Wedding Series: Wedding!

Love is one of my favorite things. 

I enjoy reading stories about love. 

I enjoy listening to songs about love. 

I enjoy watching people fall in love. 

But most of all I enjoy talking about our love story. 

In honor of LOVE month, I want to post more about our wedding. 

I started posting about our wedding in December for our anniversary. 

You can read more about the proposal and look at our engagement photos 

but this post is dedicated to our actual wedding. 

We were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake City Latter-Day Saint Temple. 

It was one of the happiest days of my life. 

We were surrounded by so many people who love and care about us

and I have never felt so much LOVE at one point in my life. 

I was so giddy and happy all day long. 

It truly was the best day of my life. 

I hope you enjoy a few of my favorite pictures. 

Compliments to Duston Todd Photography

Don't forget to go check out my guest post over at  The Meaningful Pursuit today.

I am so excited to be apart of the 14 days of love....

Two Year Anniversary Celebrations

 We had a fabulous, low-key, two year anniversary last week.

We are saving up for our week long celebration in March but that is still a secret...

so we decided to do a simple celebration on the 27th of December. 

As I was telling one of my friends about our celebration, I noticed a common theme:

I was at my parents house and Dave picked me up with two dozen roses. 

We went to the dollar movie theater and watched Taken two.

We went to two of my favorite places to shop, the Rack and City Creek. 

I bought two things at every store I went to.

(I love having Christmas money to spend)

We went to our favorite Salt Lake Restaurant, The Blue Iguana

and we each ordered Two Chicken Enchiladas Verdes.

Then we went to our favorite Frozen Yogurt spot, Top it

and we got two bowls of frozen yogurt. 

We ended the night cuddling by the fire, watching The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Just the TWO of us. 

Did you notice the common theme of TWO? 

Kind of silly but it was our two year anniversary and all.

It was a treat to spend the night together reminiscing our wedding 

and the story of how we fell in love. 

What is your favorite thing to do to celebrate your anniversary?

Wedding Series: Happiest 2 year Anniversary!!

 

 Two years ago today

I married the man of my dreams. 

It was truly one of the best days of our lives together. 

I say this because I truly do fall more in love with him as we grow together

and I know there are even greater days to come. 

Dave is my rock. 

Without him, I wouldn't have the life in me that I do. 

He makes me so happy. 

We have definitely had our moments when life is hard

but I am so grateful for his constant and consistent love for me.

 He knows me more than I know myself and still loves me for who I am and who I strive to become.

I really enjoy getting to know him more each day

and the more I learn about him the more I realize he is the man that I always imagined myself ending up with. 

We are happily living our fairytale 

and there is no one else I would rather be happily ever after with. 

Here is to eternity babe. 

I love you!

(Sorry if you think this sounds cheesy... I think I am aloud to be cheesy because it is our marriage birthday)

Wedding Series: Engagement photos

Photography was a very important part to the wedding for me. 

I really wanted to have photos that we would continue to look at forever. 

Luckily, Dave's family is close friends with the amazing

Duston Todd

If you haven't heard of him before- you should definitely take a look. 

He is based in Salt lake but I know he travels too. 

For our engagement shoot, we went out to saltair on the great salt lake. 

It was a beautiful combination of colors.

I hope you enjoy these favorite photos of mine as much as I do. . . 

Does anyone else want to get married again to the same person?

It was so much fun! 

Wedding series: Our Engagement Story.

Our two year anniversary is coming up this month. December 27th to be exact. So naturally, I thought it would be fun to write some posts about our wedding and the story of us. This one is all about the engagement, I hope you enjoy our story.  

July 30th, 2010

I was playing games with my favorite grandpa in the whole wide world. 

Playing games with him was a regular occurrence and we of course decided to make homemade ice cream too. 

There was always lots of delicious food involved with my grandfather so when Dave called and asked if I wanted to go to Cheesecake Factory for dinner, my immediate reaction was no way.  This was very rare because I love that restaurant. Instead, we ended up at a lighter restaurant and another favorite of ours, Mi Ranchito.  Dave is a gentlemen and usually is never on his phone during our date night dinners. However, he wouldn't stop texting throughout most of dinner- it was just plain rude. After dinner we planned to go do a multi pitch climb in Parley's Canyon that Dave's friend told him about.  He had been talking about how much he wanted to do the climb for a while so I was game for going. (Plus if you know us well... then you know climbing is one of our favorite things to do) 

When we got to the climbing cliff, we were looking around for 20 minutes trying to find the climb. I was of course getting annoyed because I thought Dave already knew where it was. Finally we decided to do a climb that we had done a lot before and one that wasn't my favorite. I wasn't too excited but I was ready to climb already and find something else to do for the evening.  I belayed Dave first and he was climbing really slow- really Dave? He was being so weird. Once he came down, he wanted to do the same climb again 'for exercise.' REALLY? At this point I was annoyed. -- First you couldn't find the 'multi pitch' climb (I later found out that it never existed) and now you want me to belay you again!? (Later I found out this was so we could get a perfect sunset... see photo below- beautiful right?)

Finally, it was my turn to climb :) Dave belayed me from the top of them climb- which i don't love but it worked better for this climb because we would have had to hike up and out anyways.  As I was coming over the top of the rock, I was looking up and I was someone in the bushes-- strange right? Then I looked down-rose pedals all over the ground, blowing in the wind-and I see Dave on one knee with the most beautiful ring in his hand (yes, I picked it out-- we had been ring shopping since February). 

"SarahJane Walton, will you be my wife" 

AHHHHHH! YES, YES, YES!!

Then we kissed and kissed some more... see photo below.

Yes, he had our friends hiding in the bushes. They came up after us and brought the bouquet of flowers and my favorite dessert- key lime pie. We sat there, watching the most amazing sunset- eating key lime pie- and talking about the our incredible future that lay ahead of us. 

And yes... I did put my fancy ring on my chalky, dirty hand. 

And yes, I realize this is not an attractive photo... but hey, we were climbing.

It was the second best day of my life. 

I love our engagement story- Dave couldn't have made it more perfect.