Affordable Utah Weddings

I'm crazy. I know. Never in my life did I imagine that I'd be creating my own business, searching to become a landlord and writing anything more than a personal blog. How did I become such an entrepreneur? I personally blame it all on Doug. :) But here I am and I have an official announcement to make. First, the story leading up to the announcement.

So, one of the girls I designed a wedding invitation for works helping people optimize their website (making them so search engines will find them and therefore, allowing people to know they exist). We ended up trading services, I did her invitation and she gave me some great website advice. One part of her advice was to start a professional blog (thus increasing the number of pages on my site, and also giving me the opportunity to slip in key words and help my site get noticed a bit more). Since the rest of the advice requires hours of me staring at computer coding, I decided to start with the blog which requires nothing but good old pictures and page layouts.

I suppose that brings me to the 'Official Announcement' of the day. I've officially started a blog on my website. The goal is to feature good quality, local wedding services at affordable prices. (and of course my invitations will be featured on there quite often, as I do believe them a good quality, local service at a good price!)

I'd love to invite you all to read it! Hopefully it can become something you can recommend to all your engaged friends and family! Here's the link-

jessicageorgedesign.com/blog

Also, I'd love any input anyone has! Especially if you know of a good service at a good price (cake decorators, caterers, photographers, florists, people who want to rent out their houses as reception centers... haha.. just kidding... unless you have an amazing house and really want to rent it out. I'd probably just to see if someone took you up on the offer) I happen to know that a few photographers and cake decorators and seamstresses read this blog- so let me know if you'd like to be featured! Even if you have a skill that you'd like to try using to make a little money- let me know and I'd be happy to write about it!

Homemade Pizzeria

Our friends Jill and Jay came over last night to make pizza (and help us eat the cake we made earlier that day at our cake class!). There's just something about the combination of root beer and pizza that we just love and we figured, since we were making the pizzas why not make the root beer as well?

It was a fun little experiment. I think we'd all been involved in the process of making homemade root beer, but only in HUGE amounts, and typically served out of an enormous cooler. Watching the dry ice carbonate the stuff in a see through picture seemed a lot more fun to me!

The night was great. We each made personal sized pizzas so our table became a mass of pizza making and pizza eating items. I was personally pretty impressed with how dirty we got it without even trying.

Another Cake Class

My parents gave me some 'tuition' money as a graduation gift. It was the best tuition money I ever spent! I got to look around and find classes that I actually WANTED to take. Imagine that! I quickly decided I wanted to continue taking cake decorating classes. Doug, being the very nice husband that he is, decided to take them with me. It has been our date Saturday for the past four weeks. It was a lot of fun and we learned a ton- including the fact that Doug is quite a talented cake decorator!

Here are some pictures of our last class and our 'Grand Finale' cake.

3D Movies!

While trying to find something to do last Friday night we found out that they were showing a double feature on BYU campus- Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequel- Revenge of the Creature. AND they were showing them in 3D!!!!! How could we pass it up? Our tickets included 2 movies, 3D glasses AND free all you could eat popcorn. I love BYU!

We went and it was a blast to see everyone in their glasses and such. Unfortunately, 5 minutes into the first movie we got bored. I really wouldn't recommend the movie itself. (I guess I just never learned to have an appreciation for the slowness of old movies. ) but the 3D effects really were cool!

Sushi Night

Doug loves sushi. I don't. We found a fantastic was to compromise!

A couple weeks ago our neighbors invited us over for a sushi night where we learned how to make our own at home. While we were there we had this fantastic idea. For Doug's birthday I got him his own sushi making supplies and this last weekend we made sushi we could both enjoy! You'll notice the tray contains some more typical rolls, including seaweed and fish and such, and others look a bit less traditional. Like the egg and rice sushi there on the right, or the chicken salad sushi on the left.

I know, I know. We're doing it all wrong. I'm sure the country of Japan would be disappointed with me. But hey, they tasted good and I got to eat 'sushi' with my husband so I say it's a great idea!

Wedding Invitations

One day, hopefully soon, I'm going to make myself a blog specifically for posting all of the invitations that I've made... but for now the wedding season rush is making my pretty busy (which is really exciting!) and I'm just entirely too excited about these to wait to show them off! Here are a couple I did last week.

The Mountains

I went outside of our apartment the other day and looked at the mountains. It's something I do every day, but I'm afraid most of the time I take them for granted. I just wanted to take a minute and tell everyone how beautiful I think they are! We are so blessed to live in such an amazing world!

Happy Birthday Doug!

Doug's birthday was yesterday! Adult birthdays are never quite as exciting as they were when we were 10, but we still had a lot of fun!

I really enjoy making cakes, but since we got married (and have no roommates to help us EAT the cakes) I haven't made very many. I've been missing it! I've been planning Doug's Boston Creme Pie cake (why are they called 'pies' when they're clearly cakes?) for probably months now- I know that sounds crazy.. and it probably is... but it was fun!

We went to eat at Red Robin (One of my favorite things is finding all the free things you can get on your birthday. Red Robin sends you a coupon for a FREE specialty burger to use the week of your birthday!) and then watched the second National Treasure movie. By the end of the night I was so full from burgers and cake I could barely move. It was great!