Goal #3 Become Sealed for all Eternity in the Draper Temple on September 17th 2011

We decided this goal in March but it was a long time coming while we planned all of the details and arranged for this special day. September 17th was a beautiful day, minus the fact that I had to wake up early and decided to stay up the night before messing around with friends. The weather was perfect as you can see in this lovely picture of the Draper temple

Our friends and family filled the largest sealing room in the State of Utah (72 people!), I only know this fun fact because I was surprised by the Logan temple only holding 55 and so then I called them all and asked. Although this is not why we chose to be married in the Draper Temple. The sealing was wonderful and everything went according to plan. We exited the temple very gracefully....and my first thing I needed to do was cut the end off of my bouquet. I thought it was too long and looked disproportional, but the temple workers didn't have a knife in the brides room, luckily my little brother was prepared and saved the day.

So once we were able to get the bouquet straightened around, we continued to take more pictures with all of our many guests! We truly are so blessed to have such supportive family and friends!!

Then it was our turn for a lot of pictures!! There were so many wonderful pictures that it was hard to pick just a few to post so you'll probably see more later. We were so lucky to have found such a great photographer Alicia Arlene, that just made Kyle and I look good without us doing much! She took all of these great shots and was really easy and great to work with! Click on her name for more info! :)

Kyle and I didn't care about much for the wedding, I was never the girly girl that planned out every detail in advance, I only had one request that my brothers looked good and wore tuxedos. I've been to way too many events where none of us matched and we look ridiculous so this was the one day it mattered, which as you can see they all look stunning!!

Luckily Kyle has 3 brothers as well so it balances things out nicely and they all look great together.

My sister-in-laws all matched great even with no help from me. I never had any plans what they should wear but lucky for me they are all extremely smart women and can take care of themselves and look great!

We weren't the best at fake laughing...

But we couldn't leave out our only nephew, Kyle and I agreed that we had to have a baby tux for Carter. Since we are his favorite uncle and aunt, he had to look distinguished at our wedding(not saying that his mom wouldn't have dressed him nice if we didn't get this tux for him, she always makes him look good.) We mostly just love baby tuxedos, cuz they are so cute!

The Anderson Family!

Everybody

The standard Lyman family pose - "Gaston" style

Even though my brothers are dressed nice, that doesn't mean they are going to act nice, I'm still their only sister and I guess that means they get to pick my nose!?!

The Lyman Family

My dad just jumping in Josh and Alex's nice picture....weddings are a long day for everyone

For some crazy reason, Kyle has always wanted to follow tradition and smash cake, what he forgot to consider is that his wife is kind of extreme and wasn't going to be very nice with the cake smashing as you can see my hand has completely covered his face with cake and he was much nicer to me.....

So the day before the wedding I was googling wedding traditions because I plan on only getting married once and didn't want to miss any sweet traditions. Kyle's family mostly immigrated from Iceland and their traditions included day long parties and the groom carrying the family sword throughout the day. Since my plan of having a 6 hour reception was already vetoed, I knew I wouldn't get around with having a multi day party and there was no family sword for Kyle to carry around, I kept searching. The majority of my family has immigrated from Denmark, which is where I found the one wedding tradition I liked.  The brothers of the bride are to grab the groom flip him upside down and cut the tips of his socks off. This has been a tradition for about a century and the actual reason is that the brothers wish to prohibit the groom from "turning his socks green" which means he cannot get them green or dirty anymore by running across the grass in the middle of the night after the girls. Pretty much it involved knives, had good meaning and was an original tradition. So the day before I told my mom about this and she hated the idea and told me I couldn't do it, so I asked Kyle what he thought, he also didn't like the idea mostly out of fear that my brothers would cut his toes off. But despite their wishes I told my brothers to be ready for it and told Kyle it would happen. Lucky for me our actual wedding day was busy and he completely forgot. So right after we ate our first piece of cake, my brothers came from behind and flipped him upside down and cut his socks off! 

Bouquet throwing - The first throw I overthrew all of the people and hit the mirror behind them, nothing was hurt and I threw it again

I love this picture because Paula is ducking so low and everyone is just looking at the bouquet that I threw way too far!

Chelsea was the winner and I can't wait to go to her wedding next December!! ;)

Then I had to slid down the banister because there was one and Will told me to, but I was kind of scared.

So that's our wedding day in brief, everything turned out great, we got married, ate great food, had lots of fun. Thanks to all of you who helped us with getting this wedding ready!!