Taco Bout a Party! || Mariah's 25th Birthday || Champagne + Linen Event Planning

Call me vain but I love my birthday. Some of my fondest memories (or at least what I can remember/what people have told me the next morning over hungover brunch)  are from past birthday adventures shared with the people I love most. ​

Our dear friend Cooper, myself, and Alicia at my 21st Birthday

I will take any excuse I can to throw a get together and invite all my close friends and family. It is not even about me becoming one year older any more (honestly I got over that after 21…) it is about having fun with the people who matter most, and about making embarrassing memories that keep me up at night in horror.

​This year, I knew I had to do something big for my birthday since it is so close after the creation of C+L. I wanted to do something fun for everyone, but I also wanted to do something a little more adult. After all, 25 is an important milestone. Five years from 30 (God I feel sick). I’m an “established adult” with a big girl job and my own business. I wanted this party to reflect that. SO I picked a classy establishment, The Montana Distillery, and I picked a fun theme, fiesta (the idea for the theme came to me as I was inhaling my fourth taco on Taco Tuesday a couple weeks ago).

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Cake + Cookies by Poppy || Seriously, it was difficult to eat these, so beautiful!

I wanted to share 25 things that I have learned and live by. Yes, I got most of them from Pinterest...

1. There’s always going to be more money.
2. Memorize your social security number and at least one phone number for someone to call to bail you out.
3. Good things come to those who hustle.
4. Don’t settle.
5. Network network network. It’s all about who you know.
6. Making homemade bread makes you feel so productive no matter how frazzled your day may feel.
7. The worst they can say is no - so just ask.
8. Practice self care.
9. Take as many pictures as you can.
10. Trust your dog. If they don’t like someone, you shouldn’t like them either.
11. Don’t ever be afraid to shine. Remember the sun doesn’t give a fuck if it blinds you.
12. Be obsessively grateful.
13. Stay humble, but also have a hint of Kanye.
14. Not caring what other people think is the best choice you will ever make.
15. Kitchen’s are for cooking and dancing.
16. You can only help people who want to help themselves.
17. Do whatever you want really, just don’t hurt people.
18. Don’t be mediocre.
19. Surround yourself with people who get it.
20. It’s okay to not be okay all the time.
21. Love multiplies.
22. As far as I’m concerned leopard print is a neutral.
23. Life is better when you are laughing.
24. Do what you want, and if it’s something you may regret in the morning just sleep in.
25. Namaste.