Our Wedding Day

Our wedding day was perfect!  Absolutely perfect!  Let me just back up one day...on Thursday, all the ladies and I went to get pedicures (and a manicure for me).  It was so fun to spend some time with my mom, sisters, and Joo Lin.  Joo Lin and Kelley and their girls drove in from Portland for my wedding.  I am so humbled by all the people who traveled from so far to support me on my big day!  Can't even believe all the love!

 

 

 

These hands are all ready to wed!

 The morning of my wedding, I woke up around 4:30am to go pee. Kara was up feeding Wyatt.  Kara and Ryan and the boys stayed with me at our apartment.  It was so fun to not be home alone!  Then Wyatt just thought it would be fun to stay awake and play.  I held him until he fell back asleep.  I was so excited about the day that I couldn't sleep anymore!  There wasn't a better way to spend the early hours of my wedding day holding my newest little nephew.  I got everything all packed up and ready for the day and headed to Amy's to pick up my mom and dad.  They joined me to go get my hair done.

My cousin Kasi did my hair...loved it!

James met us at the hair salon to pick me up.  We had a little while until we needed to be at the temple, so we stopped for a quick bite to eat with my parents.  Then we headed up to the temple.

On our way to get married!

As we were walking into the temple, we saw Kendall, Staci, and the kids.  It was fun to see them on our way into the temple to be sealed together for eternity.  Kendall and Staci are going to be sealed in a couple of months.  I can't wait for that!  Staci also helped watch all the kids outside the temple while all the adults were inside.  Again, so humbled by people coming from far away and helping out so much!
Our sealing ceremony was so beautiful and perfect!  I wasn't nervous at all.  Almost every single person who we love the very most was there.  And I am proud to say that I kept my composure quite well.  For those who know me, I can be quite an emotional mess at times like these.  I prayed SOOOOO many times and for SOOOOO long the night before about being able to keep myself pulled together so I didn't look like a wreck.  Prayers are answered!  The thing I remember most from our sealing was the sealer talking about how James and I were giving and receiving each other.  I was giving myself to him, and he was receiving me as his wife, and vice versa.  I wasn't taking him as my husband, but I was receiving him.  The words of the ceremony are profound and so beautiful.  I love the temple so much, and I feel so incredibly blessed to be sealed to James Michael Taylor for all eternity.  I am truly the most blessed girl on earth!  There were many days that I thought I would never enter the temple to be sealed to the man of my dreams, but it actually happened...September 20, 2013.  I love him!  And I love the temple!
When we went to leave the temple and be greeted by all our family and friends, James and I stood at the door pulling it towards us.  We were both like...its locked!  Little did we know, we needed to push and not pull.  Hence the very jolly pictures of us coming out of the temple.

There has never been a cuter picture!  Love my little Sophie bug!

I love Jack in this picture.  My nephews and niece were soooo excited all day.  They were so cute!

One of my favorite pictures...love him!

Roxy's girls called me "the princess" all day.  I felt like a princess!

James meeting my cousin Devin

The whole group

Both our immediate families

Our parents and siblings and Dedo

Everyone from my side of the fam

All my immediate family

The Cosby Clan

Us and my sibs

Us and my parentals

Me and my bros

Me and Amy

Me, Amy, and Kara

Us and "my babies"

All of James' family

The Taylor Clan

Us and James' parents

Us and James' siblings

James and his sisters

James and his brothers

Us and all James' nieces and nephews

Me and my Utah besties - Olivia, Tricia, and Heather

Us and all my friends who came to the sealing and their kids

Crazy friend picture!

My BYU roommate besties - Joo Lin, Roxy, and Amy

After we took all the family and friend pictures, we sent everyone on their way over to the luncheon, and our photographer took a few more pictures of just us around the temple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This day could not have been more perfect!  From the weather, to the food, to every single person who was there.  Perfect!  Then James and I headed off to join everyone at the luncheon in Saratoga Springs...

A Few More Fun Things Before the Big Day

We had some really fun things going on the couple of weeks before our wedding.  We were very lucky to get get some tickets for the James Taylor and Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert.  It was so fabulous!  I was on a date with James Taylor to see James Taylor.  I really like boys named James Taylor.  What a great time!

 

 Then it was the first home football game!  This is the best time of the year easily!  I love love LOVE college football so much!  This game turned out to be quite an experience.  It was a little rainy when we left, but by the time we got to Provo it was windy and rainy like I have never seen in Utah before.  The game was postponed about 2 hours due to lightning.  It was like a river runs through it all over Provo.  We stopped and bought trash bags to use as ponchos because all ponchos were sold out.  Then we went up to the book store and grabbed some dinner and hung out until the game started.  We beat Texas!  Very unexpected!  Coaches at Texas were fired after the game and all sorts of drama went down with how bad they played.  Haha!  I love it!  Let the football season begin!

 

 A few days later, it was this little lady's 3rd birthday.  There is no way she is 3 already!  I adore her!  Happy Birthday, Sophie!

 Then we jumped into wedding prep.  As I was packing up my stuff at Tricia's, I came across a cookie cutter I had shaped as the United States.  I am doing a map theme for our reception...we probably need 12 dozen United States shaped sugar cookies with purple frosting, right?  Right!  Amy made all the dough for the 12 dozen cookies, and James and I helped her roll, cut, and bake them all.  It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be!  And we got to eat lots of cookies that accidentally got Florida or Maine broken off.  Those darn peninsulas!

James, his mom, and I frosted them a few days later.

 Tricia's mom, Kris also was helping me with the decorations for the reception. She came over one day this week to see everything I had.  This was everything laid out in our front room.  Holy smokes!  I hope it turns out great!  That's a lot of junk!

 Then the weekend before the wedding, my very best girlfriends threw a little bachelorette party for me.  I wanted it to be really low key, so we went to dinner at Red Robin and then went to Tricia's and just talked for a couple of hours.  It was so perfect!  I love them each so much!

Heather and Haley

Tricia and Olivia

 Being almost 34 and single provides for plenty of time to make very dear friends and these are some of the best friends a girl could ask for.  They picked up the pieces of me left over after breakups.  They kept me busy when I couldn't stand being alone.  Most of all, they were always there for some really great times!  Trips, races, craft projects, baking projects, dating drama, work drama, etc.  I feel so blessed to have done all the amazing and truly one-in-a-lifetime things I've done as a single lady.  It really has all worked out perfectly for me!  LOVE you, girls!