I believe that it is traditional to describe your wedding day as the best day of your life. That is not completely accurate from my perspective. While our wedding day was a wonderful, beautiful day, our days together have gotten much better as time rolls on. True, there are some crazy days in there that either drag on forever, or have you at your wits end, but it is great to have a companion that you can count on and grow to love more and more each day. It is wonderful to be able to plan a future and know who it will be with.
So, with that said, our wedding day was great. As mentioned in a few previous posts, Kelly and I bought our home a month or so before we were married. When all was said and done it was probably only a few weeks before we were married that we actually owned the home. I moved in those few weeks leading up to our marriage and we spent quite a bit of time cleaning the home and preparing it to be ours. I remember that we had to scrape quite a bit of lead paint from the garage and repaint it before we could close on the house. There was a whole lot of cleaning to be done. Everyone came in over conference weekend and helped us out quite a bit cleaning up and moving things in.
The night before our wedding Kelly brought everything down for our honeymoon and we moved most of her stuff in. We didn't want to worry about having to run around gathering everything up before we left on our honeymoon and we wanted to be able to just come home and be home without having to check in with our families. We planned our wedding celebration accordingly. We had a dinner the night before at Em's Cafe on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City. We had our wedding ceremony on our wedding day and then we had a reception a week or so later.
So, on our wedding morning Kelly came and picked me up around 9:00 a.m. We packed up the car with all of our honeymoon clothes, food, etc. We went down to the Salt Lake Temple and parked in the temple parking lot where we felt safe that nobody would "decorate" our car. Our temple assigned sealer was Bro. Coombs. The ceremony was excellent. Kelly and I have had numerous opportunities to go back and perform sealings to totally remember the promises that were given to us. One of my favorite times of the day was sitting in the Celestial Room with Kelly for a few minutes leading up to our ceremony. This continues to be one of my favorite things to do - sit in the celestial room with Kelly just pondering about whatever.
After our ceremony, we changed and met up in the basement of the temple before heading out for pictures. I walked down the hallway to the waiting area and there Kelly was with a bunch of other grooms waiting for their new wives. It was kind of funny and gets brought up everyone once in a while that I'm the high maintenance one in the relationship. This is also one thing that I love about Kelly. She is fine with who she is. She is naturally beautiful and while she gets made up for special occasions and is a total knock out, she is beautiful everyday even if she is walking around in her PJs, unshowered, and a little haggard from a sleepless night with the boys. We got pictures all around the temple, then we went back in changed into our normal church clothes that we wore to the temple that morning. We grabbed a sandwich from Cutler's in Centerville and drove up to Logan.
We'll stop here in the story where next week's story is about our honeymoon.
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