My Life is Complete

So for a few months now I have been wanting to post pictures of our wedding but I couldn't. My Photographer Nicole Hill sent me an e-mail soon after we received our pictures from her telling me that Martha Stewart was going to feature our wedding on their website under Real Weddings. I might have freaked out at that very moment and called everyone I knew. The deal was that we had to wait for MS to feature the wedding before we could put any photos online. Last week I received a text from my friend Shauna telling me that she saw me on MS. So it is official my life long obsession with Martha Stewart has been fulfilled. These are just a few of the pictures and more posts will come but I just wanted to finally show some of the amazing photos taken by Nicole. Here are some links to see the features. 

Culinary Crafts 

Amorology 

Martha Stewart 

We are also going to be in the Utah Bride and Groom magazine that will come out in January.

Our House

Before

        

 

These are our before pictures of the kitchen at our house in Provo. My parents bought this house about 10 years ago and they bought it for the lot and had never seen the house. My mom and dad said we could do whatever we wanted to it when we moved in. So Mike and I planned to improve this house the best we could on a very very small budget. Our after pictures are coming soon!!

Honeymoon

Mexico

This was our special honeymoon dinner at the Brazilian restaurant the second night we were there. 

Then there is me plowing through hunger games and catching some sun

 Mike on his 10th pina colada of the day. He took advantage of the open bar... k maybe we both did

Just kickin it

Mexico was amazing and we needed the break. The weeks leading up to the wedding were so stressful and all we needed was some time to sit and do nothing. We relaxed at the pool and read and went swimming and got lots of sun. It was crazy hot but we loved it.

I know you missed me

Project make our house a home.( This is not our house just a little inspiration)

Married Life

Hello blog world. I don't know if you remember me, 

but I'm back with a few new additions

I am officially married and life has been so crazy for the past month and a half that I have not found any spare time to blog about everything going on in my life. So this is a post letting everyone know I am alive and that I will be updating the blog with all of our many projects. The house has been taking over my world. I had to just realize i can't do it all at once. This is going to have to be a project throughout the school year. It will be better that way because now I can really think about what I want to do in each room and put more time into decorating. So I promise we are alive and we will have posts very soon. It feels good to be back

My Dress Inspiration

This isn't my lace but this is the feel of what we will be using.

So this is what I was going for with my dress when I first started designing it. My plan has kind of evolved as I have kept planning. I was able to go down to Santa Fe with my mom and meet with Anne Lawrence of the Anne Lawrence Collection. She had the most amazing selection of Vintage Lace. We looked through things with here and had the hardest time finding something that would work with the layering I was wanting to do on my dress. Then Anne pulled out these 2 bed spreads from the 1920's. They were perfect! They were going to give us the length of trim we needed and they were gorgeous. So this week I took them into Penny the woman who is making my dress and we played with the lace over the base of my dress. I can't even express how excited I got. It's won't look like my original design plan but I love it!! The lace is more ornate than the lace we had thought we would use but it looks beautiful. I'm so excited for it to be done and get to try it on!! 

Matt Clayton

I am so excited for this Saturday morning because Mike and I are lucky enough to have Matt Clayton shooting our engagement pictures. I found his blog a couple years ago and loved his style. So now after a long wait we are finally going to take our pictures. We have been waiting for the weather to warm up and things to look great outside. So if anyone has some fun suggestions for outfits we would love it. Sometimes it's really hard to narrow it down. So please let us know. Then Mike and I are off to California for a week. I haven't been back since last year when we went down for our good friends Nick and Sydney's wedding. So this is a long awaited trip!!

A Recap of My BYU Experience

Super Senior Year

Senior Year

Junior Year

Sophomore Year

Freshman Year

I did it!! I took my last sewing final at BYU and I graduate on Friday. I can't believe that I am done with BYU. I am not going to lie I am a little sad that it is over but I am excited to keep learning about sewing. My plans for now are to keep working at Trendy Tots and to also be a part of this internship that I got called The Fashion Genome Project where I will be working on a program that is similar to Pandora for clothing. I am really excited about it . I am hoping to take more art classes and sewing classes in the fall at the Art Institute. So thank you to everyone for all their support through the years. 

I am happy to say I am a college graduate !!