Maddie and Josh's wedding

June 16
The night before the wedding was the time for the reception decoration at the Marriott Slaterville building across the street from Pioneer. The main event was laying out the ceiling decorations. The first step was the cords that would be used to support the plastic drape.

We then draped the plastic and began to raise it off the floor.

Once we started to raise the ceiling decoration the rope on the north side pulled out the eyelet from the wall which set us back a little. Josh's dad got the materials to cement the eyelet into the wall and after it dried it was back to raising the roof.

Then came the other decorations needed on the tables and also hanging from the ceiling. We completed our task at 2 a.m and had a short night sleep for the wedding day.

Saturday July 17
The wedding day was finally here. We went to the wedding site and set up the chairs and all the decorations needed down the aisle. Then it was back home to get ready.

We arrived at the site at 2:30 p.m. to get ready for the wedding at 3. It had been unusually hot the last couple of days but this day was just perfect in temperature.

There was a little delay and during that time she had to wait in the car as there was no other place for her to be.

The time for the ceremony came. The flower girls came down the aisle.

I walked Maddie down the aisle as my last single child.

Josh's Bishop performed the service and it was wonderful. There were over 100 people at the ceremony. Near the end of the service three butterflies flew over Josh and Maddie's head. We each placed different meaning to that sign but they were all good meanings.

After the ceremony the newly weds walked down the aisle and then it was time for family pictures.

The delay in the ceremony pushed back things. The dinner got done just in time for the reception to start.  It was a solid line of people with no breaks for the entire time. It was a great showing of friends and family supporting Josh and Maddie on this wonderful day as the Haas family was created.

After the newlyweds left it was time to clean up. We appreciated all the help from family that stayed to help take everything down and we were all finished by 10:30.