Tuesday, June 17, 2014

WEDDING MASTERPOST

Remember that one time two years ago I started this blog and decided to start talking about my wedding in a series of posts and then I totally gave up and never finished and now I have an unfinished and unsatisfactory documentation of all things wedding? Yeah well because I'm overly ambitious that is changing today. Buckle up, friends. It's going to be a long one.

April 28th 2012, as I remember it:

-Woke up at approximately 5 am after very minimal sleeping. Who sleeps the night before their wedding??? Andrew. That's who. Apparently he slept like a baby.
-Did my hair/makeup and grabbed anything and everything I thought I might need that day and prayed I didn't forget anything.
-Attempted to eat. Attempt was unsuccessful.
-7 am rolls around and myself and my familia load into the car and off we go.
-Realize I left the slideshow DVD thing at the house that I was supposed to play at the luncheon. Whoops.
-Roll up to the temple just as Andrew and his brother arrive and attempt to talk but am too nervous to say much. (did I mention I was seriously freaking out?)
-Check in at the temple and all that lovely stuff. I decided to get sealed in my wedding dress, so I put that on and answered the nice old temple ladies questions and gripped Andrew's hand about as hard as I could. At some point people started arriving and Andrew and I were escorted to the celestial room to wait.
-I don't know what you're supposed to talk about in the celestial room with your soon to be husband but we probably missed the mark. I always imagined it would be super romantic and gushy but mostly I was trying not to throw up and I think we were both just kind of incredulous that this was happening. I mean, we had been talking about this for 2 years and it was some far away dream and then it was here and I was overwhelmed with the fact that I was 18 and making arguably the hugest decision of my life. I was confident in my decision, but I suppose just the finality of everything really hit me and I was shaking all over.
-Temple lady came in and told us it was time and I clutched Andrew's hand as hard as I could and we walked into a room of about 50 of my favorite people in the world.
-I do not remember a SINGLE thing about the sealing. It makes me really sad, honestly. I just remember sitting there and looking at everyone smiling and staring back at me. I do not do well with being the center of attention and I had never attended a sealing before and I wasn't exactly sure what was going to happen and what to say and when to say it. Long story short, I don't remember any of it. I do remember every single person in that room crying. Except me. I don't really cry. But it was lovely all the same.
-And then the sealing was over and it was like a big breath of fresh air and suddenly I felt SO good and happy and not nervous and ready to take on the rest of the day. (It was only 11 am ha) It was great.
-We exited the temple to cheers and general applause and we had to kiss in front of like... church leaders and grandparents and bleh. Weird. (Why am I so weird about PDA? We just don't know)


-Pictures pictures pictures lots of pictures. Kudos to my photographer for being AMAZING. She captured our day perfectly and just how I imagined.




-Guests slowly trickled off and headed over to this sweet Italian place a couple blocks away for our luncheon. Andrew and I stuck around a bit to take a few pics around the temple grounds.





-Did I mention my mom made my wedding dress? Because she did and it was perfect.

-Went to the luncheon and ate delicious food and our families performed and I tried really really hard not to spill pasta all over my dress (success!)
-Drove the hour back to my family's house and the whole way kept saying to each other 'Wait. We are married? WE ARE MARRIED?" and I think we listened to Fleet Foxes and at one point we stopped at a Wendy's to go to the bathroom.
-Got to my house where everyone was in full prep mode for the reception. I was instructed to chill out and relax. That was nice. I tried to take a nap on the couch but instead decided to update my name and marital status on Facebook and after that I was too tired to sleep.

RECEPTION TIME
-Stood in a line forever and talked to all my frands and got presents and whatever. Attempted to eat some of the delicious food we had, but my efforts were thwarted by the mass amounts of people that wanted to talk to me. :(


-First dance with my favorite brand new husband. We danced to 'Our Love Is Here To Stay', the Ella version because she is glorious. We didn't take our dance very seriously. We were pretty much just being goofy and making each other laugh the whole time and also talking about how today was the most perfect day and how was the weather so perfect?? 


-And then I danced with my dad and Andrew danced with his mom. We danced to Daughters by John Mayer, due to a severe lack of creativity on my behalf. 
-And then a serious dance party occurred, during which I stopped caring my hair. Clearly..

At some point during all this we slowed things down, brought out the piano and guitar and performed in true Andrew and Catherine fashion. We sang "Darling, I Do" which was a song Andrew first heard way back in 2010. He texted me and told me to look it up and then said "We are going to sing this someday." And we did. And it easily my favorite part of the whole day.


-I supposed at some point we cut the cake and all that. But I truly do not remember when that was... haha oops. (Shoutout to my sister in law for the greatest cake ever. Those are indeed hippo cake toppers.)
-I didn't want to do a bouquet toss or the garter thing or any of that because I think it's lame. I did give my sister my bouquet at the end of the night and she burst into tears and said some really sweet things that made me cry, which made me upset because I hadn't cried ALL DAY and she just ruined that.

-More dancing occurred until finally we decided enough was enough and we peaced out of that joint.
-... and then we came back 20 minutes later after hanging out in the car at a park. We had to open all our presents that night because the next day we left for our honeymoon and then we went straight home to Utah. So we opened all our presents with our family and finally left for our hotel at like, 11 pm that night. And the whole way there we talked about how perfect the day was and how we still couldn't believe we were married and everything was just so happy
-And then it took us like 20 minutes of wandering around a giant antique hotel to find our room because there was construction going on and a detour and??? It was amusing, to say the least.

And I suppose we will leave it at that.

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