Wow... check out the difference in these two pictures! Our friend Mark, who owns Mountain Lighting up in Cedar City, Utah fixed up this very old picture ... he did an awesome job!!
Matthew was too grumpy and sick for me to go to Beaver this time ... so, I came to mom's ~ it was the only way to stop Matthew's major conniption fit. While I was here I scanned some more wedding pics.
This is Mikey and Casey. My two favorite men.
Now you can see all the beautiful dresses that Marci made. Marci is to the right and those are her little girlies. My sister Kim is next to me. Marci had just had colon cancer surgery the April before our wedding and she still made my dresses!! She's doing great BTW ~ 95% cured. Praise God!
My two best boys. I am close to 11 years older than Mike... and Mike is close to 11 years older than my son. *snort* Casey walked me down the grass to the alter.
This is Johnny and Mike... Johnny and Mike have been best friends since Jr. High ... up in San Ramon. This picture is hysterical...it was taken the day after the wedding while cleaning up.
First, I'd like to thank my mom for scanning this pic she has hanging on her wall and e~mailing it to me....
I have a scanner but I can't figure the thing out. I have another great picture similar to this, but it has my son Casey in it, too. Maybe I can get it on later. Casey looked so incredibly handsome!!
Anyway...
I can't believe it's been 7 years now. That was one of the happiest days of my life.
I had finally found Mr. Perfect. It was a dream come true ~ I still pinch myself to be sure this is real. Mike is just as perfect today as he was back then and he still calls me his "best girl"!
Isn't he soooo handsome!!
We had such a fun backyard wedding.
October is a great month here in L.V. ~ nice an cool.
We decided to save tens of thousands of dollars and do it simple. We just took a lot of the money we saved and fixed up our patio and backyard instead! *shakes head* We are just so practical!! LOL
We always joke around that we got married out by the dog run. (Mike had built the most beautiful dog run w/ slump stone and fancy wrought iron. You'd never know it was a dog run.) When people would see these pictures, they would ask if we got married at The Secret Garden... and we'd just giggle and tell 'em "nope, we got married out by the dog run!!" Sometimes if I ever misbehaved, Mike would jokingly say, "Hey, you promised to obey ... right out there by the dog run!".
One of my very best friends, Marci in Reno HAND MADE my champagne wedding dress and veil ... all the bridesmaid dresses (amethyst in color) and the flower girl dresses. Her daughters were my little adorable flower girls. This dress is so incredibly beautiful...there are 110 buttons down the back of this dress ... her husband helped to cover. There is a huge beautiful bow at the bottom of the dress..... and there is lace on the dress full of sequins and pearls.
Another one of my very best friends, Susan flew up from Florida to take all of my wedding pictures and she did a fabulous job! She ran around in her little "zebra" dress, barefoot taking pictures. She was the master of the wedding. She also helped us to beautify the dog run by putting all kinds of big huge fake plants on the other side.
We had a cake baker (who worked at the Belagio) bake and decorate the most beautiful wedding cake. I will post a picture if I can ever scan pictures. This was the best tasting cake EVER. The cake was for 150 people (we had 125 people) and it was GONE by the time WE got around to it! We did get our little bite during the cutting of the cake and toast.
The caterer was supposed to show up at 11 AM for our 2:30 pm wedding... but since there was a UNLV and UNR football game... a couple of the workers didn't show up...
so the caterer showed up at 2:00!! I was in a panic.
I'll spare ya'll the gory details of the night before when we were setting up all the chairs and tables. Our very old cat was leaving little loose "bombs" all over the place. I was freaking out.
It was such a magical day and it went by so fast. Blurr is what we remember of it.
Hey... look what I found on my computer "pictures" file... here's the cake!
This is a little 2 minute video to the song, "I Love..." that my husband spent 6 hours putting together...
Those of you that follow Matthew's blog saw this already in January.
So, since it's musical Monday... thought I'd post on my blog, too.
Mike timed the pictures out perfectly to the song. He's so cute.
This of course, is a favorite video of mine ... I love the sweet song. Mike put some before wedding pics, a wedding pic, family, pet and Beaver,Utah pics. Of course, lots of pics of Matthew during his stay at LPCH @ Stanford...which includes a picture of us with the surgeon that saved Matthew's life. The picture of us kissing Matthew was right before they took him away for his second surgery.
