Real Weddings, Advice, & Inspiration

Catalyst Wedding Company highlights weddings by and for game-changers. We seek to amplify and empower voices and viewpoints that are usually missing from the Wedding Industrial Complex. We're a community of badass wedding professionals who love all things funky, fresh, diverse, unique, and personality-driven; we convene twice yearly for (un)convention, a collaborative workshop, styled shoot, and dinner party. We're also the publishers of Catalyst Wedding Mag, a resource for couples looking for inspiration and affirmation that doing things differently in wedding-world is not only ok, it's wonderful!

In the late 1970s, in Santa Cruz, California, Annie and Janice met and realized that they enjoyed each other's company so much that they should give living together a chance. Thirty years later, at their home in Maryland, they celebrated their marriage with family, neighbors, and life-long friends. They believe that the strength of their relationship comes from mutual respect for each other's creativity, the ability to enjoy being alone, and of course, the joy of a profound love that comes along once in a lifetime.

Photos and words courtesy of Erika Nizborski

ERIKA NIZBORSKI

Erika first discovered her love for photography when she took a darkroom class in high school. She decided to study photography in college and shortly after earning her BFA she started her photography business. Erika offers a documentary approach to wedding photography. After 5 years in the photography business she has learned that no two weddings are the same, each couple has their own love story and she strives to help tell it through her images. Erika resides in Hyattsville, MD and primarily works in the DC area.