I Was Tagged!

Here goes, for better or for worse....



Where did you meet your husband?

In Las Vegas, at a Family Home Evening of young adults, before there was a program for young adults. He wasn’t a member at the time. A missionary-minded friend he worked with brought him. Can't remember if he was wearing plaid pants or a striped shirt, but I remember the white shoes, and that he was an insurance guy. I wasn’t impressed.


What was the first thing you said to your husband?

I don't remember, but my girlfriends and I were pretty disgruntled when we were asked to take him home that night. We went up to his apartment and learned he was very smart about very many things. Still not impressed.


Where was your first date?

He took all his other dates out to dinner shows on the Las Vegas Strip, but he just hung out at my place.


Where was your first kiss?

Just outside the door of my apartment, which was just through the alley from his apartment.


Did you have a long or short courtship/engagement?

We would have liked a short engagement, but decided to wait the requisite year for a new member so we could be married in the temple. It was actually only a five-month wait by that point, but it seemed like forever.


Where did you get engaged?

Unofficially, sitting on the couch of my apartment. There was no proposal; it just seemed to both of us that we should/would get married. With no engagement ring (I didn’t want a diamond), and no real wedding events to plan, I’m not sure when it became official.


Where were you married?

In the Salt Lake Temple, December 8, in the middle of a blizzard. We drove all night from Nevada to Provo in a snow storm. We, and the snow plows, were the only ones on the road. I learned after we got there that my husband-to-be had never driven in snow before! Many weddings were cancelled that day, and we could easily have cancelled ours, but we selfishly made our families come out in that weather. The next morning it was 4 degrees.


How did your reception go?

We didn’t have one. I didn’t want one. My parents gave us money instead, which ended up going to wedding expenses after all. We got married at night, and went out for a late dinner with my family afterward. I think it was my sister who brought some roses for me. Someone else ran by a bakery and brought a small cake to the dinner. I never picked wedding colors, or a cake, or even a dress. Both sets of parents later held open houses in their respective states, and we agreed to show up.
I wouldn’t have had a wedding dress but my sister surprised me the morning of my wedding with a dress she had made for me! It was simple but cute, and it fit perfectly! I made a copy of it in hot pink and wore that at the open houses.
The only wedding pictures I have are snapshots taken in the outside entryway of the temple in the snowy dark.


How was your honeymoon?

A month long. We always laughed at people who got married, then spent the next day with their family at Lagoon or something, but we did the same thing. We had a day or two that we could be with my out-of-town family, and someone had tickets to a ballgame, so we hung around to be with them. We made a stop at our apartment in Vegas, then traveled down to California, up through Oregon to Washington where we spent Christmas and had an open house. Then we made the same trip back, having Prime Rib and Cheesecake almost every day and doing a little temple hopping. We still have prime rib and cheesecake on our anniversary.