The Wedding

If someone asked me to describe our wedding day in a word, it would be perfect.  I worried before the wedding that I would be too caught up in minor details, and being a control freak.  Everyone kept telling me things would go wrong, and I'd have to roll with it.  But honestly, the only complaint I have about my wedding day was that it ended too soon, and that I don't have a photographic memory to remember every second of the day. 

Here is a small sample of our pictures from the wedding (reception will come later).  I apologize, they're repeats from Facebook, but I'm just picking my favorites. 

Enjoy :)

The temple is seriously the most beautiful place, can you imagine how much it would cost to rent out a place like this?  Not to mention the fact we get to be together forever :)

The ever popular "walking out of the temple picture."  First picture of us as Mr. and Mrs. Cazier

That awkward moment where you're walking in total bliss and everyone else is wishing they could leave before the pictures start.

The Cazier family: Carrie and Ben (Spencer's only sister), Garrett and Erin, Jeff and Kaye (Spen's parents), and Russ and Rachel.  It's so fun to finally have older sisters! (and brothers)

The Hougaard Family: Kierstin, Jared, Brock, Todd and Shannon, and Trevor.  Yeah, we've got a lot of grey going on here.  Did I mention they all adore Spencer?  I highly recommend marrying someone your family likes.

I have been so blessed to have amazing friends throughout my life.  Words can't express how much I love all these ladies! (Kierstin, Tanille, Marisa, Andrea, Caitlin, Claire, Mandi, Hope, Lauren, and Kelbie)

My mom and little sister.  Could not have pulled anything off without my mom.

Spen and his friends: Ian, Pete, Nick, Matt, and Greg

Daddy daughter

When I graduated high school, my mom gave me a picture frame.  In that picture frame, there was one of those generic pictures of random people in this pose.  I never took that picture out, because I thought it was so cute, and I wanted to make sure I got one just like it someday.  It turned out pretty great, I think.

Will you marry me?

Before I make this post, I should probably state a disclaimer: I didn't have a chance to blog before we got married, but I am awful at writing in my journal, so this is my way of documenting our dating/engagement/wedding.  So bear with me for a few more posts while I go back in time.  I promise I'll get to the present eventually.  (And they probably won't be so long winded)

Ok, so this is the story of our engagement.  Spencer took my dad out to breakfast the Saturday before my birthday to ask for his permission.  Of course, my dad said yes, but he requested Spencer wait until my parents returned home from a scout camp that upcoming week.  Unfortunately, they wouldn't return home until the day AFTER my birthday.  Poor Spencer, planned a great day for my birthday filled with tandem bike rides, a picnic lunch, and dinner at Maddox, but I was just sure we'd get engaged that day.  Right before I headed home for the night, he gave me my birthday present, which he told me I couldn't open until I got home.  I drove home (crying, because I had been so sure he was going to propose) to my sister, who made me open the present.  It was a huge collage, but one picture was missing.  My sister tried to convince me there was some secret message in this, but I thought he'd just forgotten to put a picture in.

The missing picture 

Spencer even had a hidden photographer

The next day, I got off work and went over to Spencer's.  We had plans to go out to dinner with my friends for my birthday that night, so I had zero expectations of a proposal.  The moment I walked in the door, he told me we needed to go meet his old mission companion to give him some things.  I thought it was odd, but didn't push the matter.  When we pulled up to the Logan tabernacle, he pretended to answer his phone and tell the companion where he was parked.  He asked me to get out and start unloading the trunk, but when I opened the trunk there was a bouquet of flowers, a picture of him, and a white flag that said, "I surrender."  (An inside joke, because I once told him all he needed to do was wave his surrender flag and we could get married.) My mind has never moved so slowly, I sat there trying to process what this could mean. As it all started to make sense, Spencer came around and asked if I wanted to go ring shopping.  That evening we went ring shopping.  The next morning, we had a temple date and time arranged.  And on Monday, we ordered the ring to be custom made in Salt Lake.  They said this would take a week or two, but it'd be done in no time.  Unfortunately, the ring people couldn't get it quite right.  The first time Spencer went to pick it up, (just days before our engagement pictures) it looked all wrong. 

I wore a filler ring for a couple weeks while the people tried to get it right.  Just 8 days before our wedding, he told me we had a date.  We went up Logan Canyon with Spencer's old roommate, Riley, and his wife to go on a horseback ride in the mountains.  When we got to our destination, Riley pretended to have dropped his camera, and he and his wife backtracked.  Spencer got off his horse to take a break, so I followed suit.  Then he got down on his knee and (finally) proposed for real.  It was very cute, and well planned out. 

When we got off the mountain, we went to dinner at Village Inn, where we went on our first "date".  I was so excited, I wanted to tell everyone!  But I compensated for putting a picture of my ring on Facebook right then and there.

Our Story

For my first post, I thought I'd give a little synopsis of "us."  Spencer and I met in the fall of 2010.  I was a freshman, and he was fresh off his two year LDS mission to Taiwan.  We lived in the same apartment complex, where he and his roommates had become friends with my roommates.  Our friend groups hung out a ton during fall semester, and we all became great friends.  We didn't hang out much during spring semester with the exception of spring break, where Spencer and his friends met up with my roommate and me for a day at Disneyland and a day at Laguna Beach.  At this point we both had some mutual feelings, but we never pursued it.  Spencer had been accepted to BYU for the fall, and I did not want a boyfriend.  That summer, Spencer moved to Missouri for summer sales and I stayed in Logan to work and do summer school.  At this point, fate stepped in...

The whole group at Laguna Beach (Spring Break 2011)

 Less than a month before school started, Spencer found out BYU wouldn't accept a lot of his USU credits, tacking on an entire semester of repeat courses.  With just a few weeks to go, Spencer re-enrolled at USU, registered for classes, and bought a contract with two of his roommates from the previous year.  I caught wind that Spencer was back at USU, but didn't think much of it.  In September, my roommates and I went to a dance party at their house and I remember thinking, "I bet he finds a girl to marry up here."  But, I never thought it would be me.  We didn't see much of Spencer or his friends until October, when they invited us over for a game night.  I was in a flirty mood, and Spencer reciprocated.  The next day he met up with me at the football game, afterwards we watched a scary movie together with my roommates.  This inspired a full month of scary movies with both our sets of roommates.  The more movies we watched, the closer we'd sit, until one night, right before Halloween, he finally put his arm around me.  The next night, we watched a movie that absolutely terrified me, which worked to his advantage, I cuddled right up to him, and the ice was broken, permanently.

Spencer and I with my roommates Hope and Marisa (and his roommate Pete in the background)

From that point on, we hung out nearly everyday.  We held hands, cuddled, hung out as groups of friends, and even did a few activities on our own.  On November 14, we went out for ice cream then went on a drive up the canyon, where he kissed me for the first time.  Things continued to progress, and we went on more "just us" dates until Christmas break, when I spent a week in California and he spent the following week in Yellowstone.  We stayed in touch via text, and Spencer came up to Logan for a couple days around New Years.

Date night right before Christmas Break

 When school started in January, we picked up right where we left off, and continued seeing each other pretty much everyday.  We quickly decided that neither of us was interested in dating others, and became exclusive.  We continued dating until June 8, (the day AFTER my birthday) when he (finally) took me ring shopping.  Spencer and I had a short, 8-week engagement, and got sealed for eternity in the Logan temple on August 2, 2012 (almost 22 months to the day since we'd met).  I couldn't be happier to be married to my best friend, and I'm excited for the many adventures that lie ahead!