Just Married!

Our wedding day finally came, although I really never thought it would! It was a perfect day and we really couldn't ask for anything more. It was so exciting to have all of our family and friends come down to support us. We were sealed in the San Diego temple at 11 am. I guess if I could change anything about my wedding it would be the time we got married. I always thought I wanted to have a really early wedding so I wouldn't have to wait around all day and be nervous. Well 11 am is way too early. I had to wake up at 5 in the morning to start getting ready. I didn't go to bed until 1 the night before and so I was super tired. I had to get all made up for my special day, and that took forever. Darren and I had to be at the temple at 10 to get everything situated. While we waited for all of our friends and family to be seated in the sealing room, Darren and I were taken to the Celestial Room to wait. It was so wonderful sitting in that beautiful room with Darren. We had about 20 minutes to just talk to each other. It was such a sweet moment that I will never forget. When we were brought into the sealing room it was so surreal to me. My heart was so full and it was so wonderful to be surrounded by people I love. Our sealer was perfect! He gave us wonderful advice for our marriage and I actually found out after the sealing that we were related. It was so funny because that day at the temple there were a lot of people that my family knew and all the temple workers kept telling me they knew someone from my family. The sealing was so wonderful and powerful and I am so grateful that I am sealed to the man I love. After the ceremony was over we were walking down the grand staircase and I asked Darren if he felt different, he said yes and I told him I felt different too. I wasn't sure if I would because it seemed so weird to me that one moment you are single and the next you are married. But I did feel different. I told Darren I felt more committed to him, and I actually did feel like his wife. Coming out of the temple was so exciting!! It was so much fun to have all of our family and friends cheering for us, I truly have never been happier in my entire life. It was so worth all of the waiting that we did to get to this pure and sweet moment. It was a moment of pure bliss that I know Darren and I will never forget. Darren repeated to me over and over that day "This is joyous." And really everything was joyous! We took some pictures and then we went to my house and started getting things ready for the reception. Everyone went over to the Stone's to help set up for the reception. I can't begin to thank all of the people who helped with my wedding. Everyone was so generous and helpful, I felt truly loved. I have to admit, right when my reception started I was getting really nervous about how everything would turn out. I was afraid no one would show up or something would go terribly wrong. I was blown away how well things went. So many people showed up and everything went so smoothly! We even left the reception on time! I loved our reception! I loved how everyone was so happy for us! Happiness was contagious that day! I already miss my wedding day. I have told Darren several times that I want to live that day over again. It was just the perfect day and I am so glad that I was able to enjoy every moment of it. I started the day off with the attitude that I wouldn't care about anything that went wrong because it really only mattered that Darren and I were sealed. It was a good thing I had that kind of attitude because had I not, the day might have not been so perfect. This is just proof that things go wrong surrounding a wedding...

The first thing that went wrong was Darren's Dad lost his tie. We looked everywhere for it the morning of the wedding but it was nowhere to be found. The second thing that went wrong was my Grandma's temple recommend was expired. She was calling people all morning trying to get into the temple and luckily she made it in. The third thing that went wrong was while we were putting pictures in picture frames one of the large frames snapped in half. The next thing that went wrong was a major one. While my Dad was driving the centerpieces over to the Stone's one of the branches flew out of the trunk. My brother Josh ran into the street and tried to collect the broken pieces but they had already been run over. My Dad decided to break off parts of the other centerpieces to fix the broken one. Luckily, no one noticed. Not even my Mom. We decided not to tell her because she might have a melt down. The last thing that went wrong was the sparklers didn't light fast enough. It ended up being really funny though and everyone was such a good sport about it. Leaving the reception was so fun with everyone cheering us on! I am so glad that all of the little things that went wrong ended up being really funny to me. I have never been happier in my life! I love my wedding dress so much and I am so glad that I have one more opportunity to wear it! We are having an open house in Oregon on July 9th and I am so happy that I get to wear my dress one more time!

I am so happy that we took pictures before our actual wedding day! It made the pictures on the wedding day way less stressful! And you can't even tell the difference between the pictures taken on Wednesday and the pictures taken on our actual wedding day.

Coming out of the temple

Everyone who was at the sealing

There are more pictures on my wonderful photographer's website: jenessenicole.com