Wedding Day

  So before my wedding I constantly looked at pictures, wedding videos and blogs to get ideas for my wedding. So I just wanted to explain what I did for my wedding. I got engaged in the middle of August.

  No this is not an actual picture from his proposal. Although I do wish I had some sort of picture from the night that Dane proposed. For those that don't know. Dane proposed at the airport the night that he go back from his ethnographic field school in Cambodia. This is a picture of Dane and I at Senior Ball in 2009. Which by the way was pretty fun. We went horseback riding for the day activity and had a picnic. The part that the school planned was not as fun. They ran out of food in the middle of it.

 I planned for a wedding in either the Spring or the Summer. The date ended up changing a lot. It ended up being June 25, 2011. Because of the long delay I didn't start planning for a while. I believe I started dress shopping in March when I had Spring Break. I don't really remember. It could have been in January when I had Christmas break. I don't really know... My sister in law did some fishing and found a really good store you could rent from called Gowns by Pamela. I was happy with the idea of renting because it made it so you could get a dress you really really liked and not spend a fortune on it. Gowns by Pamela had the option of having a corset which I was really happy for. When I went dress shopping all I really knew was that I wanted a more old fashioned feel to it and I didn't want mermaid or puffy. It was hard to find a dress I really really liked. I liked this empire waist dress; It really reminded me of Pride and Prejudice it was a little too plain though. We came back and found the dress I ended up wearing. I think I looked a lot better in Ivory. One thing that was kind of sad was I didn't go dress shopping with my friends. I had a lot of fun when I went with Lisa. I just didn't have very much time since I lived in Logan. I did have fun shopping around with my mother.
  After my dress was taken care of I think I waited till I got out of school to actually plan the rest of it. I chose colors a while back all I had was this sample picture of purples greens and blues. Trying to put everything together  and hoping it all turned out right was the hard part. My flourist was my mom's friend Debbie Lewis. She had suggestions about cake decorators and table cloth stores. She suggested Susan's Party Rentals for the table cloths. Which we ended up using. Susan was really friendly and had a lot of options I was happy to have found that place.
  As for the cake we actually ended up going to a lady suggested by Susan that lived in Springville. I can't remember her name sadly. She just decorated cakes as a hobby. I ended up really liking my cake and was happy to have found her. Cake decorating is a hobby I would really like to pick up. I think my cake was flavored chocolate, chocolate and carrot. I guess people actually ended up liking the carrot flavor more.

  As for food that was a really big issue. The biggest issue with food was that we planned on a lot of people but couldn't really guess how many would come. My first thought was to have crepes and fruit.
my mom and I went to a caterer and found that they were very expensive. We ended up with pies. In the end it was pretty good.  A lot less people showed up than we expected so we didn't waste as much money. Was sad how many didn't show up. I know a lot couldn't  make it but to those who could thank you! Side note  but I was thinking, I think a lot more people would come to a funeral than a wedding. I think for a funeral you feel more obligated to come. But personally I would rather have people come to my wedding than my funeral. I can't talk to anybody at my funeral.
  Dane's parents were very nice to offer a Luncheon which Dane and I decided to do Costa Vida at a park that was pretty casual. I was happy with that decision I thought it turned out  well. I should have given a speech about Dane though :( I was kind of not thinking clearly. When I drove into the parking lot I had a sort of anxiety attack with so many people. Ashley did a great job at decorating she made a cowboy/space luncheon. I like western stuff and Dane likes space. Sadly we all forgot to bring a camera so we have no pictures of the event.
  I think I talked about the rest of the events of my wedding in my blog; Explanation and Being Married Sentimental thoughts.
 In the end I was pretty happy with how my wedding day turned out. Now I get to spend the rest of my life with this guy : D

Explanation

   Dane as many know doesn't like "ordinary" things. He does not want to be a a cookie cut of any sort. He doesn't want to do anything because it is tradition or because everybody does it. Weddings for a long time have bothered him. He doesn't really care for the traditional acts in matrimony. When it was his wedding he wanted to make sure people knew there were pieces of him in his wedding.
  There was a conflict between both of us dealing with the wedding. I always imagined the "traditional wedding" flowers, candles, lacy stuff etc. I always thought that the woman was usually the one that cared and not the man so it wouldn't be a problem.  There was. So Dane and I made an agreement if I got to decide how the wedding ended up he got to make the invitations. It was settled.
  Time passed and it was time to make the  invitations. Dane had lots of different ideas and finally decided on one. He wanted both of us in Tron looking suites. So tight fitting space looking uniforms. We would then make paper mache helmets. Our background would either be in Torrey or the Salt Flats. Basically places that could pass for a different planet. On the back it would say "where no man has gone before" and have a lamb with a astronaut helmet on it. (I took that sheep class last semester so grew a fondness of sheep).
  A lot of people thought this was a good idea. At least that is what they told us. Everyone except my parents. I don't know if one parent ruled over the other but in the end they would not accept it.
  We then had to try to think of other ideas that were still not the "traditional" one that everyone had. (Cute couple in some field or on train tracks looking fondly at one another.) In the end Dane decided to use some of his comics that he made in anthropology class about us. He scanned and chose some then put our "butt sketch" from Texas in the middle of it.

   My mom said that she liked it. ( making your own wedding invitations actually doesn't save you money. The websites that I looked at where you picked one of their backgrounds and just inserted you picture was a lot cheaper.) Anyways, we were pretty happy with how they ended up looking. We have gotten lots of compliments on them.

Oh yeah a lot of people say they can't figure out what the comics are about. You're not really supposed too. All the comics Dane made were really random. Here is an example of the top right one. It's me being evil and Dane being as innocent as any one can be. This is the full comic:

 The french toast one was drawn because I was craving french toast one day.

Dane also made a Temple invitation.

This didn't end up in any of the invitations because apparently Costco or Sam's club couldn't print their sizes.

My parents seemed fine with the invitation then mom said it was hard to read so they needed to send a bigger one. Ashley (my sister in law) made a more fancy traditional one that was bigger that had no picture. Mom then said they needed a picture. (Whole time kind of complaining that couldn't see our faces on the other invitations.) We were running out of time by this time so she had Ashley take us quickly to a few spots to get our pictures taken. (The cutsie pictures that Dane hates).

Dane refused to take any kissing pictures for our engagements. At our wedding he reluctantly took a few. They were very quick. He hated my lipstick so tried to avoid it as much as possible. Ashley made the mistake of saying "last one" to one of our kissing pictures on our wedding day. So the stubborn side of Dane pounced on that. Now we hardly have  any kissing pictures at our wedding and probably in our video. Jeremy my brother hasn't finished our video yet so I haven't seen it. So don't know.

 This one below. We saw this house and really liked it. And were trying to create a pride and prejudice sort of picture. I wish I was leaning into the pole more. I think it would have looked a lot better if I had.

I was happy to get pictures of us together. All though it probably was all a scheme. Meaning that our invitations major concern wasn't that it was too small it was that mom wasn't crazy about them. I like how I am really laughing. I usually am not really laughing unless Dane is there :D
 

I got my bridals a few days ago they were all taken my Maddie Thomas. Dane's cousin. She was nice to offer them! I loved them!  http://www.maddiethomasphotography.com/ .

 I like this one below just wish my mouth wasn't open. It barley is so I just noticed. Oh well.

These boots were given to me by Gary. He  originally bought them for Maren. He said he absolutely loved them but they were too big for her. They also didn't fit any of the girls in his family. For Christmas Dane's parents called Dane and asked what I would want for Christmas. He said I was looking for cowboy boots. That was the right answer. I guess Dane actually gave them to me. He worked over Christmas break at his house in Louisiana for them. It was so funny how Dane gave them to me. Dane occasionally will sing this song by Shania Twain that he learned as a little kid called "Whose Bed have your Boots been under". I had the opportunity to go to Texas for the 75th Cotton Bowl Game it was a spectacular event. Anyways when I got there Dane had me look around his hotel room. I did and eventually found a shiny pair of boots under his bed :)  I love these boots so much. I feel like an English Rider in them :) My mom was nice enough to take them in and get them glued and polished before my wedding. I actually looked to find different shoes for my wedding but did not find any that I liked as much as my boots.

Tara Woffinden (Dane's sister) did my hair. I was really happy with it. One problem that I didn't realize though until my bridals were my bangs. They always seemed to be in my face. On my wedding day I made sure they were pinned back. I rented my dress at Gowns by Pamela. I was really happy with going there. I really liked my dress. The customer service there was really good.

This picture below is my dad's favorite.  He loves to run on that trail and loves the background.

The flowers I have are fake. It's  funny  I got my bridals a few days before my wedding and so we were very busy meaning mainly my mom and Ashley. When we finally got to my bridals we realized we didn't have any flowers. Tara had these from Chloe's wedding though.  They were a life saver. They matched my colors :D