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!

Atlanta, Georgia is known for its “City in the Forest” vibe, amazing music, and, don’t forget, peaches! It also landed at number THREE on the best places to get married in the U.S. It’s not surprising — there’s a place for any kind of wedding. It’s also easily accessible via train, air, or major highways, which is a big factor for those with out of town guests!

Considering an Atlanta wedding? Here are 9 reasons to start planning yours today.

1. Vibrant Downtown Perfect for Modern Wedding Photos

2. Easy Travel — Less Than Three Hour Flight from Three Major Cities

3. Among Cities With Highest Quality of Life

4. Dozens of Fabulous Breweries

5. Big Open Skies a Short Drive From the City

6. Fashion Capital of the South

7. Fall Is Actually Wedding Season—Not Summer

8. Allows for a Perfect Blend of Old and New Styles

9. Increasingly, Black Women Run the Show

There are a lot more women in Atlanta than men, and they are moving to the top of every industry. Want a to support a WOC wedding vendor on your wedding day. You’ll have no trouble finding hundreds here.

Atlanta Photographer Kelley Raye (right) with her wife

JAMIE CARLE

Jamie is the owner of Jamie Carle Photography and resides in Vancouver, WA. Their background was always in videography. They were an AV nerd in high school and president of their school video club. When college came, Jamie decided to major in graphic design and put video second. They became pregnant — and knowing they’d be a single parent — they made the choice to put off school while they worked, scraped, and saved. One way Jamie was able to stay creative and sane was photography. Through thousands of photos of their baby, Jamie was able to keep doing something really special.

Jamie found a new passion and moved from their own child to other children, which then expanded into all kinds of family portraiture. Jamie was asked if they offered wedding services, and at the time was floored. Jamie became a second shooter for another photographer and learned some ins and outs of the wedding business. This has since become their favorite thing to do — capture love and tell your story.