Sneak Peak - Wedding Pictures

We got 4 wedding pictures back! I cannot wait to get the rest!

I LOVE THEM!

I cannot stop staring at them.

I think this one (the bridge one) is my favorite of the 4 - although they are all so amazing, and we are so utterly good looking, it is hard to pick a favorite.

I love it because we are looking at each other with so much love... there was so much love in that photo. 

When we took our engagements I felt so awkward and unnatural... and you can tell in most the photos. It was fun, but I was so out of my element.

In our wedding photos though? I was so in love with Trevor, so happy, so excited to marry my best friend, it felt so easy and natural. We couldn't stop looking at each other (so cheesssyyyy, sorry!) and the photographer just took pictures of us gushing over "you look so beautiful" "no YOU look so handsome" interspersed with kissing. 

Seriously, I couldn't stop looking at how completely handsome he looked in that tux, and his blue/silver/wire boutonniere is the best looking boutonniere I have ever seen.

I had a breakdown earlier in the day - taking these pictures was really "it" in my mind... after this, it was final - we were getting married... all day long I was a mess.

And then we met at temple square, took pictures of him seeing me for the first time, and after that all my fears were gone.

I couldn't stop looking at him, I wanted him to hold me tighter and kiss me longer...

I don't photograph well, but I love each of these photos, and I think it's because I was just so happy and in love.

I never want to forget how magical this day was. How I felt , in my wedding dress, with Trevor in his tux looking so handsome and being so filled with love and excitement and the knowledge that he is man I want. For forever and ever... 

This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole night as well - I wish we'd had the photographer take one instead of just a cell phone picture. My dress was seriously enormous when I sat down. Fitting me in the car with Trevor was nearly impossible (also you can see his boutonniere better in this one).

Love,

Brittney

Wedding Memories

I am going to keep a memory box, but wanted to take pictures to post some wedding related things on my blog. I don't have everything I want to document, hopefully I can find them/they didn't get thrown away.

As I was cleaning/organizing the chaos that we live in, I found these things and wanted to make sure I keep at least an electronic copy in a place I know I can find.

The letter that came from the temple, confirming my endowment (not sure where the sealing one is... need to find that!).

Bridal shower invite from the shower Charlyn/my mom threw me

Cute napkins at our wedding! Such a small detail, but I really loved them!

Love,

Brittney

Friends & Family Love

Friends

One of the best parts of my wedding was being surrounded by those people who love me.

At one point, I had a friend doing my hair, a friend doing my makeup, a friend doing my toes and a friend doing my finger nails – all at the same time. That is a lot of love from 4 amazing people. I felt pretty special.

There are so many amazing people in my life, it was so fun to walk down the aisle and see 9 amazing women on my left, and 9 amazing men on my right, and the man of my dreams front and center. Not to mention the 4 cutest flower girls and ring bearers ever.

I could have asked so many more amazing women to be one of my bridesmaids. The hard part was limiting selecting only 3 friends (the other 6 were sisters – and 9 was already way too many!). Luckily Trevor let me ask Daren to be a Groomsmen, since he had to part of the wedding party but as Daren put it, “if I walked down the aisle in a dress, everyone would just stare at me the whole time and they’d not notice you.” Haha, well put Daren. So we opted for a tie and slacks for him.

So many people took time off of work to be at my wedding, and flew far – even weathering the great Calgary flood– to be with me. I can’t express how much that meant to me.

Thank you to everyone who came to the wedding, who gave me gifts and emotional support. I feel so lucky to have such incredible family and friends.

Love,

Brittney

JUST MARRIED!

This is our getaway car!

Trevor wanted to take Tim (my beautiful RAV 4) to the reception, since he has pride and wanted to leave in a nice car.

I wanted to take Grass Stain to the reception, because it's already a piece of crap and some decorations wouldn't do much to it. I didn't want to potentially ruin Tim/have to clean him before work! 

I won. I eventually brought Trevor over to my side, in that we drive Tim all the time, so it would make more sense to get Grass Stain all decorated instead of our main car.

The whole car was full of balloons, so we had to clear some out to make room for us. I didn't even get to read what the car said until the next day, as by the time we made it to the hotel it was dark outside.

Love the addition of, "drink a Redbull!" 

As soon as I surveyed the car, I knew my siblings were not the masterminds behind the decor. Lets just say both my sisters' cars were much tamer than ours. 

We still have no idea what the scribbled out part means. We asked Trevor's friend, and he said it's probably best we don't know. So we'll leave it at that.

Probably our favorite part of the car... haha!

View of Grass Stain from the hotel. It was so cute sitting outside by itself, all decorated.

We had to pick up Tim so we drove home separately - I took a picture of Trev and Grass Stain at a red light. Because they were adorable. And you rarely get to see your wedding car at a red light - you're usually in it.

When we got to our apartment, we discovered that Sachi, Brittany and Samar had decorated our door/bed. 

Thanks, guys!

Those little hearts/kisses were a pain to remove! I'm still finding them random places...

Love,

Brittney

Bachelorette Party

Samar threw me the best bachelorette party. I am so grateful for her for all the time she spent on making it amazing. The decor was awesome. She also bought a bunch of stuff she made me wear the whole night - including the walk to dinner, during dinner, after dinner. I got lots of stares, points, and car honks.

(notice the enormous light up ring I got as well. No offense Trev, but this ring is way bigger than the one you got me, and lights up way more...)

You can't really tell because of the sash, but the shirt says "Bride" and the tiara has a veil.

My closest friends and sister and sister-in-laws were able to make it, with a few exceptions, so that was wonderful.

We walked to Blue Lemon, my favorite restaurant, and had dinner. Walked back to my apartment and opened presents, played games, had dessert, talked, etc.

Samar had this idea for a cool cake she wanted to get me for the party, and it was amazing... well, almost. The idea was amazing. The execution was almost there. But... not quite. When she went to pick it up, it was a DISASTER. This is after some major modifications.

The lady spelled my name wrong, so she had to redo that.

Notice my panties are way bigger than Trev's boxers... and the thing on top by Trev's pillow? That is a bra. It surely doesn't look like a bra.

The feet... none of us could get over the feet. It looks like I died. a slow and painful death, completely deflating my body. Samar said she and the cake lady coresponded back and forth like 8 or so emails, and had three phone calls. She asked all kinds of questions like what race we both are, sent boxer samples, etc.

Then this is the cake.

The beadspread looked awesome - that is what saved it.

In order for the bumps under the blanket to be people, we'd have to be highly disfigured.

Those are toothpicks holding the spray painted cardboard headboard together. Poking out the back.

Again with the non-Caucasian deformed feet.

We pulled up the bedspread to see what was underneath. 

Green plops of... something. Gross.

The whole thing was hilarious.

And in case you wondered - we did try the cake. It was horrible. I'm not a food snob - but this was awful. AWFUL. It was stale, bland and the bedding may look nice, but it tasted awful. And you had to peel layers of green goop off to get to the cake. 

So in case you are ever in the need for an erotic cake - do NOT go to madame and Steve's erotic bakery in Sugarhouse.

Love,

Brittney

First presents!

We got our first present! Had to take pictures.

Went to Trevor’s house after and our second present had come to his house. That is our first 2 presents in the same day. And we haven’t received any since, so what a coincidence.

Getting married is fun!

Love,

Brittney

Shopping with Anna

I stayed for the first week with Tatiana, but then family started to come in from out of town, so I stayed with her best friend, Anna. 

Belgium is incredible and I loved being there and seeing all the incredible buildings and architecture. But meeting the people is always the best part. Anna was amazing and letting me stay with her was so nice. On the day before the wedding, we went shopping.

Anna needed a cover up and shoes for the wedding. I didn't need anything -but I wanted some things. I have been looking everywhere for baby blue shoes to go with my wedding dress. Baby blue is out of fashion in the states this year, and we can't find baby blue anywhere. It's made this wedding very, very difficult.

We went to an outdoor shopping area, where of course - all the shops are in historic buildings and there are cathedrals like the one below on every other street.

This is probably my favorite picture from my entire trip. An older couple with matching dog sweaters, with the same dog. Priceless. I told Trevor this is what we are aspiring to as we age.

Anna took me into one of her favorite shoe stores - Noe. There I found and fell in love with the most beautiful baby blue heels in existence. 

Now I have gorgeous baby blue Belgian shoes for me wedding. 

Love,

Brittney