A classic look. It’s my jam. When a bride is telling me about the dreamy invitations she wants that involves a classic font, classic layout and black on white paper…I’m signed up.

You can’t beat a nice wedding invitation in the mail. Typically you have the invitation itself, a details card, the RSVP card and the envelope it goes in.

When do you send Save the Dates and wedding invitations for your upcoming wedding?

It’s one of my most asked questions and I often bring it up before it’s even asked. Your wedding is a big date on the calendar and you want your guests to know about it, but how soon is too soon? Or not soon enough?

I don’t stray too much from my wedding invitation package. My standard package comes with an invitation, details card, RSVP and mailing envelope. The design of those…it what we come up with (usually gorgeous). But Alexandria and Brad had a vision in mind with the size of cards for their wedding invitations

During the 2020 pandemic wedding season, I felt an obligation to be there for all my couples. If that was charging cost for reprints, guiding them through game plans of what to do next, or helping them making decisions…I wanted to be there.

This is one of my favorite blog posts to do every year – the wedding color trends for 2021! Last year I would say my color trends were right on of what I was seeing from a majority of my Midwest couples.

I don’t think anyone can argue that a good ol’ fashioned family wedding is fun. You get to see relatives you haven’t seen forever. You get to see young cousins grown up. And you get to drink and dance and eat cake and who can complain about that?

Life gets a bit overwhelming after you have a baby. And after baby #3, you think I would have that figured out. But a new baby at the start of wedding season had me frazzled and I had to make some decisions.

One was finding a nanny to care for my newborn while I could get a few hours of interrupted work.

I told myself at the beginning of 2020…no more styled shoots, Dana. Focus on your couples and maybe take a day off here or there.

We all know 2020 didn’t go as we planned. So why not get involved in a styled shoot?

Sometimes you gotta convince others when you’re trying to convince yourself.

Molly to me before her June 2020 Iowa wedding, “You were also the first person who showed any kind of faith in the fact that we can still pull this off.”