After such a spiritual and wonderful ceremony, it was off for pictures and lunch!
Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Jared Pieper!
I love how victorious their faces look!
It really is a major victory to make it to this special place to be sealed for time and all eternity.
Cheers to such a beautiful couple!
It was a tad chilly, so I just ran around snapping pictures to keep me occupied.
I could probably dedicate a whole post to how much I love Brian's grandpa, but these pictures will have to suffice.
He is such a good man with a good heart and I'm so blessed to have known him for 12+ years.
Brian and I were lucky enough to pick him up in Sandy and escort him to the temple. He was so cute talking about how he loved holding onto my arm and made jokes about how slow he was walking.
I just hope my life can be as joyful as his and that I can be privileged to see my posterity the way he has. We sure love you Grandpa C!
After pictures, we Monsens headed to City Creek to kill time before the luncheon. We made a mistake and ate too much at Kneaders, but we were SO hungry!
On our way to the luncheon, we stopped at West Elm to see Kelsie's awesome display of her work for sale that they were featuring from local artists. We have such a talented family!
Before entering West Elm, I harassed Brian about never giving change to homeless people. So he gave all his pocket change to a guy in a wheelchair wearing a tie die shirt. As we walked out of West Elm, we were chatting about our parking decisions and made sure we all got parking tokens at the temple. As we spoke, Brian realized he had given his parking token to the homeless guy along with all the other coins in his pocket!! EEK! He had to run back and explain what he had done and the guy was nice enough to let him rummage through his change collector!
He found it! And luckily we didn't have to pay $10 for parking.
The luncheon was held at Christopher's Steakhouse and it was classy and delicious.
(It probably would have been a little more delicious if we would have skipped the Kneaders brunch)
After this wonderful luncheon, we hustled back to Riverton to get the boys from Aunt Haley (and kids), who were so kind to take them on all day! When we arrived they looked perfect in their bow ties, black socks (I didn't have black socks and she couldn't handle grey and tan with the black pants and shoes, so she was Supermom and tracked some down!), and gelled hair. We are so lucky to have such awesome family!
They were excited to par-tay and we spent the evening at a beautiful venue, with beautiful scenery and with some of our favorite people in the world.
As you can see by the middle picture, Stacie is clearly the one who instigated the cake smashing. Just in case there is any question, Jared has solid proof!
Then there's this handsome stud that was brave enough to start the crowd for the garter toss!
I kinda wish it would have stayed just him, but that didn't happen.
He was joined by a few others, and they had some obvious advantages:
He didn't catch the garter, but he came out with a big kiss from his mama!
What a beautiful day it was! I don't think Stacie and Jared could have done anything different to make it more perfect. A job well done by a beautiful couple!
Congratulations, Stacie and Jared!!
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