Wedding Planning Blog

You want to feel organized. You want to know you’re not forgetting something important. You want planning to feel manageable — maybe even easy. Of course you do. That’s a beautiful impulse, and it makes complete sense. So you search for a wedding planning checklist. A timeline. Something to give you a clear path. We […]

Have you noticed? Nearly every wedding planning timeline you find online looks the same. Twelve months out, do this. Nine months out, book that. A countdown of tasks that moves forward whether or not any of it has anything to do with you. The same list, handed to every couple. But you are not the […]

How much do you want to spend? Notice what I didn’t say. I didn’t quote you a national average. I didn’t tell you 60% typically goes to your venue, food, and drinks. (Forget I just said that.) I asked you. Because here’s the thing — you can pay whatever you want. A Story About Two […]

Design sets the tone There’s a reason wedding style quizzes are so popular. They’re fun. You answer a few questions, see beautiful images, and wait for the reveal — curious to see how well a quiz can read you. What will it say about your taste? Your style? Will the results feel like you? That […]

There’s a stretch of wedding planning that nobody really warns you about. The early months feel expansive. You’re dreaming, deciding, setting things in motion. There’s momentum and possibility. You have time. And then — almost without warning — the final weeks arrive. The things that couldn’t be handled until closer to time all converge at […]

How to Plan a Wedding Starting With Your Vision You can plan a wedding in two months. You can plan one in two years. The timeline doesn’t matter nearly as much. What matters is knowing how. What follows is our complete planning method — the approach we built after almost twenty years in the wedding […]

You’ve already started, whether you realize it or not. That folder of saved Instagram posts. The Pinterest board with 200+ pins. The screenshots buried in your camera roll of dresses, venues, tablescapes, and bouquets that made your heart swoon. You have taste. You have instinct. But if you’re being honest with yourself — you still […]

There’s a particular kind of relief that comes from finding the right person for the job. You walk into a venue tour and the coordinator just gets it — before you’ve even finished describing what you want, she’s nodding, already seeing it with you. Or you sit down with a florist and show her your […]

And Why We Built Something Different The moment I knew She was weary. You could feel the strain coming off of them as they walked through the door, trying to smile. As a wedding photographer, I met with my couples about a month or two before their wedding so we could walk through the day […]