Jess's Wedding

The Epic Wedding/Baby Blessing/Family Togetherness Post

Written by: Shannon Booher.
Post borrowed from somuchhappyness.blogspot.com She wrote it so perfectly and I'm behind on blogging, plus my computer is busted and I somehow lost almost all my pictures from my trip to Utah. Blah! So without further adieu, her post:

Okay, you will need some popcorn and at least one box of hot tamales for this post. It's like those 3 hour movies that are very much worth watching, but need an intermission 90 minutes into it. There will be a pause for the necessary powder room run. And with that, we begin our chronological journey with:

Jessie's endowment. It was a beautiful afternoon, and a beautiful session in the Bountiful, UT LDS temple. Jess was all aglow and the sunset coming out of the temple was spectacular. Afterward, we picked Ryan up from the airport and headed to Robintino's for a dinner celebration:

The next few days were a blur of preparation for the wedding, the reception, and baby Z.'s blessing day. We were even able to squeeze in two major family dinners, and somehow rounded everyone up for a quick family portrait (think: total and utter chaos--in a good way).

Our first family dinner was to celebrate Neal's parents and sister, Dana, coming into town. Jen and Bryce and their cute boys came, too, and there was definitely a talent show involved, which probably would have knocked your socks off:


The BIG wedding day arrived and the happy couple beamed from ear to ear. Everything was absolutely beautiful and quite possibly even perfect:

We were doomed to have sore faces from all of the happyness floating around:

Brothers smiling

Sisters smiling


Babies and families smiling

Ryan making Shannon smile

Girls smiling whilst sporting hawt pinkness

It was just a bunch of smiling, happy people holding hands and the most perfect July 15th I've experienced to date.

.....................................................Intermission.....................................................................

July 16th 
The next morning, we all set up for the reception in the morning, and then got gussied up to celebrate baby Z. and her entrance into our very blessed family in the afternoon:

Look at her tiny cuteness. Matt gave Z. a beautiful blessing and both Shauna and Matt are so happy to have baby Z. in their lives. They are terrific parents with so much love to give. It was amazing to see how many people came together to celebrate this beautiful little miracle. She definitely won the crowd over with her baby blues and her sweetness.

We all had our second ginormous family dinner, and afterward, ran outside to snap some family pics (because you should always eat a hearty meal before taking pictures that pass your figure down to generations) before throwing on our hawt (I love spelling it like that...they were hawt) pink outfits and whisking ourselves away to the wonderland that was Jess and Jake's reception:

The happy couple receiving guests

The decorations and the goods (which were all phenomenal)

the fun people we got to spend three straight hours with (which wasn't enough)

And before we knew it, the cake was cut, the dances were danced, and the newlyweds were wished on their way via masses of sparklers. And we, well we took down shop in two hours flat and went to sleep with exhausted, happy hearts.