We both had the extreme good fortune to belong to amazing families.
We wanted to share with you some of their wit and wisdom by including some quotes, thoughts, and stories from their lives.
(Okay, yes, maybe some of this might get a little cheesy, but what do you expect? You are, after all, browsing through a wedding website.)

On January 30, 1970, Richard Monteith married Nancy Harvey in the Los Angeles Temple.

Quotes from Richard Monteith's journal about marriage:

Love should mean discovering the ways the one you love prefers to have love demonstrated and then doing those things.

[I am looking for ways to] show my thankfulness to my Heavenly Father for a wife with so many wonderful qualities.

I thought today about my feelings for Nancy. I love her very much and pray often that I will be, in every way, a good husband for her.

And thoughts about his son, Adam:

Today...Adam was ordained a deacon, having been sustained by the congregation in sacrament meeting.
He is really a good boy, and I was proud to ordain him. I love him very much.

On March 17, 1976, Ted Perry and Kathleen Cannon were married in the Logan Temple.

Thoughts on being a mother and a daughter from Kathleen Cannon Perry's life history

“Kristine was born on July 6, 1979. We were so excited to bring her home even though I felt terribly sorry for her. This wonderful baby was coming to a home where the parents didn’t know a thing about taking care of a baby.
We had so much fun with Kristine. It was exciting to see her grow and change.”

“I am grateful for the great heritage and legacy given to me by my strong and noble ancestors.
I am so thankful for the things they made possible for me.”

On January 20, 1950, Ted Perry married Jean Pearce in the Salt Lake Temple.

Story of Grandma and Grandpa's courtship from "The Children of Leslie Thomas Perry"

“Now, children soon grow into teenagers, and then into adults, and Leslie Thomas Perry was soon looking for husbands for his daughters. He was so excited about Zada’s first date that he chased him away with a baseball bat. Soon an acceptable candidate turned up and Leslie Thomas saw to it that he was found a place to live just a couple doors down. Of course he invited the young man over to dinner a lot, and finally Zada approved of his choice and married the young man.”

“Tom’s marriage worked so well that Dad decided to try the same method for Ted. He once again consulted the bishops for recommendations. Not a single hand went up. Why not? Apparently the bishops could not think of a single girl who would put up with Dad’s cocky second son. Dad next consulted the Temple president. The temple president invited Dad and Mom and Ted over to dinner so Ted could meet the temple president’s daughter. Ted and the daughter sat an hour and a half next to each other at dinner without saying a word. The temple president told Ted to attend the temple every week, and the Lord would find him a wife.”

“Ted at the time was attending Utah State University. Being rather discouraged, he decided for a change of scenery to go to Stanford. He got to Stanford to sign up for classes and got the distinct impression to go back to Utah State. So Ted went back. He signed up for a literature class. He wasn’t interested in literature, but he figured the professor wouldn’t fail him because the professor was the second counselor to Ted’s dad at church, and maybe Ted could get some homework done for his other classes while he was in literature class. The first day the professor was calling roll while Ted was busily doing his math homework. The Spirit whispered to him, “That girl is the one for you to marry.” Who? Ted hadn’t caught the name, be he knew it was the girl whose name was right before his in the alphabet. The next day the professor announced that while he usually didn’t seat students in alphabetical order, he felt impressed to do so this year, thus Jean James Pearce sat next to Ted S. Perry in literature class.”

“Ted asked Jean for a date. She refused. This happened several more times. Ted finally asked his older sister Zada what was the pin that Jean was wearing. Ted had assumed it was a sorority pin, but no, it was a fraternity pin. Jean had a steady boyfriend. “Ted got tickets to a musical in Salt Lake City, front row seats, right next to the mayor. He felt sure that Jean couldn’t refuse such a date, so he asked her to go. Jean’s boyfriend was gone for six weeks, so Jean went to the musical with Ted. The date went so well that Ted got two more tickets and asked her out again. By the time the boyfriend got back, Jean had lost her heart to Ted, and all she had to return to the boyfriend was his car.”

On May 29, 1934, seven years after their first date, and after waiting through his mission in prewar Germany,
Orson Cannon and Dorothy Knowlton were married in the Salt Lake Temple.

Statements from Orson Cannon's life history:

“If there is one day, more than any other, that one can point to and say: ‘It stands out above all the others,’ it has to be the day that Dorothy Knowlton and I were married for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple.” (Opening sentence)

“As Dorothy and I faced each other across the altar in the temple, I thought she was the loveliest person in the world, and that I was the luckiest person in the world to have her for my wife. Today, more than 44 years later, I am even more thrilled than I was then, to have her for my companion and wife.”

“Experiences we have with people like these certainly emphasize the fact that people make living worth while.”