When you think barn, you may think country or rustic.  I was talking about the Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm to someone and they wondered who would have their wedding on dirt floors.

In Memory Ideas for your Wedding Day

Sometimes the people you couldn’t picture your wedding without, won’t be able to be there.

Chances are, they have a front row seat from heaven though.

I really wanted to crash this wedding.  It was going to be gorgeous, I did so many custom pieces for them and I was staying downtown that weekend with two girlfriends for a weekend away.  Ashley even told me to!

I ponder the question: how did I get here?  I mean, I never dreamed about becoming a wedding invitation designer.  In fact, that job probably didn’t exist in those books about careers I paged through in high school.  Nor probably was graphic designer.

In the middle of the winter months in Nebraska, I like to go through photos from the weddings of the past year and look at all the beautiful summer weddings.  The sunshine, the blue skies, the tan bodies…oh yes.

When I start designing ceremony programs, I know I’m getting to go-time for the couple.  Things are getting busy, decisions are being made and the stress level is probably a bit higher than when we were designing wedding invitations.

Classic style weddings seem to find me.  I think it’s because it’s truly hard to find a beautiful classic wedding invitations that can somehow still capture a personality or individual style.

Meticulous.

It’s a word that sometimes gets a bad wrap. I mean, I picture someone who is overbearing and a control freak. But if you look at the definition it means:

I’ve heard it before.  I’m sure you have too.

“People just throw away wedding invitations.”

Of course, this makes my skin crawl.  I mean, it’s like telling a dentist that your teeth are just going to fall out.  Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme.

I rarely sit down and chat with one of my couples after their wedding day. Life happens and if I stay in touch over social media, I figure I’m doing good.