14 Years

14 years ago today I married my best friend and the love of my life! As I have been thinking about our wedding day today there are a few things that stand out to me as favorite memories:

~ back then I was a big gum chewer! As we were taking pictures I remember Nate's Aunt Monica telling me to spit out my gum because if I didn't, I'd be chomping on it through our whole wedding video! I didn't have anywhere to spit it out because I was in a wedding dress, so his brave cousin, Brook, let me spit it out into her hand ... we laughed about that pretty hard!

~ my brother in law, Cody, rented a carriage for us so that we could have a few moments alone after pictures but before the wedding breakfast! The carriage took us around Salt Lake and then dropped us off at The Olive Garden, where we had our wedding breakfast/lunch! It was the perfect way for us to catch our breath and such a fun experience!

~ the mud! Oh the mud! The bottom of my dress and my shoes were SO muddy after taking pictures! My mom was kind enough to take my dress back to Logan and spot clean it for me before the reception.

~ after our wedding breakfast everyone filtered out and Nate & I were left at the restaurant, without a car because we took the carriage and without a clue as to where we were! We managed to get my sister on the phone and she gave us directions to the hotel, but we had to hike it in our tux and wedding dress - I can just imagine what we looked like, two young kids wandering around the city in their wedding clothes ...

Ah we had a wonderful day that day and have had SO many wonderful times since that day! I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful man has my husband and I am so grateful for him and for our relationship!