our wedding photos

Our wedding and honeymoon

Our wedding

 

*married on Friday 13 of July 2012 at County Clerk’s Office

*Dr. Lewis and Danielle were witnesses and Leslie took pictures

*We all wore our zoo uniforms and I had a Margaret feather bouquet that still had poo on it and tied with blue vet wrap

*For dinner the 2 of us went to Tahoe Joe’s

*Our left over boxes said bride and groom

*We rented the movie Life as We Know It and drank cheap champagne

*That night we made our own wedding cake, pineapple upside down cake

*The officiant said “Do you Michelle, take Tom…I mean Shawn” Who’s Tom?

*When she told us to exchange rings we were already wearing them and so we were quick trying to take them off and trade them. Shawn couldn’t get mine off J

*We saved the bottle of wine we had with dinner and wrote the date on it so we can find the same bottle on one of our anniversaries and buy it and have the same wine as our wedding

*we knew we were going to get our license at lunch and then elope on our way to Oregon on the 101. After checking prices we decided it would be better to spend the $21 and get married at the clerk’s office. They closed at 4pm so we had to leave work at 330 to be on time. I asked Dr Lewis to be best man and grabbed Danielle and Leslie from the back of peccary and away we went.

 

Buying Rings

 

*We checked the mall on Thursday July 12 after work and found a band that Shawn liked but I was looking for a plain band and couldn’t find one I liked. We had no money to spend but knew we wanted to be married before Shawn left to start his job. I went through my jewelry box and pulled out everything I didn’t wear or have sentimental value and we took it to Fresno Coin Gallery to pawn it so we could get married. We were thinking we would be able to get $250 and we would just buy $40 bands and get better when we could afford it. We ended up getting $550. We went into the show room and found my ring. Small low set princess cut diamond set in 14k white gold. That night after work we went to JCP and got Shawn’s ring. He put it on as we were walking out of the store J

 

Honeymoon

 

*We decided that since we were going to Oregon to look for a place to live and go to the zoo we would make that our honeymoon and we would drive the 101 there and the 5 back.

*We stayed at Super 8 motel in Gresham OR. It was $65 a night and we had a AAA discount making it $55 a night. We got what we paid for. The room smelled of cigarette smoke, the bed spread had some holes, the couch looked like it lost a knife fight, there were what looked like blood spots on the carpet, there were brown stains on the side of the tub and cigarette burns in the sheets. However, the staff was over the top nice.

*The zoo was amazing

*On the 101 we drove through a tree and saw avenue of the giants

*We went all over looking for places to live, filled out apps and checked out neighborhoods

*We saw signs saying watch for elk and elk meadow next exit. We were laughing that there were no elk. It turns out there were elk. They were just in front of the church down the street and they were huge.

*In Oregon you are not allowed to pump your own gas. This started a long conversation as to why. Shawn said it was to create jobs. I did not agree. It wasn’t creating a job it was just adding another job task to the job the gas station man already had. Shawn looked it up and it was not adding jobs to the economy, Oregon just doesn’t believe people are smart enough to pump they’re own gas without getting blown up. We laughed for miles on that one.

*I told Shawn I was brought to Oregon under false pretenses. He said it was lush and green and dense forests. That was NOT what I saw upon crossing the border. It was open fields and cows. There was no glorious gray skies and constant rain! It was sunny and blinding to my eyes. I told him I will make it rain myself and turned on the spritzer thing on the windshield wipers. I made it rain!

*We bought a 50’s music cd in Hopland, OR at a gas station. It was ok

*After the zoo we went down town Portland and went to a 3 story bookstore and then to Henry’s Tavern where we shot pool, had a couple of drinks and watched the men’s Olympic team beat Brazil in basketball. We talked for a while to the bar tender, who was very nice and he gave us tips on living in Portland. We decided when we move we will hang out there

*Shawn thought going to 4^th street pub was exciting. Beer in Oregon has higher alcohol content

*We did not want to come back to Fresno.

*Going thru Arcadia Shawn said they were known for and have very nice beaches. I heard peaches and was confused. I told him I didn’t know he liked peaches that much! He laughed and said BEACHES! We laughed hard about that one J