Do you want to see more formal photos? Yes.

Well, I don't know about you, but I want to! We were sort of impatient with getting these photos (Sorry, Talmage) but we were so excited with the few sneak peeks that he had sent us that we were tired of waiting! Talmage was able to get them to us this past weekend and when we looked at them Sunday morning, we were sooooo happy. We think they turned out great, and I'm also really happy that you can't tell how cold I am in all of these pictures. All in favor of wearing long john garments on our actual wedding day!

Just so I can remember this day for all the craziness that it was... At work, I was telling a girl named Trinity that I had bridals that night and I had no one to do my hair and makeup. So what did she do? She told me she does hair and makeup and would love to do that for me! So nice.

After work, I went to class and then I had to figure out a bouquet situation. I ended up ordering one from some flower shop in Provo (that Jackie actually ordered, not me) and when I got there... it was trash. It was like, 12 white roses with one piece of greenery. So then I went to Hobby Lobby and got all these fake flowers and put them together in hopes of making a decent looking bouquet. It was like $85 bucks in total for the real flowers and fake flowers. Well. It would have to do.

I rushed over to Trinity's, after Facetiming Beth and asking, "Does this look too fake?!?!" and got my hair and makeup done. She's amazing, really. Extremely talented and didn't even let me pay her when I offered. So nice. Anyway. We were running late because I got there a little bit late and Talmage was texting and saying he was ready. We were picking him up, so I was like, "Jake, go grab all my stuff (my dress, my shoes, my EVERYTHING! haha) go get him, then I'll just meet you guys there!" Somehow . . . miraculously, I was able to finish, meet Jake as he was starting his truck, contact Talmage on where to pick him up, and go! AND we were able to have enough light to get some shots like this.

In between a few of the pictures, we would hop in the truck to get warmed up. Probably a good idea, and luckily Jake's truck cranked the heat! 

LASTLY... We didn't do a first look... Mainly because I'm not super sentimental about that stuff, but also because I changed from my regular clothes into my dress IN THE TRUCK while they were chatting outside of it, and when I got out, I couldn't zip my dress all the way, so I was like, "Jake can you zip this?!" Hahahaha. It was pretty terrible if you're a bride that's super sentimental... Luckily Jake and I are just right for each other and thought it was pretty funny. 

We Are Ready To Be Married

Yesterday, Jake and I went to Bountiful because Rachel invited us up to have dinner. She also is letting me borrow her veil for our wedding and is giving us an awesome table . . . with 6 chairs! We may not have a bed frame or a couch, but we have a mattress and a table with 6 chairs!

We made a paper change some sixty days ago and now that paper chain is down to eight days.

E I G H T!!!

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Jake Says Funny Things Part 1

I feel privileged to be with Jake almost 24/7 because sometimes he says the funniest things. And maybe I just think they're funny because I think he's so cute, but I've been keeping a note on my phone called "Jake is funny" and I wanted to share some of those... PS. There definitely is a common theme... hahaha.

• "I'll do summer sales so we can have a baby."
•  We were driving to Lake Powell and I had asked if we could listen to The Five Love Languages on the way there. We did, and at the end of the book it talks about filling up your spouse's love tank with their love language.
  -"Let's have a safe word if your love tank ever gets below an 8. The safe word can be, 'We haven't been to the redwoods lately.'"
• "I think our problem is that your love tank is full."
• Talking about our engagement - "4 months is short my butt!"
• I played work by Rihanna and he had never heard it before.
• I said, "Ily" and he asked what that meant.
• "That's gonna be us in 3 months!" - Jake
  "With a baby?" - Me
  "You can do it!" - Jake
• "Squishably perfect... That's you!"
• "We just need to sit down and see if we can have a baby." - he wanted to talk logistics and finances to see if we could make it work! hahaha.
• "People need to stop telling us not to have babies. They're gonna be a gift to the world."
• at the pumpkin patch - "Doesn't it feel like something's missing?" - Me
  "It feels like 4 somethings are missing." - Jake
• I was spelling words out on his back and he was getting every letter right until . . . 
  "H-O-T-T-I.....Q?" We both DIED laughing, even though it probably isn't that funny...
• also at the pumpkin patch: "It's good to start traditions like this... Next year, we'll bring our baby."
• Just last night he was trying to tell me about this post I had tagged him in on Instagram and he didn't know what it was called when I tagged him in something... He later apologized for "Not knowing Instagram terms.-"You commented my name or tagged me or . . . what is it called?" - Jake
  "I tagged you" - Me
  "I thought I had to be in the picture for you to tag me?" - Jake

And for good measure, here's a picture of Jake when we were testing out mattresses this past weekend.

The Time We Took Formals

I knew I wanted to take formals since we got engaged. I think it's so much easier to do that than try to take formal pictures after you get married. I also knew I wanted my awesome friend Talmage to take them. He just is SO talented. Well, they finally happened. Of course, we waited until the first real downpour of snow in Utah where it had to be absolutely freezing, but they turned out so good. Find Talmage on Instagram: @talmagekaleb.

I can't believe I get to be his wife... in 15 days!