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Sorry for my slacking, but I'm back! And with good news too!! Excited? First, here's a little background:

Weddings are stressful, no doubt. My wedding ended up being absolutely perfect and the best day of my life, but the weeks leading up to it were practically awful. I had problems with my announcements, dress, photographer, shoes, and reception center (and I'm sure there were more, but I'm trying to forget the bad and only remember the good :] ). Not only that, but Blake and I sort of had a difficult time deciding when to get married. My brother got engaged before us so we didn't want to get married too close to his date, and it's just hard finding a time in the middle of the semester that we could get both of our families out to Utah at the same time.

I thought November 22 was the perfect day, right before Thanksgiving. That didn't work for his parents though, so we settled on November 12. Besides the little 'snow storm' we had the other day, the day of our wedding was THE ONLY time it snowed this winter!! Just our luck! It was freezing cold, windy, snowy/rainy/sleety, and did I mention freeeeeezing?! Needless to say, I'm a baby when it comes to temperatures below 65, so with a little bit of complaining and tears, I convinced my photographer mother to only take a few pictures at the temple. And of course, November 22 was a BEAUTIFUL day, sunny & perfect temperature. Ughh.

We bought my dress & Blake's suit, so we decided we'd find a photographer later and take wedding pictures a warmer day :) A few weeks ago, Blake's brother texted me and said he had a friend who needed more wedding pictures for her portfolio and asked if we wanted to help her out when she came to town. SCORE! It was a win-win. We get our wedding pictures (for free!) and we're helping out a friend!

So about 2 weeks ago, Blake and I got to play dress up and pretend it was our wedding day again :) We met his friend at the Salt Lake Temple early one Saturday morning, which just happened to be the same week that the temple was closed for cleaning! A nice old man who was working the temple grounds noticed we were taking wedding pictures so he opened the gates for us. We had a few hours of temple pictures all to ourselves! If you're not LDS or from Utah, then you probably don't understand how HUGE that is! The SLC temple is ALWAYS packed with tourists and other weddings. We got so lucky! It was a little chilly that day, but not nearly as bad as our original wedding. Our photographer was FABULOUS and we had SO much fun with her! She showed us a few of the pictures after our shoot and they turned out to be better than I had hoped! So, if anyone is looking for a photographer (she does all types of shoots) I have some of her business cards. She really is amazing.

That's my exciting news! We'll probably get our pictures in 2 weeksish, but for now, here's a little sneak peak ::