In 1959 Laron Waite and Ruth Blacker were students at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.

On the first Sunday of November, Laron was sitting with his roommates in the Kirkham Auditorium waiting for Sacrament meeting to start. They watched Ruth Blacker and two other girls walk down the aisle and take seats a few rows in front of them. Laron's roommate, Nolan Taggart, nudged him and said that they were going to have dinner with those girls the next Friday evening.

They had two dinners with them. During the second one, Laron asked Ruth for a date. She accepted and that began a relationship that continued through the rest of that school year, missions in England and Scotland, school at BYU and the College of Idaho and into marriage.

On Friday, February 21, 1964 Ruth and Laron walked into the Minidoka County court house in Rupert, Idaho, and gave their vital statistics to the clerk, Geraldine. Laron passed some green bills to her and she gave them a license to marry.

Laron and his parents left Homedale on Thursday, February 27, 1964. They traveled through Arco to Idaho falls. The roads were covered with snow. The snow banks on both sides of the roads were higher than the car they were riding in. They stayed the night in a motel in across the Snake River from the LDS Temple in Idaho Falls, Idaho. That night Ruth attended a Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet in Rupert with her parents and her younger brother John.

The next morning, at 7:00am, Friday, February 28, 1964, they met at the Temple. Ruth was wearing her cranberry colored jumper and pink blouse she sewed for her wedding and her new aqua full length coat. Her mother had made her wedding dress which cost $12.00 for the fabric.

They presented their license and temple marriage recommends to the keepers of the records. Then they went through an endowment session. Ruth was able to wear her wedding dress in the session because it very simple. Then they were taken to sealing room four, where they were married by William Killpack for time and eternity.

They ate lunch in the temple with their parents, then said goodbye to them. Laron's parents rode to Rupert with Ruth's parents. Laron and Ruth traveled in Laron's parents' car to Rexburg, Idaho where they had met four years and three months before.

The next morning they traveled to Rupert, Idaho to attend a reception in their honor at the LDS Rupert First Ward building.