Our Wedding

This is going to be a long post, but how can it be short when it's one of the most defining moments of my life. On November 12th 2010 I married Jacob Allen Taylor. We wanted to and were worthy to get married in the temple, but Jake had already been married in the Temple and so we had to go through the cancellation process. Unfortunately we did not get the cancellation in time so we had a civil ceremony in the Stockton Church House. I am lucky to have such talented friends and sisters who helped me to get ready. Here are a couple pictures of them helping me get ready.

 

 

One of the great things about having a civil ceremony is that the little girls got to walk down they aisle. They all looked beautiful in dresses that my wonderful mother made for them. I can’t believe how old they are getting! Then we had Rashelle and Travis walk down the aisle as well.

After all the girls, Rashelle and Travis walked down the aisle I got to be walked down by my father. I love this picture of me and my dad because one I looked beautiful :) and second I love my dad and am glad he would hand me off to my husband.

 

We had our Bishop from the singles ward, Bishop Huffman, officiate. He was new as the singles ward bishop, but he had been bishop before. However, it had been a long time since he was able to officiate a wedding. He did a good job. Of course he talked on the importance of making it to the Temple, which I completely agree then he had us hold our right hands as he married us. The one funny part was he forgot to tell the guests to sit down and he went through the whole getting married in the Temple schpill while the group stood.

The ceremony was beautiful, short, but very beautiful. I think it only lasted 10 minutes top which is not a bad thing. The first picture below is our first picture of our first kiss as a married couple. Then there’s a picture of us right after the ceremony and finally the last couple picture is one of the pictures that we took out side before the reception.

 

We were able to get a lot of different pictures between the ceremony. However, there was a lot going on between putting the kids, putting the finishing touches on the hall and getting the food ready that we were not able to get a picture of both sides of the family together. Either his family was not there or mines was not. However below we have a picture of the two different families.

Then of course I had to get a picture of me with my sisters, I’m just sad that Andrea’s missing from the pictures. I almost want my mother to make Andrea a dress, then we’ll take a picture of her in the dress and photo shop it into the picture. A lot of work I know, but totally worth it. Then I also love this picture with me and my nieces. We’re missing the really little one’s: Eve, Abby and Kaylee.

 

 

After we took the pictures it was time for the reception. Because we are lucky enough to live in a small town we were able to get the church for both Thursday and Friday so we could decorate the house. We spent ALL day Thursday decorating. One of the ideas we had was to take plastics and lights and hung them by rope to make a tent like ceiling. We had some issues with the ceiling and tried to come up with a way to get the ceiling to stay up better, one being put a post in the middle to give a little bit more support. This post actually ended up being one of my favorite decorations of the hall. The colors were green and purple with yellow accents. The centerpieces were pretty. We took antique looking watering cans and put white and yellow daisies with purple and green ribbons. I had pictures everywhere, on the post table, on each table and few large ones on easels. My cake was another one of my favorite parts of the decorations. My cake lady did a beautiful job I was very happy with the cake.

 

With so many pictures it was hard to try and find a good picture during the line part of the reception. However, I found this really cute picture of the Bear and Erin. She has such pretty brown eyes and the little crumbs on her lips is adorable. Then there’s little Erin peaking around. Also during the line our photographer took pictures of our ring and bouquet. The last picture is an adorable picture of my new niece Tessa being held by Jake’s dad. I thought it was a cute picture.

After the line we cut the cake. Jake said that if I smeared the cake in his face he would do 10 times worse and since I didn’t want cake on my dress so we were nice when we fed the cakes to each other. However, he did get a little on my nose. After we cut the cake we did the bouquet toss which was caught by Katelyn. Finally we did the garter which was caught by one of Jake’s nephews, I think it was Dylan.

The final part of the night was my favorite part of the day and I have to give a special thanks to Evan for making it possible. I decided a long time before that I wanted to have dancing at the wedding and then when Jake said he wanted to dance also I knew I had to make it happen. I had talked to Rashelle and she said that Jason had some good speakers so I thought if I put a playlist on my iPod and then we use their speakers we could make it work. However, about a month before the wedding I was talking to my friend Evan and he offered to be my DJ at the wedding and so I said yes. It was the best thing too because it would not have been the same without the DJ he did an awesome job. I still gave him the playlist, but he did a good job on the order.

Here’s mine and Jake’s first Dance. We danced to Blue October’s 18th Floor Balcony which is our song.

After that we had the Daddy Daughter and Mother son Dance. I chose the country song I loved her first to dance to this song.

After these two songs he played random songs that either were country swing, waltz, fast tempo and line dances. It was a great time and there were tons of cute pictures of people dancing.