Jason and I were sealed for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple, on Friday, September 10, 2010.  The day was honestly perfect.

The temple session wasn’t scheduled until 1:40pm, although we had to arrive by 12:30pm.  I thought having an afternoon session would give us a relaxing, stress free morning, but who was I kidding!

I woke up at 6am, hit the snooze button once before getting out of bed.  Although, I didn’t go back to sleep (or even try) I just laid in bed an thought to myself “holy cow, I am getting married today!”  … I seriously had to pinch myself.  For the last 2 years of us dating I had dreamed of this day, and now it was finally here and I couldn’t stop smiling!  (had I known how bad my checks would hurt by the end of the day, I might have toned it down a little).

Then it was out of bed, and off to the shower. I was meeting my girlfriend Tracy at Jason’s house at 8:30am in order to get my hair done.  Let the production begin! When Tracy arrived, Jason randomly decided that he wanted to get his hair trimmed, so I let her start with him since I still needed to pack for our honeymoon!  Classic!  I’m packing while Tracy is trimming Jason’s hair.  Once she was done, she started doing my hair and then we get a call from Pam (a good friend of mine and one of the wedding planners) asking if we had sent pictures to Costco to be blown up so they could be hung at the reception.  I am sure I had agreed to this at some point, but it never got done and it needed doing.  Jason was awesome and sent the pictures where they needed to go, called his mom to have her pick them up, and the problem was solved.  After getting my hair finished, it was time to finish packing and get out the door.  We needed to be on the road by 11:30am, and this was one event that we couldn’t be late for.  Once we arrived at the temple, we met up with Pam, Grandpa and Grandma Waters, and my older brother Shane.  Pam was their to help me with everything and Grandpa and Shane were going to be our witnesses.  The mood at this point was calm and collected, and anything we were worrying about was gone.  We were so happy to have arrived, knowing that in one hour we would be married and sealed together for time and all eternity as husband and wife.

The temple was perfect.  We were surrounded by our friends and family and I couldn’t help but feel so grateful for all of them.  Words couldn’t even begin to describe how I was feeling.  The one thing that I remember the sealer talking to us about, or his main advise to us was, come back to the temple often.  It is the foundation of our marriage and the promises and blessings found within its walls cannot be found anywhere else.

Coming out of the temple was so fun.  All of our family and friends were there to cheer and wrap their arms around us.  The weather was perfect, not to hot or cold, and not to windy.  After taking pictures at the temple with our family and friends, it was picture time for just Jason and I around the temple grounds.  It was so fun!  I could have stayed all day.  It was also stress-free because my best friend KA stayed the whole time to help make sure that my dress, hair, and make-up stayed in good shape.  I was so glad so was there!

After pictures it was off to the reception.  We had drove up in my car so we jumped in and started to back out when all of the sudden we hear a loud scrapping noise followed by a very loud crack! Something was not right!  We look around and could see that as Jas was pulling out he had completely scrapped the side of my car on the cement pillar next to us!  We got out and looked at the damage and the first thing Jas says is “I hate when I do that to OUR car!”  We had been married less then 2 hours and my car went to our car and it had now been in it’s first accident.  We were on such a high from the temple and taking pictures that we couldn’t even be mad.  We jumped back into the car, kissed, and headed out for the reception!

On the way down, Jas and I started to realize how hungry we were and how bad of a headache we both had.  From all of the smiling and happy crying, that is a natural result (at least for me).  We had an hour drive down to the Covey’s house from the temple but we couldn’t go 10 more minutes without stopping.  We went into a gas station, bought some snacks and headache medicine, then jumped back into the car.  As we ate our snacks we jammed out to our love playlist that we made for the reception.

Alas, my bridal pictures have made their way to my blog!  I know, you thought it would never happen, but I knew it would… I just had no idea when!

We are going on 10 months of being married, and things have finally slowed down (at least for this week) so I thought this would be the perfect time to catch up.

Nicole (who also did our engagements) shot these as well.   We couldn’t have been more thrilled with the end results.  My roommate and friend Tracy did my hair.  I just love that girl.  How cool is it that she came to my house to do it, instead of having me go to the salon, then stayed to help me get in my dress and into the car.  Couldn’t have done it without her.  Thanks Tracy!

And can we talk about my bouquet!  L.O.V.E.D. And it even comes with a funny story!  I called my friend Elaine to see if she could arrange my flowers for the shoot, since she is amazing with flowers, and of course she was more then willing.  However, by the time she could pick up the flowers she had ran out of time and couldn’t go back home to put them all together.  For anyone else, this would be a stressful situation, but not for Elaine!  She knew that she needed SOMEONE to hold the flowers while she put them together and tie the bow, and who better to do that then a HOMELESS man! I mean, he was right there and didn’t appear to be busy.  She seriously pulled over to the side of the road, got out of her car, and asked a homeless man to hold the flowers as she arranged them and tied on the bow and the best part is, he did it!  Who does that?! Elaine, your talents and sense of adventure never cease to amaze me!  You rock!

Our engagments were taken by Nicole Christensen who we loved.  She was really easy to shoot with and we LOVED the results.  She took lots of pictures, some of which she knew we wouldn’t use as our main photo, but she wanted us to have some fun ones anyway. She does all kinds of photos so if you like her stuff you can check her out at: http://nicolecarmanphotography.blogspot.com.