Wedding in Salt Lake

My roommate got married!

I headed out to Salt Lake City bright and early Tuesday morning to go celebrate Megan and Thad's wedding. Anne and Megan picked me up from the airport and we went to get breakfast and the complete "The List". There were lists for everything (I was even on the list!) and that afternoon we hit up Wal-Mark, Ikea and Starbucks before getting our nails done with Mary and going back to the house.

A little on the late side, we headed out to the park for the rehearsal dinner. Anne and I did a lot of the set-up and I would definitely take a job working for a wedding coordinator. I am a decent bow-tie-er. Megan's family was there, including her new beautiful niece Anna and I got to see Zachary also for the first time (other than about thirty seconds) in maybe a year? If not more. What a cute. See below.


That night we were up pretty late doing all the last-minute things- putting pictures into frames, planting vines into new plant holders, packing up bags and labeling them and stapling the labels onto the bags, etc. We went to bed around midnight and were up early the next morning to go meet Sean/Tito and have breakfast at Ruth's Diner. Zachy got teddy bear pancakes and ate only the whipped cream. I appreciated the cantaloupe and pineapple of his I got to eat though and my banana nut french toast was delicious!
The boys, Thad, Paul (Anne's finace) and Zach dropped the girls off and we got manicures to match our pedicures. And then it was nap-time, although since Thad was playing Call of Duty downstairs, I didn't get much sleep. Then it was go-time! We gathered up our things, loaded up the car and headed over to Mill-Creek.
The venue was absolutely beautiful and I loved the color scheme (sage, ivory and chocolate) and how it all matched with the incredible surroundings. Anne and Megan went to go get ready and I started to get to work on the decorations of all the tables. Other than the place settings, all the decorations in these pictures are my work. Not too shabby :)






I got a chance to pop back into the bridal suite to see Megan get ready. She looked so beautiful and definitely was dealing well with the heat. Mary and Anne brought out some sparkling cider to toast and Zachary and Hannah the flower girl partook with us as well. The little ones were so cute when they realized that it wasn't normal apple juice but had a sparkling, fizzy kick!



The ceremony was just beautiful- Phil Hughes (former pastor at ACI, Sterry and now pastor in SLC) was the officiant and he did a beautiful job. Hes spoke from 1 John 4 and James and was eloquent, and funny. Megan's dad and Zachary walked Megan down the aisle and everyone looked so incredible. I nearly cried, especially when Megan and Thad lit two candles and then lit one for Zachary and all three lit a unity candle. Thad is such an incredible dad to Zachary and I'm so excited for the three of them to be a little family!





I sat at dinner with Sean, Matthew (Megan's bro), Phil and his wife Nancy and another couple who I didn't really get to talk to at all since I was doing a fair bit of running around during dinner. Anne, Mary, Paul and I at one point snuck out to decorate the car but Zachary stole me away and we went on a few field trips with monsters and climbed all over the place. We also loved blowing bubbles in each others faces. The cake was delicious and we flew bubbles to send Thad and Megan off to Park City for the night.


This might be my favorite picture of the night- just before they left. Sums up our relationship perfectly :) Megan, I love you! Congratulations and I'm so excited for you, Thad and Zachy!