Featured:: Botanical Garden Wedding on Style Me Pretty

I can't help it, my blood is probably the color pink. I am girly, I love sparkling chandeliers, pretty shoes with 4 inch heals, my little dog Cupcake and dressing up for a night on the town with my hubby.

BUT there is something that I love even more and that's being a Wedding Planner.

When Angela first approached me to do her wedding she wanted it to feel "desert chic and rustic" and I WAS EXCITED! You see to me if every bride had a pink wedding I would be SO bored.

As a wedding designer it's my goal to pull that inspiration out of my client and make sure that in that moment, the moment they first enter their ceremony or reception they look around and say to themselves "This is it, this is exactly what I wanted".

And that's when I feel like I really did my job.

Style Me Pretty featured Angela & Peter's Wedding at Desert Botanical Gardens from last October. It was a picture perfect day that I will remember forever.

{Photos by the talented Diana Rothery}

Ashley Gain:: Featured

Maybe I tend to love my brides like a mother. To me, they are the MOST beautiful, the SMARTEST, pick out the MOST beautiful dress and of course, have the BEST weddings.

One of our Ashley Gain Weddings was featured in the newest issue of Bride & Groom Magazine.

Ashley & Steve were married at Firesky in April and their day was perfectly vintage and elegant at the same time. You can see the feature of their beautiful day on page 15 of the magazine or just look below. *smile*

Not only was their day magazine worthy, but they totally look like Barbie & Ken!

Thanks to Stephanie Fay Photography, Petal Pushers, Southwick Linens, Firesky, and Twice Loved Vintage.

After The Wedding

I woke up the next morning, opened my eyes, and there it was, my wedding dress, lying alone on a oversized chair in the middle of our suite at Royal Palms.

Wait, wait, wait {rub my eyes, refocus} it can't be. Could it be? My wedding is over?

I could see the bottom of my dress was a little dirty, on the floor next to it my shoes laid on their side, an empty bottle of champange on an end table, and, oh my, a wedding ring, on my finger.

At almost the same time that a huge smile came to my mouth tears began to fill my eyes. It was over. The day I had waited my entire life for was now in the past. The best thing I have ever done was marry my husband, but to let go of the "wedding day dream" well, that is totally different.

I was a Mrs. no longer a Miss., I was a bride not a bridesmaid. I was someone's partner for life!! Being the overachiver I am, I was on a mission, to be the best wife I knew {or could learn} how to be.

The wedding is a perfect way to kick off a marriage, but you also have to learn how to maintain! We started attending a group called Caring Families at our church a few months after we said "I do". It has been an amazing way to meet married friends, get involved and to give some real meaning to our *new* relationship.

I am not saying a church group is for everyone {it was right for us} but I am saying that finding a way to get involved in life as a couple is for everyone! What kind of wedding planner would I be if I didn't hit on the topic of marriage?! I help make marriages happen. *smile*

Our church asked us to a part of a little demo video for our group and we had so much fun making it! Soooooo, since you are here learning about me, I thought I would share it with you!!!

Marriage is what you make of it! Carpe Diem!

Caring Families Testimonies from Highlands Church on Vimeo.