So Disappointing

On Friday, we took a little road trip to Salt Lake with Ty's parents. Ty's cousin Ben whom Ty hadn't seen in nearly 14 years get married. We left the house with time to spare. It was a fun trip with the parental units and us talking and laughing and singing along with the Christmas music on the radio. Then we hit the Utah border. We also hit the biggest snowstorm ever.
Ty had to slow down significantly to navigate the icy roads and crazy Utah traffic. We pulled off the freeway to the Salt Lake Temple at noon. When was the wedding? Noon. We raced into the temple doors and tried to convince the man at the front desk to let us in. These things never start on time, so it should be okay, right? Wrong. The Nazi at the desk wouldn't let us go in.
We were disappointed to miss the wedding, but we would see Ben and his lovely bride at the ring ceremony and luncheon to follow. The most disappointing part was missing the man who preformed the sealing. It was the Prophet. Yes, President Thomas S. Monson did the sealing! Can you imagine? Sitting in a room with the Prophet? Listening to him speak on such a personal level? Wow! I guess he was quite a cut-up and had the small assembly laughing several times. He had several stories about Aunt Ann and times when she used to be his secretary so many years ago. *sigh* Such a disappointment. Aunt Janet was furious when she heard how close we were and that the man wouldn't let us in. She said we would have been in plenty of time. Oh well.
I feel bad for the couple, too. Their wedding pictures are gonna be a mess. The snow was dumping and the wind was howling. Not exactly the best setting for pictures. Honestly though, they were so giddy in love with each other, they probably didn't notice. The guests, however, were freezing!
We had some time to kill between the wedding and the ring ceremony, so we walked over to the Conference Center. A nice man inside offered to give us an abbreviated tour, since we only had 40 minutes before we had to be at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for the luncheon and stuff. That place is beautiful. And HUGE! It can seat 21,000 people. The stage/pulpit area was all decorated for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Christmas program. It was so pretty. The artwork in that building is amazing as well. Gee, I wish I could create beauty like that.
The ring ceremony and luncheon were so nice. It was fun to get to talk with Ty's family that he hadn't seen in years. I loved seeing the way Ben and Donna looked at each other. It brought back so many memories from when Ty and I got married. All of this took place on the tenth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. The view, when we could see it, was amazing. The problem was, it was snowing so hard, at times we couldn't see the buildings next door! At one point, I was sure we would have to get a hotel room and wait out the night.
We decided to risk it and try to get home. We figured, we could always stop along the way if we had to. The trip home however, was fine. The worst thing we had to deal with was SLC's rush hour traffic. The snow was light, the roads were clear, it was a beautiful trip home. If we'd had that weather on the way down, we sooo would have made it to the wedding. *sigh*