May 7th Reception Day!

Our "HIstory in the Making" and "Beach Boardwalk" Theme :)

I am so glad we decided to do our reception the next day! I would have been dead if we had tried to do it all in one day. The place we ended up having the reception turned out to be perfect and was everything I ever dreamed it would be!

We had our boardwalk, cotton candy, popcorn, snow cones, a bounce house, and DELICIOUS bbq. It was a little windy... as was the day before, but you cant control that! I am so glad we got to celebrate with all our friends and family. We truly are blessed with amazing families. Every one pitched in so well to make our day PERFECT. I couldn't ask for any more. If you want to see the rest of our reception pictures click here!

Temple Day - Sealed for Time and Eternity

First kiss outside of the temple!

Well we have officially been married for 12 days now! Life couldn't be better! Being married to your best friend is amazing. I wish I could remember more about the actual day of our wedding or that I had written it down that day but I will do my best to be brief ...

May 6, 2011

Best day of my entire existence. I woke up around 9 feeling calm and completely ready to be sealed to Garren. The day progressed rather lazily until we decided Mara and Kendra should do my hair. Yeah should have done that a lot earlier. That was the only stressful part of the day. When Garren came to pick me up to go to the Temple I had MAJOR butterflies. Seriously they were multiplying within my stomach.


We got to the temple signed our major license, got dressed and then we were waiting to get hitched. The moment I knelt across from him everything else disappeared. Nothing else mattered. For all I knew we were the only ones existing in the world. Yes I realize how corny this all is, but guess what it was our wedding day of course this is going to be corny! Before I knew it we were married! The entire ceremony was beautiful!

Garren looked so handsome, I am one lucky girl. Any way coming out of the temple and seeing all our friends and family was wonderful. We took pictures and then had a wonderful lunch! The day could not have been more perfect.

Bridesmaids :)

Groomsmen :)

I love being married, and I love being Larissa Lynn Allred

The Engagement Story :)

 So we finally got to go snowshoeing! We headed up the mountain at around noon. Not going to lie. I hated snowshoeing at first. I couldn't do it. I already am not the most coordinated person in the world so it was super awkward at first, but I eventually got the hang of it. We hiked 2 miles completely up hill. Not going to lie at one point I seriously considered laying down in the snow and telling him to go on with out me. He was incredibly patient and encouraging to me the entire time. I feel like I can do anything when he is supporting me. I always make fun of him for being impatient while driving or in other circumstances but when it comes to me he is the most patient man in the world. :) Any way getting to the top was MORE than worth it. The view was breath taking. One of the mostbeautiful views I have ever seen. We ate lunch and then I joked with Garren that I deserved a trophy or something for making it . He agreed and told me he had a prize. He made me close my eyes... and eventually, let me open them. When I did he was on one knee with the most beautiful ring and asked me tomarry him. I think I said yes like a hundred times or something. I maybe cried a little bit. Thank heavens for sun glasses :P My hands were too cold to take my mittens off so I had to wait till we hiked back down the two miles to put my ring on. Talk about making me work for it! So worth it.

I love him so much, and can hardly wait to marry him for time and all eternity. I adore his family and am so excited to be apart of it. I really am amazingly blessed.