Wedding of all weddings

Oh my gosh! My baby sister is married!! Carly Sue Brown married Spencer Lewis Mortensen on Saturday, August 18, 2007, in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. Their temple marriage was at 8:20 am (Carly, Spencer, and their escorts had to be at the temple 1 1/2 hrs early (6:40 am) which made them leave Springville by 5:45 am at the latest. Ouch!) Spencer actually stayed in SLC Friday night with his family who drove in from Alamosa, CO, so his drive to the temple wasn't bad.

Carly had Jo and me do her hair and get her ready Saturday morning, which meant we needed to be at Mom's by 2:30 am. Double Ouch! Tony and I decided we'd spend the night at mom's instead of getting everyone up and driving over in the wee hours of the morning. We gathered the girls and our other girls (Pixie & ArlaMae) and headed over arriving at 10:30 pm.

I still had sewing to do on Rebecca & Mary-Gail's dresses, so I stayed up until....1:30 am. Did I already mention that I was sooo stinkin' tired to begin with?! Carly let me sleep until 3:00 am, but that was it! Jo, who lives about 2 miles from Mom's house, was already upstairs with curly irons plugged in and bobby pins ready.

We tackled Carly's beautiful thick, red hair and 2 hours later (along with lots and lots of hairspray and bobby pins) we had created a masterpiece.


These pictures are from when Carly had her hair done "professionally" for her bridal pictures. Jo and I knew we were going to do Carly's hair for her wedding, so we videotaped the process and I snapped a few still shots.