a bit dramatic

Martha Stewart Weddings has this gem of wisdom:

"A wedding without flowers is as sad

as a marriage without love."

most beautiful wedding venue

I was perusing wedding blogs, as I do far too often these days, and I came across one that selected the blogger’s favorite wedding venues. Her number one venue was this really pretty castle.

Then this weekend Mike and I went to Logan. When we drove into the valley and passed the temple, he commented on how lovely it all was. It got me thinking how thrilled I am to be getting married in the Logan Temple. It is as picturesque and charming as any place I could imagine. I believe if it were open to the public, people would pay thousands of dollars and be on waiting lists for years for the privilege of having their wedding ceremony there.

Plus, for me, it is much more special because it has so much symbolic, sentimental and spiritual meaning. It is quite literally the exact place I dreamed of getting married at since I was a child. It really does not get better than that.

the darndest things

Yesterday, as part of Mike's family's monthly FHE, his Mom threw us an engagement bbq. It was dedicated to trying to explain to all the little nieces and nephews what it means that Mike and I are getting married. This led to loads of funny little kid-isms.

For starters, Ellie Kate asked her Mom "When Mike marries Brittany, will he get to sleep in the bounce room?"

The bounce room is my empty bedroom that only has an air mattress in it. It is the only room in my house that makes any sense to kids.

Ellie Kate's brother quickly corrected her that Mike and Brittany would share a room. SHOCK!

Also Mike's brother Aaron's kids made us tiny miniature congratulations cards and a picture of the sand dunes where we got engaged (pictured above).

Then the best part was when Mike's Mom used us as an object lesson for a lesson about temple marriage. As part of that she asked the following questions:

• There is a very special lady here today, who is it? The kids proceeded to name everyone else there until their parents got them to say Brittany.
• When Brittany and Mike get married, what will that make Brittany? Teacher, mother, lady, grown-up.

I was thinking the right answer was wife, but it turns out the correct answer was aunt.

While a little embarrassing, it was also hilarious. And I learned some stuff since I had not even thought about how I would get the privilege of suddenly being an aunt to a bunch of goofy, darling kids.

And I got to talk over wedding ideas with his family and they are all being very supportive of all my ideas. It is making wedding planning way less stressful.