I'm married!!!

I finally have the chance to write a post about the recent events.  Tyler and I were married on August 14th at 2:30pm in the St. Louis Temple. It was such a beautiful ceremony and we were lucky to have the people we love be there with us to witness our sealing. Only a couple funny things to mention about the events prior, Tyler forgot to shave in all the excitement so we had to procure his dads electric razor 10 minutes before the sealing. I was so hot in my dress I thought I was going to pass out and had to have a drink of water before proceeding cause I was getting all nervous and anxious about passing out cause I was so hot. Other than those two things, it all went well.  We were greeted outside by everyone and we then had dozens of pictures taken.

 After all the pictures were taken about 4:45pm we managed to head to reception site which was at the 9th street abbey in Soulard. We had a great time visiting with all our family and friends and had a delicious meal of either chicken saltimbocca or chili rubbed porkchops.  We had cesear salad and for dessert delicious lemon wedding cake and raspberry cake along with chocolate cake. The grooms cake was all chocolate with two strawberries as a groom and bride.  To accompany the wedding cake, we also had Ted Drewe's Frozen custard station with a ton of toppings to choose from.  We had a wonderful guitarist who played throughout the event and we had our first dance to "Making Memories of Us" by Keith Urban.  After all the goodbyes at around 9pm, we took more pictures and finally left for the Hilton Homewood Suites where we were greeted with Sparkling peach drink, brownie bites, petit four carrot cake, keylime pie, apple streudel bites. My sister Katherine did a wonderful job! The next morning we headed over to my mom and dads and spent the afternoon with them before having my mom and brother drop us off at the airport to head off to our honeymoon in Florida.

We are happy to be home now and enjoying being together and setting up our house though that really means finding a place for Tyler's stuff!  We went to our church for the first time today and we were warmly greeted and everyone seems to be really nice. Overall, this whole wedding experience was very good and though I would never want to do it again I am glad that it is finally over.

Wedding Week

So, my wedding is now in three days and everything seems to going well. I have come to the conclusion that something won't go well and to just go with it and not get worked up about it.  Tyler and I went and got our marriage license on Monday and paid the photographer our last payment.  Otherwise we are just hanging out here in IL with my family enjoying their company. Tyler and I went to Cahokia mounds yesterday. It is a national historic site that is about 10 miles from my house. It is an area with large mounds of dirt build by people over a 1000 years ago. We were able to go to the museum and watch the movie, walk around the exhibits and at the end we walked up Monks Mound which is 100ft tall and has over 100 steps to climb. We had a great time and I loved showing him the place since it was a very frequented field trip spot when I was growing up. Though walking through the museum there were only 3 new exhibits.
Anyway, not much else to report. Just hanging out until the big day.