The Mormon ideal is to marry in the Temple so all of your children are born in the covenant, then to have all of your children in turn marry in the Temple so all of your grandchildren are also born in the covenant. It is a red letter day in an LDS family when the parents with all of their children are present in the Temple for the first time.
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That happened for us on June 10, 2011 in a sealing room in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple where our youngest daughter and her husband were married (or "sealed" in LDS parlance). The groom's father and I were the witnesses to the sealing. As I looked over the 40 or so people present in the room and realized that all of our natural children were present in the Temple for the first time, I was overcome with emotion and I began to cry like a baby. We had dreamed of this day, prayed for it, worked for it, and now it was here. Families become eternal in the Temple and we were all present and accounted for. Our married children had their spouses with them except for our oldest daughter whose husband, a Captain in the Texas National Guard, was on summer drill.
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The Temple endowment ceremony mentions three sources of joy - serving in the Lord's House, measuring up to your potential, and raising up a righteous posterity. My tears that day were tears of joy.
