♥ Valentine's Day Makeup - 2 Ways | {Kali}

With Valentine's Day in just a few days, I wanted to share with you two beautiful makeup looks to wear this weekend! Whether it's date night with your man, or a crazy girl's night out, these two looks are classic and beautiful. Big thanks to Megan for being my gorgeous blank canvas!

With both of these looks I'm sharing today, I used a mix of high-end and drugstore products. I definitely believe you can achieve both looks completely with drugstore products as well just by mixing and matching what I used for both!

Master Bedroom Inspiration | {Kali}

Hi guys! Here's a sneak peak of the before of our master bedroom. Because I pretty much wanted to update every room in our house when we moved in (besides the basement), the bedrooms have been my last priority. However, when we moved in year ago, I didn't want to have a completely bare master bedroom, so any random extra decor I had laying around that I was not using anywhere else went to the bedroom. So, it's pretty much a mish-mash of random decor with no vision whatsoever. We also had all black bedroom furniture which was Zac's before we moved in together (too masculine for my taste!). And, as I'm sure you know by now, I wasn't a fan of so. much. BEIGE. (we dealt with this in every room of our house). I'm sure in 20 years beige will be back in, and gray will be out. BUT, until then, I had to update everything—I desperately needed a more contemporary feel.

Small Bathroom Makeover | {Kali}

(photo from previous owners)
Hi everyone! It's been awhile, but today I wanted to share with you guys our bathroom makeover that we recently completed. Our house actually has 3 bathrooms—two on the main floor (one is in our master bedroom) and one in the basement. We're not renovating anything in the basement, as it was already pretty updated when we moved in, but I knew I would eventually want to update both bathrooms on the main floor. We decided to start with the main floor guest bathroom.

My Fave New Beauty Products | {Kali}

Hi guys! One thing to know about me: I LOVE trying out new makeup and skincare products. There are certain products that I feel are definitely worth the splurge (ie. foundation, blush), while there are other products that I love from the drugstore (ie. mascara, lipstick). I try to keep a good balance so I'm not going too crazy spending money on my makeup addiction. Luckily now that I work from home and rarely put on makeup during the week, my makeup tends to last way longer. Today, I wanted to share with you some of my newest favorite beauty finds!

Wedding Week: Wedding Video! | {Kali}

For the last day of wedding week, I wanted to share our full-length wedding video! The very talented people at A Sound Impression in Lincoln did this video for us, and I just love how it turned out! The only thing that could have made it better was if I got to choose the music for it. I am SO happy we decided to get a videographer. I went back and forth on it, because as with everything for a wedding, it was a big expense. In my opinion, though, it was so worth it. We not only got this full-length video, but we got tons of other footage from the entire day on a DVD.

You can see the video here or watch below!



Check out all Kali's Wedding Week posts!
Day 1: Wedding Details & Vendors
Day 2: The Ceremony
Day 3: The Reception
Day 4: My Favorite Wedding Photos
Day 5: Wedding Video

Wedding Week: Favorite Photos | {Kali}

Today I'm sharing my absolute favorite bride & groom, getting ready, and wedding party photos from our big day! Enjoy below!

Bride & Groom Portraits:





































Getting Ready:













Wedding Party:





































Stay tuned—tomorrow I'm sharing our wedding video!

Photos by Nikki Moore Photography

Check out all Kali's Wedding Week posts!
Day 1: Wedding Details & Vendors
Day 2: The Ceremony
Day 3: The Reception
Day 4: My Favorite Wedding Photos
Day 5: Wedding Video

Wedding Week: Reception | {Kali}

Today I wanted to share all about our reception! We held our reception in the Yellowstone Ballroom at Wilderness Ridge. See more photos of the reception decor in my first post.













After the ceremony, we had a cocktail hour in the reception room. During this time, the wedding party took a few more photos, then joined everyone inside. We walked in to "You and I" by Lady Gaga (something about my cool Nebraska guy ;)).













Immediately after we entered, we went straight to cutting the cake. It made the most sense to do it right away so we still had everyone's attention! Honestly, we got up there, and I actually realized at that moment I had no idea the "right" way to do it. I guess you are supposed to cut it together, and we totally didn't do that—oops! I did, however, know to smash it in his face :)!







After cake cutting, we had dinner. The food was amazing! So many people told us how awesome the food was. We had servers pass appetizers during cocktail hour, which included tomato bruschetta with melted fontina, chipotle southwest chicken pinwheels, prosciutto-wrapped melon balls, eggplants discs with garlic & herb ricotta mousse, herb & goat cheese cheesecake bites, and blue cheese & applewood bacon pops. I got a chance to sample a few of the appetizers, and they were delicious! For our buffet dinner, we served a mixed greens salad, Mediterranean pasta salad, fresh fruit, seasonal veggies, mashed potatoes, chiptole-rubbed pot roast with au jus, and herb & garlic-marinated grilled chicken breast with creamy sundried tomato basil. SO. good.

















Shelbie, Megan, and Brett also gave their speeches while everyone was finishing dinner.









Zac and I snuck outside after dinner with our photographer and videographer to take some sunset pictures. Anyone having an upcoming wedding: I would highly suggest finding a little time during the sunset to fit this in!! After that, we went back to the reception and watched our "Love Story" video that our videographer shot earlier in the summer.









After watching the video, we did the traditional dances. Zac and I had our first dance to "Free" by Zac Brown Band. Before the wedding, we were really having a tough time coming up with a first dance song. Our "song" as I mentioned yesterday, is "Makin' Plans" by Miranda Lambert. We already used that during the ceremony, so we wanted to do something different for the first dance. I, of course, wanted something folksy, but that's not exactly Zac's type of music. We had gone to a Zac Brown Band concert earlier that summer (we both LOVE ZBB, and they are Zac's favorite band), and while they were playing "Free", we both kind of just looked at each other and said this is perfect!









For the father-daughter dance, Megan actually performed for us (again!) by singing and playing guitar to "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. For the mother-son dance, Zac and Cory danced to "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.





After the dances, we did the bouquet toss, but decided to forego the other traditions like garter toss, dollar dance, etc. Then, it was time to party it up and dance! I had such a fun time at the reception and we had multiple people tell us it was one of the most fun weddings they've been to, which makes me so happy! I'll leave you guys with a few of my favorite photos from the dance floor!





























Stay tuned—tomorrow I'm sharing some of my favorite wedding party photos!

Photos by Nikki Moore Photography

Check out all Kali's Wedding Week posts!
Day 1: Wedding Details & Vendors
Day 2: The Ceremony
Day 3: The Reception
Day 4: My Favorite Wedding Photos
Day 5: Wedding Video