The whole reason for the road trip this past weekend was because Sandy and Robert tied the knot (Grandma going through the temple this weekend was just a bonus 🙂 ).
They chose a golf club to be the location of the their wedding so after the busy rush of getting everyone fed, and dressed Saturday morning, we headed to the Coyote Hills Golf Club in Fullerton. Sandy was somewhere locked away getting ready, so I didn’t really see her this trip aside from AT the wedding. My parents, siblings and I (with my little family) stood around waiting for instructions and someone told us to go downstairs and outside, and they started taking us to the wedding area in golf carts. The location was nice, with a lovely waterfall in the background. We just kind of stood in the back because we were supposed to be part of the procession. Not that I wanted to be part of the procession, but Sandy and Robert had decided that they wanted the immediate family to all be part of the procession before the bridal party started down the aisle.
Tyra and Dinah got to be train bearers:
This picture makes me laugh. At the first glance it looked like my dad was wearing the veil and train. 🙂 And then you see Dinah hiking her dress up to her knees because it was too long and she didn’t want to trip on it. So cute.
The wedding itself didn’t last too long. Before actually doing the vows the minister (who I think is actually Robert’s uncle) gave them some advice.
- Call your mothers each week.
- When you have arguments, don’t hold back (and let it fester) just let it all out. Let it out, talk it over and get it resolved before you retire for bed.
I think that’s about all I remember of his advice. 🙂
After the wedding we, as the family, got to hang out outside for the taking of pictures, while the rest of the guests went back up to the club house to wait for the reception room to open.
When they finally opened the doors for the reception room the tables filled quickly. I was wondering if there had been any tables reserved for the family of the bride and groom, but every table Kyle and I saw, was full. And the table right in front with most of my sisters didn’t have enough room left for my little family. Then I saw that around the corner in the very front there was a table completely unoccupied! So we snagged it, and it was a good thing too because that gave my parent’s someplace to sit up close to the table where the wedding party was to sit. And we were right there next to the little dance floor. So I’m glad we got such a good place to sit, I would have been really upset if we had to sit in the back somewhere.
After the food had been served, the little kids started getting restless. My boys took off to go hang out with my cousin, Charity’s boys and I have no idea where they were constantly off to. Dinah at one point went onto the dance floor and was spinning around in her pretty dress and then fell on her tummy. Of course I gave a little gasp, then I saw her look up and she saw everyone looking at her and she just started using her arms to spin herself around on her tummy. She’s such a silly girl. After the Father/Bride dance and the Mother/Groom dance, Tommy started dancing with Tyra:
And Dinah and Annaleah danced with each other:
I just love Dinah’s little laughing face.
After that the reception was just kind of everyone hanging out. They did cut the cake, and Sandy smashed it in Robert’s face. As the waiters went to carry the cake to the kitchen to cut it they almost dropped it. I thought that was so funny. 😛 The cake was on glass plates (for lack of a better term) and then on the platform that supported each layer. And as the guys were carrying it the plate for the second layer slid on the platform and started to fall, and the one guy tried to catch it, but since his hands were holding the bottom layer, the only thing he had to catch the cake with was his chest! Of course this happened right next to our table so we saw it all, and Dad jumped up to try to reposition it on it’s platform. As he did so, he said later, that he could feel the top layer sliding around up there too and he was trying to fix the second layer without dropping the top layer! We found out later that the golf club had said they would credit Sandy and Robert for the cake since it had been damaged (I just hope those guys didn’t lose their jobs.)
So it was a crazy and busy but good day. And now they are married and off to a two week honeymoon in Italy. That just makes me feel lame saying that Kyle and I spent our honeymoon at Disneyland…. 😛
And for one final picture:
What a little stud muffin!
I have to mention that I totally forgot to take my camera to the wedding and I didn’t get ANY pictures this trip at all, and so these pictures are my sisters. 🙂