Every fairy tale starts out with chaos... right?

18 years ago today was the perfect day. I was marrying my best friend
in the perfect place. I was with my all my family and friends. The
weather was perfect. The wedding breakfast was beautiful and very
yummy. We had the yummiest homemade refreshments, and I couldn't have
been happier.  I felt as though I was on top of the world and it
didn't matter what the world threw at me nothing was going to ruin my
day.   Although the world tried really hard, it didn't work.  You see
almost everything that went perfect was listed above.  Everything else
went wrong!!

It all started when my soon-to-be hubby picked me up about an hour
late.  He didn't tell me that we had figured our times wrong, and we
didn't have to leave as early as planned.  He didn't realize it until
after midnight and didn't want to call and wake me up.  As if I
actually slept at all that night.  I was in pure panic mode by the
time he showed up.  That's when he learned the first lesson of being a
hubby, call if you are going to be late!!


We arrived at the Salt lake Temple and everything went perfect, until
we went to leave the temple.  For anyone who has been to a wedding at
the Salt Lake Temple, you know you are supposed to wait for the bride
and groom by this special door.  When the happy couple comes out that
door everyone is there to cheer for them and take the first perfect
picture of the newlyweds.  How could we mess this up?  We were on our
way up the stairs and almost made it when a very nice old lady stopped
us and said, "Don't you want to take the elevator?"  So instead of
walking up in front of all our family and friends we snuck up behind and suprised them.  Kind of ruined the big moment I'd been dreaming about.  HAHAHA

Then to sum up the rest of the day..

The photographer was late.

I walked through mud and got my beautiful white dress dirty.

The photographer ran out of film and had to go back to his car to get
more. (This wasn't bad because that left us alone for the only 10
minutes of the day we had to ourselves.)

The tables that the decorator decorated were awful.  So my hubby was
sent to Ream's to buy a very large amount of doilies.  (First, we had to
explain to him what a doily was.)

Then we realized that the flower girls didn't have flowers.  So when
my hubby got home with the doilies, we sent him to the Flower Patch to
get pink roses for the flower girls.

My brother went and picked up our flowers from the florist. The
florist was apparently color blind because instead of getting pink roses,
they put purple roses in all the bouquets and boutonnieres.  My colors were
pink and green not purple!!

The cake was also the wrong colors of green and pink. Then the cake started
to fall over.  Yep that's right it started to fall over. So we had to call a
good friend who did wedding cakes (who we didn't ask to do ours) to
come fix it.  Which she was very nice and did fix it.  Later, we had to
cut it early because it was about to fall over.

Then, because my family was franticly trying to decorate and fix flower
Problems, everyone was late for pictures.  Actually, no one had any
flowers when people started to show up and when we did get flowers
they were the wrong color.  So my line of guests was forming and we just started getting pictures taken.

Then we discovered that my husband is allergic to one type of flower,
and it is purple roses!!!  So after his eye turned red, swelled up and
started to water we took his boutonniere off.

I could go on but that is the highlights of the day.  With everything
that went wrong, it was still the perfect day and the happiest day of
my life.   At the end of the day my jaw hurt from smiling so much.  I
couldn't have been happier.   The only other days that came close to
being as perfect and happy are the days that I gave birth to my
amazing children.  I am so grateful that I was married in the temple,
and now I get to spend the rest of eternity with my husband and
children.  It's the perfect beginning to our fairy tale.




Now I could tell you about our haunted honeymoon, but that's a story
for another day!!