Year in Review 2025
2025 is coming to an end, and I’m grateful for a slower season this winter as well as the end of an amazing wedding season!
This year was a bit different for me, and it was really nice. It was paced differently, with small breaks peppered throughout my calendar. Next year looks like it’ll be a bit different, too, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves!
It’s kind of weird to write an annual recap, because to be completely honest, I don’t remember much of the year. I have a rather pathetic memory to begin with, but designing for different weddings every single weekend and then “on to the next!” makes it really difficult to be able to truly take anything in and make memories. But I think it was a good year 😂
2025 is coming to an end, and I’m grateful for a slower season this winter as well as the end of an amazing wedding season!
This year was a bit different for me, and it was really nice. It was paced differently, with small breaks peppered throughout my calendar. Next year looks like it’ll be a bit different, too, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves!
It’s kind of weird to write an annual recap, because to be completely honest, I don’t remember much of the year. I have a rather pathetic memory to begin with, but designing for different weddings every single weekend and then “on to the next!” makes it really difficult to be able to truly take anything in and make memories. But I think it was a good year 😂
A few Numbers to kick things off…
34 weddings
7 corporate events plus a handful of social events (birthday parties, bat mizvahs, and baby showers!)
40 girls between 8-11 years old. I taught a “design in a mug” class to the Girls’ Club at my parents’ church 🫠 (it was honestly so sweet and they were all so excited!)
2 flower arranging classes: I used to do this annually pre-Covid and it’s always so much fun!
11th Anniversary!
I’m so grateful for Stone House, for 11 years, and for all of my clients past and present who have trusted me with their flowers. I’m one of the rare people that gets to say that I TRULY LOVE my job. Even the meh things like bucket washing and emptying the van out all the time aren’t that horrid.
That being said, this year was the year that I realized I’m no longer the young, cute florist on the scene anymore 😂 I’m 37, so I could have realized this quite a long time ago. But in the post below, you’ll see what I mean:
I used to be the young and cute one. Those days are gone now ☠️ I laughed when I realized this (it doesn’t help that it was a rainy and humid day and we were all frizzy) but it also got me thinking: I used to be the young and cute florist who wedding couples were excited to invest in because they both loved my work AND they loved the idea of supporting a small woman-owned business.
I’m STILL a small woman-owned business, and it’s because of all of you who have trusted me with your wedding flowers over the last 11 years, who have referred me to your friends and family or your clients, that I’ve been able to grow this business substantially.
I may no longer be the cute, young florist -- now, I’m the experienced, talented florist who your vendors love to work with because they know that I’ll make them look good without missing anything. I’m the one who’s able to pull together any size of team needed to create your wedding because there are a lot of talented floral designers and set up crew members who really enjoy freelancing with me, because I’m kind, organized, and a solid leader. I’m the one who's been able to grow in this business, raise my babies in this business, and support my community with this business.
So no, I’m not the cute, young florist anymore. And I owe a lot of thanks to you that I’m now the experienced, talented, long-lasting florist 😘
A Few Highlights
My wedding season was kicked off very early in January 2025, starting with this beautiful, intimate, moody engagement party/surprise wedding at the Manitoba Club.
Photos below: Kass Donaldson
In July, I flowered for my largest floral wedding of the year but with a relatively small guest count, which means I had a lot of fun with the flowers. This couple was quite possibly the most joyful I’ve ever worked with. Eager to allow me to get creative, and just so HAPPY on their wedding day. It was so wonderful! Photos are still incoming, but this video of their wedding weekend is stunning! Kaira’s bridal bouquet was one of my favourites that I’ve ever created.
Video below: Jay and Mack
We bumped around all over Manitoba and Southern Ontario this year, heading up to Clear Lake a couple of times, Neepawa, and Kenora area. While these semi-destination weddings are so much fun, they’re also a TON of extra work to get all the logistics down. And I love every part of that. My brain functions well in logistics :)
Photos below: Cody Goetz, Pretty Burd, Jennifer Fortier
Corporate Work
While the bulk of my work is and always will be weddings, I also love the opportunity to work on a few corporate jobs each year. Some small, some large, all special. It gives me the chance to get out of wedding mode and really consider how I can best help that particular business showcase itself best.
Below: branding photos for the beautiful Holly of Evergreen Weddings; Mad About Style’s 15th anniversary celebration; Wellington Altus’ client holiday party.
In October, I designed an event for the launch of the Modern Ambition brand, in conjunction with Natasha from Studio Giorg. And we only had about 4 weeks to do it, from start to finish. It was stressful, I’ll say that, but it came together so beautifully. They hosted a VIP dinner under the polar bear tunnel at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, with featured guests including Wab Kinew, Scott Gillingham, and notably, Jim Moore, Creative Director at GQ Magazine. We needed to impress, while also making sure the event was functional (that tunnel is smaller than it looks!).
Favourite Moments
Of course it’s impossible to choose favourites from such a full year! But here are a few, in no particular order, and with many still yet to come as their galleries come in from photographers! (and ps, if I did your flowers this year or even last year, I’d still love to get your galleries!)
Photographers: Brittany Mahood, CoJo, Karina Walker, Michael & Melanie, Ally Sigurdson
Room Reveals
I always love seeing these moments! The moment when you first see your wedding space, completely finished. Your dreaming has actually, finally, happened. It’s exciting!! For a lot of you, this moment won’t be caught on camera (a lot of logistical planning needs to happen to allow for this!) and those moments are just as sweet to me. Even if I’m standing in a pile of stems I’m in the midst of sweeping up, when you walk in and see it all, it’s so exciting.
I also want to note, these images are from weddings of all sizes and budgets. You should love your wedding flowers this much, no matter how much you have to spend on them.
Above photos by Michael & Melanie, Brittany Mahood, and CoJo Photo
I always like to promote some charitable offerings at the end of the year, in case any of you are looking for a great cause to donate to. Here’s a couple that I love:
Villages of Hope is an amazing Canadian organization that partners with communities in the poorest nations in Africa, providing schools, shelter, safety, nutrition, healthcare, and above all, hope. Their Hope Packs are a super cost-effective way to make a huge difference for a child, and include books, toys, clothing, and treats. They’re only $25!
Mainstreet Project: Amazon Wishlist
The Mainstreet Project is a Winnipeg organization that serves our city’s most marginalized people. Their Amazon wishlist is such an easy way to support them with the items they need, without needing to worry about Canada Post.
So what’s coming up next?
Next year you’ll see a beautifully refreshed and updated Stone House Creative brand and website. We’re working on it now and I cannot wait to put it all together and launch it into the world!
2026 will see more incredible weddings, both large and small, many of whom are referrals or family members of my past clients. That means the world to me — thank you! I do still have some space available next fall (September, October, November) so if you know someone planning their wedding in those months, I’ve got some killer ideas I’d love to make happen and I might be available!
Below, my inspiration board for 2026! Or shall I saw, one of my inspiration boards for 2026. I’ve never done this before, but I often write out a wish list of design elements I’d like to incorporate into my designs, and I thought a visual representation could be a lot of fun. I’ve got a few that I’m causally working on — my fall inspo board is looking particularly delicious!
If you’re interested in following along for more regular updates, I post on Instagram every few days with snippets of my wedding season, featured weddings, and behind the scenes of my work!
The Winnipeg wedding industry is an amazing industry to be a part of. There are a lot of great people, working to make sure that all of your weddings come together wonderfully. There is also a lot of creativity and professionalism, a lot of knowledge and excellent service. It’s an honour to be a part of that. Thank you to all of my colleagues for making every wedding such a great work environment.
Year in Review 2024
Whew. 2024 was amazing!
I’m pretty confident this is the longest wedding season I’ve had yet — late May through the end of November with very little slow time in the mix. It was also quite possibly the most beautiful season of all (though I probably say that every year!), but I can barely remember the earliest days of the season! Those May and June weddings seem like a lifetime ago.
I’m still waiting on a lot of galleries (if you’re a client and you’ve got your photos back, please share them with me!) but I hope to be sharing a lot of those images this winter to give newly engaged people a lot of ideas and inspiration.
Whew. 2024 was amazing!
I’m pretty confident this is the longest wedding season I’ve had yet — late May through the end of November with very little slow time in the mix. It was also quite possibly the most beautiful season of all (though I probably say that every year!), but I can barely remember the earliest days of the season! Those May and June weddings seem like a lifetime ago.
I’m still waiting on a lot of galleries (if you’re a client and you’ve got your photos back, please share them with me!) but I hope to be sharing a lot of those images this winter to give newly engaged people a lot of ideas and inspiration.
A few Numbers to kick things off…
30 weddings (some super small, some very large!)
6 corporate events plus a handful of social events (birthday parties, bachelorette parties, bridal and baby showers!)
353 bunches of roses = over 8800 stems!
594 bunches of locally grown flowers = almost 6000 stems!
10th Anniversary!
2024 was not only another year filled with beautiful weddings, it was also my 10th business anniversary!
I genuinely don’t remember much about the early days of starting my business. I remember strategically planning out my very first website (I’m still proud of it!), and I remember connecting with my friend Britney Fache who ended up referring me about 25 clients that first year! I recall my first phone call with Kelly from Lilystone Gardens — I was so hopeful that I would be able to connect with a local flower grower but didn’t really know where to start, but Kelly was really the first to pursue growing flowers for wedding purposes, and that was such a blessing and really shaped my dedication to using locally grown flowers.
To celebrate my 10th anniversary in business, I ran a giveaway with 2 prizes — a custom veil from Cathy Wiebe Clothes (that bride is getting married next year!), and a content creation package from Brides Eye View. Kaylee won that, and it was SO amazing — here’s her video!
I definitely don’t remember writing this 5th anniversary blog post, though some of the dreams and plans that I had at that point have come true, some are still on the table, and some have just changed completely.
Over the years, I’ve committed to making my business as sustainable as possible, which entails having a beautiful rental collection instead of putting the onus on clients to purchase and provide vessels to me. It also entails me making as many sustainable business choices as possible — composting, recycling, using reusable materials, and eliminating floral foam as much as possible. I’m really proud of this work — some of it is harder to do than the alternative, but it’s worth it in the long run, of course!
The Whirlwind that was August
August 2024 was the busiest month of Stone House history. It was quite unreal, to be honest with you. Everything about it was amazing, but I was so looking forward to it being over!
We kicked things off with a destination wedding in Clear Lake (a full dive into that wedding is coming in the new year!) for an NHL player. I took a team of 4 of us up there, with 3 more women driving in from the surrounding area for the day. We celebrated with pizza from TR McKoy’s (my FAVE restaurant in Clear Lake!) and ended the wedding day at Elkhorn’s new Nordic spa (it was AMAZING).
Photos below: Brittany Mahood
Following that large wedding, we dove right away into our largest wedding of the year the next week. I think we had 4-10 people on our team for that week, with TONS and TONS of flowers and a killer hanging installation composed of 80 feet of floral coverage. Cannot wait to show you more from this!
Photos below: Brittany Mahood
We designed for 4 other weddings that month, each of which was completely different from the next and filled with gorgeous flowers and colours and TONS of locally grown product. And for the final wedding of the month, I was hired for both floral and event design and it was really beautiful.
Photos below: Michael & Melanie, Casey Nolin, Bennett Murphy Mills, and me :)
Client Highlights
It’s incredibly exciting when my past clients are either part of the wedding party, or part of the family. It seems like this year, I got to see quite a lot of my past clients in wedding parties! Here are just a few :)
Photos (l-r) by Tedi Jean, Kassandra Donaldson, Karina Walker, Casey Nolin, Brittany Mahood, and Ariana Tennyson
It Takes a Village
It’s not possible to do the weddings that we do completely on my own. I’m so grateful for the wonderful team that comes together to make your wedding dreams come true. I really love being able to control the overall design and logistics, while being able to trust these women to design in such a beautiful way.
And below are a few of the random spots where you might have found me this year: up on a 20 foot high scaffold, inside a dirty plinth that needed cleaning, and designing in (and on top of!) a pool!
continuing to level up
I’ve spoken at length before about why I think it’s important to continue pursuing education and design inspiration. I’m not a new kid on the block at this point, but I think it’s really valuable to continually be seeking out both inspiration and wisdom from others in my industry.
This spring, I travelled to Montreal to learn from 2 of my favourite designers, and found myself fully refreshed and inspired by doing so. Here’s a quick recap of that trip! It seems so long ago, but it really did give me a great start to the season.
I also invested in an online course to help me level up my visual proposals. It’s an aspect of my process that I love and that sets me apart from my competition, and I know my clients appreciate. I can’t wait to dig into this even more for my upcoming clients.
Room Reveals
I always love seeing these moments! The moment when you first see your wedding space, completely finished. Your dreaming has actually, finally, happened. It’s exciting!! For a lot of you, this moment won’t be caught on camera (a lot of logistical planning needs to happen to allow for this!) and those moments are just as sweet to me. Even if I’m standing in a pile of stems I’m in the midst of sweeping up, when you walk in and see it all, it’s so exciting.
Above photos all by Brittany Mahood
In 2024, I was hired for multiple very large weddings with lots of production detail and processes to work through. I’m super proud of how I managed all of that! I really love the direction that Stone House has been growing, and I can’t wait to continue on this trajectory. While I will always love the smaller weddings, too, I really thrive on the logistics that are required for larger scale weddings and events.
And speaking of which…I will be hiring for a new position in 2025! I am not quite sure when I’ll post that announcement, as I’m still determining exactly what role(s) I want to fill, but if you’re interested in working with me, keep your eye out for that info!
I always like to promote some charitable offerings at the end of the year, in case any of you are looking for a great cause to donate to. Here’s a couple that I love:
Villages of Hope is an amazing Canadian organization that partners with communities in the poorest nations in Africa, providing schools, shelter, safety, nutrition, healthcare, and above all, hope. Their Hope Packs are a super cost-effective way to make a huge difference for a child, and include books, toys, clothing, and treats. They’re only $25!
Mainstreet Project: Amazon Wishlist
The Mainstreet Project is a Winnipeg organization that serves our city’s most marginalized people, and with the Canada Post strike this year, they’re in a rougher spot than most years. Their Amazon wishlist is such an easy way to support them with the items they need, without needing to worry about Canada Post.
So what’s coming up for the next few years? That’s a good question! I’ve got one really big idea…but I’m just not quite sure if it’s what I really want. Anyone know how to figure out the direction you really want to go? (that, and a few million dollars are needed, too…)
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.” Colossians 3:23
If you’re interested in following along for more regular updates, I post on Instagram every few days with snippets of my wedding season, featured weddings, and behind the scenes of my work!
The Winnipeg wedding industry is an amazing industry to be a part of. There are a lot of great people, working to make sure that all of your weddings come together wonderfully. There is also a lot of creativity and professionalism, a lot of knowledge and excellent service. It’s an honour to be a part of that. Thank you to all of my colleagues for making every wedding such a great work environment.
Now Booking 2024 Weddings
I’ve started booking 2024 weddings and I just love this part of the process! We get to dream together and envision how your wedding will look and feel. Taking your inspiration and interpreting it through my creative lens is just SO much fun — I want to take your inspiration, and elevate it to make it truly unique for you.
My schedule is Open:
I’m now booking 2024 weddings!
I love that as soon as we start talking about flowers, your eyes start to light up and wedding planning starts to become exciting. Even more, I love that when I deliver your bouquet on your wedding morning, the entire thing becomes real.
I’ve started booking 2024 weddings and I just love this part of the process! We get to dream together and envision how your wedding will look and feel. Taking your inspiration and interpreting it through my creative lens is just SO much fun — I want to take your inspiration, and elevate it to make it truly unique for you.
If you’re interested in working with me for your wedding florals, here are some things you should know:
Sustainability is important to me. The floral industry is anything but green, but prioritizing locally grown flowers, eliminating the use of toxic and non-biodegradable elements like floral foam, bleached product, and spray paint, and composting my waste are all elements of my business that I take pride in. It’s a lot easier to just go with the flow, but it’s worth it to spend the time and energy (and money!) to design differently.
I love colour. I think everyone should embrace colour, at least when it comes to flowers, and that’s not to say you need a Crayola-bright, rainbow wedding if that’s not your vibe. We can create warmth, moodiness, joyfulness, fun…whatever it might be, we can find the right palette to make it work. The key is blending, finding the right balance of colours, and adding in the right accents.
I’ve known people to regret doing an all-white wedding or something more subtle because they felt it would be “classic” or that they wouldn’t look back on it in 20 years and roll their eyes…but if that’s why you’re choosing a white palette, then you’re going to regret it anyways. It’s not you! Nothing is really timeless — just GO FOR COLOUR.The way I serve you is just as important to me as the final floral product. In my own life, I want to be taken care of by professionals who know what they’re doing, and I seek to create the same environment for you. There are a lot of floral designers out there. We’re all good at different things, we all offer different rentals or design styles, at different price points. Serving you, collaborating with you, elevating your experience AND the final product — that’s what I do.
Stone House Creative is known for our signature lush, garden style floral design. Inspired by the way flowers look in nature and their intoxicating scents, I’m constantly seeking to elevate my work through unique colour palettes and intriguing details, and make it simple for design-oriented couples who believe that flowers bring life to a celebration.
I design beautiful weddings for great people.
whether you’re looking for florals only or need a little more help and want to inquire about event design services as well, I design wedding flowers that are an elevated take on a garden-inspired aesthetic, and I specialize in dreaming up compelling designs that you haven’t seen at your friends’ weddings.
If you need
Unique ways to bring special touches to your wedding design;
Someone to handle the aesthetics while you handle the details — a designer to take your ideas and flesh them out, bringing together your entire wedding;
Excellent customer service from a professional, while still fun and inspiring, environment
Then I would love to connect with you about your wedding!
Stone House Creative has a minimum $4000 floral investment for 2024 bookings, with some exceptions made for intimate weddings under 50 guests, so that I can guarantee my clients the design style they’re looking for.
I do my best to only book one wedding per date to provide a higher level of service to each of you. I love being able to be on site, finessing and making sure that every detail is perfect. If I don’t have to rush off to another wedding, then I can actually do that for you!
Stone House Creative offers both floral design and full scale event design for weddings in winnipeg, southern Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.
Flowers are the best way to make a statement at your wedding. Whether you already have a specific vision or want me to dream up something custom just for you, reach out to Stone House Creative for stunning bridal bouquets, truly unique ceremony backdrops, and beautiful floral centrepieces to create the perfect ambiance for your wedding!
I’m currently booking appointments into late February and early March. At this early stage, you don’t need to worry about knowing every detail or making every decision. We can talk basics, dream up some ideas to consider, and book the date in so you have peace of mind that you’re on my calendar, and then revisit design ideas closer to the wedding!
Now Booking 2023 Weddings
I cannot wait to start connecting with couples planning their weddings for next year, and now that my maternity leave is winding down, it’s time to get talking!
My schedule is Open:
I’m now booking 2023 weddings!
I cannot wait to start connecting with couples planning their weddings for next year, and now that my maternity leave is winding down, it’s time to get talking!
I design beautiful weddings for great people.
whether you’re looking for florals only or need a little more help and want to inquire about event design services as well, I design wedding flowers that are an elevated take on a garden-inspired aesthetic, and I specialize in dreaming up compelling designs that you haven’t seen at your friends’ weddings.
Stone House Creative is known for our signature lush, garden style floral design. Inspired by the way flowers look in nature and their intoxicating scents, I’m constantly seeking to elevate my work through unique colour palettes and intriguing details, and make it simple for design-oriented couples who believe that flowers bring life to a celebration.
My clients are genuine, taking a light-hearted approach to life while appreciating creativity and design. You are attracted to quality and beauty, rather than the trendy and temporary, and aspire to always incorporate an interesting touch to liven things up. You work hard, and want to be taken care of by a professional in an inspiring environment.
If you need
Unique ways to bring special touches to your wedding design;
Someone to handle the aesthetics while you handles the details — a designer to take your ideas and flesh them out, bringing together your entire wedding;
Excellent customer service from a professional, while still fun and inspiring, environment
Then I would love to connect with you about your wedding!
A few things as I begin booking my 2023 calendar:
With 2 little kiddos at home and my desire to make sure that both my family AND my clients get the best of me, I’ll be taking fewer weddings than in previous years.
Stone House Creative has a minimum $2500 floral investment, so that I can guarantee my clients the design style they’re looking for
I only book one wedding per date to provide a higher level of service to each of you. I love being able to be on site, finessing and making sure that every detail is perfect. If I don’t have to rush off to another wedding, then I can actually do that for you!
Stone House Creative offers both floral design and full scale event design for weddings in winnipeg, southern Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.
Flowers are the best way to make a statement at your wedding. Whether you already have a specific vision or want me to dream up something custom just for you, reach out to Stone House Creative for stunning bridal bouquets, truly unique ceremony backdrops, and beautiful floral centrepieces to create the perfect ambiance for your wedding!
That's a Wrap on 2021!
That’s a wrap on an amazing 2021 wedding season! What started out as another pretty bleak year for the wedding industry turned into one of the most beautiful wedding seasons I could have imagined.
Here are a few highlights from the 2021 season!
That's a wrap on an amazing 2021 wedding season!
What started out as another pretty bleak year for the wedding industry turned into one of the most beautiful wedding seasons I could have imagined.
Being a part of weddings this year felt a little different than it has in the past.
(Spoiler alert: the changes have felt realllllly good)
When we would normally kick of wedding season (May and June), we had extremely tight restrictions (does anyone else barely remember those days?!), which gradually loosened throughout July, giving me the opportunity to design for several smaller weddings in July. August came, and with it, much looser restrictions, which made for a season of CRAZY. Multiple weekends saw 3 weddings, sometimes 4 and a few Thursday weddings, too! Many of our weddings were outdoors, and ironically thanks to the drought this year, our couples got pretty lucky with weather (although some extreme heat and bits of wind can make it pretty tricky with flowers!).
I had always planned on having a slower fall (if you missed it, I'm pregnant, and knew that I wouldn't have the same energy levels toward the end of my pregnancy) so September had a luxurious pace of just 1 or 2 weddings per weekend, and honestly, some of the most beautiful fall weddings I've ever witnessed. This year's fall leaves and weather were unbeatable!
I finished off the busy season with the largest wedding I've ever done (see some of those highlights below, with many, many more to come!) and am now officially be on maternity leave until next spring. Let's all hope that come 2022, we have an easier time planning and all the couples who've been postponing can simply celebrate with hearts full of joy and happiness, and not need to worry about anything else.
Here are a few highlights from the 2021 season!
Lynsey Corbett Photography
My Largest Wedding…Ever
October saw the largest wedding I’ve ever been a part of, and it was a GLORIOUS, flower-filled heaven. Deanna and I tag-teamed the full floral design for this wedding, which was originally scheduled for May 2020 (see their elopement here!). Needless to say, we’d been stressing about the details of this wedding for a looong time — but it came together so beautifully, and so seamlessly!
Thanks to our incredible team, a killer design plan by Soiree Event Planning, and a lot of flexibility from the couple, we created a floral experience that really wowed everyone — including us.
There will be plenty more to share, but for now, I’ll leave it at I’m both glad that this enormous wedding is complete and also wish that I could step back, pause time, and luxuriate in the florals that we designed to really take it all in.
You can see a few of the behind the scenes on my Instagram, here!
Lauren Cox Photography
Event Design
I love working through full event design with a couple. It’s something I only offer to 2-3 couples per season due to the hands-on nature of the service, and it’s always a joy to see those spots being filled! This summer I worked with 2 couples to bring their full event design to life, and they couldn’t have been more beautiful. I’m constantly refining my process, and couldn’t be more excited about it!
The Portfolio Builder
We really weren’t sure if we were going to be able to host this year’s Portfolio Builder! With gathering restrictions the way they were, we honestly didn’t know up until a few days beforehand if we’d actually be able to pull this off the way we wanted to, but with Emily from Feast & Festivities’ optimism leading us, we did.
I’m just realizing how little I’ve shared from this day back in June — it was a whirlwind of a day with multiple photographers and videographers coming through, and re-setting to ensure the content they’d capture was unique to them. Busy, but gorgeous, and it felt so good to be creating!
Marrying So Many Postponed Couples!
I think I had 14 or 15 couples get married this year who had postponed from 2020, and I have to say, it was really amazing to see the love, joy, and support surrounding all of them. A lot of couples still didn’t get to have quite the wedding of their dreams, but many of them also said they wouldn’t have changed a thing (except for maybe the stress levels). I’ve got a few more couples next year who had postponed, so I’m looking forward to helping them get excited and enjoying their wedding planning again!
More Outdoor Events
Almost all of my weddings this year were outdoor! This is actually not just a highlight though…there can be a lot of stress that comes along with an outdoor event, but once it’s all worked out, the ambiance is truly unparalleled. Wind and extreme heat were definitely things we battled with this year (though for once, not the bugs!), but we also celebrated under twinkling light canopies, with the breeze rustling through the trees.
This wedding is going to be featured soon on Junebug Weddings, and for now, you can see more on my blog here!
Notable Features
It's always a thrill to have my work featured or to be interviewed in a publication! This year has seen some wonderful press mentions, including Brides, Junebug (upcoming!), Wedding Chicks (3 times!), and the Winnipeg Free Press.
If you’re interested, you can find all my press features highlighted here.
My 7th Anniversary
Stone House turned 7 this past June! And did I forget all about it, in the chaos of the world? You bet I did. I forgot about it until November lol. So obviously there was no celebrating, but it still feels good to have that anniversary and be proud of how my business has grown.
And a few things coming up over the next few months:
Maternity Leave
Technically, I’m already on maternity leave! I’m excited to be taking a FULL maternity leave through April. I recognize with gratitude how much of a blessing this dedicated time with the baby will be, and am so happy that even as a self-employed person, I’ll be able to take this time off. During this time I will not be responding to any emails (in fact, my contact form will be turned off). I will begin limited office hours in April and plan to begin meeting with 2023 prospective clients who are already on my waitlist at this point.
The Blog Won’t be Silent!
Despite being on mat leave, I still have some great content scheduled on both my blog and my Instagram to keep you inspired and excited about your weddings. PLus, I want to show off some of the amazing 2021 weddings I was able to be part of. So I won’t be immediately accessible, but I’ll still have some great things to show off!
2023 Wedding Bookings
Taking the summer off of appointments and consultations was SO nice but I’m also looking forward to talking with couples, hearing their plans and beginning to envision what I can do to make their weddings even more special. My 2022 wedding calendar is quite full — assuming all goes to plan with the rescheduled weddings from this year, next year’s calendar has just 1 date available in July and 1 date available in August, and then a handful in October, November, and December. 2023 dates will become available at the end of my maternity leave in the spring, but I do have a waitlist started in case you want to tentatively put your date on my calendar. I’m really looking forward to getting into some brainstorming sessions to design your days!
