A door connected the two rooms on the third floor of the hotel. The ladies were in one room; the guys in the other. The high energy of the day transmitted through everyone, including some stress due to last minute shopping runs (hair gel for starters, then the video camera that didn’t have a memory […]

I took a brief hiatus from blogging while we were on vacation. I’m still in a fog coming back and feel like, um, what do I write? Pumpkin Spice Lattes (PSL) are back at Starbucks. Let us all rejoice. The new iPhones were announced today. My dreams are coming true with that rumored gold iPhone. […]

very feature is an honor and I was especially giddy about this one. I had reached out to Dainty Obsessions’ editor, Val, with Rachael & Lucas’ recent wedding after spotting the magazine in HyVee a few months back. Val got back to me rather quickly offering a spot on their blog and I was thrilled to […]

efore we bought our house, we lived in a condo. It was a 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo, a lovely start to our life together. But, the longer we lived there and the more my business grew, we quickly outgrew the place. The 2nd bedroom had a guest bed, an overstuffed chair (that couldn’t fit in the […]

Recently I was asked how I come up with wedding day timelines. “Do you have an example of one of your timelines or schedule for the wedding day? How you organize your thoughts, etc. I know this is probably different for each wedding, but if you have an example saved, I would greatly appreciate it!” […]

They weren’t strangers when they saw each other one afternoon after a Hawkeye football game. They knew each other from high school, but had never hung out. But when they saw each other after the game, now in their college years, they started talking and they just never stopped. He says he was drawn to […]