Reception Pictures II

So my good High School friend is a photographer and rather well to be honest, and I am not just saying that. So I hired her, very professionally might I add, I had to pay money upfront to secure my spot, none of that trusted friend perk :) Also after doing my bridals I wanted pictures of Nathan and I near the house where I grow up for sentimental and asthetic reasons. So here are a couple of pictures and you can check out her blog for more if you are so interested.

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Wedding Reception in LA VERKIN

So yes, some might say I was a little over the top in all of my wedding festitivities. But hey, you don't get married everyday and when you wait until 29, you want to really celebrate it and make it last as long as you can, also you have a lot more friends in the different areas of your life, you want to share it with and celebrate it with, and besides that's always been my attitude, I just love to party and love any excuse to have one :) So we had our destinations wedding, which I really recommend and loved for the intimate and quaint and exotic factor, so glad I went that route. Then paid tributes to my hometown of LaVerkin, it has been 10 years since I have lived there but so much of my growing up years were spent there and so many people impacted me during that time, as they say "it takes a village to raise a child" this is true in my case. Also due to my dad's love of water works and beautiful landscaping we had the venue for free as well. So with little preparation, it was still a beautiful wedding. Where I was able to see my childhood and High school friends and church leaders and friends without the community, especially since my parents are very involved in our little community it was a chance for their friends to come and show their support as well, it was really fun, except for standing in the line the whole time and having to explain myself for marring the town's prominent name, Gubler.

First Honeymoon. Coronado Island, California.

So my dad so graciously paid for the honeymoon suite at the La Jolla Shores Hotel, where we had our wedding luncheon, however we were not about to let anyone know, because my family is known to short sheet the beds and random early wake up calls set up. We had a beautiful beach front room. We spend our first night there and then we drove over the beautiful bridge from San Diego to Coronado Island, where my father once again saves the day by letting us use his Marriott points and we stayed at the Marriott Resort there for three more nights. It was very relaxing, fun and romantic. We really had a good time, taking walks on the beach, saw the famous Hotel Coranado, hanging out in the room for most of the time :) And just relaxing! It was so nice to finally be done with wedding plans and for me the start of my summer vacation from work. 

Here comes the Bride....

June 19, 2010.  My family drove down in our family wagon, fifteen passenger van on Friday June 18, 2010 on our way to Good Night Inn San Diego. Yes, it was as nice as it sounds, maybe a one star :) We were aiming to go to Olive Garden for a little pre-wedding dinner, yet found out there was a Denny's across the street and felt it was more appropriate for where we were staying. All in attendance for my wanna be rehearsal dinner at the Classy Dennys were my whole immediate family, my mom and dad all three sisters, three brothers, two sister in laws, one brother in law, 10 nieces and nephews and a partridge in a pear tree.  Then my Grandma and Grandpa Peart, my British relatives, Del and Goff, Aunt Luci and Mark, cousin Tyler and Shelly Olsen, and my good dear friends Tracy Morely and Melanie Robbins. I was able to get away with my good friends to get my last minute pampering. We had a good heart to heart and "process" me getting married. My grandpa Peart than gave me a special blessing preparing me for my wedding and marriage. It was so fun to be surrounded by all my family and loved ones and dear friends. We then went through wedding preps for the following next day's luncheon. I then joined my sisters for one last girls night out, and had heart to hearts with them. We went to bed around 11 PM. At 5 AM, I woke up, partly due to used to waking up at 5:30 for work, but more just with natural nervousness and thoughts of I was actually getting married. My aunt Jeannette and Maybeth joined me for our glamour team event promplty early in the morning to work on hair and make-up with my cute and talented sister LeNae.  It was so fun, to just have family help me for my big day. They kept commenting on how calm I was, I did feel verily calm, but also was like a duck, looks all calm on top of the water, but below my feet were moving rapidly. I really did have a calmness mixed with excitement. I knew it was the right thing to do and was excited to be married and sealed to my mate. Nathan then picked me up to take me to the temple for pre-wedding pics. I was very quiet and reflective. It felt very special and peaceful. We then got our pictures taken by Andrea Filio our photographer and another friend of a friend. She did some amazing shots, as you see and please check out her galleria to see many more  http://gallery.me.com/andreamfilio .  We then were suppose to be sealed at 1PM, we showed up at 12PM, however there were problems with my new reccommend, due to recently losing my prior one. So it took awhile to be approved, due to that another party took our assigned room, so we had to wait for their sealing. So we were then about an hour late starting our sealing. However it was a very special and sweet sealing, neat to see all of the faces of our loved ones. Our sealer was very sincere and gave a lot of inspiring words. I felt so at ease, calm and peaceful. We then greeted our other guests and friends outside, took a few pics then went on to The Shores, this beautiful little quaint hotel right on the beach for our luncheon. We were scheduled to eat at 2:30 and didn't eat until 4 PM, of course my wedding dinner was an hour and a half late, what else would you expect from me:) We then had a nice chicken dinner and had people who desired to say some words express them. It was very fun and sentimental. We then cut the cake, and had the first dance, then with our parents then started a two hour dance fest. It was soooo much FUN. Just the wedding party I wanted, more of a fun dancing party. We danced to songs from different era's of my life, like the songs from clubbing in Spain and the songs we always danced to at roof parties in New York. We then had the traditional bouquet toss, yes my mom was in the group, a little weird. And the garter throw. Then Nathan and I went out to the beach for some pictures with the sunset, it was so great to have such a beautiful nature venue. Our friends then started to staggerly leave, until it was just us and our families and we got last family pictures, all hot and sweaty from dancing. Then we helped clean up the the little stuff we had to, because Nathan and I ended up spending our first night at the hotel in their nice beach front room. We just didn't let the cat out of the bag until now, for obvious reasons :) It was a beautiful, magically and very happy day every moment. The best part was, I let go of the to do's and stresses of the wedding and just embraced the moment and the people who were sharing it with me.