you are seated at :: custom chalkboard escort board

Welcome your guests with this over-sized custom chalkboard.

This easy to spot escort seating chart can substitute traditional escort cards.

Arranged by table and easy to read, this is the perfect decor to your wedding day, 

whether the affair is a black tie night or vintage mountaintop high.

Sized at a generous 2 feet x 4 feet, this beauty can be flipped over 

(yep - chalkboard on both sides) 

after your guests are seated and act as an interactive guest book with chalk included, 

or provide a huge note of thanks as your friends and family depart for the night.

 Available from Express Yourself here on Etsy,

with option of local Denver, Colorado pick-up or shipping within the lower 48 states.

hello :: new collection of mini emergency bags available

We have all been there at some point. 

When we could use some FIRST AID.

Too many drinks the night before.

Sore muscles from skiing/hiking/biking too hard.

Altitude sickness and dehydration.

A case of the travel tummy.

That's where we come in.

Meet the Mini Emergency Kit Collection 

by theHELLOtote and Express Yourself.

IN SICKNESS + IN HEALTH mini emergency kit bag

RECOVERY KIT mini emergency kit bag

OH KIT, WHAT HAPPENED?!? mini emergency kit bag

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE... mini emergency kit bag

TAKE TWO AND DON'T CALL US IN THE MORNING mini emergency kit bag

GET YOUR KIT TOGETHER mini emergency kit bag

CUSTOM mini emergency kit bag

High Altitude Helpers.

Hangover Kits.

Morning After Magic.

The Post-Party Pack.

Travel Tamers.

Call it what you will - it's perfect for destination events.

Seven great new designs and more coming soon.

Custom options available as well.

Stuff with your own goodies.

Or let us do that for you!

Consider these for your wedding.

Because we don't want your guests stuck in their hotel room.

We want them out and about.

And at your wedding, preferably.

word :: today is not quite over

I've been thinking of this phrase a lot these past few years.

Even more so these past few weeks.

Especially when I find myself with far too many thoughts of putting off 

to-dos and projects and tasks until tomorrow.

"I'll do that tomorrow."

"Maybe tomorrow."

"Starting tomorrow..."

Why not start now?

Today is not quite over.

fathers :: dad + grandpa

We have many special men in our lives that are fathers. 

The father to our father. 

The father to our children.

Godfathers and Uncles and Cousins.

Fathers to other children we would love to call our very own. 

But this Father's Day we reflect on our own father.

erin & dad

That solid rock of a man that is serious and thoughtful and playful and funny and always there.

Always there cannot even begin to describe his presence for us.

That is our dad.

Intimidating at first - it didn't exactly help us in High School that our dad 

walked the halls in a leather jacket and dark sunglasses to go tell off the physics teacher - 

but ultimately lovable in only that way truly great dad's can be.

And he gives the best hugs.

dad

He has big shoes for us to even try to fill as we parent our own children.

But he joyfully invites us to follow in his footsteps as he takes us on adventures

around the world and teaches us about the adventure of life.

Full of humility and humor. Grace and generosity.

Learning and loving. Family and good fortune.

We stand with him and honor him and love him

as his own father, our grandfather, embarks on his last great adventure.

amy & grandpa

every day is a happy father's day around here.

we love you dad.

we love you grandpa.

xoxo

e + a

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This post is part of a promotion with FamilySearch

as featured on style me pretty :: lauren + jack

 We loved working on this wedding last summer for Lauren + Jack.

Married by the river in Aspen on a classically Colorado July afternoon.

The details were perfect and the entire affair was unique, 

yet authentically true to being an Aspen wedding.

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