Alice and Miguel knew that in order to create something truly authentic, they’d need to really open up about themselves: their joys, fears, passions, and vulnerabilities. Before our first meeting, they sent a list: “To know us is to know these texts,” Alice wrote. So I got to work, reading and re-reading their favorite authors, opening myself up to understanding the subtleties of what was coming across. I spent time with Alice and Miguel in their home, learning about their years together, and coming to understand what exactly their love meant to them. And as I began putting words to their story, it began to write itself. This was a story that wanted to be told.

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Dani and Melanie approached me with a unique ask: to design a ceremony for the wedding they had always wanted, but never had. This wedding day wouldn’t just be about the promise of a bright new future: it needed to be an intimate, heartfelt renewal of the vows that had forged them as a family a decade earlier. 

I spent about six months really getting to know M + D and their story. The more I learned about them, the more I grew to love them: their grace, their tenacity, and their undying love for each other demonstrated the absolute highest ideals of what marriage can be. I wrote and rewrote their ceremony, knowing that theirs was a story that needed to be told with all the reverence it deserved.

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From the moment we met, I could tell that Ash and Kirsten’s love was bold and beautiful! They were looking for an elopement experience that was fun, bright, intimate, and grounded in queer joy.

Surrounded by the love of an all-queer vendor team, Ash and Kirsten said “I Do” under a stunning arch of roses at Sweet Delilah Flower Farm on Sauvie Island. There was not a dry eye in the house!

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