On Saturday my bestest girlfriend, Julia, got married in the Toronto Ontario Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am just so happy for her, I've never seen her so happy before...she was positively beaming the whole day! She deserves so many good things in life, she's so strong and faithful and is such a good friend.
I've posted a few photos of the day with my comments on them so that maybe you can get a feel of how fun and great the day was.
[caption id="attachment_508" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="This is a cute one of Julia outside of the temple. It's like everyone's going, "Wow, you're married now!" and Julia's saying, "I know!" in her cute Monica-from-Friends voice! I love her dress too...it's pretty much the prettiest wedding dress I've ever seen. You can't really tell in the photo but it's completely covered in lace and dainty beadwork, and I've realized recently that I am in love with lace. I told Matt that it was the prettiest dress ever, and he said that mine was prettier, and although I think he's a little biased, I'm so happy he feels that way!"]
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[caption id="attachment_511" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Okay, so not to be vain, or anything, but I'm pretty happy with how this picture turned out. I don't consider myself to be very photogenic...I have this bad habit of tilting my head or tucking my chin, resulting in the 'I look fatter in photos' syndrome, but I think this is pretty close to how I picture myself in my head before looking into a mirror. As a side note, doesn't it drive you CRAZY when you get a good photo of yourself, and people look at it and say, "It doesn't really look like you though..." I find it insulting. It's like they're saying, "You're really not that pretty in real life." And then they see another photo that you think is just awful and they're like, "You look so good in that photo!" I have to wonder what's going in their heads sometimes. Is there something wrong with my eyes or something? I mean, how can a photo NOT look like me when it IS me???"]
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[caption id="attachment_515" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Here is a cute candid of Ron and Julia getting their food. I actually don't have many pictures of just the two of them, because we figured that's what the photographer was for. We were looking more to get the photos of other things that the photographer might overlook, or not be there for."]
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[caption id="attachment_518" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="The reception was at a conservation area, and while the photographer was snapping shots of Ron and Julia with their family, Matt and I walked around the old village and snapped shots of eachother. This is a cute one we took with the tripod."]
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Anyway, the day was wonderful and (as far as I could tell) everything went very smoothly. The sealing was beautiful and it almost made me cry, to see how happy they both were. The weather was gorgeous, and despite the fact that the weather forecast predicted rain for Saturday the entire week leading up to the wedding, it didn't rain ONCE, even at the reception when it was allowed to rain. Oh, another thing that was great about the wedding was the food. There was this waiter, Ricky, and he kept coming around to our table wanting us to finish off the last of the hors-d'oeuvres on his tray, and we obligingly helped him out. My favourites were the steak cabobs in peanut sauce and the chicken cabobs in the hot chili sauce. I had way too many sticks on my plate by the time dinner started!
I also loved how at the end of the night the waiters and waitresses were SO excited that they got to bring home cupcakes! It was something so small but they were so surprised by it that it makes me wonder if anyone ever does anything nice for them at weddings. It was probably a tame wedding for them, what with no alcohol or anything. I wonder if they enjoyed themselves more or not. I know that I enjoy myself more when people aren't walking around me intoxicated out of their minds, but maybe people tip better when they're out of their senses.
Anyway, I could go on for a long time about the wedding, but I'll stop myself in the interest of not boring my readers. I have more to write, but I'll do it in two separate posts so that this isn't ridiculously long and boring to read!
