Quote of the Day: “For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to life it- it’s marvelous! Lionel Barrymore
Wonderful day, Elle and Mike get hitched! I have been looking forward to this day for about 6 months. Mike and Elle got engaged on February 14th, the day I had the first biopsy. At one of our first visits with the surgeon, Erika Lloyd, I started to get really emotional and Joe said to me: “Are you worried about not having hair for Mike and Elle’s wedding? And really, I hadn’t thought about that until then but it was more that I was hoping I would have all these treatments, chemo and radiation, behind me. I kept thinking of the past today, now that I was in the future, how it looks now and how it looked then.
I woke up this morning and couldn’t get much done. I couldn’t concentrate on cleaning and getting the house looking good before we needed to leave for the temple. I put on my wig, just because I didn’t have a scarf to match my dress. I dread how the pictures will look with my wig because I just don’t like to look at my face in a wig. Nonetheless, the weather was beautiful that morning and rain did fall for just a minute in the afternoon but by reception time, the air was clean and clear. I have never seen Mike happier than I did that day. The sealing in the temple was amazing. The advice I loved from the sealer was his 5 Cs for a happy marriage: communicate, courtship, chastity, conserve and consecrate.
Mike and Elle’s reception was perfect. Salt Lake Country Club is such a lovely place. The wedding cake was cream colored with white chocolate flakes covering it, flowers at the base. Elle’s flowers amazed me- they were white and light pastel colors, hydrangeas and sweet smelling roses. My favorite were the ones in the center of the serving table- they were encased in an ice-block and looked incredible. The food was the best I’ve ever tasted- salmon pastries, beef-kabobs, almond chicken and the best looking fruit. Mike and Elle didn’t want a line so we just went around and greeted the guests we knew. And then the dancing started and I was so glad to see that their friends stayed and danced. At the end of the evening, Mike and Elle ran through a rainbow of arms to a waiting golf cart,with a heart shaped flower arrangement on it’s rear, and sped away happily into the night.
The one thing that made me sad was that my sister Lynne had come all the way from Oregon for Mike’s wedding but was not feeling up to attending. Her daughter, Tess, came and we were so glad to see her!
Elle, Maggie, Mike and Kate @ Salt Lake Temple
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