Well, the day we got married was a little nuts, as I'm sure all wedding days are. We get married in the Oklahoma City temple. I left at about 4:30 am from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Andrew had left the night before and had texted my dad letting him know about the freezing rain and slick roads. Despite the fact that it was about a 3 hour drive on super icy roads, the ice was really pretty.
My grandpa performed the ceremony and it was perfect. I was wearing my mother in law's wedding dress because my dress didn't fit with what was appropriate for temple. It was pretty cool to get to wear her dress. There weren't many people who were able to come to the temple due to the weather, but that was how I had always wanted my wedding to be, small and perfect. And it really was perfect. It was amazing how the Spirit was so strong. Andrew and I are both returned missionaries, so we've felt the Spirit in a lot of teaching situations, but this was so different and so new for me. I knew without a doubt in my mind that marrying Andrew was already the best decision I'd ever made. It was so amazing. Like really!
After the ceremony we took a few pictures out in the ice. Unfortunately they didn't show just how cold it was or how cool the ice looked, but I still think they were awesome pictures. After that we went to the church next door and had cinnamon rolls that Andrew's dad made. They were delicious! During our little brunch/luncheon (would that make it a bruncheon? cuz that would be cool) my parents sang Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof....and yeah, I kind of cried a little. Then I sang From this Moment on by Shania Twain....not my style, but it was a surprise for Andrew, so yeah. ^^
After that was the fun 3 hour drive back to Fort Smith for our reception. Andrew and I checked into our hotel (the cutest little B&B, Beland Manor...very cozy!) and rested up for a few minutes before the reception. When we got there I was amazed at how perfect everything was. I'd always wanted a retro reception and my parent's house had been transformed into the most adorable 50's diner. We had burgers, fries, and lots of different kinds of pie. It was better than I ever could have imagined it. I also sang Somewhere that's Green from Little Shop of Horrors....I'd never realized that the song would've worked for a wedding till I was singing through it one night for fun and realized it would match my reception perfectly. It was way fun!
At the end of the night Andrew and I changed and snuck out back to our hotel where we were asleep by 9/9:30. The bed was really comfortable and we were exhausted.
The next morning we had a great breakfast and we put together a bunch of thank you gifts for the people who helped with the reception. Following that we went to church where I sang and my grandpa spoke. We then had a big family lunch at Andrew's parents (after Andrew and I had stopped by my house and opened our gifts, much to our mothers' dismay) and then spent the rest of the afternoon there. At 7pm or so we attended a fireside given by my grandpa and it was great. Afterwards we headed back to our hotel for another early night's sleep.
Monday morning was spent packing and talking to the host of the B&B about the han-bok (traditional Korean dress) I'd seen upstairs. We then headed off to the airport where we met up with and said goodbye to Andrew's mom, and we were off to our Christmas honeymoon in Salt Lake City.
Well, Andrew had started feeling a little sick on Sunday, so by Christmas Eve (which was the following Tuesday), he was feeling pretty rotten. Our Christmas was spent resting and I was pretty sick by the next day. We left Salt Lake on the 30th and spent New Years Eve in Idaho Falls at my grandparents. By this time Andrew was feeling a lot better and I was feeling a lot worse. We moved into our teeny tiny apartment on the 1st. By the 2nd I had to go the doctor because I had gotten so much worse and wasn't getting better. Apparently Andrew and I had gotten a virus but I had a bacterial infection that caused the right side of my throat and neck to swell up huge and made it seriously painful to swallow. If I'd have waited much longer I may have had to had surgery on my tonsils to drain the infection...but since I didn't wait we were able to clear it up with a simple antibiotic. And that was our honeymoon pretty much....we were sick the whole time. Exciting huh? Now we're waiting for me to start my job on the 20th and finishing up Andrew's temp job at a bookstore.
~Manda^^
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