April in Minnesota is an awful lot like a box of chocolates. You truly never know what you are going to get. Maybe sun, maybe rain, maybe 2 feet of snow. But not this year. This year, April 13, 2024, was perfect. On this day this year, love blossomed just as much as the buds […]

Boutique hotels are the greatest, in my opinion. Independently owned, each with a unique personality…there is nothing quite like them. They are are travel experience all on their own. And when considering a hotel as a wedding venue, there is definitely no place like the Hewing Hotel, and there is nothing like a Hewing Hotel […]

It was a chilly, chilly morning, a mere 45 degrees as Alisa was corseted up by her would-be mother-in-law in the cottage at Trellis Wedding Events in Stillwater, Minnesota. She rubbed away the already-forming goosebumps from her arm, gesturing lightly to the hooded shawl (the perfect match to her lace mermaid gown) that would protect […]

PSA: If someone is starting your daughter’s/sister’s/friend’s snowmobile, do not worry–it is probably just their soulmate. Nearly ten years ago, Ali and Brad began their journey towards forever; just like the ignition on that Arctic Cat, something sparked, and it took off into the snow and the woods in search of fun and adventure. From […]

Jamie was simply sitting in class one day when she received a text from her sister, Katie. According to Jamie, it is not uncommon for Katie to urgently need to talk, but this text, which read boldly “EMERGENCY 911,” forced Jamie to book it with her textbooks out of her class to see what was […]

  When we meet the ones who get us, it is amazing how we just know it is meant to be.   That is how I felt when I met Katie. Katie, she gets me. As a fellow teacher of ninth grade English, she would know and understand my “Romeo and Juliet” jokes. She loves […]

Kaitlynn and Adam met me one early October evening, which turned out to be a beautiful mix of summer and fall—comfortably warm temperatures mixed with a pop of fall color. It was indeed a gorgeous night for an engagement session. Bentley the Puppy couldn’t have agreed more, even though there were times when he wondered […]