To my beloved event community and treasured clients. I share this news today in celebration of 32 years of love and laughter with my very best friend. My sweet husband, Owen, had been battling cancer for the past five years. But during that time we never let it define us. We didn’t let it define our lives. We lived and loved fully and passionately every minute of every day. He was my champion, my best friend and my hero. One week ago today he transitioned to a better place at home surrounded by our children and his family. I will be taking the month of July off, but my assistant will be handling all client needs during that time. I have had the dream job of documenting love for 20 plus years. What I’ve learned over the past months especially is that the deepest love can be found in the smaller quieter moments - it surrounds us in ways we all take for granted until something like cancer opens us up to the beauty and magic before us. Snuggling on the couch binge watching TV. Making that extra stop the store to pick up a favorite ice cream flavor. Playing chess with your kids. I share this today and ask you not to mourn with me but rather to celebrate love. Love that lives both in the milestone and the mundane, the special days and every day. I married my love on May 30, 1993. (So excuse the huge puffy sleeves and ascots.) I am grateful for every moment since then. In the play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, the protagonist, Emily, passes and sees her life before her - about which she says, “Oh earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every every minute?” Owen realized that over the past years. And he lived and loved every every minute. So today, for him, take a moment and pause and even with everything going on in the world right now - even amongst the challenges and darkness - find the love. Find what’s worth fighting for and fight for it. And then get on with living. Xoxo Laurie