Where do I begin to tell you the story about this wedding day? Making it back to my home state for a holiday season wedding was great. I started off my trip making time to see family for the holidays, and made my way up to Dallas for Angi and Stephan's big day at the Scottish Rite Hall in downtown Dallas. There's one thing about Texas you can never predict accurately, and that's the crazy weather... especially in the winter. I had visited and took a tour of the Scottish Rite Hall during the summer time during a visit to the DFW area and had mentioned to the guide, "Well it'll be December in Dallas so it'll either be 80 degrees or it will be freezing.... or it will be 80 degrees in the morning and snowing by 3pm. One of the three." He chuckled and said, "Definitely!"
Right before Thanksgiving I got an email from Sarah telling me about her Marine coming home for the holidays and had a limited time frame before he had to go back. Lucky for both of us, the scheduling worked perfectly! We decided on Floyd Lamb State Park in northern Las Vegas valley... but what I wasn't prepared for were the awesome golden trees! It really didn't seem like Vegas there.. a little oasis.