Wedding Wagon

Maid of Honor Assistant or Maid of Dishonor

Wonderful Friends

Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles

My Brain - I had to write down everything otherwise I would forget.

I was saved by two great friends that came from UT. They drove into town on a flat tire and I met them at Costco around 8pm on the Thursday before we got married. I greeted them with tears in my eyes and they quickly told me to pull it together. Lori and I have been friends since being roommates at BYU in the summer of 1995. I met Natalie through Lori and I've known her for about the past 3-4 years.

They were such a big support and helped me stay sane over the next couple of days. They helped with decoration on Friday and drove me every place on Saturday. I was planning on driving myself around to get hair and make up done but they insisted on driving; which I'm so thankful.

We started Saturday morning going to get my hair done in Pasadena by my normal guy and then to lunch. It was awesome having them there to see the best way to do my veil. I kept my veil on the whole reception because it never feel off or became loose.

It doesn't get better than chicken and waffles on your wedding day!!

After lunch we went to my friend Melissa's house for makeup and my maids got ready. We then went straight to the temple for me to change and get married. Natalie was the expert at making everything just right, especially my veil.

I'm so appreciate to my maid of honor and maid of dishonor for making my day so much fun and relaxing!!

Weird Al & the Fair

The food at the fair is always entertaining and yummy if you don't count calories!! We enjoyed the Alaskan Jumping Pig Races.

Allen is a huge Weird Al fan, so we went to the OC Fair!! I'm not a fan and I was really worried about attending on Saturday afternoon when Allen was playing Weird Al on the way to the fair.

It was one of the most entertaining concerts I've attended. He had the most costume changes and crazy antics for every song. I was one of the few not singing along but I had a blast.

If he's playing in your area; I recommend you go. Tickets are really cheap and it is very entertaining, even for a non fan.

New Car

I bought my first brand new car in 2002, a VW Passat and it lasted until this past month. About a month before I got married my car was having difficulties, especially the transmission. We left on our honeymoon and came home to a dead battery. We got it jump started and my mechanic originally that maybe the low battery was causing the transmission problems, WRONG. He then cleaned it, nothing looked wrong and put in new oil (he didn't charge and said it was a wedding gift). It still had problems, once not shifting above 3rd gear until I turned off and restarted my car.

We test drove cars for about 2 weeks and we chose a Honda CR-V. I was surprised that I liked as much as I do. We would of bought a VW Tijuan because it handled awesome but had a really small cargo space which would make basic shopping difficult.

We love our new car!!!

The Reception

Only half of the candy bar!! A big hit with the young and old!! It sent my nephew Jack into chocolate heaven and complete sugar shock.

Some Wedding Pictures

I downloaded some photos that have been posted on Facebook . We bought the rights to our photos but we haven't met with our photographer and edited our wedding album; so I'll have a lot more pictures to share.

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Right after we took this picture it started raining really hard for about 10 minutes. We quickly took cover, let it pass then took picture for about 10 more minutes than we walked over to the reception.

Yes, I have a lot of bridesmaids!! I couldn't decide to have my 4 sisters/sisters in law or friends; so I had both.

Head Banging

We spent our first two night before flying to Maui, at the Renaissance near LAX. On Sunday, we went to our house to open gifts with Allen's family and his mom dropped us off at the hotel and we took the hotel shuttle to the airport on Monday morning. 


Sunday night I got up from bed to use the restroom around 11:30pm. I had a really bad pain in my stomach and I passed out on the toilet. On the way to the floor I hit my head on the sink counter and then on the floor. I screamed after hitting my head and woke up on the floor with my underwear pulled down staring at my husband. 


We didn't know what caused me to pass out but I didn't want to go the ER because we had a flight in the morning to catch!!! I slept all night with an ice pack on my head so the instant bump that developed wouldn't get larger. 


Monday evening in Maui I was still concerned about my head and what caused me to pass out. I called the Kaiser Ask a Nurse and she told me to go to the hospital that night, don't wait for tomorrow to go. We drove to Maui Memorial and we were in and out in 1 1/2 hours with a CT Scan. I have a brain (with butterflies) and nothing wrong. Your body has vagus nerves and one near my butt was triggered that caused me to pass out (this is all probably too much information but it's funny too me, btw I wasn't constipated).


Bathroom at the Marriott:

Me with my ice pack, made from a zip lock and wrapped in a wash cloth  (with blue taffy for comfort):

My brain:

I requested a copy of my CT Scan and when we got home Allen explained the different images and saw what an angel I am!!!

We're Married

Our wedding and reception was amazing. I was annoyed that we the workers in the temple were so slow and we had to wait for them even though we were the last and only couple getting married at 2:30pm. We didn't get married until after 3pm and it kept people waiting outside for an extra long time.

I haven't met with our photographer but some people emailed and posted pictures. Our reception was a dream reception with incredible decorations, yummy tri tip & chicken, Porto's wedding cake and an incredible candy bar.

Here are some pictures my sisters took after we got married. I'll share more pictures and honeymoon details later.

Yes, a lot of bridesmaids but half of them are sisters!!