Keeping It Real With Herbal Heart Apothecary

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Keeping It Real With Herbal Heart Apothecary

Meet Sarahkate, the creative mind behind Herbal Heart Apothecary (H2a) AND a lovely friend. We asked her what's going on with H2a, and she said, "The gardens are booming! We just harvested a ton of herbs today, so that's progress. I am currently working on sample products and getting our latest product on the market at H2a. We gutted and re-did the detached garage and turned it into a real manufacturing space. Other than that, planning to travel to meet my suppliers for olive oil, imported herbs, and so on." We want to come! 

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Keeping It Real with Shawnee Custalow of A Lovely Photo

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Keeping It Real with Shawnee Custalow of A Lovely Photo

Happy Wednesday, y'all! Today we want to introduce our amazing sponsor, Shawnee Custalow of A Lovely Photo! She has been a strong supporter of Catalyst since the beginning. She also attended {un}convention Brooklyn, helped us to organize the Out of the Box Challenge, and has photographed some of our favorite #PhotoFriday posts to date (like this one and this one).

Shawnee took some time to give us a behind the scenes look into her photography business and share how she is disrupting the wedding industry by focusing on inclusivity.

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Thankful Registry: Root Gift Giving in Gratitude

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Thankful Registry: Root Gift Giving in Gratitude

In my 20s, I found myself buying wedding gifts on registries for friends who were getting married. Those experiences were so impersonal and transactional I started to wonder if I could build something better. Before Thankful, I was a copywriter at design agencies working on big corporate websites and also small, fun brands with lots of personality. So I started with the tone I wanted the site to have. Since gift giving is so emotional, I knew the brand would be more about the relationships between people, and less about "stuff." That's what set us apart from the way retailers were doing registries.

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Business We Believe In: Cads About Matrimony

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Business We Believe In: Cads About Matrimony

Any thinking person who has planned a bachelorette party for a friend has felt the singular anguish of trying to steer clear of the humiliating, tired old clichés that traditional wedding culture likes to throw at you, while still delivering fun ways to honor someone you care about. That anguish was what inspired me to create the wedding-themed party game, Cads About Matrimony.

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Business We Believe In: Save the Date Originals

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Business We Believe In: Save the Date Originals

Save the Date Originals does graphic design and printing for folks who want to make fun things to send to friends and family!  "Send them something exciting!"

Angela is the founder of the company, and she has been making Save the Date Originals for eleven years!  

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Business We Believe In: Oriana Koren Weddings

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Business We Believe In: Oriana Koren Weddings

As an artist, I’ve made it my duty to reflect the way we celebrate marriage today. I am most interested in the ways in which we subvert, disrupt, and ultimately, reclaim what marriage can be for each and every one of us. I am lucky to be able to document vanguards who are celebrating community and inclusion as primary to what it is to be in love and to marry in these times. 

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Business We Believe In: Betty Clicker Photography

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Business We Believe In: Betty Clicker Photography

My name is Kate. I was born near the white mountains of New Hampshire, grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, had a few-year stint in Brooklyn, and have settled for the time being in Richmond, VA. My most recent blissful moment was standing atop a glacier lagoon in Iceland with my medium format film camera. My happiest place is around a table with wine, home-cooked food, friends and family in abundance.

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Business We Believe In: Susty Party

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Business We Believe In: Susty Party

Susty Party inspires people to come together and connect over food and conversation without it feeling like a hassle.  Our tableware is stylish and fun, makes for easy clean-up, and there's no guilt about making mountains of trash because all our products are made from recycled or renewable resources!

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Business We Believe In: Paisley & Jade

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Business We Believe In: Paisley & Jade

is a boutique-style rental company and prop house located in the heart of Richmond, Virginia. Specializing in vintage and eclectic items, we maintain an inventory of gorgeous furniture and decor pieces that can be used to create one-of-a-kind visual displays. From soirées to styled shoots, our collection contains the details that assist our clients in executing their vision. We have sourced up & down the east coast, dug through barns and even pulled items from our own grandmothers’ attics to curate our extensive collection. With a selection of upholstered pieces, plus a warehouse full of furniture and smalls that would make any thrift store junkie jealous, we are truly a destination for event designers, art directors, stylists and commercial photographers. 

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Business We Believe In: Pop! Wed Co.

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Business We Believe In: Pop! Wed Co.

Pop! Wed Co. was created because as a designer, I know how to plan weddings that will look awesome, and my partner Steven was just perfect for a wedding officiant — we realized that we could plan a whole tiny wedding for our couples, relieving all of their stress, and letting them simply show up and have an amazing wedding.

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Catalyst Takes New York // Toasted Wedding Event

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Catalyst Takes New York // Toasted Wedding Event

One of our most exciting meetings was with Dawn, co-owner of Toasted, a traveling indie bridal show. She and her partner, Tara, started their company in Brooklyn. They've taken the show to Washington, D.C., are currently out West in San Francisco and San Diego, and they'll make their way back to the East Coast for a Boston show and an encore Brooklyn show in the spring.

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Catalyst Takes New York // Anna Thompson Design

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Catalyst Takes New York // Anna Thompson Design

One of the many fantastic people we met with in New York was the graphic designer for Catalyst Wedding Magazine, Anna of Anna Thompson Design. We met her, along with her two sisters, at The East Pole on the Upper East Side for dinner. After chatting about sibling dynamics, we got down to business.  Anna will be adding her own flare to the magazine's clean layout, quirkifying some of the pieces with custom graphics.

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