What's really imporant when you choose someone to help design your wedding invitations and details? I like to think it's more than their graphic design skills or how likable they are.

For Copper Ink Wedding Designs, it should be about our core values:

• To Meet a Higher Standard of Service: Yes, brides can be demanding at times. They expect a very high level of service, as they should. And I appreciate that because it gives me an opportunity to shine.

• To Be Accommodating: Copper Ink isn't just an 8-5 business. I’ll meet you on a weekend, for breakfast, lunch or after work, if that’s what works best in your schedule. And I'm right here in Sioux Falls, SD.

• To Design at a Higher Level: I want to bring out your wedding’s personality by listening first. Then designing.

• To Do the Right Thing: To do everything with integrity and character. To give back to the community. To be kinder than necessary. To remember who I am, not what I am. To do what I love for principle first, then profit. To be compassionate, helpful, humble and thankful.

• To Be a Do-It-Yourselfer: I want to be the charming, do-it-yourself company that’s small enough to dream, improve and shine. Never too big, but always big-hearted.

• To Never Stop Learning: I'm lucky. Designers get to be perpetual learners. I learn from every experience, every place I've traveled, and every museum/architecture tour I've been on. My favorite classes in school were AP physics and the college courses about nanotechnology and biometrics. I will always choose to learn. And read. And travel. And be curious.

"Doing what you like is freedom; liking what you do is happiness."
And I love what I do.