This time of year is busy.  Not in the same way the wedding season wears me down, but in a entirely different family gathering every weekend and endless hours spent on my own holiday decor type of way.  And then for some reason we had a baby in November and her birthday falls on Thanksgiving […]

Autumn is the time of year for gearing up and slowing down, all at the same time.  I find myself unwinding from summer’s busy wedding season and trips to the beach, I finally unpacked our suitcases and feel like I can sit back and take in a deep breath of cool crisp air.  But on […]

We did it, we survived wedding season.  And by “we” I mean my family and myself.  While there are certainly other “we’s” I could be referring to, this is without doubt the most challenging part of wedding season, juggling weddings with personal life and trying to keep everyone in the household afloat.  When I sit […]

Franklin D Roosevelt in his iconic inaugural address profoundly claimed that we have nothing to fear, except fear itself.  I think any business owner or anyone who has dabbled in a creative industry might disagree with that statement.  Fear is all around us and it’s scary. My friend Ciarra with Silver Fox Calligraphy has a […]

Truth be told, 2017 is off to a rough start, in an emotional sense.  Everything that I’ve envisioned for the New Year isn’t exactly coming true and I’ve been a little disheartened.  I made a couple mistakes in 2016, both personally and professionally and I’m still beating myself up a bit.  But knowing that there’s […]

We moved into our new house the weekend of Willa June’s first birthday.  I still don’t think life has slowed down much since that day, but needless to say, we postponed our little birthday celebration for a couple weeks so we at least could set a table and might have a few things out of […]

Just as the trees were dropping their last few leaves and before the blistery cold came billowing in, I realized there was a moment to be captured. They say that things change with your second child and I couldn’t agree more.  Time slips away faster and the days of being a baby are soon forgotten. […]

Photography: Katie Grace Photography If you follow me on Instagram then you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been completing the #risingtidechallenge this week. (If you haven’t heard about the Rising Tide Society, you can read more about it here.) Today is day 4 of the challenge and it’s all about living life, backing away from work […]

As we’re all perfectly well aware, this is the time of year that we’re all supposed to be thankful. I’ve been trying for well over a week now to put together a post on gratitude and thankgiving. I wanted to write something profound and moving. I’ve put together draft after draft and had even committed […]

Photography: Bradley James Photography Returning gifts, cancelling plans, pleading with vendors for a refund, thousands of dollars lost, returning your ring – cancelling your wedding is a horrid chapter of life and a very humbling moment in your story. After my last post, someone mentioned how proud I should be that I was able to […]