Melissa's Wedding Reception (2nd Post)

I know I have already posted pictures from this wedding but I got the professional pictures from the Bride (Melissa) and had to re-post this wedding. What a gorgeous bride!!

This bouquet is definitely one of my favorites from this summer. The color of that succulent is awesome!

Our wedding engagement video

Today I want to feature my awesome videographer for my wedding. Jared (my fiance) and I decided to do some engagement pictures at Spring Mobile Park in Salt Lake City. We had both our photographer (Brittany Cascio with Cascio photography) and videographer (Taylor Ballam with Ballam Films) along for the ride. Taylor was a blast to work with and had some really fun ideas. He captured some moments that I absolutely love! You'll see what I'm talking about once you watch the video. :)

Jared and Kelli from Ballam Films on Vimeo.

I would recommend Ballam Films to anyone especially if you're looking for something fun and creative. Thanks Taylor!!! I'm so excited to work with you on the wedding day!

To see more of Taylor's work go to:

http://facebook.com/ballamfilms or www.ballamfilms.com

or e-mail Taylor at taylorballam@gmail.com

Making Progress

Here are a few things we're working on for the BIG day. These little flowers are a little bit more time consuming than I thought they'd be... luckily I only have 40 more to make. :)

Chargers are at least $2.00 regular price so when I was at Michaels and saw that they were having a 1 day sale on chargers I loaded up (no brainer). We spend anywhere from $.01 to $.99 cents per charger. Most of them were Easter colors so we had to spray them gold. We saved a lot of money and with the help of my niece and nephew (Norah and Boston) we whipped this project out in 1 day!

Now, on to the next project (they seem to never end).

Lisa's Red Butte Garden Wedding

I'm obviously not a photographer... I took these pictures with my i-phone so let's just pretend they're professional. Lisa's wedding took place at the always beautiful Red Butte Garden.

Congratulations Lisa!

Engaged!!!

Most of you who know me know that I got engaged to Jared Dabling about a month ago. Pretty exciting! People always ask me if I've had my wedding planned out for years since I'm in the wedding industry and see so many fun and beautiful ideas. That's exactly the reason why I didn't have my wedding planned out before I got engaged. Weddings, style and decorations are continually changing which means I get to see and arrange new things all the time. Once we decided on a wedding date I started pulling in ideas from all sorts of places. I'm doing a fall wedding and want to make it feel fall-ish without feeling too rustic. I've got a lot of fun things planned and can't wait to see it all come together! I'm going to start posting my progress step by step. I'm excited to get feedback and any thoughts that my readers have. :)

We are getting married in the beautiful Bountiful, Utah temple on September 24th 2011.

We decided that we wanted to do something a little bit smaller and forgo the reception and do a smaller dinner for family and close friends. We chose The Point Restaurant and Reception Center which serves as a restaurant during the day and transforms into a beautiful wedding venue at night. If you've read my blog in the past you've seen many pictures of The Point. I've designed flowers for quite a few weddings up there.

I'm working with some awesome vendors and will spotlight them in the next few weeks. I'll also show you some pictures of the things I've been working on. I'm so excited!

Morgan's Bouquet

Here is a bouquet to add to my list of favorites! We used oncidium orchids, orange dahlias, red tulips and yellow billy balls. LOVE!

Burlap!

I loved working on this DIY inspired wedding for Melissa. The burlap made fantastic overlays on the tables and was the perfect accent to her bouquet.

Coke... my favorite drink of all time!

Congratulations Melissa!