Wedding and Utah Reception

Cecilia: Brandon and I headed down to Utah a few days before the wedding so we could get everything we needed (marriage license, clothes, food for the honeymoon, etc.) and spend time with my half of the family.  Before we knew it, it was August 14th and we were headed to Salt Lake City for an endowment session.  After we were done, we ate lunch and did some shopping.  By the time we got back to my mom and sister's apartment in Orem, I was wiped out (not to mention getting a wee bit nervous for the next morning).

Brandon: Yup.

Cecilia: Anyways, after Brandon left to stay with his family in Lehi, I pretty much went straight to bed...only to be up for another hour and a half because I couldn't sleep.

Brandon: My Aunt Shelly and her family came to visit my family in our hotel room so it's not like I could sleep either.

Cecilia: True.  After a whole night of tossing and turning (resulting in about 3 hours of sleep TOTAL), it was time to get up and go get hitched.  I was jittery and the tears started coming before I even left the apartment. I was missing my oldest sister and niece who were unable to make it due to circumstances beyond our control.  Mom and I (along with my dress, hoops, and veil) piled into Papa Gerber's car and we were off! Sabina, Robert, Linda and George were right behind us with my bouquet and the "fix-it kit" that is every bride and mother-of-the-bride's best friend on this grand occasion.

Brandon: In the meantime, I got dressed, Dad got dressed, and we drove over in the little red pickup. That's all.

Cecilia: Typical guys. In my fear of being late for my own wedding, we ended up getting there about 10 minutes early-including going through road construction.  When we got there I was a little nervous about Brandon NOT showing up...or being late.  However, he and his dad were right on time and the wedding was  beyond perfect.

Afterwards, we got LOTS of pictures taken. (Now I kind of know how a celebrity feels with all the cameras and flashes going off).  Here are some of our favorites:

coming out of the temple- absolutely excited

super long train

Huffakers and Gerbers

5 generation shot- pearls were Great-Great Grandma's and both  Mom
and Nana wore the hoops on their wedding days.

3 generation shot :)

After 6 very LONG months of being engaged- we were finally married! Later that evening we had a reception that my great aunts put together.  Here are some pics from that-

table center pieces- each table had two pictures of
Brandon and I

before we cut the cake

close up of our rings

cutting the cake

he gave me a face full

and I got him back

end result of our cake battle

 After we cut the cake, ate food, and visited with family and friends- we were ready to go to our hotel room and sleep since we were planning on leaving very early in the morning to get to our honeymoon place- Glacier National Park.  We had quite a long drive ahead of us and where as we only had 6 hours of sleep between the two of us for that day-we wanted to sleep.

However- some of the members of our families decided to do this to our truck-

Needless to say- when I saw this up close I literally started crying.  Neither Brandon or I were very happy about it because like I said- we were extremely tired and our feet were hurting from being on them a majority of the day.  It took us about an hour and a half to clean the truck and get it to where we could actually see out of it.  The extent of the damage was this- what you see in the pics PLUS petroleum jelly on the door handles AND the gas tank handle (that one we didn't find out until the next morning).  Looking back on it, we kind of laugh and I admit that it was pretty ingenious.  However, we didn't find it funny then and there. And we can promise that our siblings will be getting the same if not a more intense treatment when THEY get married.

We got to our hotel safely thanks to our friends Sarah and Daniel Woolston who graciously helped us get there and take our wedding gifts to Rexburg so we wouldn't have to take them camping with us.  Then we ended up going to Orem and getting our food stuffs for the honeymoon.  We said bye to my mom, brother, and sister.  Then we were back on the road to our hotel. Overall, we were just excited and grateful that we were finally married after 6 long months of being engaged.

WHA-BAM!

Brandon: Time needs to freeze sometimes in order for everything to be accomplished. Instead it keeps on moving and as such it never leaves enough for everything to be accomplished. Blogging included.

Cecilia and I have been very busy. We finished the spring semester of school then we were in Lewiston for a a couple of weeks before heading down to Utah. Then all of a sudden we're married and off on a honeymoon. Next thing we know we're back in Lewiston packing up things and heading out on the open road for Rexburg. That's pretty much our lives in a nutshell since our last post.

Cecilia: We headed out onto the open road towards Rexburg on Labor Day. Miles and miles of windy road, heavy/dense smoke, and nine hours later- we were in Rexburg.  We started to move into our new apartment that evening and so far haven't completed the move in.

Not only have we been moving our things in, but also been on the lookout for full time jobs since neither of us are in school this semester.  We got some paperwork done with the school and now Brandon is on the Winter/Spring track as well.  Which means we have the holidays off from school!! Hopefully that means that we'll be able to finaggle with work schedules in a way so we are able to travel to families for the holidays.

In our efforts to find these full time jobs, some have looked very promising so we're hoping that things will work out the we want them to. However, we both know that things will work out the way they NEED to.

Brandon: Yeah, and we might go into detail about these least couple months in a few later posts, but for now, please bear with us as we are in this hectic stage of life right now.