Our son Rolf and Kristy Money got married in the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple on December 28. Mormon marriage in the temple is interesting because it is "for time and all eternity." Mormons believe that if you are married in the temple and live well, you get to stay married and connected to your family in the hereafter. It makes for a deeply moving, serious ceremony.
We had a small reception for the families afterwards in the Lion House on 
Temple Square, which was Brigham Young's house back in his day. The first photo shows Sandy, Kristy, Rolf, Joe and Chris in the hallway of the Lion House.
The second photo shows me making a toast to the bride and groom -- just punch, this being a Mormon wedding, after all. But I have always thought you can be just as festive, happy and excited without the alcohol as with it. Certainly people were happy here, basking in the glow radiating out from Kristy and Rolf.
The next photo shows Kristy and Rolf with her father, Bruce Money, at a reception at their house in Provo, Utah. Beautiful house, on a bench, or flat spot on the side of the mountain above Provo. (Interestingly these flat spots, that people snap up for houses, circle the mountains as a leftover from an ancient inland Lake Bonneville.)
We spent much of the reception in our penguin suits in a reception line for guests coming in. The next photo shows
Joe, Sandy and Chris having a quick snack between new guests. It was a fun event, with a lot of old friends, like Sandy's roommate Christine (Craig) Seppi and Duane, her husband, whom Joe knew at Stanford; and a lot of new in-laws. Kristy comes from a big Utah clan, who seem to be very nice. Funny Texas note, her grandfather was once a pretty major development guy at Texas A&M, so a little UT and A&M banter went by.
We did all get to sit down and relax eventually. The next photo shows Rolf, his old roommates James and Bronson (with Chris between them), Julia and Sam. Very nice ev
ent, put together really well by Kristy's mother, Kim, who you can see in the last photo, which shows her on the right during the Lion House dinner. (These were done by my nephew Jon Thorne, who is only a couple of years younger than me, and has been one of my best buddies since childhood.)
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Rolf and Kristy's reception
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'Twas a nice toastin'.
Yay for marriages! And for making penguin suits look good!
It looks like it was a wonderful wedding and I wish best of everything to the young couple. And a belated apology for not attending or RSVPing to Joe and Sandy's wedding. I can't remember what sort of crisis I must have had that I did neither -- something I feel bad about every time I remember it.
Hey, Mike, thanks for the well wishes, but please don't worry about missing our reception, back in the good old days. It would have been fun to get to know you then. You were and are a really important friend for Sandy, and I have certainly heard a lot about your adventures back in Pacoima.
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