Our First Catholic Wedding

This actually happened last weekend. I have been a little slow to blog about it, but I thought it was interesting enough to still blog about a week later. Last weekend Robert's boss got married and we were invited to both the ceremony and the reception, both of which were a lot different from what we were used to.

The ceremony was at Saint Monica's Catholic church (in Santa Monica). It was both Robert and I's first Catholic ceremony, and our first mass in English (Robert had attended mass on his mission, I had gone in Guatemala.) We weren't expecting a such a long ceremony. At an LDS wedding there is like twenty minutes of waiting, twenty minutes of ceremony, and then more waiting for pictures. The ceremony at this wedding was an hour and a half long, but on the plus side, not much waiting around.

The reception was held at the Adamson House in Malibu. The house was built in 1930 and is right above the beach. When it was built you could look down the coast and not see any other houses. Now it is in Malibu Lagoon State Beach, is owned by the state, and is open for tours. It was a beautiful place for a reception.
This is the Adamson House, a pic that I took from their website. I didn't even think to take a picture of the house while we were there, I was too impressed with the view.
Where we had the dinner. When guest first arrived they we all went into a patio area where they had appetizers and an open bar and we socialized for a while. Then we all went to the dinner area for dinner and speeches. Then we went to another area for dancing and cake.
The gorgeous view!