Wedding Day - First Look and Ceremony

Since Donny and I wanted to do pictures before the ceremony, we did a "first look" picture where he had his back to me, I walked up behind him, and Kelsey got pictures of his reaction to first seeing me.

After this set, we took A TON of family pictures. They turned out great!! We finished the pictures in plenty of time for the ceremony to begin at 7:30 PM.

The entire bridal party, including myself and my dad, walked into Train's "Hey Soul Sister".

Our Guest Book

 Team Yellow

 Team Blue

 Team Orange

 Team Green

 TEAM BRIDE!

 Signing the Marriage Certificate

Wedding Day - Getting Ready

The day of the wedding started off great. The bridesmaids all went with me to get nails done!

Dani's toes

 Teryn's toes

 My toes

During the time where we were getting our nails done, my mom had picked up all of our flowers and brought my hair piece to me. When I saw it my heart fell. It was completely wrong from what we had talked about in the consult and it was accented with this gaudy yellow bow that would have been in my face if I had used it. I called the florist and they said they would fix it, so my awesome mom took the hair piece clear back down to Draper with my grandma in tow so they could make it right. Thankfully, they did.

After nails we grabbed lunch at Subway and a Starbucks (the barista didn't charge me!), and headed to Teryn's house to start the getting pretty process. We arranged for the guys to get dressed in tuxes in the basement while we took over the upstairs. The photographer and videographer arrived to record the events for us.

My hair!

 Mommy and Daughter

 Three Generations

 The Groom

 The Groomsmen

 He didn't know I snuck a peak at him! He didn't see me at all!!

 A toast of celebration!

 I had these shirts made for all of the with the wedding date

After we got ready at Teryn's we headed over to Cactus and Tropicals in Draper so I could change into my dress before the wedding.

Rehearsal Dinner

Our rehearsal dinner was held at Biaggi's Italian Restaurant in the Gateway shopping district. They were excellent to work with and very accommodating to our needs! We had a private party room so that made things more comfortable. Donny and I chose the menu in advance not realizing that it came in about 7 different courses! People were filling up by the third and had to stuff to make room for it all. It was amazing food, though, so it was worth it!!

Some Group Shots

 The name cards and order of ceremony cards

 THE DESSERT!!

After we were finished eating, my mom and dad as well as Donny's dad gave short toasts.

My mom, Denise, is famous for her ditty's

 My dad, Rob

 Donny's dad, Don

 Donny's toast

 Ski took the photo's for us, and this is his modification to the camera

Bridal Party Party

The Wednesday before the wedding my bridesmaids put together a party for all members of our bridal party and their spouses. It was a struggle getting there with the blizzard that hit Utah that day, but everyone made it safe and sound-ish. We had some fun playing games and eating and drinking.....and more eating. We had Italian food and it was DELICIOUS!

My awesome sisters, Nicki and Dani

 MMMMMM!!!

 Just hanging out

 Bethany was a bit anxious to take the group shot

 Realized her mistake and put the shot back

 Take 2!

 They all LOVED it!

 The to-be's

 Gabe found Teryn's hardhat

November 2010

On Veteran's Day we decided to finally re-paint our bathroom. We were bored of it being the same color as the rest of the house, so we painted it Waterscape Blue. Later we are planning on doing some tiling around the shower to match the tile around the bathtub.