The beginning

Please forgive this first blog as I have no idea what I am doing...

Thank you in advance. :)

So, Laura and I decided that the best way to start our blog was with, yep, you guessed it, our marriage. Here is my sad attempt at documenting a truly amazing day. (Luckily we had an incredibly talented photographer and friend named Lindsey Boice taking pictures, so no matter how bad I mess this up, at least you can go to the link below and see for yourself how the day unfolded through pics).

PS: I will just give you the Reader's Digest version here since I might have ADD and can't be bothered with documenting every little detail. However, I will say that this was the best day of my life and I am happy to share it with you. :)

So here we go: Ms. Laura Kelly and I were wed on April 17th, 2010 in the Los Angeles LDS Temple. We arrived in the city a few days prior to get ready, have the bachelor and bachelorette parties, etc., etc., and that was all a blast. Our families were both so great to come down and support us (as neither one of them is from the area) and many of our friends were able to join us as well.

The actual wedding day began early for Laura and the ladies at 6am to get all beautified and such.

 The boys didn't have it quite so hard. We woke up around 9am and eventually made our way over to the Temple after a few pictures.

I met Laura in the temple right before we were to be wed (we kept the tradition of not seeing each other the day or morning before the actual ceremony). She looked incredible and I felt like a lucky man to not give you the cheesy version. And then, about an hour later...

We were married!

Our family and friends greeted us for the first time as a married couple as we came out of the Temple. This is a pic of everyone who came to support that afternoon in case you were wondering. We have lots of cool shots of this but I just can't be bothered to upload them all. Like I said, check out the link for more pics.

Our cool siblings.

The Parentals.

Laura's sisters welcoming me to the family. :)

I love Laura's face with this one.

We are cool.

I look kinda silly in this one but my wife looks pretty hot in the one below in my humble opinion.

This is one of my favorites.

Some more cheesy fun.

Finding Laura's wedding ring was actually kinda cool. I had a "connection" in Salt Lake who took me to what is called the Diamond District--where the jewelers select their stones and the general public is not allowed. I got to look through a magnifying glass and choose the stone (luckily I had done my homework). Then the lady called down a jeweler and we designed the ring together based on some pictures I had gotten from Laura's sister. Oh and I like my ring because it's made from Tungsten which is supposedly super hard to break and impossible to scratch--which is probably a good thing if I ever get in a gang fight or something. :)

I could continue posting pics we took outside the temple because Lindsey seriously took a ton of great ones. But, I am starting to feel that ADD kick in so let's get to the reception after I leave you with a nice picture of this twirl/spin/thing.

Okay, so here we are at the reception. All of Laura's planning and hard work--along with all the help of family and friends made for a great evening with chocolate fountains, sparkling cider toasts, dancing, sparklers, good food and good times.

Robin started the evening out with the first toast. I think she actually threatened my life if I ever was mean to Laura. I believed her. Haha, but seriously, she is a good sister and I look forward to continue earning cool points from her and never making her little sis angry--except when I beat her at Wii or something. :)

Then Jimbo (Jim) told everyone I was a good guy--or at least in my head that's what I thought he said. He was kind enough not to mention the time we got in a fight over a can of spaghetti sauce.

And then to wrap up the toasts, the one and only person I know by the name of "Dutchess" re-told the story of when Laura told "D" about our first kiss and the first words out of her mouth were: "Don't you screw this up, Laura!" Haha. That cracked me up and I can officially say that I'm glad she didn't screw it up either--or I didn't for that matter. :)

Then we cut a mean rug--well sorta. Note to engaged people: DON'T pick a really long song. It just gets awkward to dance in front of everyone for more than a minute or two--unless of course you're a professional dancer--which I am not. Poor Laura, who is of course an amazing dancer, just had to put up with me but I did agree to dance lessons someday.

Danced the traditional.

Ate some cake. I couldn't resist getting Laura just a little even though we had previously agreed not to--hence the look on her face.

Threw some flowers.

We also got a chance to catch up with everyone but I am not going to put pictures of that on here. I will say that it was so great to feel loved by so many people and we really appreciated seeing them all. We did this cool photobooth with props and I am excited to look back at everyone who made it and laugh at their pictures.

And then it was time to go. We said our goodbyes and got ready to make our grand exit. And, I must admit, it feels pretty cool to be running under a tunnel of sparklers with the love of your life. If you get the chance I suggest you try it.

Anyway, thanks for putting up with this attempt at a blog post of mine. I wish I could've done the day some justice but this will have to suffice for now. Our next post is going to be done by Laura about our honeymoon so I'm sure it will be a much better read. You can look forward to that. :)

Here is the link I was telling you about if you want to see more pics:

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