One Year Ago Today....

We got married!! In a lot of ways it's hard to believe I've been married for a whole year, but on the other hand, so much has happened that the wedding seems like a long time ago.

Our cousin, Hannah, took most of the formal pictures, but I don't have them on this computer, so if you want to see them, you'll have to ask to see our wedding album (which I'm still not completely done with....) sometime.

Out of the 30 or so cake mixes I made up, we only got one bite of cake! We froze the top layer though and tonight we're going to try it out.

I used to think that I'd like to be engaged and all, but I wasn't sure if I really wanted to be married - however, I've since decided that being married is way better than being engaged! - that is, being married to Aaron - I think he must be the best husband in the whole world and I love him so much more now than I did a year ago :)

Dad walking me down the aisle -

Aaron, Grandpa, and I -

Aaron and I during the ceremony -

Lighting the unity candle -

Preparing for the kiss!

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Hello - Hope everyone else is enjoying their week! The weather has been beautiful here and we've been keeping busy. Aaron had to go to Mississippi last week for an Air Force thing and so I spent a couple days at my parents - felt funny to be a guest :)

These are some of the wedding pictures that Abby took - She did a great job!

We like this one a lot! :)

A close up of my boquet - Purple has been my favorite color for many years and irises are Aaron's favorite flower, so I had both in my boquet.

Keren and Debbie serving root-beer floats at the reception.

Julie and Hadassah served chips with nacho cheese dip and breadsticks with pizza sauce for dip.

We made the breadsticks ourselves and it took several long days of keeping the breadmaker going!

JoyAnn and my aunts working away in the kitchen - we really appreciate everyone who worked at the wedding!

Aaron's father read Scipture - Eph. 5:18-33- during the ceremony.

Me being given away...

Isaac and Silas doing the aisle runner - Isaac helped with that at Amos' wedding as well, so he's an expert :)

Joshua, as well as a couple other cousins, took care of all the gifts.

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We had a program after the reception - more of a light-hearted time after the seriousness of the ceremony. Neither of us knew all of what was planned and we really enjoyed it, in spite of some embarrasing moments...This is Aaron and I during a prayer.

Rachel was one of my personal attendants (she did a great job - and it was special to have her with me...she was trying to tell me that married life was wonderful...and she was right :) ) and here she's adjusting my crown a few minutes before the wedding. In case you hadn't noticed - these pictures are out of order.

13 girls - cousins, church and piano friends - were waitresses. Aunt Linda sewed matching black aprons for them and Mrs. Harris machine embroidered the names on them. The girls did a great job!

Another "almost kiss" :)

Throwing the boquet - I never was very good at throwing....

The bride and her three bridemaids from another wedding in '08! Sara, Jennie, Jennie, and Lexi

Before the wedding, I was researching why and how to cut the cake. It's to symbolize the couples willingness to care for each other. Long, long ago the groom would smash the cake over the brides head to show his authority over her...I agree that Aaron has the authority, but I still am glad we don't go with that tradition! There's also a superstition that it's bad luck to leave the wedding without tasting the cake! - and that if you sleep with a piece of it under your pillow you'll dream about your future mate. I suggested that to my siblings, but we agreed that we don't believe in such things. It's white to match the bride's dress. Yes, we did save the top tier and I guess how they ended up eating that for the 1st anniversary, was they used to eat it at the christianing of the first child.

We only did get one bite of the cake!

Aaron's brother, Nathan - it got down to about -20 degrees F that night.

Mathias and JoAnna were very cute as the ring bearer and flower girl and didn't seem nervous at all :) Instead of flower petals, JoAnna dropped snowlike glitter.
Hosanna - I had Miriam as my maid-of-honor because she's the oldest, but then, Hosanna gets to be at Miriam's wedding - or something like that.
Aunt Ellen was in charge of flowers - here she's giving Grandpa his corsage.
Daniel and Hannah figuring out the lighting for picture-taking!

A Few Wedding Pictures...

I know it's been forever since our wedding, and you've probably seen a lot of pictures already, but I finally got around to going through some of the ones I have and thought you'd still enjoy them - I hope so anyway, because you'll likely be seeing wedding pictures on here for the next year or two!

Sara was one of my personal attendants and fixed my hair for the day - she did a great job!

Josh, Amos, Dad, and Grandpa - waiting for things to happen -
Rebekah played flute for the prelude - I didn't get to hear most of it because I was trapped in a back room...but what I did hear was beautiful and that's what everyone else said as well.

Jordan played piano for Rebekah, which was also very lovely - Thanks Jordan!

Aaron putting the ring on my finger :)

We didn't have an official receiving line, but we stood in the back afterwards and greeted people - this is me hugging my Grandma.

Greeting more church people - our parents stood with us as well.

Alexis and Ashley were two of th 13 waitresses - they were in charge of a table in the front of the church with sandwhiches and pinwheels on it...

Aunt Linda cutting cake - there was a lot of cake left! We only got one bite, but apparently my family ate leftover cake almost the whole week we were gone on the honeymoon.
I did grab a quick snack :)

Miriam was a witness, Aaron and I didn't have to sign the certificate, but our best man and maid of honor did.

Aaron and our flower girl, JoAnna

Aaron and I getting ready to leave the church - and saying lots of goodbyes...we didn't do too bad, the wedding was at 6 and we left somewhere around 10.

I'm putting this picture on to annoy my brothers and sisters :) Hopefully you're computer blockers won't stop our blog because of it...

Oh, and Julie took most of these pictures and a few of them were taken by Mrs. Enns.