“Righteousness goes as a herald before him, preparing the way for his steps.” Psalm 85:13

Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness, and He was sustained by His faith.
The devil came to Him and tried to tempt Him with bread,
but he refused to give in.
This is a good image for us to remember when we are dieting.
Often we feel we cannot go on when we miss just one meal.
Christ proved to us that even after missing meals for 40 days,
there is still a source of strength other than food.
That source is God,
and His strength is available to anyone who will ask for it.
Let us remember to follow in the steps of Jesus Christ and
lean on our heavenly Father whenever we feel weak or tempted.

Today’s thought:
I am facing nothing that Christ did not face before me.

Barb suggested we travel back to our wedding day/time… I think after Mandy’s (her daughter) wedding she just had weddings on the brain. What a fun place to travel to this week, huh? If you have any suggestions of places you would like to travel, please let me know!

Okay girls, what are your memories from your wedding day? Were you nervous? Do you remember walking down the aisle? What about the rehearsal dinner, anything special happen that night?

I’ll start with the night before my wedding… Friday, June 16, 1989. We had rehearsal at the church and then went to Eddie’s steakhouse for our rehearsal dinner. The main thing I remember about the rehearsal dinner was when Matt’s mother stood up welcoming me to the family, saying they couldn’t have chosen a more perfect wife for Matt. This led to my dad standing up to welcome Matt to our family. I could hardly bare it. I had to sip my tea the whole time to keep from crying. By the end of the dinner I was a basket case so we went to our home to be and talked until midnight… because he couldn’t see me on the day of our wedding, right?

me with my brothers

My mother worked so hard getting everything prepared for my wedding. She made my wedding dress, made the cakes, did the flowers… I was so indecisive during those months of planning I’m sure she wanted to shake me, but she didn’t. She just tried to make everything perfect. Since then she worked in a wedding shop and learned a lot about weddings and has commented on how much better she could do it now, too bad I’m done with weddings… There’s always Amanda, then Emelia, and then Isabelle!

The day of my wedding was almost surreal. The wedding was planned for the afternoon. I went and had my hair done by the stylist who had done the trial run a few weeks before. I hated it this time. I then came to the church and french braided all the bridesmaid’s hair (& candle lighter….) and then my friend (and Mary Kay consultant) proceeded to do my make up. Hated it too! Way more makeup than I normally wear.
The rest is a blur until I got to the doors and the music started … my dad looked in to my eyes and said, “Are you sure you want to do this today, you can always change your mind.” I thought to myself… don’t make me cry now!!! This is the picture taken right after he said that. I really don’t like this picture of me, but look at my daddy’s eyes. He loves me so much. I love this picture of him.

Here I go … down the aisle.

Matt and I exchanged vows and talked and even joked a little during the ceremony. We were very nervous (and young).

Here we are “cutting the cake.”

There you have it… my wedding day, we’ll save the honeymoon for another time (or not :o).

One last thing. Matt’s only requests when we were planning the wedding was that he wanted black tuxes and a particular song. I can’t remember now but think it was ‘time in a bottle’… I didn’t grant either wish. It wasn’t intentional, I was just in some kind of weird bride daze. (and doesn’t he look just precious in that ivory tux?)