Brook and Andy's Wedding Day

What a beautiful day. I was a bit nervous when I woke up to clouds in the sky, I was one of the photogs for the wedding. They asked two of us to take pictures. I think the other guy, Andy's brother-in-law, took the pictures at her first wedding too. I don't know if they were nervous about hurting one of our feelings by asking the other so they asked both of us, but trust me I would've been fine.

I ended up getting a bit intimidated by the guy; he had all this equipment. I felt like with two of us giving commands we were going to be there all day taking pictures. I decided to let the other guy have the show I took a few pictures and then left.

Wow, this post is not about me.

We got to the temple, with blue skies over head, Brook looked so handsome in all white. It made me love him just a little bit more, you'd think I was his mother or something. Never mind, his mother, Grandma Lovely, was gushing she was so proud. At least I kept the gushing in check ;)

Big D and I got to be the witness couple, which meant we had the best seats in the temple, next to the bride and groom. Of course, Big D had to remind me my right from my left.

Lowell and Papa Guy were Brook's escorts and Lowell leaned over to Papa Guy and said, "I heard about the alligator story." Papa started laughing and leaned over to Brook and asked, "Did you hear about the alligator?"

At this point Brook was so overwhelmed trying to take every thing in that he thought there was some sort of alligator initiation in the temple he had to go through. It didn't help when Brook was sitting by Big D and Brook leaned over to ask him if he was nervous because he was bouncing his knee and Big D whispered back, "Yea, because I know what's coming". We got a good laugh out of that one.

After the endowment session we had a thirty minute break before the wedding. It was nice to just sit in the temple and soak in the peace.

Seeing Brook and Andy across the altar from each other was such a beautiful sight. I think they were a bit nervous but they were so cute. You could tell they were so excited to start their new life together.

It was funny when they were exchanging rings Andy got a bit flustered because her ring wasn't going on very easily, she turned bright red and next to her blond hair it was really red. She then tried to put Brook's ring on the wrong hand, but the sweetheart he is didn't tell her until she forced the ring on his finger.

The open house was nice as well, except for the moment when I got a phone call asking why the church was locked. I had the keys and I had just walked in the door at my house when I got the call. I showed up at the church to thirty people in the parking lot waiting to get in. Oops! I felt like a shmoe.

The open house was lovely. I enjoyed meeting Andy's family, she comes from a family of eight kids there's no way I remember all their names. She has two brothers, one I went to school with the other was huge.

It's funny because everyone has their own nickname for him. Brook calls him Little Hulk. Grandma Honey, who knows him because he used to shew her horses, calls him Thor. I've also heard someone else call him Johnny Bravo. I looked forward to meeting the real man behind all the names. He lives up to his names, not that I can remember his real name.

The brother I went to school with got real excited when he heard all the nicknames for his brother. He asked my sister Ann, "So what does everyone call me?" She shrugged her shoulders and said, "I've got nothing".

Brook and Andy stayed with in a ten foot radius of the door all night. They were so anxious to leave. The open house was suppose to be an hour and a half, finally after about the third hour Brook asked what he could do to help me clean up. I just laughed and told him to leave.

At that point I was ready to be done too I still had to drive to Salt Lake. Brook and Andy reserved a room in SLC but then my dad gave them a lodge in Yellowstone. It was too late to cancel either one so we let them choose which one they wanted and my sisters and I took the other one. We ended up dragging my mom along too so we could split the room four ways.