Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family: Professionally-speaking, my first job is at home — a stay-at-home-dad to my three toddlers. To summarize my world, however … my family has volume. And by this, I don’t mean “size.” It’s loud around here! We chose to keep the house we lived in [...]
Continue ReadingWith every New Year, we look back on the year that’s just passed us by & often we focus on regrets. Then we write ourselves a list of resolutions for the New Year that are usually forgotten by February. I never make personal resolutions for the New Year… I already know of my inability to [...]
Continue ReadingThere is always a kick in my step when I start a wedding with some of my favorite people to work with. It simplifies the process when I don’t have to coordinate the day… which inevitably happens when there is no wedding planner scheduled on the day of the wedding. But the Simple Elegance staff [...]
Continue ReadingThere are days that I feel really lucky.. sometimes they feel far & few between but when I experience one of the lucky days, I try to cherish the moments. It seems there were only a handful of ‘luck’ days in November… forces behind the scenes put a damper on my month but that’s really nothing new. We all have good [...]
Continue ReadingThere have been so many things happening behind the scenes lately that I haven’t been able to blog every shoot (ha! like that’s new!). Moving forward, I fear that blogging everyone will be near to impossible! However, I will continue to keep everyone posted on our regular clients. I’m also excited to have Rob on [...]
Continue ReadingOn March 15th I got an excited text message from my office assistant. She had just answered a call from someone with David Tutera weddings team. For those who aren’t familiar, David Tutera is a celebrity wedding planner who has a show on the WE network called ‘My Fair Wedding‘. They were contacting us about [...]
Continue ReadingI officially had my first interview in front of a camera on Friday with Fox4 News. I’d done plenty of radio interviews before but being on the other side of the camera was certainly a new experience for me! I didn’t know where to look & I wasn’t given much introduction before my 4 minute spot. They [...]
Continue ReadingSomewhere in the attic there’s a picture of me standing in front of a hotel in Topeka, Kansas. I haven’t seen it for years, but like any good photograph, I remember it clearly. Now, I can’t be sure, but I must have been doing something important because I was about 17 years old, dressed nicely [...]
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