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14/02/2026

Wishing you the kind of Big Love we witnessed on this rainy day back in September 🌨️

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13/01/2026

The things I would do to be @ that table w Sean Penn…anyways, this one’s for all my 2026 couples and fellow vendors. 🫡

19/08/2025

Picture this, you marry your Person, are immediately stationed together in Germany, and don’t get the opportunity to come home and celebrate with all of your People until 4 years later.

(Did I mention you also get back to the US just days before the wedding, accept a new job, have to move out-of-state shortly after the wedding, AND have to go pick up your new puppy?!)

A lesser person may have cracked, but Celeste is as capable as they come.

I’m so so happy for you, Celeste & Andrew!
This is still just the beginning of your beautiful life together! 🫶🏼

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17/07/2025

Are they Kennedys? Is there Rockefeller money in their family tree somewhere? Is this a real wedding or a styled shoot?

All questions I’m assuming you’ll be asking yourselves when you scroll through these absolutely unreal images from

Lilly & Jake, if your day-to-day life is even a fraction as effortlessly glamorous as your Wedding Day, I’d say you’re in pretty good shape 🤍

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Detroit Wedding, Wedding Glam, Wedding Inspo

20/06/2025

To all the brides getting married this weekend,

1. Keep your florals in air-conditioning as long as you can
2. Invest in some oil-absorbing blotting pads
3. Take solace in the fact that there is literally *nothing* anyone (including you!) can do to control the weather!

Take a deep breath in (and out,) drink a big glass of ice water, and have some fun 🫶🏼🤍

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Summer Wedding Inspo, Outdoor Wedding, Garden Party Wedding, Golden Hour Portraits

14/05/2025

I wish I wasn’t married. Wait let me rephrase.
I wish I hadn’t yet married my husband so I could marry him in a Martha gown.

A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to get a peek behind the curtain of and it was everything and more! Seeing all that goes into the creation of a new line (she’s working on Fall 2025 right now) was so wildly inspirational.

In the current world of fast fashion, tariffs, and viral gowns that quickly become….commonplace?…Martha is out here creating mix-and-match, bespoke, American-made, wearable pieces of art for the coolest, chicest brides in Brooklyn (and far beyond.)

I’ve loved watching her journey on Instagram and I’m so grateful she let us stop by her studio!

Until next time,
xx

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04/04/2025

The world is always changing, and the wedding industry inevitably must change with it.

As most Americans are now aware, much of what we consume relies heavily upon imports. The wedding industry isn’t much different.

I’m not an economist, but as a wedding planner, it is my job to have at least a base-level understanding of how recent events may impact my clients. So here’s what’s up:

1. US Weddings are largely reliant upon importing. Whether we’re choosing out-of-season or rare florals that are shipped in from Colombia, making an Amazon purchase for trinkets made in Indonesia, picking out Mezcal imported straight from Mexico, or ordering our dream wedding gown crafted from fabric brought in from China….we (the US) are sure as hell not doing this whole thing on our own.

2. Your vendors are going to have to make adjustments, but they WANT your business and they WANT to make it fair. They’re often small business owners who already fought to do it their own way in life, a little perceived adversity likely isn’t going to make them fold now.

Yes, florists will have provisions in their contracts to protect themselves in case of rising costs, but the good ones already had those clauses in there, anyways. Your dress might be a bit more expensive, but shop owners are going to get creative with payment installments and things of that nature to make it manageable for their customer.

Now, it’s important to remember that these tariffs are added to the cost of the goods themselves, not simply slapped on top of the sales price. Which again, no expert here, but I’ve seen some bad math in comments and videos, and I think it’s important to just keep that little tidbit of info in the back of our minds.

Will there be some changes? Probably. Will we go through inevitable growing pains? Sure. Will we get through it? Yes.

And, as always, now might just be the time to stop going the way of convenience and start researching how to *truly* shop local.

20/03/2025

Michigan’s Wedding Season is Officially Thawing! 🌱🌸

Can’t wait for those perfect summer nights in Northern Michigan.

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Northern Michigan Wedding, Winery Wedding,

27/02/2025

One of the great ironies in life is that the most important moments happen at the most innocuous times.

Think about it-

You find out about your dear friend’s biggest heartbreak over a cup of coffee in a quiet corner of your favorite cafe. You witness your child’s first steps while sitting in your kitchen on a random Tuesday night. You make a breakthrough in therapy while sitting alone on your bed staring into the Zoom call. You accept that life-changing promotion inside a bland conference room that was booked for an hour.

A wedding reception is actually just a wonderful celebration of all of the thousands of innocuous, important moments that happened between you and your partner up until that point. And we should celebrate. We should host big, raucous parties.

But we should also keep in perspective what a wedding is (a celebration) and isn’t (the be-all and end-all of important life moments.)

This year, I’m challenging myself to be more aware of the importance of the small moments. The importance of the tiny interactions I have with my loved ones and friends. I’m challenging myself to host more intimate gatherings in my home, invite more people for coffee, say “yes” to more invitations, and watch what’s happening around me with my eyes, not my phone screen.

And I’d like to extend this challenge to you, too.

🤍

03/02/2025

When the photog appreciates 🤌🏼 every little detail🤌🏼 of the historic venue and everything happening within its walls

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