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!

When Catalyst friends and vendors get together to create a workshop, you know that I want to see the photos after! In this case, I was thrilled when images began hitting my inbox from the Radical Wed Retreat, a photo conference hosted by Justine Broughal and Jamie Carle that we at Catalyst had the privilege of sponsoring.

They created a gorgeous, two-part editorial shoot using real life couple Karla, one of the officiants from Once Upon a Vow, and her girlfriend Mary, on the Oregon coast.

The photos below are a mix of photographers (and a videographer!), and I’m so pleased to present it as whole for you today. Enjoy!

— Amber Marlow, Features Editor

Photos by Jamie Carle, Lauryn Kay, Courtney Mehmen, Kelcey Olson, and Ziggy Shoots
Video by Elizabeth Mealey