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!

We met at a BBQ thrown by a roller derby teammate. He happened along because my teammate was Will's roommate's sister. The rest is history. During that history we dated for three months then went long distance for a year and a half. Will moved from Boston to Austin then LA in that time until he finally convinced me to join him. After a year of living together he popped the question.

We got engaged over Christmas vacation while visiting home (Massachusetts). We were headed to have dinner with his dad when he decided to take me on a little driving tour of his hometown. Little did I know that he was just gathering up courage to pop the question. We park at a quaint little pond and take a walk to the gazebo and that is where he asked. We drive by it every time we go to his Dad's house.

Words by bride-to be Nancy, as told to Amber Marlow. Photos by Natalja Kent from Two Moon Photography

Bride wearing yellow and green, smiling at her future husband.

Interracial couple smiling during their engagement photos

couple posed with the Griffith Observatory in the background

future bride and groom with palm trees behind them.

couple with future bride in the foreground.

engagement photo of the couple slow dancing at the Griffith Observatory

NATALJA KENT

Natalja from Two Moon Photography builds inclusive, documentary-style, heirloom, love photography portfolios. Based in Los Angeles, California, she has been working as a professional photographer for over 20 years. With clients such as Harvard, Tom Tom Magazine, and GQ, she brings a grounded and experienced presence to all her shoots. She is a first generation American and revels in celebrating the diversity of this culturally rich world.