saturday morning, i woke up in a bunk bed in a room i shared with my sister at a house my parents rented for the week. i got ready and went with my parents to my hair appointment at lunatic fringe. we quickly headed over to the salt lake city temple, and i was so excited/nervous/is this real life?! we sat in the lobby waiting for the groom for a looonnngg time :) our wedding day coincided with the SLC marathon, so traffic was kind of crazy since the streets were all blocked off. my mom helped me get ready and then cory and i waited to go into the sealing room. we were sealed for time and all eternity by a wonderful man who said, "i love you, but honey what did you do to these tacos?" i remember my mom shoving my veil into the back of my hair and how we wandered around the hallways trying to find a. cory or b. an exit. we got the flowers and then cory and i made our exit to see all our family and friends! there were many pictures and we wandered around the temple. i'm so grateful we had so many friends and family there :)
lindsey steward of green apple photography did all our pictures and she was phenomenal at wrangling spots around the temple. cory and i did pictures until about 1-my parents stuck around, so my mom could help me out of my wedding dress. cory and i headed over to jamba juice and there were some girls who complimented me on my outfit and hair and i just felt giddy thinking "i was just married! it's my wedding day!" my mom made sure that i didn't have to do any work that day, and i will be eternally grateful to her for that. we showed up at the reception and changed and took a few more pictures. our reception was held at the old meeting house in murray, utah. i loved it because it had a vintagey feel and allowed us to have good lighting (for me) and it was indoors (we weren't sure about the weather). i really loved all the decor and personal touches-my mom had so many good ideas.
we had a ring ceremony before the reception for family and friends who were not at the temple sealing. the only little hiccup that day was that bishop hill was late to the ring ceremony because he thought it was at 7, not 6:30. but of course, everything worked out! i loved having the traditional walk down the aisle with my father and to exchange rings with cory in front of our loved ones.
we had a full spread of food, including salmon, brie en croute (which cory said was apple pie, ha), fruit, meatballs, cupcakes, and many flavors of lemonade. our wedding cake was delicious and beautiful-a layer of snickerdoodle with cream cheese filling, chocolate with raspberry filling and italian cream with pineapple filling. i loved the photobooth and the pictures we got from it. i had fabulous yellow heels on but my feet were killing me by the end of the reception (we stood the whole time) and i had a pinched nerve in my big toe for two days after.
one of my favorite things was the chapstick wedding favors-which we still have floating around in our closet :) the only thing i regret about my wedding day is that i didn't do dancing! cory and i don't dance, but i went to a wedding after we were married and the dancing was so much fun! i really can't complain though because it was such a perfect day.
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