The Talbots: August 2019

Kacie's bridesmaids surprised her with a bacherlorette party the night before her wedding. I believe Ashley spearheaded most of it which was so nice of her. Her and Madison decorated their room while Kacie went down to the ballroom to check out the decorations with Hanna and Mckinley. I got a room for all of them to stay two nights at the Hampton Inn where we are having the luncheon and reception. The decorations turned out so cute and she gave them all a Starbucks gift card, sashes, and some other party favors. Kacie was really surprised! Friday night Scott and I helped Rachel a little with the decorations and we also went to Best Buy to buy the happy couple a TV to use at the reception to show their slideshow and then to have. It was a really nice Samsung QLED TV. Ron and Stacie got them a BluRay player that we also used and then they wrapped it up and gave it to them.

I was so happy Jocelyn was able to meet up with them all to go out to dinner at the Olive Garden. They then went back to the hotel and gave her some some fun bridal gifts!

Carriesa did such a good job on her hair!

She's so sweet!

Waiting for the bride and groom!

Cole's nieces are so cute...love their little white dresses!

So fun to have E.J. and Rosie's cute family with us!

Grandma, Sharon and Brent! So nice that they came!

Allie, Biggs, Sydney, Sam & Heath

Cole's nephew...too cute!

So happy that Ralph and Kathy could come!

Teniele's cute little family.

Bros...Ron and Scott

Melissa & Valeda

VeAnn & Todd

Ron and Stacie's cute family

Stoney's new girlfriend Kristin

Love that Reid's cute family came!

Sam, Kris Steve, Adam & Kim

Travis, Natalie, Brook & Brenden plus Paxton & Lindsay

Such cute girls!

Love all the support! The sealing was beautiful...so special especially because Elder John McCune was able to clear his schedule and seal them. It was pretty neat when he said he felt prompted to say that there were people there that we have met before and some that are waiting to come. I was thinking of Kaylin and Aunt Berniel and all of our grandparents. It didn't dawn on me that he was also talking about their future children.

So happy for this adorable couple!!

Love this picture!!! So thankful for all the love and support!

They are one lucky couple to have so much family and friends to guide them and support them along this new adventure!

The Wheeler and Carr families...

The Talbot and Schulthies/McCune families...

Cole's family

Kam & Mallory, Jared & Andrea, Jolene & Joe, Carriesa, Brandon & Caia.

These pictures turned out so cute!

Grandparents...

The Talbots...

A couple of Cole's mission companions couldn't make it. It was cute how Joe tried to take his place.

Austin Washburn, Mission Companion, Cole, Bransen Thueson, Collin Rawlings & Brady

Mallory did such a beautiful job on all the bouquets.

Love this picture too!

Cole's neighbor Amanda Andrew made their cake for their wedding gift. It turned out so beautiful and tasted so yummy. It was a chocolate cake with a mint Oreo ganache filling. So good! Mallory did the flowers for it too!

Rachel Johnson did the decorations for us and Mom and I glue the large 24x36 wedding prints on foam boards. I was happy how good they turned out. But I'm not sure what we are going to do with them after. haha This arch was so beautiful...I wish we had more pictures with it. At least I got this one with Juliene and Uncle Vaughn.

The luncheon was catered by Goodwood barque. It was so good too!

Nice that Farrell and Stephen could make it to the luncheon...

Toward the end of the luncheon I showed a 20 minute slideshow of them growing up and their engagement and bridal pictures. I thought it turned out really cute. Uncle McCune commented on how cute the little kids were watching so intently. He said what a wonderful example and impression Cole and Kacie were making for on all these younger kids by showing how to get married the right way in the temple.

We served Jimmy John's sandwiches, a variety of chips from Costco and fruit trays from Goodwood plus Krispy Kremes and little bottles of white and chocolate milk. I ordered 10 trays of 30 servings and we had four leftover trays. We had about five donuts left when we started cleaning up and they were all gone by the time we were done so I guess we didn't do too bad guessing. I ordered 198 white milks and 126 chocolate milks and we had a lot of the white milk left over.

All the food was a big hit and this doughnut wall turned out so cute!

It was so nice of Debbie and Robert to make it and they gave them their silverware and dishes off their Amazon registry which was very generous of them.

Love Teniele and Donna!

All the Schulthies Family except for Kyle...

I was shocked when Bob and Jayne Taylor showed up from Utah. Nicole just got home that day from spending a year in Japan so it was fun having her and her parents there too!

Mom's cousin Karen and her daughter Kristen and her husband, plus Amanda and her daughter.

Brady with Kingston...too cute!

Madi is such a cute girl and good friend.

It was so fun to have Travis and Pam come!

Traditional cutting of the cake...I was sad we didn't get a good picture of them with it...oh well!

They were too nice feeding each other! haha!

First dance as Mr. & Mrs. Wheeler...they danced to Still by Scotty McCreery!

Boys being boys!

It was hard not getting emotional as they danced to "I Loved Her First" by Heartland.

It was so fun watching Brady dancing with all his cousins!

Such a cutie!

It was so nice having Brandon there with us and I even got a dance with him.

A lot of mom's cousins came to support the Wheeler family not even knowing the family connection.

The dance was so fun and even went an extra hour longer than planned.

I grabbed the wrong bouquet but Mallory was quick to fix it before she threw it!

Hanna was the lucky girl to catch the bouquet.

The decorations were pretty...I was just a little disappointed we couldn't do a false ceiling with lights and sheer panels because the hotel wouldn't let us anchor into the walls.

The heirloom quilt mom made for them turned out so beautiful. Boy did she stress over it because she didn't have a pattern but I would say it was a master piece.

Mom's other cousin Karen Kotter and below is her daughter Kristin Kotter Pancheri.

It was so nice of Lori Schulthies, Sydney Hartley and Lucy Beck to help us at the reception. Lucy even picked up the milks for us and Steve and Ron both provided a cooler of ice which was so helpful. Scott and Reid picked up the doughnuts. Jimmy Johns and Goodwood delivered. Sydney also helped us by picking up Kacie's medicine that wasn't ready in time Friday.