I spent the previous night at my best man's house and Katie spent the night at my sisters house (that's Danielle/the make up artist). Sean and I, on our way into Langley, stopped in Abbotsford to pick up the cupcakes because katie and I chose to have other desserts other than the regular ol' wedding cake thing. Then we went to the chapel in Langley, the new temple veiw chapel, and got ready. The other groomsmen were supposed to meet us and get ready there. Mostly everyone did well with this task, except Chad, who decided it would be fun to miss his bus. But, it all worked out fine because first of all, Katie and I both love Chad, and also, the bride (that's still Katie, by the way) ended up showing up to the church a little bit after the official start time, but we all know the official start time is whenever the bride is there and ready to go, so really, she was right on time.
Then the ceremony started. My groomsmen did everything they could to calm my nerves, and they did well in this task, but it was still an uneasily exciting time. And then next thing I knew I was standing up front with my pals at my side and then the music started. One by one the bridesmaids walked down the aisle and they seemed to be moving in super slow motion and then it happened, Katie walked in.
Time. Stopped.
There stood the most beautifully magnificent and precious woman I had ever seen, and then she was by my side, we had listen to some talking, we said "I do", we kissed, we signed some papers, and the ceremony was over and we were married and life continued. Sort of. It was all such a wonderful blur after that. We took photo's, we ate food, heard some great, funny and heart warming speeches and danced and it's as if none of it actually happened. In fact, without the photo's I would almost be compelled to think it was just some wonderous dream.
So, having said all of that, please join me for the reminiscence of my dream day: the next installment of photo's.
Family Photo's
The Grandparents (left-right): Peter, Alma, Katie, Brandon, Ted, Penny, and Reva
The Sallenbach Family (left-right): Chantelle (Thebault), Glen, Katie, Brandon, Tami and Danielle
The Sapinsky Family (left-right): Trent, Matt, Laureen, Katie, Brandon, Rob, Robyn, Alma and Peter
Happy mother and daughter time, scary father and son in law time.
Wedding Party
The temple and a pyramid
Risque business
Some clever title
Group hug
Serious time
Everybody's a model!
The Head Table
Kelley Walker
Chad Murray (in the center)
Anthony Thebault
Sean Dalin
The Happy Couple
Cindy Chiang
Chantelle Thebault
Nichole Mcgregor (center) and Danielle Sallenbach (left)
Speeches, Dances, Traditions and Randoms
Grandpa Sallenbach was the MC
The Maid of Honour
The Best Man (he said "sex")
Papa Sallenbach
Daddy Sapinsky
The Groom (tried not to cry, but it was difficult)
The Bride being beautiful
The First Dance
Mommy and Daddy Dance
Groom and Mother in law Laureen
Bride and Father in law Glen
The Second Dance
Bouquet Toss
She was... um... not impressed (it didn't stop me though).
Derek Thebault watching his son Ben steal the spotlight
Duck Cake featuring Cupcakes below
Silly groom, why did you trust your bride?
Cake Mess
Bride and Nichole
Us with The undressed best man
Bride and Maid of honour
The Happy Couple
So that was a lot of photo's. I really do hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as we enjoyed having them taken. Again, thank you to everyone that participated and helped us make this the perfect day.
-Katie and Brandon (The Adventure Squad)
