Wedding Pictures

Our wedding was beautiful. The Mount Timpanogos Temple is gorgeous, and I am glad we chose that one to get married in. The Bride's room is beautiful. I was the only bride that afternoon, so I got a lot of attention! The ceremony was very nice, but to be honest I don't remember a lot of it. I was just so happy to finally be there getting married!! Ok, so I FINALLY got my pictures from the photographer, and I hate to say I am VERY disappointed in her work. Ever since I have decided to go with her, I have been following her blog to see all of her work, and I love her pictures. They are so beautiful and creative, so I was super excited to have to take our pictures. Well, as she was taking us around the Temple, I was a little confused about the places she would take us and the poses she put us in. I also have to mention I was miserable because it was 1 degree outside!! It was unbelievably cold that day, but it was a beautiful day and the sky was clear and such a beautiful blue. So after waiting 5 weeks, I got the CD in the mail, and I am hard pressed to find even 5 that I like. I just have to say, thank goodness for Tanner! She saved the day. She was originally not going to be able to come to Utah for the wedding, which is why we hired a photographer. She was able to come, and boy am I glad. She went around with us and the photographer, and then took us around some more after the photographer left. She took much better pictures and took us to better locations around the temple. After we left, we all headed down to Mimi's Cafe for dinner. That place was so good and we had tons of people there, which was great. Tanner was also busy taking pictures at the dinner, which I am so grateful for because I want to remember that also. I thought all the stress would be over, but when I got home and started to prepare for the reception, it was just beginning! We were planning on having the reception in the gym at the church (I really didn't want it at the church, but with such short notice and it being the Christmas season, everything else was booked). I really wanted to have floor length table cloths and floor length chair covers. We found a girl that ran her own business and was reasonably priced, so we ordered all the linens from her. Well, about 10 days before the reception, she emailed my mom and told her that she would send out the linens the Monday before the reception. She didn't ask for a response, so my mom just assumed she would send it. Well, Tuesday came and then Wednesday...and the girl emailed my mom and told her since my mom never confirmed with her, she did not send them out. (By the way, I forgot to mention....we had already paid in full and reserved the date....do you think we need to send a confirmation telling her yes, we want them, after we had already paid for them????) She offered to send them out next day air, so my mom told her to go ahead. Well, she never did. So here it is, the day before my reception, and I don't have any linens. I called around to all the local places, but they charge about $8 a chair cover....no way! Tanner was able to get a hold of one of her friends to borrow table cloths, but we still could not get any chair covers. The table cloths were not floor length, but at this point I didn't care, I was just happy to have table cloths. We decided to move to the reception to the Relief Society Room, since the linens were our major decorations. So the other major decoration we ordered was flowers. I have always loved ranunculus, so we ordered a couple hundred of those. We had them come a few days early so they could open up and be ready for the reception. When they arrived, I opened the box to find FLOWER BUDS!!!! These were not full grown flowers. I panicked! I waited until the next day to see if they would open up and become real flowers, but they never did. So off to Sam's we went to buy roses. How boring! Luckily, Tanner was able to arrange them and they looked beautiful! Troy's mom made the cake. I guess I wanted a difficult cake and she was not comfortable with the design I wanted. She tried as hard as she could, and although it wasn't exactally what I wanted, it turned out great. Only one layer had problems! Haha. We thought it might collapse, but it made it through. It was an almond sour cream white cake with raspberry filling. It was seriously one of the best cakes I ever had. So other than that, the reception was great! Becky was there to help decorate, which was nice because after all the stress and trying to run around and fix everything, my mom and I were brain dead. The pictures make it look like it was very bright in the room, but it was nice and dark and turned out beautifully. Carolyn played the harp which was great. Also, one of my favorite things from the reception was the favors--I had custom fortune cookies made and put them in chinese takeout boxes wrapped in red ribbon. They turned out great! I have included a few pictures from the photographer we hired out in Utah. You can go to Tanner's website to see hers from the Temple, Mimi's, the reception, and Temple Square. Her website is capturedbyviva.com. I have emailed most of you with the password to get into my galleries. If you didn't get the password, email me and I will send it to you. Even with all the stress of the wedding and reception, it still turned out beautifully and I loved every minute! (Sorry for the novel!)