Wedding Wednesday/BrockPaperScissor

I wanted to share with you all some of my favorite details of our wedding: our save the dates, invitations and programs. I wanted to really customize this part of the wedding and it wasn't a place that I had put a big portion of our budget. Then, thankfully, a friend of ours saved the day. Brock from BrockPaperScissor is one of my husbands best friends, a groomsman in our wedding and a wonderful graphic designer! I told him the idea that I was going for with each item and he completely brought them to life for me!

I wanted the save the date postcard to be unique. I saw something similar on pinterest and Brock created it for me from our engagement pictures. We made one with this wording and one for family that said "beautiful bride handsome groom friends, food & bad dance moves". And everyone loved them!

The idea for the programs came from a few others I had seen on etsy, mostly just the wording and Brock completely customized them and made them so fun and different than anything I had seen! They were my favorite of everything he made for us!

For our invitations and RSVP cards I wanted some of the traditional side of things, with a bit of a vintage and rustic look to them, but I still wanted them to have the modern and fun vibe. This is what we came up with.

Also: here is our wedding video. I love love love it. Big thanks to Dewberry Cinemas for this!

Wedding Wonderland

Zac and I finally tied the knot in September and like every bride says, it was the best day of my life. It did pass way too quickly and I would love to do it all over again if I could. But, I can't. So I re-live it through pictures and video. These are a few of my favorite things... (see what I did there.? I made a September wedding seem all Christmas-y, hah). All photos are courtesy of Aubrey Jones, who is an AMAZING photographer, but I may be a little bit biased : )

Always making me laugh... sigh...

Best/most beautiful BM's ever!

Handsome men : )

My adorable flower girl and niece!

We wanted a rustic vineyard type feel, which we just had to make since we were married in the middle of Okc!

well, it's been a long time... glad to see your face

Yep, that's a Jo Dee Messina song. But really, I haven't blogged in over 6 months! I don't know what happened. I hadn't realized it had been that long until I was at Lindsey's baby shower and she mentioned posting about my engagement pictures, but I haven't even read any blogs in months.... what is wrong with me?!?!?!

SOOOO to catch everyone up I'll give some highlights:

- Zac and I are engaged, it happened last November and we will be gettin' hitched this September.... which is actually only 100 days away. Crazy!!

-I quit my job in December and started a new job in a completely different field in January. I absolutely love what I do and the people that I get to work with. It's somewhat of a sales job so it can be very tough and frustrating at times but it can also be very fun and rewarding!

-Zac and I were featured on a wedding blog today, GO US! Check it outtt here

I promise promise to try to keep up with the blog world again! To make up for it, here are some of our favorite engagement pictures:

just playing with our food props... typical

 they are too photogenic for their own good.

This is my absolute favorite. It 100% encompasses everything we love most.

3 day weekend is all I needed

Buddy and Bodee relaxing

We all had a wonderful lake weekend for Labor Day....

All I needed was a break and now I'm back in full force. 

Early morning boat ride.

We finished painting the kitchen, laundry room and living room!!

I'm already loving how things are coming together and can't wait to spend the rest of the fall/winter to get the lake house all ready for next summer!!

Painted laundry room, still have to decorate and make the clothes line cute : )

End tables we painted and found these shadow boxes to go on top.

Our friend, Jenny gave us this B and we found the sword in the house and painted it. I love this!

Zac's momma gave us this, how cute!!

I hope everyone else enjoyed their Labor Day weekend as much as we did!!!

the lake house

Still a little bit in shock... but, drum roll please, I bought a lake house.


RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED!!


I got a great deal on it, it's a trailer at lake in Oklahoma. It's right next door to some of our best family friends. I'm going to post pictures but please, don't judge. It is definitely a fixer upper (hence the great deal) and we are pumped to do the work ourselves.




The main things that we are changing first: outside paint color, new carpet in the living room and hallway, paint in the whole dang place, getting rid of the bazillion sheets, towels, etc... that this family left. We spent the majority of the last weekend working on it so I have a lot of before pictures (I'm not showing you all of them until I get more work done) and some "in the process" pictures. Enjoy!

Guest Bathroom before....

Guest Bathroom during the painting process...

HORRIBLE living room before. I know, I know.

Living Room in the process. It's not near as dark as it looks, it's very much a sand color.  We're also putting up bead board, which I love. Don't worry, the carpet is going too. Laminate wood will be there in 3 weeks!

Outside... needs a really good power washing, new paint (tan), shutters (black), new larger deck (Z will enjoy this project).

p.s.
if you have any decorating tips, at all... send them my way!

tequila!

BF and I are taking our very first trip together in October... 44 days to be exact. I'm excited/anxious/nervous! We're going to Mexico and I speak absolutely no Spanish, and he actually speaks a little bit but only enough to get us beer, food, tequila, bathrooms and to a library.... just in case.

I'm so ready for this vacation because I haven't taken a real vacation since March of 2010, before I started my job. So I am in desperate need of some time away from work with no phone (well, that's what I'm telling work), no internet access (again....) and no alarm clock (but seriously). 

I've already been buying things up for this trip, like oh, two months ago. 

New swimsuit from Target, also the cutest fedora from there. I never thought I could pull off the whole fedora thing but apparently I can and you will all see when I get back from Mexico and post pics.

We are staying at the Dreams Resort, which looks absolutely beautiful... here are some pictures that I borrowed from their website.

Hotel

One of the dining rooms

Room... in love with these tubs!

We got an awesome deal on it through Priceline, so keep your fingers crossed that it all works out well.

P.S.

I also have some big news at the end of the week so stayed tuned. And no- not engaged, not preggo.  : )

Thank you for trying to make me fat.

What is this... Mean Girls?

I have a company that we use on a regular basis for our printing needs and the rep who is such a suck up (I usually enjoy this because it comes in the form of flowers) but today it came in the form of 10 boxes of Girl Scout cookies!

Really? Like what I am supposed to do with that? I handed some out to people I work with and I still have 6 boxes! He's trying to make me fat. Damn you and your Thin Mints!

Yep, 6 boxes going home with me. Lovely.

Am I Pinteresting?

I have finally joined the pinterest world y'all!

Now cut me some slack because 1. I just rejoined the blogging world and 2. I'm still learning about the whole thing!

I would also love to see what all of you lovely ladies pin!


Follow Me : )

suck it up

When I got my sweet baby Bodee, he didn't shed at all. Now, 6 months later the dog is like a walking ball of hair. And it's everywhere. The vacuum that we had was my mom's old vacuum because I didn't really want to spend $200 on a pet hair vacuum. BUT my mom got a coupon for Kohl's in the mail for 20% and the vacuums were on sale so I got this for $60 off!!

Can't tell you how much I love it!

Super pumped about it! I know it seems trivial, but it's a big deal for me for two reasons: 1. my roomie is a tad allergic to dog hair and 2. I hate dog hair on my clothes. But who doesn't?!?!

First time I used it, it was a miracle worker. Oh how I love getting a good product at a discount... it really is the little things! I have a picture of what all it picked up in my bedroom... mind you, it's pretty gross. I swear I vacuum weekly so that shows you just how good this vacuum is!! It's a Bissel Pet Hair vacuum so for anyone who is looking, this one is an A++!!

Gross, I know. But at least I know it works!

now playing

I know that some of these aren't like brand new songs but these are what I've been keeping on repeat:


Crazy Girl



God Gave Me You (Blake Shelton or the original by Dave Barnes)



Country Girl (Shake it for me)



Remind Me



Backroad



Ferris Wheel (it wouldn't let me embed this one but check it out... he's super cute too!)
http://youtu.be/GMnXXPeBQEw


Rain is a Good Thing



Apparently I've been in a real country mood lately! What have you guys been listening to??

no one likes change.

They say that no one likes change, but I would have to disagree. I think people fear the unknown but I also think they love the excitement of change. That's all my life has been doing lately.

I know that I have been SUPER MIA... so here's a little life update, just the big things.

-My roomie Mal is moving out soon to move in with two of our other friends closer to where they all work. As much as I am sad to see her (and the rest of them) go, I understand that it's the best thing for them. My big hope is that the distance, even if it is just 30 minutes, doesn't change anything about our friendships. 


-BF and I have been discussing where our future is going and all of that and we have come to the conclusion that when his lease is up, we are planning on living together. 

BF and I at my nephew's t-ball game

*BTW- I never posted pictures after I began the decorating process, and now I've been the house almost a year and I'm still working on it. But here is the complete living room and dining room.

obsessed with this chair. it matched my throw pillows perfectly!

sorry about the blurry iphone pic

my tiny little dining room, but i rarely use it anyway : )

-I got a new boss at work, which was definitely needed. For the past year, we haven't had a GM at our club and all of the other department heads and I have been kind of running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to make it work, doing our own jobs and then running the club as well. So it's been a huge weight off of my shoulders and he's just been here for over a month and we've accomplished so much it's not even funny! It's nice to finally be working as a whole team and things really do go much much smoother.


-Went to Dallas for our annual group trip with my college friends and had an absolute blast. Forgot how much I miss seeing them on a daily basis.

Let's just say this is how the weekend began...

And this is how it ended...

-One of my best friends, Katie just got engaged and I'm super excited to be a part of her big day.

Is her ring not the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen?!?

Some of these things have made the last few months happy, sad, excited, nervous and stressed but I am ready and welcoming the change of it all! I have the most wonderful people in my life and sometimes I just need to sit back and enjoy it. So that's what I'll be doing. And blogging.

make it so

Good humor

"Good humor makes all things tolerable." 


-Henry Ward Beecher

This is my perfect quote for today.

Cinco de Drinko? Drinko de Mayo?

Cinco de Mayo??

Either which way, you HAVE to try this:

Jose Cuervo LIGHT Margarita Mix.

I've tried Skinnygirl Margarita and I liked it but I loooved this! 

BF and I both had frozen margaritas with it last night and my new Margaritaville machine. It was heaven for under 100 calories, which really is what heaven is like, don't you think???

Enjoy your holiday, you best believe I will be!

Wedding weekend in AZ

This past weekend we celebrated Laura's wedding in Arizona. Haley, Mallory and I went there for it, and I can't even begin to tell you how great the whole weekend was and how much I absolutely adored the wedding... but I'll try.

Renaissance Hotel Glendale, AZ

We arrived at the Phoenix airport at about 9:00 p.m. AZ time, quickly checked into our hotel and went to grab a late dinner and drinks with one of our sorority sisters, McKenna, who is actually leaving for Germany for a year next week! It was great to see her and get to really catch up before all of the wedding day craziness!

Saturday, we slept in and then ordered room service. It was a dayummm good breakfast, if I do say so myself. We spent most of the morning exploring the Westgate area right by our hotel and had lunch at Margaritaville... LOVED IT. After lunch, we went shopping at a nearby mall (when I say nearby, I mean that it was 10 miles away and we had to pay like $30 for a cab to go that far... freaking ridic.) Bought some CUTE things at Forever, but this store was huge! It was more like a department store than a forever21. I loved every single minute of it.

Westgate.

The wedding ceremony and reception took place in Buckeye, AZ. The bride & groom had a charter to take everyone who was staying at the hotel to the wedding site which I thought was super thoughtful.

The reception and wedding both took place here. Beautiful, isn't it?

Blurry-but the reception site at night.

The favors were chocolate covered pretzel sticks. Super cute idea!!

The wedding ceremony was the most personal wedding that I have ever seen. They laughed the whole time. They did the ritual of pouring sand into a vase but instead of just doing the usual sand thing, the groom had got dirt from the bride's home state of Oklahoma and sand from his home state of California, and surprised her with that special touch! 

All of the group with the bride.

All of the girls... it was surprisingly windy there that night.

Throwing up the AXO... some things never change.

 We spent the rest of the reception gushing about the couple, catching up with old friends, laughing and dancing under the stars. It was literally my favorite of all the weddings I have been to. I hope you all had a great weekend too!