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Show Tuesday, February 23, 1999 The Daily Utah He didn't pay much attention to it until he heard her say, "What!?" That's when he grabbed the phone from her. "I asked Julie where she was and she said, 'I'm upside down on the Julie had been northbound on I 15 when she saw the car in front of her swerve to avoid something in the road. "I couldn't see what it was," Julie said, "so I swerved too." She guided her Acura Legend onto the shoulder without a problem, passing a cardboard box that had fallen onto the freeway. "As I moved back into my lane," Julie said, "the semi to my left swerved toward me." To avoid a collision, Julie jerked back to the left. "I still don't know exactly how it happened, but the next thing I knew, I was upside down in the median." According to Julie, Ryan kind of "freaked out." "You're still in the car!?" he said. "I couldn't believe she was calling me from inside of an upside-dow- n car." Held into her seat by the seatbelt, Julie saw the cell phone had landed next to her head and decided to call Ryan. "She wasn't really in shock or anything," Ryan said. "She just thought that I might be worried about her. So she called." "He told me he'd be right there and hung up," Julie said. He had to call back a minute later because he didn't know where Julie was. "But by then people were trying to help me out of the car," Julie said. "So I told him to call back." Julie was fine when Ryan arrived, so they left Julie's totalled Acura and went to their meeting. When Julie had first told Ryan's mom, his mom had started laughing. "She thought I was joking," Julie said, "because I had just been in two accidents." Four days earlier, Friday, Nov. 13, Julie had been dropping Ryan off at work d on Van when her car was Winkle and 5000 South. Then, later that day, Julie was a passenger in Cathy's car when someone backed into the driver-sid- e door. According to Ryan, after everything that had happened, "the wedding seemed that much more special because wc were just so happy wc had actually made it." "And there weren't any wrecks on the way to the reception," Julie said. -- Folowing are stories of weddings that ficult beginnings, the couples prevailed, and all are still together. M arian Bergeson sent this from the campus planning office: wedding was last May 16th. Everything was going great and I mean everything until the day of the My wedding, when two things happened. When we all showed up at the reception to take family pictures, I realized I had left my guest signing book at my apartment across town. So I sent my sister-in-lae (now my brother-in-law'- s ex fiance) to get the book. I had not finished moving into my our new apartment. So of course the book was deep down in "one of the boxes in the living room." She finally retrieved it and raced back. At the reception, more showed up and said the address didn't match the one on the invitation. They had a hard time finding it. We had the reception at the church I had attended for a long, long time, so of course we thought we knew the address by heart. I didn't know what to do. Most of my guests would probably be able to find the place, but my husband's guests would probably be very lost. Luckily, a couple of my brothers-in-lasaved the day. The reception started, and they headed a block down the street to direct cars to the right place. They stood there for the two hours and directed 45 to 50 cars. If they hadn't done that, my reception could have been very empty. On our wedding night, we headed off to Park City to stay in a cute little bed and breakfast. One word of advice: Take food with you. We arrived at around eleven. They left a key on the door to let us in. There was no one around. Wc were so hungry, we called for pizza. Wc barely knew the address and we couldn't give them a phone number because we didn't know it. So we made a deal that wc would meet the pizza guy out on the street a half an hour later. My husband waited out there for a long time, and no one came! (We could have been doing other things!!) We were starving, but we decided to give up. Wc finally ate the next afternoon around noon. Chinese food has never tasted so good. Now wc arc happily married, and the then-futur- w in-la- reception center, the totaled car, the matter anymore. But what would it have been like if wc would have had a normal and calm wedding? Hmmmm. invitations... And don't forget the catering. Of course, there arc many different ways to cut wedding costs. But what do you leave out? Ryan and Julie Olscn would likely have opted to keep the car. The Olscns were married Friday, Nov. 20, 1998. The Tuesday prior to their wedding, Ryan, a senior at the U, had been waiting at his house while Julie, then a senior at BYU, made the trip up from Provo. "Julie was late," Ryan said. "And I was getting nervous because we were supposed to meet with the man who was going to marry us." When the phone finally rang, Ryan's mom, Cathy Olsen, answered. "I heard my mom answer it and could tell she was talking to Julie," Ryan said. This w Formals problems of the wedding don't even wedding-stor- y dispatch comes from Josh Clemens, a senior in history and Russian: I wouldn't necessarily use "horror" to describe my wedding, but it was unusual, thanks to our mothers. On the morning of our wedding, in a rush to finalize preparations, my wife's mother sped out of the garage right into my wife's Mustang. The collision left a sizeable dent on the passenger side, and because both cars were covered by the same insurance policy, we were left with $900 of damage for our wedding present. At the wedding ceremony, things went relatively well until the part where the clergyman says, "You may now kiss the bride." I did so, but it must have been too quick, because my mother asked us to kiss again so she could photograph it. She still missed getting the picture. Chronicle feature writer Adam Olson brings us this story: Preparing for a wedding can be an expensive thing. There's the photographer, the dresses, the tuxedos, the Bridal (f Career Salt Lake's Largest Selection of Beautiful Evening Wear 6973 South 1300 East (Jcanette's former location) 568-373- Open Monday 7 - Saturday, 10-- 6 This ad good for $10.00 on any purchase over $100.00 and $25.00 on any purchase over $200.00 - B5 UTAH continued from page 4 chapel. Either one can work, freeway.'" were far less than perfect. But despite dif- Chronicle rear-ende- although it's important to make sure your rowdy cousins don't bring down the basketball hoops. This can really ruin the decorations already set up for the receptionand upset the bride when her groom strains a hamstring while taking a charge. At the reception, there will be a line, a cake, some quilts and the little refreshment plate. The most distinctive of these is the refreshment plate. This almost always includes a little ham sandwich, an eclair, a little cup of mixed nuts, a temple mint and some fruit 'n slush. After the reception comes the honeymoon. Although those who have chosen to avoid gaining experience aren't completely sure what they are anticipating, they anticipate with a great deal of excitement. (Not that I would know.) Of course, here and in other places, there arc rational people who don't incur the trade deficit of a small South American county so they can start out even poorer than they would have otherwise. There are people who don't find it necessary to exhaust themselves with months of planning and everyone they know with the realization of those plans. Some actually have small ceremonies that focus on love new beginning and the involved with marriage. And since many of these people are in Las Vegas, they have the opportunity to enjtjy some of the world's most tasty and economical buffets on their wedding day! Of course nothing can match the little ham sandwich and the equally tiny cup of mixed nuts. 7-- |
