Married life is AWESOME!!
Just saying...
But anyways, our wedding was fantastic! It really couldn't have been any better! (well, I'm sure some of our loved ones that couldn't make it would have made it better but we totally understand!) The weather was perfect! It was overcast, and around 45-50 degrees outside! (Which was a little chilly for some people, but being in a wedding dress, it was perfect for me!) But our ceremony was great too! The sealer was fantastic, and ironically, he is in our stake leadership in our new ward! We had a run in with him before the wedding when we were trying to find a place for the luncheon. But the wedding was great! The luncheon afterward was amazing too! A bunch of Dan's family all made different soups and we had a soup bar. I had the clam chowder and it was DELICIOUS! But there was also a chicken noodle, a corn chowder, a sausage and lentil soup, a split pea soup, taco soup, and a bean soup. From what I hear, they were all delicious too! After the luncheon, Dan and I went and stayed at the Anniversary Inn in Logan in the Bridal Suite. When we were there, we watched The Prestige and ate fresh popcorn, we went on a walk through Merlin Olsen park and jumped in the piles of leaves throughout the walk, and we fell asleep in front of the fireplace in our room. It was such a great place to stay! We even got breakfast delivered to our door! It was a yogurt parfait and a strudel for each of us. It was really rich but very good. The Anniversary Inn did a fantastic job and I would totally recommend it to anyone!
On Saturday, we drove up to Rupert for our reception. We left only a half an hour later than we meant to, however, when we were driving, we got stuck in a mountain pass for an extra half hour making us a full hour late. But while we were running around trying to get everything together for the reception and get ready, we still had plenty of time to get everything done. The church was decorated beautifully! It was amazing! And we got the photobooth set up and it was just everything I was wanting it to be! It worked out SOO well! The food was great too! We had mini grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, popcorn chicken and shrimp, meatballs, and buffalo chicken. We got to try everything before people started showing up and it was great! We also had a cupcake buffet with eight different flavors of cupcakes. I, sadly, didn't get to try any of the cupcakes there but there were a few left over so we got one of almost every flavor.
The reception went really well. And we even got to have a dance! Our first dance was great, especially the part where Dan dipped me, I stepped on my dress and fell. (It apparently looked kind of like he dropped me, but he didn't at all, I just couldn't get back up because I was standing on my own dress.) But we got up with style and it was very us and very fun! The dancing was great too. We had some issues with the sound system but the DJ worked it out as best he could and it worked out fine! We had a fantastic time at our reception! It was a lot of fun and I couldn't have wished for a better time.
We stayed the night at the Fairfield Inn in Burley, which we had a hard time finding because of the fog. But we were so exhausted we pretty much laid down and fell immediately asleep. In the morning, we woke up and went out to my parents house to open presents. Everyone was VERY kind to us and are really helping us start out our new life together. We ended up staying the night in Rupert instead of driving back to Logan that night because of the weather. We watched the new Robin Hood with my parents and ate popcorn and licorice.
The next morning, we got up casually, packed up the car and drove to Logan. We must have left at the perfect time because we didn't have to deal with the storms that other people had. We spent most of Monday and all of Tuesday in our apartment watching movies, eating food, and trying to organize our house.
Wednesday, we went down to the Merkley's house for Thanksgiving. We've been playing games and spending time with family and sadly, working on homework some. Dan has a big project due Monday after Thanksgiving that he's been working on for part of the semester. And this morning, I convinced Dan that he wanted to get up to go Black Friday shopping! We started at Target and we actually got most of the things we were wanting. We even got our Christmas present from Santa today! Tonight, we are going to a play as a family, and in the morning to Harry Potter 7 part 1! And tomorrow night is our Open House for Lindon! It should be fantastic too! Overall, I have enjoyed being the newest member of the Merkley clan! I'm very thankful to have such a wonderful husband, family, and new family.
Daniel, I love you!
