OUR WEDDING DAY - JUNE 13, 1967

Our Wedding Day was the beginning of our home. We have loved being together for 42 wonderful and fulfilling years and anticipate eternity together. We love all of our children and grandchildren, who have given us so much joy through the years. We love each and everyone of you and desire that we be an eternal family with No Empty Chairs. We are grateful to our Heavenly Father and Savior for all the blessings of this life. We love serving in the temples and feel so close to the spirit and receive peace every time we walk within the wall of those sacred buildings
We have a strong and true testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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OUR WEDDING DAY - JUNE 13, 1967 - CHAPTER FIVE

After 42 years of marriage; I will try to capture our wedding preparations and our wedding day.
Of course, I had a wedding shower given me by my close friends. Most of these friends were from the I'll Be True Club and from nursing school. I remember how I had such a good time at my shower. We laughed and cried; it was a great evening. One of shower activities in those days was to make a wedding dress out of tissue paper. The dress was made on me. my friends had a great time doing that. The dress was very creative to say the least. Roger, the groom showed up later to see what I had been given for gifts and to say good bye to my friends.
It was also popular in those days to have various items for your trousseau. I had bought some china and also had pillow cases and dish towels that were embroidered with various scenes. 
 One of the highlights of preparation was when 4 of my great aunts came and quilted two quilts for me. One of the quilts was made out of extra dress material from the many dresses my mother had made for me. The other quilt was a beautiful pink quilt with a star made up of other pastel colors; it is still a treasure to me. The silk quilt I have never used. Of course, my father charmed my great aunts by dancing with them. All of these events were captured by photos. My precious mother made my wedding dress and veil. At that time I probably didn't appreciate all the love and work that went into making my dress. We had several fittings of course and took pictures of those moments too.
The day before our wedding day was filled with so much to do that by the early evening both Roger and I were exhausted; so we parted early in the evening to see if we could get some sleep. As I recall it was hard to fall asleep thinking about that tomorrow we would be married for time and all eternity.
Roger came to pick me up around 8 am to go to the temple. My sweet mother had also made me a white lace dress to wear to the temple and after the wedding. My mother of course took a picture of us before we left for the temple. Roger had a new suit; it was a light olive pin strip suit and he looked so handsome.
We were both really nervous about getting married; but also very excited. We arrived at the temple and were taken into the office to fill out the needed paper work. My Mother and Dad were suppose to be at the temple by around 8:30 am and they were late. I was so nervous because she had my wedding dress and of course we couldn't get married without them. They soon arrived and we both were taken to the areas to get ready to get married. When we were ready they took us up to the sealing room in the Salt Lake Temple where we ended up waiting for about an hour for Elder Ezra Taft Benson to come to marry us. We were suppose to have been married at 9:30 am; but we finally were married at around 10 am. While we were waiting for him to come I remember just sitting in that room with our families and feeling so grateful for them all. I was so much in love with the awesome man I was about to marry. I guess you could say I was marrying the love of my life and my best friend for time and all eternity. I knew beyond a doubt he felt the same way about me. As we knelt across the alter and looked at each other; how we loved each other so much and we could finally be together. I couldn't even begin to tell you what Elder Benson said as he sealed our marriage; but I did feel the spirit and love that was present in the room that day.
Elder Benson asked us to come to his office in a year and visit with him again. We were so blessed to have him be able to seal us. Roger's father was well acquainted with him so he was happy to do that for us. It was unusual in that day to have one of the 12 do a wedding sealing for anyone except family. We didn't get back in a year to see him; but we did go back in 2 years and had a wonderful discussion with him in his office. Later of course he became the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
After the wedding we changed our clothes and dressed in the outfits we had come to the temple in. It was raining that day as we left and we were lucky we had an umbrella. As we went out on the street a woman came up to us and said; I hope you are as happy in 50 years as you are today. We have so much more love in our hearts for one another now than on that day. We have had such a good life thus far together and our love has grown and expanded until there is no way to really express it.
Roger's parents had a wedding breakfast at the Lamplighter Restaurant for us and all our families were there; except for my brother Mac.
The rest of the day was filled with various errands and activities. I went and had my hair and nails done and Roger ran other errands.
In the evening we had a reception at a reception center. It was well attended and we had a really good time. My wedding cake was beautiful. My colors for my wedding line were pink and my Maid of honor was Marilyn Brady, Roger's sister; my bridesmaids were Annette Longman, Danelle Jensen and Diana Dial. The first two were from our missionary club and Diana was a friend from nursing school. Roger's best man was his brother Bruce and the rest of his line were my brother John and his younger brothers. Our flower girl was our niece Kelly Jayne.
Roger's sister Gloria sat by our wedding book. Roger's father took all of the wedding pictures. I was rather upset later on because he took only black and white photo's because he said colored ones would fade in time; which some of them did. One of the best wedding photo's cut part of Roger's head off and a few years back I was able to get it fixed by a professional photographer who used new technology to fix it.
The only stressful moment of the evening was when we changed our clothes and prepared to leave for our Honeymoon. My brother and some of Roger's brothers took our Volkswagen and put it up on cinder blocks. I didn't think it was funny at all. After getting a little upset they finally took it down.
Roger and I had went out to Grantsville, Utah about a week before and made reservations for a motel room for our first night. As we left late for Grantsville it was raining really hard. One of the windshield wipers wouldn't work so Roger could hardly see while driving. We had to go very slow. When we finally arrived in Grantsville we went to the motel and the lights were out and we couldn't get anyone to help us. We realized that they had probably given our room a way. We drove around for a few moments and finally found a motel that had their lights on. It was not really a welcoming type of motel; but we were tired and grateful to have a room.One of the negative moments was when I was getting ready for bed there was a cockroach in the bathroom sink that really freaked me out.
The next day we left on our honeymoon to Northern California. We had 7 days; but we stretched it out to 10 days and toured much of Roger's mission area and met with some of his converts. We loved the ocean and the various areas we visited. It was a great honeymoon and that will be Chapter Six.
Just a side note; we have been married for 42 years and have had many life experiences together; some hard but mostly good moments. We have been so blessed to have the children, and grandchildren that we have. We love and treasure each one of them so much. We both have deep and abiding testimonies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We love our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than mere words can express. We love the temple and feel so blessed to be able to work there. We have been deeply blessed in so many ways. We are so grateful to have been married in the temple for time and all eternity. Our love for each other is priceless. We love our posterity and out greatest desire is that we can all be in the Celestial Kingdom together; we want no empty chairs. Our family brings us our greatest joys.