Wedding Design Internship with Amorology Weeks 1 & 2

I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to come to California, San Diego area. I'm working as an intern with Amorology, who is a compnay that is started and owned by Heather for 12 years.  She is capable of bringing in customized, personality inspired, brightly decorated and coordinated weddings. It is a high end company and is targeted toward couples willing to have $30,000+ budgets.
My first week I dove in to things and it was overwhelming to say the least. In the office for 7 hrs with no breaks and constant emails that my mind couldn't really wrap around, I was brutally welcomed in to the real work force haha but good news is that i'm slowly enjoying it more and more now that i have become familiar with vendors and the details of each wedding. It just is initially confusing when you don't start from the top and know all of the details because they all start to mesh together and overlap since we're coordinating around 15 weddings at a time.

My first weekend we had 2 weddings. The first was a week of coordination where the mother of the bride had everything figured out, they just hired us to put it up and take down and set up a timeline and make sure everything got done on schedule. It was a very sweet wedding, fully equipped with a cigar bar that wasn't contained which wasn't so sweet in my opinion.

The very next day I traveled to Palm Springs where we did a celebrity wedding for Katie, and actress from Switched at Birth.  Most of the cast was there and it was fun to meet them and spend the evening with them as well. This wedding was one of a kind and very unique. The details were exceptional along with delicious desserts! Setting up was KILLER. Only because it was 100+ degrees with a very high humidity. On top of that we're required to wear all black to each wedding for a professional, distinguishable look. After being drenched in sweat, i was used to it and was able to enjoy to wedding. Thank goodness for cold drinks, free delicious quality popsicles, and a guest house that was fortunately equipped with air conditioning to keep us alive.

Fun games with the escort cards that connected people to their seats at the table they were assigned.

These were the last of the Gideon photography photos i could snag:

On my second week, we didn't have any weddings however Heather did take on a last minute photo shoot for a family that was willing to spend anything to get shots of their 2 year old girls for their birthday. There was a lot of transporting things to and from on the beach and i ended up getting blisters on my feet from the sand! No shoes were better than the ones i was wearing since i originally wasn't expecting to be going to this shot. In the end, having a tea party set up on the beach and another set up of a bohemian tent, they were able to get some cute pictures.

Unfortunately these pictures are done by the hand of myself and more quality pictures from the photographers that we hire out are much more capable of showcasing the wow factor that Amorology is capable of. Sorry i can't share those with you. But these help visualize what i'm talking about and will help me remember details.

Year 3 of college: Check!

Weirrrrrd to say that I've done three whole years of college! it goes by so slow and fast all at the same time. This last spring I tried out new apartments, Northpoint. And it was fun being in the brand new things, but not so fun because they weren't full and social/party central. What made it worth it though was this:

Honestly, living with them was different but a good different! Very mature and live our own lives sorta thing but we sure had some good times with late night dance clubs in the living room, the Bachelorette, skinny dipping(wait..what?), waffle parties, summer sports, tanning in the park on sundays and just lots of love to go around.

Also, this happened:

REXBURG FLOODED! it was so crazy and i had no idea how bad it was until after it all happened. It never affected me even though i lived at the bottom of the hill of campus where it was rushing like a river. It completely flooded campus and inches of water, over flowed parking lots and streets and all disappeared in a matter of hours! I got off work right as it started to pour, i drove around in the flooded streets because it was fun:) then i watched through my 2nd floor window and watched CRAY videos on instagram. Once in a lifetime experience! last time that happened here and caused this much damage was when the Teton Dam broke.

I was fortunate to have a job the whole semester at the Jean Girl, which was a retail boutique and she mentioned that I'd have a job if i wanted it when I come back which is helpful since i'm becoming poor here in Cali.

Overall the semester was a good one! Very basic but i learned a lot in school and in dating (even the short term stuff haha) and life and loved having the roommates i did:)

Part time model?

Nahhhh just helping out a friend. I love it though! if only I stayed in shape and had an interest in modeling earlier in life and went with it I really think i would like doing it! but as for now i just help out a friend who is building up a photography career and I'm a Guinea pig. When he wants to try something new or just get more pictures for his portfolio i'm more than willing to help him.  He wanted to do a studio shoot aimed more toward fashion photography, but here's the thing: he doesn't have a studio and for this assignment in class he was supposed to use natural lighting. So thats what we did! we created a mini outdoor studio with white sheets and a reflector.  You'd never guess with how the pictures turned out! and obviously since we're outside there's 20 mph winds. Thats nothing new in Idaho;)  He had a friend who runs a beauty blog do my hair and makeup and all i had to do was stand there and look pretty. Its harder than you think, especially since I'm not built like a typical skinny model but it's still fun and he was happy with the results so i was happy to do it. Of course these are amateur and I can definitely find ways to improve but it's a fun memory. 

ok to be totally honest I love this last shot. It just fits my personality a tad better:)

PS Ingrid Michaelson's new album Lights Out is SUBLIME!

Here's one of my faves, Afterlife:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPjJfXU9D4

Life as I know it

I've been a little distant with everyone lately. So don't take it personally. I don't have an explanation or excuse, I've just been distant.  This semester has been just fine! I LOVE my roommates. I'm ALWAYS so blessed in that aspect.  I have a job that I enjoy but i've come to a conclusion i'm never working and going to school again unless i'm DESPERATE. i just don't like the inconvenience of it...plus i work saturdays and i even worked Memorial Day. That sucked. But i'm over it. At least I got to see the new X-Men and went to BJ's Bayou in Roberts. Now THATS an experience. They have cajun food and a real alligator!! its a hidden gem. The building is supposedly the oldest around and rumor has it that its haunted, by 15 ghosts according to the owner who lives there. crayyyy. Totally worth the experience and the food wasn't half bad either! I also started playing softball and its so fun! One of my favorite things about Spring.
nothing else has really been exciting. Just the usual. And that ladies and gentlemen is my life as i know it.

Spring 2014

The weather started out drab, but the week overall has been fab! First off, I LOVE the friends I have up here and the people I know. Cassie is back and I have missed her SO MUCH! I feel like i still haven't quite been able to get enough time with her yet. we had a waffle party thursday night and it had a huge turn out! we managed to fit 50 people in our apartment. Thats a record. It was tight but not too uncomfortable. Its no big deal, we just have tons of friends. This week i also got a job which i start monday and then i found out i got the internship i REALLY wanted in southern California! i'm so happy with how things are working out and trusting in the Lord that this is the direction i'm supposed to be going. 

The week break between semesters i went down to San Diego to have my internship interview as well as vacation in California for a few days. Ali came with me and it was a blast! We went to the beach of Carlsbad and it was really cold but we had bikes to ride around the town in and that was fun! we found a gem of a bookstore full of used books. Then we met up with Cassie and Danny Steenhoek for Taco Tuesday. It was fun to have friends there who also had friends so we were able to hang out and socialize in the evening.  The next day we lounged in the backyard of the Farrows and got some sun and it was so fun in their pool and they had some entertaining dogs. We also got our nails done and went shopping at Tillys....its a goooood place. I was a first timer but i know i'll be back.  Then we went to the Aquarium and i love things like that! 

Later that night we hung out with Cassie and Danny and a few other friends from BYUI that were in the area and we went on a beach hike at night. It was really fun too.  Friday was our last day there and we went to Balboa Park full of museums which i love but you had to pay for so we just walked around haha The gift shops there though......

Then Ali and I went to the Zoo! We had to park probably a mile away. no joke. but it was worth it and we saw all sorts of fun animals and managed to get a little lost a couple times. 

Then we went to dinner with Danny and couple of his attractive single friends from the singles ward there;) Later we went to one of their houses that he had just bought and played ping pong in the garage. It was a good time and a great way to end the trip! The adventures don't stop there though, because "It's not about the destination, it's about the journey." -Matt Karl. Our way home through NOTHING Nevada provided us with 2 cops pulling us over, one citation, and a getting-stranded-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-because-of-no-gas scare. Luckily Saint Michael had compassion on 2 girls who were otherwise out of luck and gave us $25 to buy gas from the house that was central in the middle of nowhere and only accepted cash for the 5 gallons of gas they had on hand.  Literally the central of nowhere. 80 miles to go, 60 miles back or 40 miles in another direction for a gas station. Options like that don't help when you've been driving in the car for 10 minutes with the gas light on.  We owe the fact that we got home at a decent hour to Michael, the friend who was working on his motorcycle in the garage.  So in the end, we had had a couple of adventures and a lot of good memories. I'm a fan of California. Not so much Nevada though....

Oh and to top it all off? it was Easter on Sunday. I didn't get to celebrate in all the ways i normally do to make it my favorite but being with my family and going to Church, remembering Christ's life and that He STILL lives is always hard to beat.

Here's to amazing friends, awaited adventures, and a good semester ahead! I'm so thankful to God for everything he's blessed me with. 

I'm a Mormon

Here's a little explanation of me and why I love being a Mormon and what I believe, it shares part of my testimony and I hope that someday and somehow somebody will read this and it will inspire them to open their heart, learn more and try to be the best they can be. I also just want to share to my friends and family why I am the way that I am since I don't always voice it. I love being a Mormon!

http://www.mormon.org/me/fcsc

My Attempt at REAL Floral Design.

For my final in several of my Wedding/Event design classes we put on a Bridal Show on campus.  It was fun to be a group leader in this and come up with ideas and to actually do them was fun! The show's theme was Creation and the & days of the Creation found in Genesis.  I was in charge of day 3.

So we decided to put together a citrus meadow.  It was tough on the very small budget we had and limited resources but I'm pleased with how it all turned out.  Here are the pics! Oh and I had such lovely support from my loving parents who made a trip to Rexburg just for me! and my roommates even came and were like those overbearing mothers who says their daughter is the best, but i loved it and they crack me up! I loved having such great support:)