Our Wedding Day!!

March 10 , 2012….a day I will never forget!!!

On this day I married the love of my life…Kyle Daniel Owens.

Our Wedding Day:

I got up bright and early, and apparently so did Kyle to head out and get my hair and makeup done so I could feel like a princess on my special day.

We had an early morning sealing time, 8:30. So Kyle and I had to be at the temple at 7:30 (so did my mom…poor women). We got there right on time for a fun round of feeling out paper work, and time in the celestial room and time spent talking with our sealer before the sealing. Can I say that I am always amazed and how organized the temple is!!!

Our sealer did a beautiful job. I loved how he touched on the importance of what we are doing there that day. That the sealing power is also a healing power…it heals families and heals individuals. He also touched on the sacrifice made by family so we could be in this place being sealed at this moment. This struck a special spot in my heart.

As I mentioned before there are times when temple work strikes me in the heart like when I got my endowments out. When the sealer mentioned this healing power my thoughts went to my Woodruff line. Setting in the temple that day was my mom’s family, those who were worthy to be there. I thought back to when they were there in the cealestial room when I took out my endowments a little over two years ago. It amazed me then and it amazed me again during our sealing what this means to me, my mom and her family.

Setting in the sealing room I again couldn’t help but think about my Great Grandfather Wilford Woodruff he gave so much to lead this church, come to Zion, etc not only as a profit but also as a father to path they way for his family to come so we could all be together in heaven. It hurts at times to think how much of his family, my moms ancestors, parents, aunts uncles, siblings, etc have fallen away from the church. My great grandfather gave so much to be sealed together for time and eternity…but individual choices of his posterity have left holes in that line and lots of hurts and pains. When I got my endowments out and was greeted by the handful of us Woodruffs who are now endowed I was hit by the thought that I am one more member of the Woodruff line who can now be with our Grandfather in Heaven. I am one more member who is not leaving a gap.

However, sitting in the sealing room next to my future husband and my mom I looked over at my Uncle Don, Aunt Cindy, Clarisa, David and Matt (the handful of us Woodruffs) and was hit by what I was doing that day. I was being sealed to my companion for time and all eternity. I and Kyle will in the future bring children in to this world, Clarissa and David have sweet Melody and Matt will soon marry Janel and together start their family. Here in this room I could see that sealing power is indeed a healing power. Though there are holes and hurt in the generations past us descendents of our Grandfather Wildford Woodruff are forging eternal families from this generation forward. The sealing power is binding us together and will bind our children and their children together for generations to come. The mistakes of parents and generations past are ones that need not be repeated. The sealing power truly has and will continue to heal our family.

I also thought on the power and what it meant for me to be there that day with Kyle. It meant that years of hurt, and hard choices were a thing of the past. I was being blessed for making some of the hardest decisions of my life in the years and even months previous. I was being blessed for the pain I had endured. I was being blessed for remaining righteous to my father. Though the hurt and pain of the previous years is still there and the past cant be erased it can be healed, has been healed and will continue to be healed. Again the sealing power is a healing power.

So you can see that the sealing was one emotional and happy moment in my life!!! How glad I am that we stuck it out so we could be sealed for time and eternity.

After the sealing was time for pictures. And how fun they were. I love how entertaining family pictures can be J After family pictures were to be picture time for Kyle and I. My mom and dad needed to head down and greet family and friends at the reception/luncheon. So the Bairds hung around. Kristina was so kind to help film the whole day and Mikayla became my designated dress holder!!!

After pictures we headed to the Cantebury Place for our Luncheon Reception. Can I tell you Im so glad we choose to do it this way. We invited around 140 guests for a formal luncheon.

We arrived a littled before the schedule start time and where able to have a chance to mingle with guests and family. How I loved it!!!

When it was time we headed in to a yummy lunch! Filled with Cake cutting, mingling, fun toasts by our parents and match maker Kyle with a very fun video tribute by Kristina and Brook.

After the fun we had a fun bubble send off and off to our Honeymoon weekend spent in Park City (I cant wait for the official honeymoon in a little over a month!!)

Ill post more pictures as soon as I get them.

Thanks for your love and support on our wonderful day!!