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I'm Ruth and I'm so happy you're here. This journal is about weddings, engagement sessions, planning tips, and travels. Stay a while and say hello!

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How To Choose the Perfect Wedding Invitations for Your Luxury Wedding Day

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Weddings

Finding the perfect wedding invitations for your luxury celebration can be complicated! It’s important to find stationery and paper goods that are true to your wedding style and theme. But you also need to consider how they will photograph with your other wedding details! Many couples don’t consider how their details will look as a […]

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Wedding Vendors Search Etiquette for Couples

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Weddings

Finding the perfect vendors for your wedding will take time and requires interactions with many vendors you won’t wind up booking. You will have to shop around to find businesses you trust, people who you connect with and the price that is in line with your wedding budget. As you are looking for your vendors […]

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Trending Tuxedo Styles for the Groom

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Weddings

One of my favorite up and coming trends has to be the emphasis on menswear on the wedding day! Grooms traditionally have worn very simple and dark suits for many years. But, with the fashion industry taking more interest in men’s fashion we are seeing so much variety now for our grooms! Just in the […]

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Sunflower Farm Engagement Session in Tampa FL | Danica & Matt

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Engagements

Congratulations to Danica and Matt! They celebrated their engagement with a gorgeous (but hot!) sunflower farm engagement session here in Tampa, Florida. I’m so happy they asked me to photograph this special time in their life. Danica and Matt are seriously the sweetest and I had a joy exploring the fields with them both during […]

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Bayanihan Arts and Events Center Wedding 

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Weddings

One of my close friends that I worked with met this guy in a lounge, gave him a ride home from the airport, and seven years later they tied the knot in their Banyanian Arts and Events Center Wedding! It was wild how they met, but their love is just so romantic and vibrant that […]

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Davis Island Engagement Photos

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Engagements

Mandy and Diego are such a sweet couple and their engagement sessions were so beautiful. Yes, you read that right, they had a two-part engagement session: a Rollins College Engagement Session and a Davis Island engagement session.  Best Friends Who Fell in Love Mandy and Diego have a beautiful love story. They met at church […]

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Blush & Golden Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel Wedding

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Weddings

There they stood, Morgan and Zach, by the beach, in front of their family and closest friends – Ready to become one at the same place where Morgan’s grandparents also became one years ago. Not only that but also being married by the same officiant who married her grandparents: Arlene Klein. What a heartfelt, unforgettable […]

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5 Things to Look for when Choosing your Tampa Wedding Photographer

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For Brides

Choosing your Tampa Wedding Photographer is no easy task. I’m sure if you are reading this, you already understand the importance of hiring a professional wedding photographer to capture your day and how we are trained to capture the best moments of your wedding day while making you look flattering and creating memories that you’ll […]

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