Where It All Began

When Melissa and I first met we were helping at a mutual friends wedding reception.  It was our first time meeting each other and we were both intimidated by the other.  Time was ticking by slowly and our friend's extended family decided that they didn't need our help fixing the dessert for the reception so we just sat and watched them do it.  We started talking to each other and quickly found out that the two of us needed caffeine desperately and so I offered to drive us to the nearest convenience store to curb our addiction,...I mean our craving of Dr. Pepper.  

This was harder than it sounded to leave the reception because two of our other friends were there at the reception with us and lets just say that they highly frown at our love of Dr. Pepper.  We quickly dodged their watchful eyes and were on our merry way to get a pick me up from the caffeine.  Our first stop at the convenience store was caffeine and the second stop was getting a jerky stick.

We enjoyed our beverages on our way back to the reception and went back to our chairs where we watched the dessert preparation.  We broke out the jerky stick and after one bite quickly threw it away because it was disgusting.  Whoever decided to create a stick of meat that has a crunchy hard outer core with a mushy chewy inner core, really should remain anonymous because it is not a prime grade jerky product.  After 20 minutes went by Melissa's ride back to Utah was ready to leave the reception to go home.  Melissa and I quickly exchanged phone numbers and texted each other most of that night until her "phone battery died" or so she told me.  :)


After that Saturday in March we have never missed a day talking in some form of communication.  Melissa moved to Rexburg from Orem in the middle of May to start up college again at Brigham Young University-Idaho and she is still currently renting the little studio apartment that is connected to my house that my parents own and manage.  


This upcoming March 8th will make it 3 years of knowing each other and becoming dear friends.  Through those 3 years of being friends we have both wanted to create something of our very own.  It started out as a joke of starting an ice cream parlor with a tattoo shop in the back but has since blossomed into creating hand made bound books because we know the importance of writing down memories so that they will last until the end of time.  Our minds may fade, but written down memories last forever.


So welcome to Pepper Binding Company where we make Unique Books for Distinctive People.