I’ve felt an aching in the bones of my business over the last few years, a steady stretching of its muscles, growing pains as it gradually becomes what I recognize it as today. I’ve found this journey in its entirety completely untamed in its progression, unexpected, sometimes unimaginable yet precisely what I dreamed it could be.

The last few months in particular have been marked with a palpable shift, a season of change, refocusing, redefining, renewing my goals, vision, ideals, and most of all the voice that intertwines it all.

I feel as if I am striding into a new era, a coming of age.

I began on this path for so many reasons and I stay the course for a multitude more, but the one I would share with you is the value of being wholly, truly seen.

Time is a funny friend who blurs the edges of even our fondest moments, but those moments remain and live on through our stories, our connections, our loved ones, our photographs. The petals fade and fall, the decorations dull and age, the friends and family ebb and flow, but the moments documented acquire a life of their own.

They become the soft edged photographs with a loved ones handwriting scrawling the back telling the story of the day, time, and lives of those chronicled in its borders. They live on for familiar hands to hold, for new eyes to see, and for hazy yet well loved memories to gain a breath of fresh air transporting them back to the halcyon days gone by.

It’s the final hug of a loved one, the warm tear filled moment with your Mom, the way your Dad’s eyes tell the story of a thousand sleepless nights being worth it to see you here and now. These are the things that ignite my soul as an artist. I want to capture every second of your deep, messy, imperfect human connection.

As I grow older I hold these things dearer, this season of beginning anew has been saturated with such intention and new found delight in finding my own voice, feeling more grounded in my work and what that offers you.

Moments are fleeting but deserve to be documented and held in the hands of those you cherish most. If you want to capture those beloved, unbound moments of connection I would love to connect with you and document some lifelong memories.

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I’d like to give a shoutout to some of the amazing vendors that have impacted this shift and encouraged me so much along the way, as well as brought the vision to life in many of the images above.

My mentor:

Floral:

Venue:

Catering/Cake:
Epicurean Delight Catering
Electric City Bakehouse

Event Planning:
Electric City Event Co

Fulton Events

Rentals:
Party Rental Ltd.
Chippy White Table