A few weeks ago, one of my best friends, Katie, got married in the Portland temple. Katie is one of my best friend and so much fun to be around! We met in Hawaii a few years ago, were roommates for a while, and worked as surf photographers at Turtle Bay Resort- best job ever!! We had so much fun surfing before after and in between lessons and got to paddle board a lot too! We both decided to move away from Hawaii and ended up moving on the same day, Katie to Idaho and me to San Diego! Katie is such an awesome friend and I was so happy when she was able to come to Nate and I's wedding! It was awesome to be able to be there for her and Kip's beautiful wedding too!!!!

The night before the wedding Katie's sister, Holli, and I threw a bridal shower for Katie! It was so much fun making little desserts and decorating for it! There were about 10 girls that came, including one of my old roommates from Hawaii, Hayley! First, we headed to a little Thai restaurant for some amazing Thai food. Then we came back to the apartment and played a few games, had desserts, talked a lot, and frosted and decorating lots of cupcakes for Katie's reception. Poor Nate was trapped in our bedroom the whole night with our living room full of girls.. haha! It was so much fun and I was so happy to be able to help with Katie's bridal shower!


The next day, we went to the Portland temple for the wedding ceremony. It was so beautiful and so awesome to be there!! Afterwards, we took pictures outside. It was raining, so people had to hold umbrellas over everyone and then run out of the frame while picture were taken! After that, we went to the beautiful reception! It was in a pretty house on a hill overlooking Portland! They had hawaiian food and lots of cupcakes! They did a cute slideshow (I was in a lot of Katie's hawaii and surf pictures and Kip told me I was probably in more pictures than him... haha!) Katie and her brother played and sang a song together, The Red House. It's a song that some of our friends in Hawaii made, brought back lots of fun memories!
It was so much fun to be at Katie and Kip's wedding and reception! We met Kip when Katie first started dating him, we wend camping and surfing on the coast. They are so cute and just perfect for each other and we are so happy for them!!!!