We’ve Decided on Forever {Part 3}

This will be my last installment of our wedding, I promise!  This is a photo-overload, with a few comments by me here and there.  Like I said yesterday, everything past Angi telling me that in fact Chris was not leaving me and Ace got run over is an utter and complete blur.  I wish I could remember more of the day.  I only remember snippets, which I will insert when appropriate.  That being said, ENJOY our wedding day!

 

 

 

 

 

Chris’s true best “man” (even though Fly is a girl)

 

Gotta have my Dr. Pepper!

 

 

I walked down the aisle to the song “Today I met the Boy I’m gonna marry” by Darlene Love.

 

 

 

 

 

This seriously melts my heart EVERY time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Kiss!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next succession of pictures we captured Chris’s reaction to my short dress.  No one knew about my dress doing this except my photographer.  Not even my mom or Kimmie.

^ I love this pose the best! ^^^^^^ $

 

I love this picture, a lot a lot a lot! 

Everything thing about this makes me happy inside.

Kind of our wedding theme $

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one. I don’t even know what we were looking at.

 

The one thing I remember was the cake cutting.  It was after this that I was completely done.  I felt horrible and wanted to leave, right then.  We were told it was time to cut the cake.  Chris and I went to do so, and I asked where’s Angi?  I couldn’t see her, but there was so much hub-bub going on that I just assumed she was there.  We went ahead and cut the cake and I remember Uncle Chad say “be nice, Tiff, be nice!” $

The next thing I know Angi was there and yelling at us about what cake we were cutting and saying “thanks a lot for waiting” and stormed off.  I felt horrible, and really wanted to cry.  It had been a long day for everyone involved especially with little Ace and everything else, but that was it for me.

Anyway, there you are, all caught up on the wedding.  Now it’s for the rest of life that’s been happening to us since then!

We’ve Decided on Forever {Part 2}

 

The morning of my wedding, I was calm.  Everyone kept telling me that I was going to get jitters, or cold feet, and I never did.  I knew that marrying Chris was the right thing to do, and with getting too religious or preachy, I had an assurance that Chris was the man I was supposed to marry.

 

I met my brothers in San Luis for a delicious breakfast, then Kim and I went to target, lunch and then to the salon to get our hair done.

Gorgeous Girl!

I’m getting married in an hour! Yikes!

So we were running a little late from the hair appointment.  It always happens to me because they don’t realize how THICK my hair is.  So we were rushing to get back to the house so we could get dressed and get ready and so I could take portraits with the photographer.

I drank a butt-load of water that day so I was DYING on the way to the house.  We got to the ranch about 30-45 minutes before the ceremony was supposed to start.  I was in so much pain of “holding it” that when I rushed into the bathroom past Chris’s parents I didn’t quite pick up on something was wrong.  Angi, bless her heart had been taking finals the week before the wedding, and with all the guests and people coming, she had looked stressed out all week.

When I got out of the bathroom, Angi grabbed me and said, “I need to talk to you.”

My first instinct was that Chris had decided against marrying me and that the wedding was off.  I almost started crying right then!  I asked “is it good or bad?”

She then shook her head and held back tears.  I knew Chris was leaving me!  I was devastated.  I didn’t even want to hear what she had to say after that.  So when she said “Ace” I was a little confused.

She explained that Ace had been run over, it was an accident, and that they thought he was dead.  They took him to the vet, and he was currently doing “okay” but they weren’t sure if he was going to make it.

Considering only moments before I thought my husband to be was leaving me, I took the news quite well.

Kimmie and my mom joined me shortly after, and we decided to go ahead and get dressed.  Everything after that moment is kind of a blur.

We’ve Decided on Forever {Part 1}

{Well, my sweet Christopher is away for a week for work.  So I’ve decided to maybe catch up the blog a bit, by not going home straight after work and stealing WiFi from the local McDonalds.  Basically this will get me caught up on the “BIG” events for now.}

So as you know, I was in California two weeks prior to Chris’s arrival and I was done.  I was READY to go home.  I tried to convince myself that I was excited to have the wedding in California and that everything was great.  But truth be told, I was sad.  I was sad that I was surrounded by people I didn’t know for the biggest event of my life.  It didn’t really hit me until I was out in California that I really wanted to be surrounded by my family and friends. I am grateful to Chris’s family, don’t get me wrong, but the longer I was there, the more I wanted those important people in my life sharing on the biggest day of my life, and I knew they weren’t going to be there.  But I wanted Chris to be happy, and he had dreamed of having the wedding at “the ranch” since he was young, and I would do anything for him.

I am extremely grateful to Chris’s parents for having the wedding at their house and planning and paying for everything.  I wouldn’t have been able to have the wedding in California without their help; so I don’t want the above statements to make it sound like I am ungrateful because I’m not.

 

Anyway… things weren’t all bad.  My brother Brent arrived on the same flight as Chris.  I was so excited that he took the time and money to fly all the way from Germany to join me on my wedding day $  That was a happy day.

 

 

 

I also had my amazing “uncle” Chad and “aunt” Christy drive all the way from Utah to be with us.

 

 

 

And of course I can’t forget Kimmie, the best, most amazing, wonderful, (insert as many positive adjectives you can think of here, and we still wont have enough) maid-of-honor.  Kimmie and I have been friends since middle school, and one of the few, if not the only, I keep in contact with from High School.  She’s the greatest!

 

I am so grateful to these few who made the trip to be with me.  It means more to me than they’ll ever know.

That being said, after two weeks at the Ranch, I was ready to go home.  I was so happy to finally have people at the ranch with me, but I was missing home, and my comforts immensely.  (As you’ll remember, I moved all my stuff to Chris’s house at the end of May and then was living with Kale, going back and forth to my mom’s house.)  I probably didn’t “enjoy the day” as much as I should have.  I don’t even have pictures of anything except the ones the photographer took

Here are the cupcakes I made for the rehearsal dinner,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and I think that’s the extent of pictures I have, and I stole these pictures from Kimmie’s facebook. 

Anyway, it took a lot longer for this, so I’ll give ya day 2 tomorrow

Getting There.

I took our two pups with me to California, which made for an interesting (and LONG) trip. 

We stopped in Utah for an extra day because I had to buy a new wedding dress.  My original dress was such a disaster and a terrible experience to the point in which I was ready to just wear jeans and a t-shirt down the aisle! 

 

I took advantage of being in St. George for a day longer than planned and took the dogs for a hike.  This was after we got back to the hotel room.  They were tuckered out!

I was in California about 2 1/2 weeks prior to the wedding and ventured out one day for a trip to the beach.

Fly HATED the water and the waves, Ace just was unsure of it all.

While I was at the beach, I sustained a 3rd degree sunburn.  It was painful.  I had blisters all over my back and I couldn’t wear a bra it was so painful.  I didn’t say much to Angi or Gary, but I cried myself to sleep every single night because it hurt so bad.  I was mad at myself for getting such a bad burn before my wedding and was sad because I didn’t have anyone there who understood what I was going through.  I was grateful that my mom came earlier than she originally planned, because she understood the brutality of a sunburn and helped apply medicine.  I’m pretty sure if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have been able to wear my wedding dress, because it would have been too painful.

Situations

So, life around the Leffler house has been a little hectic. I started my new job, we closed on a house and moved. We are still settling in and trying to get things done. That being said we now live out in the country, and don't currently have any internet access at home. It's been difficult for a plethora of reasons, but most especially here. I have really wanted to update my blog a few different times, and I really want to share the wedding experience and pictures, plus just the newest and greatest adventures Chris and I are now up to (and the house Chris bought without telling me, the new horse, house upgrades, etc.) Anyway, I just wanted to let any of you who may actually read my blog know that I haven't forgotten or abandoned it, but we are currently in transition. Hopefully I will be able to update more consistently VERY soon.