Part 2 - The temple

The wedding itself was very nice. Temple ceremonies are very simple and only last about 20 minutes. The sealer was pretty intense and at first I thought we were all in trouble. He lightened up, though, and I really enjoyed all he had to say. I thought he did a great job. Kristy and Trevor came out and greeted all of their family and friends who were gathered outside the temple. (Interesting note: our old friends from Loma Linda days, Frank and Kristy Roundy, were there in the temple attending their nephew’s wedding. It was so fun to see them!)

The kids call this my paparazzi shot...

Like I mentioned earlier, I had planned and shopped for the cold. Then I was a little worried that it would turn out to be a beautiful, sunny day and that I had spent money unnecessarily on all of the cold weather accessories and matching coats. When Kelsey got married on Dec. 22^nd, it was an absolutely beautiful day in the sixties. It was the best weather you could imagine getting in December. Luckily, though, it was snowy and cold on Dec. 30^th so my preparations paid off! As we were shooting the videographer said the weather was just great for his purposes and it would be perfect if it would just start snowing. As if on cue, giant snowflakes started falling from the sky about 5 mins. later! It was a beautiful sight except…. It kept snowing and snowing and there were travel advisories and lots of accidents and the roads to Heber were being closed down!!

The Laceys:



The wedding party. Kristy's 3 sisters and 1 brother along with Trevor's 3 brothers!



The Earls minus Jon. He was tending the kids who had had it at this point!



Kristy and her brothers. I think for many years she thought she was one of them. Hard to believe she was quite the tomboy!

So we had to keep moving and did not get quite get all the picture taking done that we would have liked to. [Wedding tip #3: It takes much longer for the couple to get out of the temple than you think and there never seems to be enough time for all of the pictures that you want to take. So I would suggest allowing 3-4 hours for pictures if possible.] The videographer kind of monopolized the time and I’m afraid Cortney wasn’t able to have all of the creative license he would have liked. Sorry about that Cort! Kristy and Trevor were good sports. They were cold but they did everything that was asked of them including lots of kissing. It's a chore but someone's gotta do it!

Funny story about this picture in front of the temple… I was trying to choose a picture to put in the paper along with their wedding announcement. I thought this picture in front of the temple was sweet, but it wasn’t the best picture of Kristy and Trevor. I vacillated between this picture because I thought it would be nice for younger kids to see them standing in front of the temple and another picture that was much more flattering of the two of them. In the end, I chose to include the temple picture to hopefully inspire kids to stick to their goals of going to the temple. What did the paper do?

They cropped the temple out of the picture so all that was left was a mediocre picture of the bride and groom. Perfect!



And now we are headed to Midway for the wedding luncheon with some sleepy bridesmaids!



Stay tuned for Part 3...