dream come true.

About a month ago Julie, my wedding planner, contacted me about submitting our wedding to different websites in hope of being featured. I've always dreamed of being featured on Green Wedding Shoes so I told her to start there - honestly thinking that it was a total longshot. A few days later I got a phone call from Julie saying that we were in...we were going to be featured on Green Wedding Shoes! I was in complete shock. This site gave me so much inspiration while planning my wedding and continues to inspire me as I design wedding invites for other brides. It truly is incredible that our wedding is now on this site for so many other brides to see. 

There is no way this wedding would have been half of what it was without the incredibly talented women that I worked with. I hope they all know how much I appreciate them and all they did to make this day one that Nick and I will remember and cherish forever. I'm so glad that their amazing talents get to be displayed for all the world to see on this site - they truly deserve it. Check out the feature here.

Photo by Mikki Platt Photography

overnight trip and a jazz game.

For Valentine's I got Nick and I tickets to go see the Jazz vs. Heat game the first weekend in March. I was going to get tickets to an earlier game but I really wanted to see them play the Heat so we practiced patience for a couple weeks and then the day of the game, we packed an overnight bag and headed north. 

We got there a little early and just decided to go straight to Gateway. The only purchase we made was a sweater from J Crew (it was only $22 - what a steal!) because I was absolutely freezing in my non-winter attire. Since we'd just been to Vegas the week before and ate at CPK we decided to try out Tucano's for dinner. Note to anyone that is going to Tucano's: If you're going to go there, go when you have oodles of time and a big appetite because you get fed til you can't eat anymore. Seriously, the food was so good. The salad bar alone was to die for! After we stuffed our faces with every kind of meat imaginable (Nick even ate a chicken heart?) we headed over  to the game. 

Our seats were nosebleed seats because I'm cheap, but in my defense they were the best of the nosebleeds if that's even possible. We didn't need oxygen masks and we could actually tell who the players were from where we were sitting without watching the TV. And honestly, who cares where we were sitting because that game was amazing! The Jazz were actually ahead pretty much the whole game. We were kind of wondering how that was happening to be honest. But just as we said the words, "LeBron is having an off night" he decided to turn his game on, literally. He didn't miss a shot in the 4th and went from having 17 points to ending the game with 35. Ya, we jinxed it. But luckily the Jazz still came through with a buzzer beater win! Well just say I'm super glad I picked this game to go to because it was everything I love about basketball and more. 

We spent the night in SLC and then headed back home once we got up and going the next morning. Of course we had to make a quick pit stop at Krispy Kremes because that is mandatory. It was such a fun weekend and I hope we can make it to another Jazz game before the season is over.

One day I'm going to remember to bring a real camera and stop relying on my iPhone...

a last minute getaway.

These past few weeks have been crazy busy for both Nick and me so we decided a weekend getaway was needed. I booked us a room for two nights at South Point in Las Vegas and as soon as Nick got off work that day, we were off. It was so nice to just escape St. George for a couple days. We ate and ate and ate, and of course had to do a little shopping. We even went to Gold & Silver Pawn Shop since Pawn Stars is one of Nick's favorite shows. To be honest, we felt like it was a little bit of a letdown. The shop was slightly ghetto but it was still cool to go. Unfortunately none of the guys from the show were working - that would have been pretty sweet. So our weekend ended up being pretty awesome. We got to spend the entire weekend together without any work or other obligations getting in our way. Last minute getaways are the greatest and should probably happen on a regular basis.

On my phone, my red-eye edit wasn't this scary. But now that the photo's enlarged it's a little frightening. Oops...

my fancy new business cards.

Apologies to all those who have already seen these pictures but I just had to blog about my beautiful letterpress business cards printed by Rowley Press. I am a big letterpress fan. I just think the art of it is so amazing and the results are incredible when executed correctly...and my cards were definitely printed to perfection. The paper is so thick you have to try to bend it in half. But don't cause then I'd have to hurt you. 

My old business cards and logo had a completely different look - they were more on the girly side of things in my opinion. But when I launched my new design site (feel free to check it out and follow it to stay involved in the design side of my life) I decided early on that I wanted to create a look that was timeless and simple. I wanted to have freedom to tweak a few things here and there if I wanted without completely revamping my identity every 6 months because I happen to get sick of it, which happens more than you know. And out of that idea came my website design and business cards. 

So was there really a point to this post? Not really. Just thought I'd share a little bit of my inner geek with you all and show off my new cards and design site. I can't believe I've never really posted anything about design on this blog until now. It's such a big part of my life that I should probably share more. So, here's to trying to be better at blogging. 

These are some of my cheap but still pretty cards that I got digitally printed. I decided they needed a little spicing up so I bought a few cans of spray paint and went to town. The experimental project turned out alright and they look  sort of  awesome all stacked up. 

will you be mine?

I have been wanting to surprise Nick with tickets to a Jazz game for a while now and I decided Valentines would be the perfect excuse to get us tickets without him knowing. You have no idea how hard it is to surprise this guy. Seriously, he is impossible. One time I just sent him a text and asked him if he worked that weekend and he replied by saying, "Why, are you buying Jazz tickets?" Really? How does "do you work this weekend" translate to "I'm buying tickets to the Jazz game"? I swear he's a mind reader. But anyways, I successfully surprised him my second go-around and boy am I proud of myself.

Nick was the ultimate valentine too. He knew all I wanted was a pretty flower arrangement from Bloomers and he made it happen. What a stud :) He even had them delivered to me at work since he was busy on a granite install in Mesquite. They are absolutely beautiful and my silly instagram photo doesn't do the arrangement justice - if only you could smell them. The smell travels throughout the whole apartment.

We kept things pretty low key and celebrated our day of love with dinner at Pasta Factory. Then, instead of going to a movie we redboxed Breaking Dawn. Ya, I kind of wish we hadn't done the latter because man was that movie awful (sorry for all you diehard fans out there). Don't get me wrong, I loved the books but the movie was painful. The music alone almost got us to turn it off and see if a new episode of Pawn Stars or Jersey Shore reruns were on. But it didn't ruin our day, it just added the comedy I guess. 

So yes, our first married Valentines goes down as a rather good one. But honestly, who needs one day to celebrate love when you get to be with that person every day? Cheesy? Oh well..that's just what happens when you get married I guess ;) But any holiday that gives us an excuse to give presents is always welcome in my book.