Recorded from the personal Journal of Linda Sue Pulsipher
dated August 15, 1982
Gary and Linda were married on August 7, 1982. We had planned
to take our endowments out on Friday afternoon, and Linda would go through for
the first time. On Friday we left at about 1:00 hoping to be there by
3:45-4:00. Gary and I took HW 5 the whole way instead of turning off on HW 405.
When we finally realized we were in the wrong place at about 3:30, some men
told us it would take a good 45 minutes to an hour to get where we were going.
We wouldn’t make it. Anyway, when we got on the right road, time was getting
short and we were getting pretty worried but we made it there by 4:00. I had to
be there by 4:15 to go through for the first time, but the others didn’t need
to be there until 6:00. When we (my mother and I) first got there to register
they made feel really bad that Gary wasn’t with me, like I was missing out on
something really neat. I still don’t know what they were talking about. I
didn’t miss out an anything. The temple was a good experience. I was calm and
everything went really smoothly. We stayed at the temple apartments that night.
It was planned for both families to go out to dinner together, but we took 2
cars and barely made it out of the parking lot before we were separated, so I
ate with Gary and his mom and dad, while my mom and dad and grandma ate
somewhere else. Saturday morning, Gary and his folks went to an early morning
session, while my family and I prepared our selves for the wedding. We had a
sealing room reserved for 10:00. I didn’t wear by wedding dress in the temple,
but I am glad I didn’t, it just doesn’t seem appropriate for the temple.
President Knudson married us, and we had a few friends there, Matt, Rita,
Gary’s bishop and a couple from his ward. It was small, but it couldn’t have
turned out better. Gary and I had the opportunity before we were sealed to do
some work for the dead, sealing children to parents. It was pretty neat and
kind of calmed my nerves a little bit. After the wedding ceremony, Gary and I
changed into our tux and wedding gown and came through the back door of the
temple for about an hour of pictures. Then, both families, grandma and Matt all
went out to lunch. It was really nice and relaxing. We made it back to San
Diego at about 4:30; we had to be at the reception by 6:00 for more pictures.
Gary and I had just enough time to relax a little and get ready for the
reception. The line formed at 7:00 and we had people straight for two hours. I
couldn’t believe it. The cake was beautiful and the food was good. The line
looked great. Everything went so smooth and perfect we couldn’t believe it. The
only thing that went wrong is that we found out the address of the institute on
the invitations was wrong. Oh well!
The Honeymoon: That night my dad paid for our room at the
Little American Westgate. We stayed in room 1294. It was really nice. The next
day we had Kirk, Lis and Mike come pick up our car and take us to the airport.
We flew to Las Vegas and had a limousine van escort us to the Dunes. When we
got there they told us they didn’t have any rooms due to a cancelled flight and
to come back in an hour. A lot of people were being sent to the Sands and being
put in studios. We were getting pretty mad and worried, but everything worked
out. They put us in a corner room in the new tower, room #3801. It was really
nice, nicer that the Westgate that cost 4 times as much. While we were there,
we mostly ate, saw a movie at the MGM, visited nearby hotels, went to the
Omnimax and went to the pool. We gambled a little, won and lost and came up
about $5 short. We came home Tuesday and both families came over for ice cream
and to open presents, over 100! Wow!
