Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Connecticut Reception
So like many LDS couples, we had two receptions, which has it's pros and cons :) We were still in a daze from the actual wedding- and flying cross country is no small feat. We were tired! Plus a whole other set up and clean up...not fun. But we got to see so many people that I grew up with, tons of teachers from the school I went to for 14 years, and that my parents still work at. (Josh was blown away because I kept introducing him to people saying "this is my Kindergarten teacher", "this is my elementary school music teacher" "this is my high school english teacher" etc etc. He couldn't believe I was still in contact with them!) We had the reception in a church building in downtown New Haven. Our photographer Liz Frandsen did a beautiful job taking family shots and candids. Check out her blog to see some of the pictures! it was so fun to be with my family again and to take Josh's parents all around beautiful Connecticut. Since I have lived out West for so long, its fun to take people back East and show them around.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Happily Ever After
Thank you for all of your love and support! Our wedding day was beautiful and we could not have asked for anything more. We are getting settled into our new apartment and will be adding more pictures to this site as we get them. Stay tuned!
Friday, March 21, 2008
T- 15 hours
This will be our last post until after the wedding- so come back and visit. We will be posting pre-wedding pictures, wedding pictures and honeymoon pictures. We are ready- let the games begin!!!!!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
4 days
NEED I SAY MORE!? Yahoooooo!
Here are a couple of our beautiful engagement pictures that my friend Erin Eichelberger took for us- Enjoy!
Here are a couple of our beautiful engagement pictures that my friend Erin Eichelberger took for us- Enjoy!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Weather
I just looked at the weather for the 22nd, and saw that it most likely will be raining. Of course a ten day forecast can totally change - However, let's put our collective prayers together and pray for beautiful weather for the wedding!
The Engagement Story
Many of you have heard this story, but I thought it was worth telling again. So this is how we got engaged from Gloriana's perspective.
Josh and I had already talked about getting married. We had been planning to get engaged after he met my family over the Christmas holiday. We had talked about the possibility of maybe getting engaged before, and so I had given him my parent's phone number to "ask for permission". But I was really not expecting to get engaged before we met my family! One Sunday night, we were really talking in detail about when we could do it- we decided on a day, and I was going to call the Temple the next day to see if it was available. The next afternoon, I called him to tell him the day that we were thinking of was available, and that I was planning on going to look at a potential reception area on my way to work that afternoon. It's right behind the stake center that's next to the Sacramento temple. When I told him this, Josh said "well let's just go together after you get done with work tonight." So after work, I met him at his house and he mentioned to me how nervous he was to call my parents. (By this I assumed that he had not called them yet). He told me that he had a Christmas present to give me that he wanted me to enjoy during this Christmas season and wanted to give it to me among the Christmas decorations at the Temple. So we
drove up to the Temple, and while we were standing in front of the beautiful Nativity scene, he gave me this ornament:
Which I love! When I saw that the ornament opened, my heart skipped a beat, and I expected to see a ring inside. When I opened it, there was just some tissue paper. I thought to myself- "well of course he is not going to propose tonight, he hasn't even talked to dad, and we decided that he needs to meet my family first! Stop being silly!" So I pulled the tissue out to read the inside of the ornament. (I mean really... how sweet is that ornament!!) I love Christmas ornaments, and was so excited to get this very special one from Josh. So we stood there enjoying the beautiful scenery for a moment, then he leaned over and pulled a ring out of the tissue paper that I had just taken out of the ornament! I did not see it or feel it or anything! Then he told me that he had already called my dad that day, got down on one knee and proposed. I totally started to bawl! It was so beautiful and amazing and I'm pretty sure better than any moment in my life thus far! At the end of the night our faces hurt from smiling so hard!
So that's the story- I have heard some pretty romantic engagement stories in my life, but I think that ours is the best :) I caught myself a sweet, romantic guy and couldn't be happier about it. Only 9 more days!!!
Josh and I had already talked about getting married. We had been planning to get engaged after he met my family over the Christmas holiday. We had talked about the possibility of maybe getting engaged before, and so I had given him my parent's phone number to "ask for permission". But I was really not expecting to get engaged before we met my family! One Sunday night, we were really talking in detail about when we could do it- we decided on a day, and I was going to call the Temple the next day to see if it was available. The next afternoon, I called him to tell him the day that we were thinking of was available, and that I was planning on going to look at a potential reception area on my way to work that afternoon. It's right behind the stake center that's next to the Sacramento temple. When I told him this, Josh said "well let's just go together after you get done with work tonight." So after work, I met him at his house and he mentioned to me how nervous he was to call my parents. (By this I assumed that he had not called them yet). He told me that he had a Christmas present to give me that he wanted me to enjoy during this Christmas season and wanted to give it to me among the Christmas decorations at the Temple. So we
drove up to the Temple, and while we were standing in front of the beautiful Nativity scene, he gave me this ornament:Which I love! When I saw that the ornament opened, my heart skipped a beat, and I expected to see a ring inside. When I opened it, there was just some tissue paper. I thought to myself- "well of course he is not going to propose tonight, he hasn't even talked to dad, and we decided that he needs to meet my family first! Stop being silly!" So I pulled the tissue out to read the inside of the ornament. (I mean really... how sweet is that ornament!!) I love Christmas ornaments, and was so excited to get this very special one from Josh. So we stood there enjoying the beautiful scenery for a moment, then he leaned over and pulled a ring out of the tissue paper that I had just taken out of the ornament! I did not see it or feel it or anything! Then he told me that he had already called my dad that day, got down on one knee and proposed. I totally started to bawl! It was so beautiful and amazing and I'm pretty sure better than any moment in my life thus far! At the end of the night our faces hurt from smiling so hard!
So that's the story- I have heard some pretty romantic engagement stories in my life, but I think that ours is the best :) I caught myself a sweet, romantic guy and couldn't be happier about it. Only 9 more days!!!
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