The Wedding Experience

As plans for the wedding started to come together things started to go not as we planned. Wednesday we were supposed to get the napkins that we had ordered on the Internet. They said it would only take 2-3 day to ship. Wednesday evening I was checking my email and there was an email from them saying they had canceled our order because they couldn't get them to us in time. I called all over trying to find someone that would have them but no one could print them in less than 2 weeks. Thursday morning I was in much pain with my back and so went up to the chiropractor. While there I told the receptionist what had happened and she said that in Orem at Zurchers they had a sign that said they could do it in 24 hours. While I was in the office she got on her cell phone and called them. They said they could try but couldn't guarantee anything. I called and placed the order about 11:30 AM and they said they would call me when they had them finished. We left Thursday afternoon about 12:00 to travel to Manti and about 12:30 pm the lady at Zurchers called and said she had them done. She said she did them right away so I wouldn't have to make a trip back from Manti to get them. It is so refreshing to see people that will go out of their way to make things easier for someone else, even a stranger. I was so impressed.

Tom & Ashley left earlier than we did because they were meeting his parents there earlier in the day. When we arrived the first thing Ashley said was I hope you remembered to get the bouquet. My mouth just dropped open as I realized that I hadn't because I thought she had packed all that stuff. We didn't know what to do and finally decided to run to Ephriam to WalMart and get some flowers. We got 3 vines of flowers and some ribbon and hooked them together the best we could and called it good. Ashley was sad that she didn't have the bouquet that Celinda made for her.

We arrived at the Temple about half an hour earlier than we were supposed to, I guess they were so eager to get married they just couldn't wait. :)

The ceremony was so nice. (The brides mom must have had to much water to drink that morning because when the ceremony started she started to leak water from her eyes.) I was so impressed with the sealer that preformed the ceremony and the sweet spirit that filled the room. It was beautiful.

After the ceremony when we were going out to take pictures Tom and Ashley went out the revolving door and they both stepped into the same section and my Mom (Verla) stepped in the next one right behind them. They stopped right out of the door and she was stuck in the door for quite some time while they took pictures. It was a beautiful sunny day with very little wind.
We went to Nephi to a restaurant for the dinner after and then we stopped in SLC to get the food for the reception.

The reception turned out very nice, except that it was sooooooo hot in the Heritage Barn. We went up about 10:30, to decorate and cut up the food, and turned the air conditioning as low as it would go but it never did cool down much. It was 85 degrees in there most of the night. We served fruit kabobs with 3 kinds of fruit dip and chips with salsa, guacamole, ranch dip and water punch. The punch was in a pretty fountain.

I'm not sure how many trips back home, to get things we forgot, that we made but just when we thought we had it all they decided to cut the cake and do the garter thing. I had forgotten the cake knife and spatula so I had to run home and get it, and Ashley didn't have her garter on and we couldn't find it.

When Tom and Ashley cut the cake it turned into a big messy game. They both pushed cake in each others face. Ashley had to go down to the bathroom and blow the cake plugs out of her nose. What goofy kids!

There car was wrapped in plastic wrap when they were ready to go. It was kind of funny.

Sunday we left to go up to Cody for the open house and had a wonderful couple of days. Toms family is so nice and we really enjoyed getting to know them.
The open house was supposed to be in the back yard but about 30 minutes before it was to start it started to sprinkle, then hail, then flat out poured. There was a river running down the road in front of their home. You couldn't even see the road or gutters because of all the rain rushing down them. It poured for about 30 minutes and then quit. The party turned out very nice all considered.

Brian and Kristie left about 5AM Tuesday morning because he had to work night shift and needed to get some sleep. John, Josh and I went over to the Cooks about 9AM, to load some stuff they needed hauled back down to Rock Springs, and then went home through Yellowstone Park. It was a wonderful trip. We got home about 9:30 PM and then had to get up early this morning to go back down to SLC for Johns Dr appointment.

His eye is doing OK. The Dr said it is no better but it is no worse either. He was glad for that. Last week it was showing signs of improvement this week about the same but he thinks it will continue to heal.

We will miss having Ashley around a lot but Josh and I are already arguing over who gets her room. Josh wants it because it is a little bigger than his and I want to make it into a craft/guest room.