If you have recently started planning your wedding, you know it can be a daunting, overwhelming task, especially if you have chosen to do so without a full service professional planner. In addition, an oversaturated industry means couples are spoiled for choices in every vendor category. Understandably, it is difficult to know where to start. The good news is that there is a way through all the noise and I hope to help you cut through it with a few thoughtful tips gathered after five years of experience.

Long before photography emerged as a practical method of preserving important events and even longer before it became a popularized art form, there was the painter. For generations, painting was heralded as the foremost art form in expressive, emotive, and interpretive versions of reality. At one point, only the most renowned visage was honored with a portrait painting and only the most notable scenes from history were immortalized in pigment and paste.