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Portland has so many creative venues. This space would be awesome for a fall-winter-spring wedding also a great option for a larger rehearsal dinner.

It’s the little things you’re going to want to remember. #weddingday💍 #vareusevents #portlandweddings #weddingplanning

June is Pride month. I’ve been in this industry for a long time. Twenty years ago, when I first became a wedding planner in San Diego, there were only a few ordained officiants and one church that would perform non-legally accepted Civil Unions. After we moved here, I was not in the wedding industry for a while, but I was very active in political campaigns and as a community organizer. In 2004 I volunteered to fight against Measure 36, an Oregon state Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman. It was a horrible time! Many fake allies fought to keep coordinated campaigns from carrying information or discussing the ballot measure while campaigning for their candidates (a direction I and many ignored). But we still lost, and by a large enough margin it was hard to handle. The law and bans against marriage equality that were passing all across the country were a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. Still it took TEN years to overturn this measure. To those who are newer in the industry who don’t understand, we still have officiants harassed by hate groups who claim to be Christians. We have couples we work for and love whose immediate family won’t come to their wedding. Yes, we get offended when industry influencers share transphobic “pranks” by ignorant photographers. Or when styled shoots feature straight models pretending instead of readily available LGBTQ models. We don’t consider marriage equality safely settled law when just 4 short years ago state bans on marriage equality were struck down by a simple Supreme Court decision. Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court 46 years ago and states are still trying to pass abortion bans and bring this battle back to the Supreme Court. Equality is guaranteed under the Constitution, but that will not stop radical Conservatives from refusing to serve everyone equally and it won’t stop people from trying to use their beliefs as an excuse to hate and discriminate. It’s easy to love people equally. It’s impossible to accept hate.

The unofficial kick off to summer in Portland, OR - The Rose Festival fireworks kick off!!! ❤️🌹🌷🌹🌷

2020 is going to be a crazy busy year for weddings. I’m not kidding. I don’t know if it’s the date 2020 or what, but it is a busy year! If you are planning a 2020 wedding and just starting out, don’t wait to book vendors, once you have a venue and a date. But also don’t rush in to signing a contract with a venue out of your budget. I promise there are more venues than you can believe. If you spend all of your budget on a venue and have to use a catering menu or style you don’t like, just to be at a given venue, keep looking! There are so many options, and I’m here to help! Also don’t you love my little red desk cloud?

Babies breath that’s not rustic! We are super excited that babies breath is on trend, but not just puffs of babies breath, intentional, living or dried, spray painted various colors, as an accent or as a main filler. It’s lovely it smells like perfume. What it’s not - cheap. A few years back brides on a tight budget would ask for two things - all greenery, or babies breath. Somebody must have written a blog saying it’s cheap, and sure a small bundle at Trader Joe’s is $4, about. But in bulk it looks a lot different, and if you use enough to make something beautiful, it’s cost adds up. Yes we make clouds out of them or chains out of carnations because you can buy more materials for less than the cost of the same number of bundles of roses. But in total the processing and work adds up! The other thing it is not, easy to work with if you are a novice. I can always tell DIY babies breath decor vs professionally done. Pinterest is full of janky centerpieces of babies breath just cut and thrown in a tall vase, or small in a jar and full of awkward spaces. Babies breath comes in large bundles typically with about ten to twenty stems. They are super tall typically 50-60” but a lot of that is ugly spindly sticks. And those sticks break leaving you really awkward shapes if you just trim and stick it in water. You have to incredibly intentionally trim and shape and hand tightly gather babies breath to give it a full perfect look and shape. If you love the cloud look, just know those are typically just chicken wire formed into a shape with densely packed babies breath. But again you have to intentionally trim, gather and shape your pieces or you end up with a hot mess with glaring gaps of clearly visible chicken wire. I’ve seen professionals make them wrong with too much open space or not well shaped pieces of babies breath such that the mechanics aren’t just in plain site, they’re distracting! More babies breath to come in the next few days. #weddingplanning #portlandweddings #vareusevents #babiesbreath

My garden’s peonies are fully blooming 😍❤️

Flower Girls are so much fun! They can always be caught out in the dance floor at the reception. They look super cute in a floral crown. And even if nobody else actually uses the Polaroid to snap pics for your guest book, she’ll run around taking care of it for you (but the pics may not be awesome). #portlandweddings #flowergirls #weddingplanning #vareusevents #portlandweddingplanner

This month is Mental Health Awareness month. Our brains, like every other part of our body may need medicine to operate healthfully. Yet somehow despite the science and the knowledge that these illnesses in one part of the body are illness just like other types of illness we have lived for generations with horrible treatments, and stigma. If you burn your hand or break a finger you can go to urgent care and they’ll treat it and send you home (if you have insurance but this country also thinks only the privileged deserve health). If you are having a mental health crisis the doctors aren’t required to be trained to help you. Think about that a minute you will not die from a broken finger, but a mental health crisis relies on you living somewhere with services. I refuse to write the stats or awful triggering stories, but general practitioner doctors need to be better trained in mental illness. We are fortunate, we live in Washington County where there is a world class walk in 24 hour crisis center that is like an ER for those in need of urgent mental health care. The Hawthorne Walk-In Center is at 5240 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Suite 100 in Hillsboro, OR If you need urgent help by phone there is the local crisis line: 503-291-9111 The National Suicide Prevention number is 1-800-273-8255. If you think somebody you love needs help ask them. If you know they do, call with them. There is hope, there is help, and there is treatment.

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