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

• Everyone (including childrens, adults who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, interested bypassers) can attend.

Once the individuals attending the sealing have exited the temple, they will wait outside the temple doors for the bride and groom (Sarah and Jed! in this case) to come out. People who have not attended the sealing but who want to welcome the bride and groom as a new couple can also wait outside the temple. It usually takes the bride and groom a few minutes to make their way from the sealing room (where they were married) to outside (where family and friends will greet them). But when they do emerge, the family and friends are welcome to give them high-fives, hugs, etc., and generally enjoy the goodness of such a good good goodness moment of goodness.

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.