Celebrating Love with a Burst of Fall

This week we enjoyed attending the wedding and celebrations which followed throughout the day with two of our most favorite friends, Kristin and Griffin.

Their wedding was held in the majestic Salt Lake Temple.

(I took this picture of theSLC Temple the night Kristen became engaged on Temple Square in April)

Then following was a gorgeous luncheon held in the historic Joseph Smith Building, once the Hotel Utah where many of our Presidents of the United States and many other dignitaries have stayed when they visited.

It is the beautiful building on the right.

We were honored to have been invited to share this most special day with them.

The architecture details of this Building are breathtaking! 

This building is where several of our own children celebrated part of their wedding days,

and brings back fond memories.

The chandeliers, ceiling paintings and old warm wood are so inviting.

The brilliant Fall colors for the luncheon added to all the beautiful warmth of the building...

The floral arrangements were spectacular. Sunflowers, different varieties of lilies mixed with daisies 

graced all 12 of the guest tables and the guest of honor table where the gorgeous bride beaming groom and their parents sat. The bride's parents are also very dear friends.

Temple Square restaurants is known for their simply to die for rolls dripping with honey butter.

Recipe for the famous Lion House Rolls and honey butter are  Here. I promise they are easier than they look and will MELT in your mouth!

The architecture details of this old building are fascinating and so beautiful. 

 It all added to the perfect joyous occasion for Kristin and Griff.

I loved the super cute favors at the luncheon made by the groom's sister and her friends.

The tux and elegant wedding dress was represented in style tucked in with the yumminess of a delicious mouthful of goodness.

After biting into these tasty morsels I realized they were made from the same recipe I made some ghoulish eyeballs for Halloween one year for my grand kids  Here

Their flowers were so beautiful! All day I was amazed at the joy and fun they inspired.

IT a l m o s t made me glad give up on Summer and to bring on Fall!  (I truly love fall...in fact it is my favorite time of the year!  The down side is  precedes a cold winter! ;}

The beautiful tablescapes also were at the wedding reception that evening to honor the couple. 

I didn't get a picture of the  pretty Sandwich buffet before it was almost devoured and  before being set up again with the most delicious semi-crispy croissant sandwiches, in three different varieties, Ham, Turkey with all the fixings and Chicken Salad.

The fruit bars looked like rivers flowing with fresh fruit and Gerber daisies.  It was so pretty!

They also had a gorgeous beverage bar set up outside, a candy bar with cute bags to take along treats home with us when we left and a wedding cake bar set up to satisfy all our sweet tooths.

Mr B and I get to serve and play with many young friends.  We become close to so many of them.

  These are two more of our favorite guys along with their sweethearts.  On the right is Ryan and Shannon who have just 2 months left before they too get married.  We love Corrie and Ryan like sons as we do Kristin. They are awesome young people who are great examples to us!

We enjoyed the fun atmosphere of the wedding all day long.  It was filled with lots of smiles and laughter, love, happiness and joy as friends met with other friends. 

 Fun dancing and music filled the night air in celebrating.

Absolute perfection in beautiful tablescapes all day long!!!

It was a perfect day celebrating the love of two of our favorite people.

Be happy and Congratulations Griff and Kristin!

We are so happy for you and wish you so much happiness filled with blessings each and every day! 

Thanks for sharing your most special day with us!

The recipe for the balls inside these delicious and fun favors

1 pkg Oreo cookies broke up

1 pkg Cream Cheese softened
Place in food processor. Roll into balls..
Now they are already a wonderful little morsels :)
Chill balls before dipping and decorating with luscious chocolate.

I am joining the blogging parties of Tablescapes Thursdays with Susan and Foodie Friday with Michael at Gollum's Designs.  Thank you for being such gracious hostesses for us week after week. Please visit their beautiful blogs for lots of inspiration.

Enjoy a beautiful weekend! We are going to be spending it with 18 of our children and precious grandchildren! :)

Warmly,
♥ ~Beth~♥