2019 Behind the Scenes

2019 Behind the Scenes

Year after year, this is one of my favorite blog posts to write! If you’ve been following me for any length of time, by now you know that behind-the-scenes at a wedding doesn’t always look like the pretty pictures that come as a result! And being a wedding photographer means a lot more than simply clicking the shutter - it involves arranging details, hanging dresses, calming nerves, having fun with my second shooter/husband, and sometimes just getting out on the dance floor when the Wobble comes on.

This also happens to be one of the times I can post some embarrassing pictures of Nathan without objection, and this year resulted in some of my favorite yet! Sometimes I remember why he’s in a ridiculous pose (trying to make me laugh and calm me down, for example), and sometimes I have no clue (why is he crouching behind a pole?!).

Regardless of the reason, I guarantee a few laughs and a whole lot of silliness behind the scenes of our 2019 wedding season…

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What the Enneagram Means for My Business

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What the Enneagram Means for My Business

If you don’t know what the Enneagram is, or if you don’t know your number yet, do yourself a favor and head to this test to find out - it will be life-changing, I promise! In short, it’s a personality test based on different numbers (they’re not rankings!) that will tell you a lot about yourself, how you relate to others, and how others relate to you.

The first step for me was to find out my number, and from there I got Nathan to take the same test - y’all, it changed my marriage! I finally understood that some of his quirks aren’t just Nathan-isms, and many of them are shared by other people for the same core reason. It gave me more compassion towards him and a deeper understanding of what makes him tick and what makes him shut down.

For those who are curious, I am a 3 (The Achiever) and Nathan is a 5 (The Investigator). Here’s a little bit more about my personality, as the test I took explains…

Why I'm Afraid to Set Goals

Why I'm Afraid to Set Goals

Goal-setting is something talked about on a frequent basis in the world of entrepreneurs and small business ownership. We are supposed to set SMART goals. We are supposed to be held accountable by ourselves and someone else. We are always reaching for something, the next thing, building on what we have to become a better version of ourselves in the future.

To be honest, I’m not great at goal-setting.

This is probably a huge surprise to most people who know me, because I am always striving, always reaching, and always trying to achieve. But if I’m being honest, I’m afraid of setting goals, and especially afraid of speaking them out loud…

Books are my love language, especially fun ones that carry me away with a good story 📖 Lately, they have also been an important place of learning for me. Some recent favorites: 📚 For Fun: #WheretheCrawdadsSing (@authordeliaowens) 📚 For Business: #
In a turn of events that is surprising to exactly no one (myself included, by this point), we have a new house guest this summer! 🏠 At the last minute, a 15-year-old exchange student needed a place to stay, and it just so happened that we have an ex
This is how I've felt during quarantine. Whether it's waking up, or running, or reading, or working when work seemed to slow down for awhile, my mantra was: just. keep. moving. I guess I was in good company when that idea kept me going 😉 . . . #quot
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