that our dance we had practiced wasn't possible, and I hate being the center of attention, so we almost didn't do it, but I decided what the heck, at least I won't regret not doing it. So we had our first dance, Eric knew how self conscious I felt about the whole thing and he really made it fun and not awkward. Luckily other people started dancing too, so it felt more natural. Then I danced with my dad, and Eric danced with his mom. I threw my bouquet, and I threw it too far, so no one caught it! Haha! I ran down the steps and we ran out the door!
But here was my favorite part of the whole reception. Eric and I had spent days making little packets of lavender for guests to throw in lieu of rice or bubbles (it is a French tradition that I feel in love with). We waited for everyone to line up outside the reception hall, and once they were all ready we ran in between the two lines of guests and were showered with sweet smelling bits of lavender. Honestly, both Eric and I commented about how it felt like something, not to be cliche or anything, out of a movie or fairy tale. It was magical!
I wish I had more pictures, I promise the professional ones are coming VERY soon. And Eric's aunt Becky just posted a ton on Facebook as well.
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