On a gorgeously sunny day last August, my team bustled down to Rock Creek Gardens in Puyallup for what would become one of our favorite weddings of the season. With a box truck and a van both loaded to the gills, and a setup crew of eight people, this one was a...
Did you watch the solar eclipse of 2017? Remember how the sky got so much darker for those strange, cold minutes? I never want to forget that particularly rich shade of periwinkle blue over the roof of our house as I sat out in the yard and marveled with my husband...
Today is a rare Saturday that finds me getting organized, catching up, looking forwards — in other words, not out delivering a wedding! It gives me a chance to look back, too. Today I’m thinking about Rachel and Donny’s wedding at Bell Harbor last...
Brides are letting flowers go to their heads these days. I have had more requests for flower crowns in the past 3 or 4 months than I have in the past 10 years. And by “flower crowns” I don’t mean that dainty little circlet for a flowergirl’s...
Christmas is coming, and toys are on the loose. (How else would I have come home with a pair of used bongos the other day, when I only meant to buy a $5 bottle of valve oil for our household trumpet?) Thinking about the parade of toys through the ages, a hoola hoop...
