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Here are a few of my memories of that day:
- I actually went to the temple and got married on June 28th as planned. I was afraid I'd chicken out so we mailed out the "hey, we got married" announcements AFTER the ceremony.
- In the interview before we got sealed, the interviewer told us things we didn't know: we were born in the same hospital and we went to the temple for the first time (Los Angeles) one day apart - preparing to serve our missions.
- We were originally married in the San Diego, CaliFROnia Temple. Now our certificate just says boring CaliFORnia because my eagle teacher eye saw the error as soon as they gave us the marriage certificate.
- By this point (age 34 and 51 weeks), I didn't want the big wedding dress that I had dreamed of for so many years and opted for a simple and practical $70 cream suit - that I wore afterwards on Sundays.
- We quasi-eloped and only had a few family members and one friend at the ceremony. I didn't want a bunch of people staring at me during this very intimate occasion.
- Only a few people in our single's congregation knew that we were getting married so we surprised Robbie when we ran into him in the temple and I nervously and quickly covered up my "to be married" tag. Very few of our friends even knew we were dating, let alone getting married, so it was funny to find a date invitation on my message machine on the eve before our wedding day. Needless to say, I did not return the call.
- Most of the ceremony itself is a blur, but I do remember lots of tears of happiness - lots of smiles and eternal commitments.
- We didn't book a professional photographer and relied on family shots. We took a gazillion photos all around the temple after the ceremony. Later at the Del, Photographer #1 realized that there was no film in the camera. We said, "no worries", Photographer #2 will have some good shots. After returning home, Photographer #2 also realized there was no film in the camera. Fortunately, Photographer #3 took enough to remind us of our day. I guess Photographer #3 was trying out his creativity and this is why we have the "up our nasal" shots (above) and other interesting angles. We are grateful for whatever pictures we have and it makes for an unbelievable story!
- We had lunch with our nuclear families at the Hotel Del in the Crown Room. I can't remember what we ate, but it was a nice time. Much of our dating memories are of us walking through the Del and on the beach near the Del. The official proposal also happened at the Del. What a great place for a romance!
- We all said our good-byes and my brother dropped us off at the Coronado Village Inn. I still can't believe we didn't stay at the Del - it was peak season and too expensive, I guess.
- The next day we took a cab to the airport and headed off for a 2-week honeymoon in Hawaii.
- Aloha!
