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!
Jasmine places a long distance call across the Atlantic Ocean to Nova Reid, the powerhouse woman behind award-winning UK wedding blog Nu Bride. Together they discuss creating an inclusive wedding industry, the effects of Brexit, lashing out when you feel overwhelmed with the wedding planning process, and why marriage isn't happily ever after... it's bloody hard work!
Read MoreA special interactive mini episode about relationship tools! Jasmine shares a nugget of relationship wisdom from jeweler Mariele Ivy, previously on episode eleven "A Touch of Stardust" and talks about contrasting personalities, and the tools we develop to relate to one another. Tell us about your own relationship tools at jasminerlilly.com/wise-words for a chance to appear on a future episode of The Avowed Podcast!
Read MoreJasmine speaks with wedding planner Erica Greenwold, owner of Folie à Deux Events in North Carolina about humanitarian efforts in the wedding industry, creating a ceremony and reception that reflect your personal beliefs, and creating a totally rad wedding in 5 months on a five thousand dollar budget. Cover Photo by Ashley Posthuma
Read MoreJasmine speaks with Nate Bailey, the vision and voice behind The Loveumentary Podcast, about navigating the emotional landscape of your partner, developing your marital skill set, and bypassing unnecessary wedding planning arguments with a unique rating system.
Read MoreJasmine is joined by artist and metalsmith Mariele Ivy, to discuss her unique engagement ring sets that marry inlaid stone with brilliant cut diamonds. Together they discuss choosing an engagement and wedding ring that works with your lifestyle, living a creative life, and how the suggestion of a stranger can send your life in unexpected directions.
Read MoreJasmine is joined by Katie Stoltz, owner and creator of Venues & Vows, an online marketplace that connects people with a curated collection of privately owned homes, estates, farms, and ranches for their wedding or event. Together they tackle painfully awkward wedding day traditions, being a bridesmaid, invasive questioning from well meaning wedding guests, and why a wedding weekend will always outshine a wedding day.
Read MoreIn this follow up to "Love is Love" Jasmine questions New York City Wedding Photographer Amber Marlow about what it was like to go through a divorce, dating, and second marriage while working in the wedding industry.
Read MoreJasmine speaks with New York City wedding photographer Amber Marlow about how she creates an elopement experience, the centering of whiteness in our wedding culture, eviscerating the seeds of intolerance, and being aggressively authentically yourself.
Read MoreJasmine speaks with bride-to-be Hannah Easterly about splitting her wedding celebration up into three events, sharing your vows with an audience, allowing your wedding vendors some creative freedom, and choosing between a legally binding marriage or something less defined.
Read MoreJasmine talks with Catalyst Wedding Magazine's Editor in Chief, Liz Susong, about long-distance marriage, racism and sexism in the wedding industry, making peace with discomfort, and finding more reasons to celebrate.
Read MoreThe wildly in love photographers behind Kindred Wedding Co., Elle Wildhagen and Zach Domes, open up about rejoicing in the dark, messy moments of love, gendered narratives, silent discos, the evolving language of “we” and how familial sagas of love and divorce help shape our contemporary perspectives on love.
Read MoreIn PART I of this two part episode Jasmine is joined by Gabby LaBarbara, an editorial assistant at Junebug Weddings. Together they expose the complex emotional landscape of planning a wedding as Gabby recounts her experience canceling her "first" wedding, processing her emotions, and starting all over with a smaller wedding that represents the unique love she shares with her fiancé Patrick.
Read MoreJoin Jasmine in a no bullsh*t conversation with Lauren Caselli, owner and creator of Boss Lady Bash, as they discuss working in the cutthroat NYC wedding industry, creating a supportive space for female entrepreneurs, getting over "The Princess Complex," and speculate on marriage contract negotiations.
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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!
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