Will, Leslie, McKenna, Calvin & Sophia

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Happy 12th Anniversary

The Happy Couple - Mr. & Mrs. Will Wright We met in June of 1995. Will says he loved me at first sight....ah isn't that sweet! We got engaged in April 1996 and waited for my sister to get home from military basic training. We wanted to get married on Sept 13th but couldn't book The Wright House until the 20th. We were married in the Mesa, AZ LDS Temple.


Our wedding invitation which we had 350 and sent over 300 out!
This is the course of our wonderful wedding day September 20th, 1996





What a handsom groom!


My grandma Glenna made my wedding dress for me and it was absolutely beautiful! I wish you could see the bead work she did better. McKenna hopes to wear it at her wedding. :o)
My bridesmaids: Jen, Misty, Anissa, me, my sister Brandy, Meagan and Will's sister Creea.

The guys: Toma & Steve Will's brother's, Will, Jack his brother-in-law and Jared.
Out wedding party....including our parents. What a wonderful group of people and we love them all dearly!

We met at the temple at 9:00am and then took a ton of pictures because it was still 98 degrees outside. We got married at 1pm in the Temple and then we took some more pictures outside the temple below. We then separated and Will went with his family and I went with mine (weird I know)....Will wanted to set up our honeymoon suite with rose petals etc. It was very pretty.


This is a picture of The Wright House out front where we met back at 4pm to set up for our ring ceremony and our reception. We had a ring ceremony for all of our non-LDS family and so that was neat to have my Dad walk me down the isle.
The inside before guests arrived.

Outside where the ring ceremony was and then later set up with round tables for guests.





During the ring ceremony.


We had lots of great food catered in by Will's Dad & step Mom...we didn't get any pictures of it but this is one of the punch areas. The punch was really good with floating berries. Will and I were so busy talking to everyone that we didn't get to eat but we did have some punch.



We danced to some of our favorite songs including our special song by Sting "When we dance".

We had a DJ and he played some country music so everyone could line dance and a few of Shania Twain who was my favorite singer back then. :o)






This is Will & I on our honeymoon cruise.


This is Will & I 12 years later. We went to a very nice dinner last night and had a great time. This is us after our evening out and yes we are tired you can see it in our eyes but I had to have Calvin snap a few pictures for this post. :o)


Will I love you more now than I did 13 years ago and for me that is crazy because I thought it was impossible! You are a wonderful man, husband and father. You are the man of my dreams and the ultimate love of my life!!!!! I'm so thankful to be married to you and I look forward to many many more years of wedded bliss babe! xoxoxoxox

Happy Anniversary Babe! I love you I love you I love you!!!! Love your girl - Leslie

9 comments:

brandygirl000 said...

Leslie & Will,
Congratulations on 12yrs. It really doesn't seem that long ago does it? You both still look great. I can't believe how young Will looked when you guys got married! That was a fun day. You guys threw a great wedding party. I have seen people move their hips like that since!!! Thanks for being a great example to me and others. You both are wonderful and I'm very proud of you guys. 12 down 60 more to go. I just read an article about a couple that just celebrated thier 80th wedding anniversary. They were adorable. I love you guys.
love,
Brandy

Julie said...

Happy Anniversary Will and Leslie. Love the pics. It is so funny to see how 90's everyone actually was...so old school. I remember when I got your wedding invitation I thought it was the most beautiful invitation. That was back when not everyone was into black and white. Anyways, Congrats to you both. Thanks for being a great example of love to my Steve and I.

Robyn said...

So fun! I especially love the picts from your reception. You guys were and are so much fun! We love your family. I STILL really need to bring the stilts back. I feel terrible.

Rasheta Family said...

Hey, love this post. Great to see you guys going strong and happy! I think the world of both of you! Congrats on your 12 years. So fun to remember all the details of your wedding day and you courtship. I am honored to have seen you go through it. I was so happy for you guys then and still am. Has it really been 12 years?! You both still got it, lookin' good!
Love, Anissa
PS: I just realized you had all these posts so I commented on some of the other posts.

AZ SMITHS said...

Congrats on 12 years! It was fun to look at all the pictures! You still are a very cute couple. Age has done you well! :)

*Shaffen and Misty* said...

It really doesn't seem that long ago. I remember a lot of it! Some parts of the reception were very funny! :)

Mandy said...

Seems like yesterday, that wedding was georgeous and so were you. I'm right behind you with our 12th, so crazy! Glad you had a great time. Love ya.

Monica said...

Wow, what great pictures! Thanks for sharing. Congratulations on 12 years. You two make a cute couple.

Karen said...

Hey Leslie! I know Im so sad Im not there to go out with you guys. I love you guys and miss you sooooooooooooo much! Okay so Im coming in Oct and I will call you before then. We are going to have a Halloween party at Anissas, so I will let you know whats going on. Congratulations on your Anniversary!!! BLYB Karen