Friday, October 11, 2013

The Wedding Day Journal

Our wedding day was absolutely PERFECT.  The weather, the people, the everything.  The ONLY thing I would have changed would have been my hair.  And I sort of did change it because I didn't like how the stylist did it so I touched it up.  Thankfully you can't really tell in the pictures.

We were married in the Columbus, Ohio temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 10:00 am.  We were blessed to have my grandpa from North Carolina come and seal us.  It was truly special to have him there.  We were also surrounded by many of our friends and family members.  It made me feel so special to have family and friends that traveled from Arizona, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina there.

The ceremony only lasted about 20 minutes.  This temple just has one bride's room for the bride to change in and there happened to be another wedding that day after us.  I must have been changing really slow because the ladies kept coming to ask if I needed help and how much longer I would be.  Little did they know that my dress has buttons all up the back and it took two people like five minutes to button them all!  Plus I hadn't done make-up yet and I redid my hair some more.  It takes time to get everything together!

Walking out of the temple I felt so special because I walked past a group of youth their to do baptisms and was all done up and will admit, I loved the stares.  I thought to myself "that's right!  I just got married!  Look at me!"  And that's how I felt all day.

We stayed at the temple for about 90 minutes taking pictures.  The only picture we missed that I REALLY wish I had was all of the women dressed up in our colors.  We have ones of the boys and then just didn't get the girls right after...really??  How did we miss that?!

Nathaniel and I were the last ones there taking pictures and everyone else left to eat.  As we were getting stuff ready to go, I realized I didn't have my bag with street clothes in it or the vase for my flowers.  Talk about a mini freak-out.  I did NOT want to wear my dress and hold my flowers for the 1.5 hour ride back to Lima.  Thankfully, my family was eating at Chick-fil-A in Columbus still and my dad brought everything back to me.  When I went back into the temple to change out of my dress I forgot how many buttons there were to undo.  These two old ladies offered to help and, bless their hearts, it took them twice as long to undo them as it did to button them in the first place.  I felt so bad for their poor fingers!

On the way back to Lima we got a little hungry and decided to stop at Subway.  I told Nathaniel we should tell them this was our first meal together as husband and wife.  He was embarrassed and said I couldn't do that.  So I met him in the middle and said we would tell them if they asked why he was all dressed up.  My hair was done but I was in jeans by now.  He still had on his suit and boutineer (sp??).  Well we ordered and were checking out and no one had asked anything!  So I took matters into my own hands and said "Hey, you should ask him why he is wearing a flower."  The cashier (an older guy) asked.  "BECAUSE WE JUST GOT MARRIED AND THIS IS OUR FIRST MEAL AS A MARRIED COUPLE!!!!!" I responded.  Turns out he must have been the manager because he gave us our meal for free.  ShaBAM.



We drove the rest of the way home and were able to hang out at my house until the reception started.  I think all we ended up dong was taking a nap in the basement though because we were both so exhausted from the morning!

Here I have to give a huge thank-you to all the people who helped set up the reception.  I can't even describe how wonderful it was to just get there and have everything looking beautiful and just as I imagined.

But before I get to the reception, I have to mention our Pony Keg sign.  My parents got the sign put up for that day as well as the previous one.  Even though it meant being later to our reception, we stopped to get a picture by it.  And yes, we were quite late to our own reception.  Oh well.  Hopefully no one was offended.



The reception was PERFECT as well.  It looked just how I wanted it to look.  The food tasted fantastic.  The people were my favorite.  The gift pile stacked nice and high ;)  But in all seriousness, I couldn't have asked for a better reception.  We opted to not have a line (highly recommended!) and instead just walked around the whole time, trying to talk to everyone that came.  It was great to see old teachers, friends from high school and families from the neighborhood and church.  Gosh it was fantastic!

Our goal was to leave right when the reception ended because we had to drive up to Detroit that night but of course that's not how it happened.  We didn't leave until 10:00 or so.

Well, that was the wedding day!  Pictures of it to come soon!

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