(We acknowledge that this would be a much cooler post if we had a digital copy of Sarah's parents' picture to compare with this one, but, alas, we do not. Yet.)
Friday, June 24, 2011
Jed and Sarah, Like Dad and Mom
Sarah's parents' black and white engagement picture was in a small wooden frame on the wall above their bed for most of the years Sarah was growing up. When Jed and Sarah were getting their engagement photos taken, Sarah wondered if they could recreate the picture of her parents. Thus, this.
(We acknowledge that this would be a much cooler post if we had a digital copy of Sarah's parents' picture to compare with this one, but, alas, we do not. Yet.)
(We acknowledge that this would be a much cooler post if we had a digital copy of Sarah's parents' picture to compare with this one, but, alas, we do not. Yet.)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
What's Next for Jed & Sarah?
The last week of July, Sarah and Jed will move from Las Vegas to Utah.
Sarah will start a fellowship at BYU Law School on August 1. She'll be teaching administrative law and education law, and she'll be writing and trying to publish law review articles.
Because Jed wants to be where Sarah is, he is looking for work in the Salt Lake/Provo legal markets.
We do not yet know where in Utah we will be living.
But once married, we will build a family and a future together, for which we are really, really excited.
Sarah will start a fellowship at BYU Law School on August 1. She'll be teaching administrative law and education law, and she'll be writing and trying to publish law review articles.
Because Jed wants to be where Sarah is, he is looking for work in the Salt Lake/Provo legal markets.
We do not yet know where in Utah we will be living.
But once married, we will build a family and a future together, for which we are really, really excited.
The Wedding Clothing Letter to the Families
Family!
Thank you for your excitement for and support of us as we transition from people
to engageds to marrieds. We are loving it (both your reactions and the transition
itself). We feel wholly blessed and are excited for all that the summer (and more!)
will bring.
To the point: This card’s primary purpose is to give you all the guidance we have
for you as to your clothing during the wedding festivities.
1. You’re Our Everything
We’re not choosing “colors” per se, nor are we having wedding attendants. We’re
just asking you, our immediate families (parents, siblings, siblings-in-law, nieces,
and nephews), to keep the following principles/considerations/requests in mind.
2. Only the Friday Evening Party Matters (for Purposes of Your Wardrobe)
The only wedding event at which we request that you consider us as you make
your fashion decisions is the Friday, August 5, wedding party. We’d like you and
yours to be on site (at the Olson Family Homestead, Ernest Lane, Vernon, Utah
84080) at 5 pm for family pictures. (Note: Our photographer is also planning to
take pictures of your individual families, if you’re not opposed.)
3. Mind the Buttons
At the Friday evening wedding party, please wear whatever wedding-reception-
appropriate clothing (dresses, suits, slacks and shirts and ties, etc.) that you feel
comfortable in. But as you’re choosing what colors to wear, please choose a color
that sort of goes with the colors of the buttons glued in this card. You can see,
they’re sort of a diverse set of colors, but we hope they look coherent together.
(We tried. We really did.) Our primary concern is that we do not clash (i.e., that
no one’s clothing colors really stick out) in the family pictures. But within that
constraint, anything really goes.
4. Layer
The location of the Friday evening party is Sarah’s ancestral homestead, and it is
in the middle of the desert. The surface you’ll be walking on almost all evening is
grass (though we’re hoping to do some dancing on some hard surface). At 5 pm,
it’s likely to be warm outside (and maybe very windy). But by 9 pm, it might be
chillier. There is no inside option (though there is some shade). So come prepared
for the great Rush Valley outdoors.
5. You’re Free
Feel free to wear clothing with prints, patterns, textures, and varied fabrics (in fact,
please do). But keep the button colors in mind as you choose them, and you should
be fine. If you really really really are concerned, feel free to vet clothings with
Sarah. She’d be happy to allay your concerns.
6. In More Ways Than One
You can wear whatever you want to any of the other events (Friday’s family
lunch; Saturday’s family breakfast; the wedding itself). You’re good looking and
smart and you can do this.
Yes?
We love you! Very, very much.
Thank you for your excitement for and support of us as we transition from people
to engageds to marrieds. We are loving it (both your reactions and the transition
itself). We feel wholly blessed and are excited for all that the summer (and more!)
will bring.
To the point: This card’s primary purpose is to give you all the guidance we have
for you as to your clothing during the wedding festivities.
1. You’re Our Everything
We’re not choosing “colors” per se, nor are we having wedding attendants. We’re
just asking you, our immediate families (parents, siblings, siblings-in-law, nieces,
and nephews), to keep the following principles/considerations/requests in mind.
2. Only the Friday Evening Party Matters (for Purposes of Your Wardrobe)
The only wedding event at which we request that you consider us as you make
your fashion decisions is the Friday, August 5, wedding party. We’d like you and
yours to be on site (at the Olson Family Homestead, Ernest Lane, Vernon, Utah
84080) at 5 pm for family pictures. (Note: Our photographer is also planning to
take pictures of your individual families, if you’re not opposed.)
3. Mind the Buttons
At the Friday evening wedding party, please wear whatever wedding-reception-
appropriate clothing (dresses, suits, slacks and shirts and ties, etc.) that you feel
comfortable in. But as you’re choosing what colors to wear, please choose a color
that sort of goes with the colors of the buttons glued in this card. You can see,
they’re sort of a diverse set of colors, but we hope they look coherent together.
(We tried. We really did.) Our primary concern is that we do not clash (i.e., that
no one’s clothing colors really stick out) in the family pictures. But within that
constraint, anything really goes.
4. Layer
The location of the Friday evening party is Sarah’s ancestral homestead, and it is
in the middle of the desert. The surface you’ll be walking on almost all evening is
grass (though we’re hoping to do some dancing on some hard surface). At 5 pm,
it’s likely to be warm outside (and maybe very windy). But by 9 pm, it might be
chillier. There is no inside option (though there is some shade). So come prepared
for the great Rush Valley outdoors.
5. You’re Free
Feel free to wear clothing with prints, patterns, textures, and varied fabrics (in fact,
please do). But keep the button colors in mind as you choose them, and you should
be fine. If you really really really are concerned, feel free to vet clothings with
Sarah. She’d be happy to allay your concerns.
6. In More Ways Than One
You can wear whatever you want to any of the other events (Friday’s family
lunch; Saturday’s family breakfast; the wedding itself). You’re good looking and
smart and you can do this.
Yes?
We love you! Very, very much.
The Button Colors
Note: The big button is a sort of a dusty dark purple.
The little gray-ish one on the bottom is silver pewter. They're hard to see.
The little gray-ish one on the bottom is silver pewter. They're hard to see.
As explained in the cards/letters the immediate family members should have gotten, the buttons above are basically the kinds of colors we'd like the immediate family members to be wearing for the pictures we'll be taking on August 5, 2011, at 5 pm at the Olson Ancestral Homestead in Vernon, Utah (and for the party that will follow).
As fashion gurus Stacy and Clinton (from TLC's What Not to Wear) and Jed (from Henderson, NV) are wont to say: "It doesn't need to match. It needs to go."
Our primary goal in choosing colors (we really tried not to) is to prevent us from having one or two or four of us show up in seriously clashing colors/patterns, etc., and making a kind of statement we're less excited about. So we thought we should just put something out there to help you make informed color-related decisions about your wardrobes.
Please, please feel free to wear patterns, fabrics with detail, clothes with depth. As long as they're within the general vicinity of the colors above (and/or on the cards we sent you), great!
Also, feel free to vet clothings with Sarah before you buy and/or wear them. Feel no need to, but feel free to.
Family Prayer and Breakfast
10 - 11:30 amLDS chapel between Yalecrest and Herbert Ave
1035 South 18th East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Immediate family members and all out-of-town guests are welcome (and encouraged) to attend.
The purpose of this breakfast is to (1) feed people who need feeding, and (2) have a family prayer (non-family loved ones are welcome) before Jed and Sarah head to the temple. This is not a traditional wedding breakfast as much as it is a continental breakfast for out-of-town wedding guests and in-town family members who need feeding and/or might otherwise feel left out. The food will be provided by the Olsons.
We will begin eating at 10 am, and we will have the prayer at 10:45.
Note: Jed and Sarah will leave the breakfast at 11 to head to the temple. Those attending the sealing should leave around 11:45ish to be at the temple by 12:30.
Directions to the August 5th Party in Vernon, Utah
Note for you who know Utah: Vernon, Utah, is NOT Vernal, Utah. Fortunately, it is much, much closer.
Also note: You can mostly trust Google--the problem is that, at the last couple of turns, it will steer you astray. Use these directions and/or follow the road signs we'll put up in Vernon day of to help you get to where you need to go.
From Salt Lake
From Provo
From American Fork
Also note: You can mostly trust Google--the problem is that, at the last couple of turns, it will steer you astray. Use these directions and/or follow the road signs we'll put up in Vernon day of to help you get to where you need to go.
From Salt Lake
| Merge onto I-80 W via the ramp to Reno/S.L. International Airport | 20.9 mi |
| Take exit 99 to merge onto UT-36 S/State Hwy 36 S toward Stansbury Tooele | 45.1 mi |
| Turn right onto Castagno Rd | 0.1 mi |
| Turn right onto Main St | 0.8 mi |
| Turn left onto Larson Rd | 1.0 mi |
| Turn left onto Yates Rd | 0.3 mi |
| Take the 1st right onto Olson Ln | 1.3 mi |
| Turn left onto Ernest Ln | 0.5 mi |
From Provo
| Take I-15 S via the ramp to Las Vegas | 18.7 mi |
| Take exit 244 for US-6 W toward Santaquin Delta | 0.3 mi |
| Turn right onto US-6 W/E Main St Continue to follow US-6 W | 23.7 mi |
| Turn right onto UT-36 N/State Route 67 Continue to follow UT-36 N | 20.6 mi |
| Turn left onto Castagno Rd | 0.1 mi |
| Turn right onto Main St | 0.8 mi |
| Turn left onto Larson Rd | 1.0 mi |
| Turn left onto Yates Rd | 0.3 mi |
| Take the 1st right onto Olson Ln | 1.3 mi |
| Turn left onto Ernest Ln | 0.5 mi |
From American Fork
| Head west on US-89 N toward N 100 E | 0.8 mi |
| Turn right onto US-89 | 1.2 mi |
| Turn left onto E Main St | 1.6 mi |
| At the traffic circle, continue straight onto UT-73 W/W Main St Continue to follow UT-73 W | 24.0 mi |
| Slight left toward Pony Express Trail Rd | 11.1 mi |
| Continue straight onto Pony Express Trail Rd | 2.5 mi |
| Turn left onto UT-36 S | 5.7 mi |
| Turn right onto Castagno Rd | 0.1 mi |
| Turn right onto Main St | 0.8 mi |
| Turn left onto Larson Rd | 1.0 mi |
| Turn left onto Yates Rd | 0.3 mi |
| Take the 1st right onto Olson Ln | 1.3 mi |
| Turn left onto Ernest Ln | 0.5 mi |
Vernon, Utah
In the 1890s, Sarah's Olson ancestors immigrated to the United States from Sweden. They left beautiful, lush, verdant Kvistbro for the dry, reediness of Rush Valley, Utah, because they loved their new faith and wanted to live nearer the main body of Latter-day Saints.
Johan Emil Olson and his wife, Maria Charlotta Nilson, and Maria's parents, Erik Johan Nilson and Maria Charlotta Erickson, began homesteading in Vernon, Utah. They raised sheep, grew hay, and built two one-room cabins within yards of each other. The Olsons had children, who had children, who grew up--on the homestead in Vernon--to be Sarah's grandpa and his brother and sisters.
Sarah's Grandpa Olson left the homestead in Vernon to fight in World War II; he raised his family (and Sarah's dad) in Salt Lake City, Utah. But some of his siblings stayed in Vernon and raised their children there.
The land where the Olsons and the Nilsons built their cabins in 1892 now belongs to the Olson Family LLC. Sarah's extended family began watering the small patch of land on which the cabins are built, and this little square of grass, in the middle of a wide, yellow, desert valley, is now called the Olson Park.
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Each year during the first weekend of August, Sarah's grandpa, his siblings, and their descendants all camp out at the Olson Park. Over these weekends, Sarah has come to love this small plot of land in Vernon. It turns out, despite having lived in so many places--Utah, California, New York, Texas, Virginia, Nevada--Sarah comes fr. Because Sarah has loved those weekends so much--has loved feeling the wind and brushing her teeth under the stars and touching the very land her ancestors worked so hard to grow and grow--she thought it would be awesome (maybe even perfect) to celebrate her wedding to Jed in the place she and her ancestors love so much.
Hence, Vernon.
Sarah and Jed will be the first Olson descendants to celebrate their wedding at the Olson Park, and they will be the first in more than a generation to celebrate their wedding on the Olson homestead land. And, because of the generosity of the extended Olson clan, Sarah and Jed's party will be taking the place of the Olson family's Friday night reunion festivities. Which is so nice of them! And will, Sarah hopes, give her dear friends and new family a chance to feel the love and land from which she comes.
The Group Picture!
The Group Picture
Saturday, August 6, 2011
1:45ish pm
The grounds of the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
In our case, once we emerge from the temple, the whole party--bride, groom, family, and all friends--will gather in one place (at the direction of a photographer), and we will take a group picture for posterity. We want to remember who was there on that beautiful day with us and who had funny haircuts and whose suit was so modern and cool that, in future, it will for sure make us laugh.
Note: You do NOT have to attend the temple sealing in order to be there to welcome us after our wedding and be in our group picture. The temple grounds are lovely, and you are welcome to walk around, quietly visit with each other, and generally feel the peaceful loveliness of such a sacred spot. Until we come out. Then we'd like to hug you.
Jed and Sarah Leave!
After we take the group picture with you (and/or others), we will wave goodbye and leave you to begin our honeymoon. The wedding festivities will be over! And you are free to do whate'er you will.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
1:45ish pm
The grounds of the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Everyone (including childrens, adults who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, interested bypassers) can attend.
In our case, once we emerge from the temple, the whole party--bride, groom, family, and all friends--will gather in one place (at the direction of a photographer), and we will take a group picture for posterity. We want to remember who was there on that beautiful day with us and who had funny haircuts and whose suit was so modern and cool that, in future, it will for sure make us laugh.
Note: You do NOT have to attend the temple sealing in order to be there to welcome us after our wedding and be in our group picture. The temple grounds are lovely, and you are welcome to walk around, quietly visit with each other, and generally feel the peaceful loveliness of such a sacred spot. Until we come out. Then we'd like to hug you.
Jed and Sarah Leave!
After we take the group picture with you (and/or others), we will wave goodbye and leave you to begin our honeymoon. The wedding festivities will be over! And you are free to do whate'er you will.
The Wedding!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
1 pm
Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Only a few of our family and friends can attend the actual ceremony itself. If we can accommodate you, we will contact you individually.
To read more about LDS temple weddings, see here.
Note: The LDS temple wedding ceremony lasts 20-30 minutes total. The individuals attending the ceremony have to be at the temple thirty minutes before.
The Party!
The Party
Friday, August 5, 2011
6 - 9 pm
The Olson Ancestral Homestead
Ernest Ln, Vernon, Utah (See here for directions and here for more information on the location.)
Note: Dress is outdoor wedding reception wear, Sunday clothes, etc. Men do not have to wear suits, although Jed will be in a suit. It is usually hot and windy in Vernon at 6 pm in August, but the evening can cool you off, so we recommend wearing layers. And the whole party will occur on grass (and you may have to drive/park/walk on some rough dirt roads before you even get to the grass), so we recommend comfortable shoes (not heels--unless you buy some nifty heel covers, like these) for the walking, milling, cake-walking, and dancing.
Also note: The Vernon property does not have plumbing, so we will be using port-a-potties. Very elegant. And woo! So fun!
Friday, August 5, 2011
6 - 9 pm
The Olson Ancestral Homestead
Ernest Ln, Vernon, Utah (See here for directions and here for more information on the location.)
- Everyone who knows and likes us is invited.
Note: Dress is outdoor wedding reception wear, Sunday clothes, etc. Men do not have to wear suits, although Jed will be in a suit. It is usually hot and windy in Vernon at 6 pm in August, but the evening can cool you off, so we recommend wearing layers. And the whole party will occur on grass (and you may have to drive/park/walk on some rough dirt roads before you even get to the grass), so we recommend comfortable shoes (not heels--unless you buy some nifty heel covers, like these) for the walking, milling, cake-walking, and dancing.
Also note: The Vernon property does not have plumbing, so we will be using port-a-potties. Very elegant. And woo! So fun!
The Wedding Events
There are three primary wedding events:
And then, in October, we'll have a post-wedding reception in New York:
- August 5, 2011 - The Party! (6 - 9 pm, Ernest Lane, Vernon, Utah)
- August 6, 2011 - The Wedding! (1 pm, Salt Lake LDS Temple)
- August 6, 2011 - The Group Picture! (1:45ish pm, Salt Lake LDS Temple)
And then, in October, we'll have a post-wedding reception in New York:
- October 8 (or thereabouts, we think) - Reception in New York! (All details TBD.)
Bridal Showers & Engagement Parties
So many wonderful people are hosting showers for Sarah (and Jed) in various locales. Thank you, team women (& others), for your generosities! As always.
- June 25 - Palo Alto, CA (pictures now available!)
- June 30 - Las Vegas, NV
- July 28 - Salt Lake City, UT (Jed's parents' ward)
- July 30 - Salt Lake City, UT (Jed's Brinton cousins)
- sometime after the wedding - Salt Lake City, UT (Jed's Reed cousins)
- September 30 (details TBD) - Washington, DC
- October 7 (or 8) (details TBD) - New York
Apron Stage and Manfriend
From November 2008 through May 2010, Sarah was one of four regular bloggers for The Apron Stage,
which featured short anecdotal essays about daily living. When she started dating Jed, she had to reveal to him her secret--a very public life. Though he handled it with aplomb (he was, it turns out, totally great about it), she gave him a pseudonym--"Manfriend"--by which she referred to him in her posts, until she revealed his real name as a present on his birthday. (It was just one of her gifts to him. She gave him other stuff too. Promise.)
The following links are to The Apron Stage posts in which Sarah mentions Manfriend/Jed, in chronological order. For posterity (and you, if you're interested).
- Rich and Full
- Danger Incarnate
- You Scratch My Back, I'll Take Your Car to Get Its Emissions Inspection.
- Fear and Love
- Surprise! A Sarah Way to Free Fun
- Christmas Carols
- Happy Salad Days
- Snow days. They're good for remembering. (A detailed recap of Jed's asking for a first date.)
- Neither Lonely Nor Discontented
- What Is Going on with Me and Manfriend
- We will make it to spring.
- The One in Which Sarah Takes a Turn for the Macabre
- With Hearts in Our Eyes
- The (New) Adventures of a Picky Believer, AKA It's Nice to Meat You!
- Jed and Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Mary and the Manfriend
- Because I'm an Adult
- Git'r Done (A post written by Jed in honor of men's week, "The Hammer Stage," at The Apron Stage.)
- Two Weeks' Notice
- Wide Open Spaces (Sarah's last post on The Apron Stage.)
Registries
Thank you for thinking about celebrating our wedding with us! We are very excited to start our new life together.
We are registered at
We are registered at
- Crate & Barrel (Note: This is our preferred registry.)
- Amazon
- Target
Jed & Sarah BrintonIf you're stuck on choosing colors, feel free to choose yellows, chrome, gray, white, greens, and other bold colors. We like neutral colors paired with pops of color. But really--we mostly like you.
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