Mormon Life - Wedding tag

Letters make for a sincere, lasting wedding gift

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:49:00 -0600

source: deseretnews.com

Some might call my obsession with handwritten letters unhealthy. I prefer words like dedicated, single-minded, impassioned or crazy-focused.

All right, so maybe it's a tad unhealthy.

I've loved writing and receiving letters since I was a tadpole. If I met an attractive young lady at a dance or out-of-town school sporting event, we didn't exchange cellphone numbers or Facebook accounts. We used napkins or torn sheets of spiral notebook paper and scribbled down actual physical mailing addresses.

Remember those?

Photo Gallery: Your Wedding Day

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:05:00 -0600

source: MormonLife.com

Thank you to everyone who sent in their wedding photos. Happy wedding season!

Jared & Maryn Hunter from Utah
Salt Lake Temple, 2011

George and Katrina Rose
Married in Leura Chapel in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia in 1984

Josh and Kimberlee Rodeback
Oquirrh Mountain Temple, October 29, 2009

Kirk & Dottie Lima from Colorado
Salt Lake Temple, November 17, 1998

Danielle and Kansas Hutchinson from Utah
Salt Lake City Temple, 2010

Keith and Laurel Brooks from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Married at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Fairfield, Victoria, Australia on 10th March 1962
Sealed in the New Zealand Temple on March 13, 1962

Jana Noel and James Arthur Walbruch

Phillip and Gwen Dieckmann
St. Louis Missouri Temple, September 22, 2007

Frank Owosu and Felicia Aboagyewaa from Asamankese, Eastern Reg. Ghana
Accra, Ghana Temple, May 2011

Tiffany and Jonathon Davis from Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake Temple, December 11, 2010

Stephen and Jessica Black from California
Sacramento Temple, 2010

Marcelino Lim and Cathy Carmode Lim from California
Oakland, California, 1993

Ryan and Brooke Chapman
Mesa, Arizona Temple, July 31, 2010
I am the only member in my family and I always imagined my wedding day to be a terrible one because my family couldn't come into the temple, but the Lord blessed me more than I could have ever imagined. The whole day was absolutely perfect!

Paul & Mary Crowther from Washington State
Cardston Alberta Temple, 1976

Daniel and Jennie Martinez from Washington
San Diego California Temple, 1994

Orson and Lisa Anderson from Texas
Nauvoo Temple, Sept 17, 2005

Shannon & Tim Dickman from Colorado
San Diego Temple, 2000

Norma & Jack Burks from Ohio
Columbus, Ohio Temple, 2004

Gregg and Joanne Sainsbury from Utah
Salt Lake City, January 4, 1974

Jason and Sydney Maughan
Married by bishop Larry Eastland on April 16, 2011 at the Los Angeles country club in California

Brent William and Amanda Marie Taylor
Boston, MA Temple, June 4, 2011

{Lifestyle} Send Us Your Wedding Photo!

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:08:00 -0600

by LDS Living
source: MormonLife.com

It’s wedding season and LDS Living wants to celebrate! We want you to send us your wedding photo for a special photo gallery to be featured online next month.

We can’t wait to see how some things have changed over the years--big bangs, ruffle tuxedos, puffy sleeves--and how some things never change--happy, head-over-heels-in-love couples.

Send your photo to blogs@ldsliving.com by July 12.

Don’t forget to include the following:

You and your spouse’s names
Your state (or country)
What year you were married
Where you were married

{Lifestyle} The Royal Wedding

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:15:00 -0600

by Ashley Jones
source: MormonLife.com

Raise your hand if you saw the Lifetime movie based on Prince William and Kate Middleton? I’m totally raising mine right now, and am proud of it! I have no idea why, but I am so ridiculously intrigued by this whole royal wedding thing. Is it the inner girl in me who wishes I could be in Kate’s shoes (and hats), or am I more in love with Prince William than I thought? Either way, I’m giddy for Friday. And for what it’s worth, the actor who played Prince William was adorable, but the actress they cast for Kate just didn’t do the real Kate justice. If you didn’t get to see it, here’s the YouTube preview.

So, a few important details you’ll need for the big day:

· Time: set your DVRs for April 29 at 4 a.m., unless you’re willing to get up at 4 a.m. and watch live.

· Place: for those of us who don’t get to fly over to Westminster Abbey for the day, CNN and every other major news channel (TV and online) will have to do. They’ll all be there with live feeds and will provide updates all day for you while you “work.”

· Needs: Haagen Dazs’ Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream and your favorite cookie; friends who will swoon with you.

Take our poll below: Will you be watching?

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Ashley Jones practices public relations for Deseret Book. She loves writing, emailing her missionary sister, and making/ eating home-made popcorn.

NY Times features LDS couple's temple wedding

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:12:00 -0600

source: nytimes.com

In the third grade, Jill Fernald shocked her family when she arrived home with blisters covering her hands. She had failed a swinging exercise on the monkey bars in gym class, then practiced for hours on the bars after school until she earned the teacher’s certificate of achievement.

“Jill gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘determined,’ ” said her father, Gregory Fernald, a semiretired crop-duster pilot from Hanford, Calif., where he and his wife, Susan, raised their five children. For Susan Fernald, a retired teacher, this oft-repeated family story illustrates how “Jill sets goals for herself.”

By her own account, Ms. Fernald, 31, is driven. That drive kept her courtship of Geddes Munson, a gadget-crazed younger man, going for more than two years, an “eternity in Mormondom,” according Mary Nielson, an old friend of Ms. Fernald.

The couple both come from pioneer Mormon families that settled in Utah in 1847 — one of Ms. Fernald’s forebears arrived with Brigham Young — and both are deeply committed to their faith.

{Lifestyle} DIY Wedding Ideas

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:15:00 -0600

by Ashley Jones
source: MormonLife.com

Have you noticed the influx of wedding invitations you start receiving in your mailbox when it starts to get warm? Well, gear up, because more are coming. And for some of you reading this, you’re the one trying to make the decisions for a wedding! Congrats!

But because everyone is holding their checkbook a bit closer, I thought it would be fun and helpful to compile a few handy websites on how to do weddings on a budget, or by yourself. If you’re the mom planning the wedding, or the future bride trying to gather ideas, these websites could really help.

If you aren’t familiar with the term “DIY,” it means “Do It Yourself.” It’s pretty popular on blogs right now, which I find so wonderful because everyone is a little more budget-conscious. Every one of the websites listed below have a “DIY” section for weddings. There are some beautiful, creative, and inexpensive ideas out there. So, don’t fret about expenses. Put your creative cap on and have fun with this special day!

elizabethdye.com

stylemepretty.com

100layercake.com

oncewed.com

theknottybride.com

thebudgetsavvybride.com

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Ashley Jones practices public relations for Deseret Book. She loves writing, emailing her missionary sister, and making/ eating home-made popcorn.

{LDS How-to} Transform a Cultural Hall into a Wedding Reception

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:03:00 -0700

by LDS Living staff
source: MormonLife.com

Mormon Life says: How to turn a cultural hall into a reception hall. Not that basketball hoops, brown carpeted walls, and accordion dividers aren’t fabulous décor for a wedding, but a bride usually wants a little more glamour when it comes to this special day. So how can you transform a church cultural hall into a beautiful reception? Easy!

1. Reserve the venue. As soon as you have a wedding date you need to call the stake clerk. The cultural hall can be booked as far as three months out, so the sooner the better.

2. Make it cozy. If your cultural hall is a larger space than you need, use the dividers to make the room smaller. For obvious reasons, it’s easier to decorate a smaller area, but also, a large, empty space is less inviting than a smaller, more intimate one.

3. Camouflage the ceiling. There’s nothing wrong with bringing in a big, white tent to hide the ceiling tile. No tent? Instead, create the illusion of one by draping sheer fabric from the middle of the ceiling down to each wall. Or you can create a dropped-ceiling effect by draping the fabric straight across the room. You might also consider hanging flowers, pom-poms balls or any type of décor on strings from the ceiling.

4. Hide the walls. Again, draping fabric over the walls is a great way to hide them and add elegance to the cultural hall. Set up plants along the walls for further concealment.

5. Add mood lighting. Try not to use the harsh lights from the cultural hall. Instead, bring in all your own lighting; the softer light is more flattering. For a European look, string lights from one wall to the other in parallel rows. You can amp up the look by attaching paper lanterns. Another idea is to hang netted lights along the walls. Make sure to bring floor lamps to set up around the perimeter.

6. Add pretty props. A cultural halls can be transformed into outdoor gardens with added props like trickling fountains, fake plants (like Baroque-style hedges), columns, arches, etc. You can rent items like these, or even borrow them from neighbors’ gardens.

7. Decorate beyond the cultural hall. Who says you can’t decorate the hallway and entryway leading up to your reception? Continue your reception’s theme from the front doors all the way to the cultural hall. Your guests will never even feel like they’re in a church building.