The Sharp Wedding

My younger sister Melissa married her sweetheart Nathan Sharp, a.k.a. Natey Batey, in the Mt. Timpanogos temple on April 26,2008. Congratulations you two! Derrick and I are so excited that you'll be moving into an apartment about 2 minutes walking distance away!


In the morning we had a great wedding breakfast at The Hampton House in American Fork, UT. The food was great and lots of people from the Jones and Sharp sides of the family came. The dads both gave mini-speeches and Nate put in his few words (few being the key word here :) ). After stuffing ourselves with cinnamon french toast, seasoned potatoes, peppered bacon, scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls of different flavors, and croissants dipped in chocolate (not your healthiest breakfast), we had three hours to do whatever before the wedding. Derrick and I went with Melissa and Nate to Nate's uncle's house in American Fork and after hanging out there awhile we went to Kohl's to do some baby shopping. We still had a few gift cards left from our wedding a year ago.

The temple ceremony at 2:00 pm was beautiful and was performed by Grandpa Jones who's set apart as a sealer at the Jordan River temple but got permission from the first presidency to seal Melissa and Nate at the Mt. Timpanogos temple. Melissa and Nate looked so happy and now get to be together for time and all eternity. The day they'd been counting down to finally came!

We ended up waiting a long time for Melissa and Nate to join us outside the temple for pictures. We saw Nate run past everyone twice without Melissa and later found out he was making trips to their car to try and find her tiara. After one unsuccessful attempt and lots of looking, Nate found the tiara.

Having pictures taken outside the temple turned out to be an interesting time because it was so windy. On our way into to temple we saw one bride's veil blown vertical. The wind hadn't died down much by the time Melissa and Nate came outside. This is what happened when they walked out.


Derrick helped control the blowing veil for a little while. Another, more efficient way was to have Nate keep his arm around Melissa and use that arm to hold it down.

Just for fun, here's a picture of Melissa, our mom, and me.

After pictures, Derrick and I rushed home so we could try and get some sleep before we needed to get to the church to help finish setting up for the reception. Melissa put me in charge of the flowers for her wedding so we was up until 5:30 am working on them. Three hours of sleep while being in the third trimester is not so fun. I made the boutonnières, corsages, and bouquet Friday night but decided to do the rest of the flowers right before the reception. Derrick was really nice and stayed up with me and even taped and wired the salal leaves for the bouquet after I showed him how. Three cheers for a supportive husband!

Our refrigerator at the end of the Friday night

We only had time to sleep an hour and then we headed to the church building here in Provo where they the reception was being held. I needed to hurry and finish the flowers for the cake, the table arrangements, and the tossing bouquet so I set up all my supplies in the Relief Society room. Derrick was sent on several errands with my brother Garrett and everything came together pretty well by the time guests were arriving. Nate's family also did a lot to help.

Here are a few pictures from the reception:

This is the first picture of the whole family we've had since before Jason went on his mission. We've had three (and 3/4 if you count the baby) new editions since then.

Daddy/Daughter dance to Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up"

Just after cutting the cake Grandma Eddington (Melissa's maternal grandma) made and smashing it into each other's faces a bit.