Blog Design: Alta Marie Photographie

I posted earlier about Alta's new logo. And once that was up, I just couldn't WAIT to finish up her blog design and share it too! It's one of my favorites. I love how feminine and clean the entire site looks. Her work is phenomenal. She has such a great personal style. I absolutely love her black and white work, but oh she has a beautiful eye for color. She currently gets to enjoy the beautiful weather on the island of Grenada [which I had to look up. It's in the Caribbean. Tough deal, eh?] BUT, she comes to Utah every now and again to shoot. I would absolutely look into scheduling a shoot with her. I feel like everything that comes out of her camera could be a magazine cover. Stunning, stunning stunning.

Just when I needed a pick-me-up after Nash and Gray entered our lives, we had a photo shoot with Alta.This one now hangs over our bed. And it makes my heart just swell every time I see it.



Capturing emotions, not just events. That's what she's capable of. I highly, highly recommend miss Alta. Go check her out! [Actually, wait for a bit and THEN go check her out, because she was not very happy with how her blog looked before I got my hands on it...and so she wasn't too keen on posting her shoots. Which I can totally understand. I stopped posting while I re-designed my blog. It happened to me! Happens to a lot of my clients actually :)] Anyhow, I would love to know what you think!

Wedding Design: Sara

I have decided that I need to do more wedding work. I absolutely LOVE typography. It makes me giddy. I have been scouring a few different sites just drooling over the new calligraphy typefaces out there. It seriously makes my heart race. Dorky? sure. But hey, I love me some .otf!

This design was actually done quite a while ago [clearly] and I'm posting it because a recent client reminded me of it [they're cousins...I believe :) Thanks for the referral!]. If you didn't know, my life got reeeeal crazy here in this last little while. Two babies, two moves, three states. A little nutso. So I forgot. But this was honestly the first strict typography design I ever did, and I am crazy about it. I always have been. It printed up beautifully and Sara was a dream to work with. I seriously love it when my clients have such style! I am all about injecting little bits of their personality into my work. I really think it makes things so much more meaningful.

Wedding Design: Brie + Beau

A major congratulations to Brie and Beau. I cannot wait to see the pictures from this classy bride. She and I played softball together all through high school. She is a beautiful and talented and incredibly inspiring woman. I love her very much and am so grateful I had the chance to help with her wedding celebration! My favorite part of this project was the calligraphy. It took us a bit to get it just right, but I really feel that the effort paid off in a major way. I am in love.

Save The Date Design: Julie

Julie might be the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. She wanted a typographic save the date to coordinate with her yacht wedding. I love how fun this design turned out. She printed them on magnets to send to her guests. We ended up doing two save the dates. One with information to the wedding ceremony and one to the reception held in Arizona. Classy and fun! I custom designed the anchor logo with the J & C intertwined. I ended up sending it to the baker making their wedding cake to include on the top tier.

For information on my rates and design queue, please contact me!

Wedding Invitation Design: Audrey

I had a complete ball putting together this invitation for Audrey and Aaron. We were under a time crunch because the sweet couple had friends coming from London, but Audrey had such a great idea of what she wanted. We definitely caught the same vision! I wish them all the best. They were a pleasure to work with. I love when my clients aren't afraid of a little color!

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My Grandmother's Pearls

I made this page for our wedding album [yes, I'm still working on it almost 2 years later...pathetic? yah.] but I'm thinking this is going to be one page that is framed in our home somewhere. Those pearls are such a symbol of our family legacy of love that it would be a shame to hide it between the covers of a book.

For those of your who are also a part of this legacy, I would be happy to swap a picture out so you have your own copy. Let me know!

Celebrate the Day

The Completing Him Challenge for today is to remember and celebrate our wedding day. Here are some of my favorite pictures and memories from 1.02.09, one of the best days of my life.

C & I were married in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple.

We believe in eternal marriage that is not subject to "until death do you part."

How grateful I am for the doctrine of eternal families and for the knowledge that comes with it. I cannot express how much joy I get from knowing that C and I will truly be together forever. If you're interested in how these doctrines came to be or how you can have them for yourself, please don't hesitate to contact me, or visit the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' website.

oh, what a day that was!

And to think it only gets better from there.

Marriage between man and wife is truly a blessing from our Heavenly Father.