In this episode of Now That I’m Engaged, How Do I Get Married?, Kevin Dennis and August Yocher sit down with Rebecca Glayzer, founder of The Mood Brief, to talk about how couples can turn endless wedding inspiration into a clear, cohesive vision for their big day.

Rebecca shares how to make sense of overflowing Pinterest boards, identify the feelings you want your wedding to reflect, and find common themes in your inspiration. She also explains why not every saved photo needs to make it into your wedding design and how to create a celebration that feels authentic to you rather than simply following trends.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by wedding inspiration and aren't sure how to bring all your ideas together, this episode will help you narrow down your vision and focus on what matters most!

Rebecca is the founder of The Mood Brief and a wedding professional with ten years of experience across florals, event coordination, merchandising, and event production. After helping hundreds of couples, she understands both the creative side of a wedding and what it takes to make that vision work in real life. Through The Mood Brief, she helps couples find the thread in their scattered inspiration and turn it into a clear, cohesive direction their vendors can actually use. Known for pairing the judgment of a creative director with the candor of a perceptive friend, Rebecca believes the most interesting wedding is not the one everyone else wants, but the one in which the couple can recognize themselves.

Highlights:

• How to turn an overwhelming Pinterest board into a cohesive wedding vision
• Why identifying three feelings you want for your wedding day is a great place to start
• How to recognize common themes and patterns in your saved inspiration
• Why not every wedding trend or inspiration photo needs to make the final cut
• How your wedding venue can help guide your overall design direction
• Creating a wedding aesthetic that feels authentic to you as a couple

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All right, folks, welcome to another episode of Now That I'm Engaged, How Do We Get Married? And today we're with Rebecca Glayzer. She's the founder of the Mood Brief. And she's gonna be talking to us today. You have 200 saved wedding images. Now what? So we're gonna jump into that. But before we do, Rebecca, what can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how we got you here today?

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for having me. I'm Rebecca.

Of course.

I'm the founder of the Mood Brief. I've worked in weddings for about 10 years now across flower- started as a florist, event coordination, merchandising, and creative direction. And I started the mood brief from a mix of planning my own wedding and seeing so many couples get to this point where they had all of these saved images, a million ideas, and no idea how to actually turn

Mm-hmm.

them into a vision that felt cohesive and like most importantly felt like them.

Mm-hmm.

so that's exactly what I help with. I help take all that scattered inspiration and I turn it into a clear creative direction before couples start making a million individual design decisions as they go into planning.

All right, I love it. All right, so let's start with the obvious. A couple has saved, let's say, 200, probably even sometimes more wedding images on Pinterest, but what should they actually do with all of them?

I think the first thing I would say is that having all these images isn't necessarily a bad thing, but

Okay.

the issue is when you start treating every single image like it's something that has to be in your wedding. Because

Mm.

you're not really drawn to 200 completely different ideas. There are patterns in there that you just don't recognize yet. So I always ask my couples to do an exercise before they really even start digging into Pinterest if they haven't already. And I asked them to start with three.

Feelings. What are three feelings that you want your wedding day to

Hm.

feel like? maybe that's easy, intimate, and grounded, or that's warm, playful, and unexpected. And those three distinct words will start giving you a filter as you start looking through inspiration images. So you're not maybe saving the loud, crazy, colorful wedding and then something that's muted and more intimate and coastal.

Mm-hmm.

so that's

always where I tell people to start is start with feelings, don't start

Mm.

with the vision.

That was gonna be one of my first questions too, is do you have a lot of couples that come to you and the inspiration is not cohesive across the board? Like you just said, like they have a bunch of colorful images, a bunch of neutral images, maybe they have just a color palette all over the place. Does

Mm-hmm.

does that become a little harder to try to narrow things down when there is inspiration all over?

Yeah, I'd say it's a mixed bag. There's a lot of couples that have I could see the pattern, whether it's, you know, maybe they're more attracted to something that feels more muted or pastels like and someone that really is like, I want this to feel like a nightclub disco party.

Yeah.

and then I do have a few couples that are like, I actually don't even understand what I like. I hear things that I've saved. and that's when I'll usually send them my creative questionnaire and ask them like.

specifically like how did you meet? what are shared hobbies that you have? And from there I'm able to look at their boards and be like, this actually feels like them and start like pretty much like trimming the fat essentially of what they're what they're really drawn to.

Hmm. I like that. All right. So what's the first step you recommend for couples who feel completely overwhelmed by all these saved images?

I would say definitely start with the feelings. And then

Okay.

I would say step two is go through your inspiration and look for what keeps repeating. So

okay.

is it low lighting? Is it long tables versus round tables? Maybe you like a lot of pattern linens versus just something that's a little bit more neutral. Is it dark wood? Is it light wood? Very loose flowers, more restricted flowers.

and that's information. So I feel like once if couples are able to really just kind of look through their inspiration and see that like actually maybe I'm saving more dark wood rather than something that's light, those

Mm.

are clues to helping filter essentially what your design might feel like at the end of this.

It's funny, I had a a bride one time that was telling me she wanted her wedding like a blush pink. And every

Mm.

everything in her like Pinterest board and everything she saved was like a a lavender. And so I was like, Hey, I just wanna

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

clarify that I'm like, Are we colorblind or what are you know, I wanna make sure

Yeah.

what what am I working with? And the mom turned around and looked. I told you and like it was this funny little interaction I had, but but everything was lavender, but she was kept saying blush and so

It was very interesting how they Yeah.

Yes. I feel like the blush and lavender is like that mauve. Like everyone's mauve

Like she was in denial.

always leans like a little too pink or it leans to lavender. And it's one of the hardest colors to design with in terms of floral design. Because it can either be

No, a hundred percent. Yeah.

too pink or too purple, so

Yeah. I agree.

Yeah, it's kind of a fine line. And I feel like something we should bring up at the beginning too is like obviously being on social media like Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, what have you, couples are seeing trends all the time. And, you know, some trends stay longer, some are very quick, just a couple months. But how do you help couples distinguish between something that they truly genuinely love? And it could be a trend, because, you know, it's fine to do trends, you know, but then

Mm-hmm. Yes.

Something that they're just seeing everywhere all the time.

that's a great question because I was about to go into my step three, which is

Yeah.

I like this doesn't always mean that I want this.

Mm.

there are so many weddings that you can look at and think, I think this is beautiful, but I personally

Mm.

wouldn't want that for myself. and those are obviously two very different things. You know, you can appreciate an all-white ballroom wedding and still know that that doesn't feel like you.

So I think it's really helpful to ask, do I actually want to experience this or do I just like looking at it?

When my friends walk in and think, Wow, like this feels just like them. and that usually starts eliminating a lot. And I think being in this age of social media and seeing, you know, these influencer weddings, these larger weddings, it feels like you have to do all the things or, you know, you're being pushed towards, I should like this, but I don't know.

Especially with brand collaborations. There's so many- the weddings world, I mean, you guys know are is so

Mm-hmm.

pre like post COVID, I feel like just flipped upside down and it's completely different than what it was pre twenty twenty. So again, you can appreciate something, but if it doesn't feel like you, move on.

Yeah, good point. All right,

What are some clues that a saved image doesn't actually belong in a couple's wedding vision?

I'd say if eighty percent of that photo, whether it's you don't like the lamps, you don't like the color of the wood, you don't like the linen, you don't like the setting, then that's a good start to say, you know what, maybe I don't this isn't the full vision. but maybe there's five percent of the photo that you do like. Maybe it's the low lighting or maybe it's a certain chair that they use and you can

pull that out essentially and see how it fits into like what you're actually responding to and if it fits at all.

Yeah, and I so I wanted to ask too, like before we get into the rest of the questions and kind of the nitty-gritty of this process is like first, a lot of the couples that approach you about the mood brief and your services, is it typically right at the beginning of the process, or is it, you know, they're further in, they're kind of struggling with identifying what their theme is and what they want to see at their wedding, and then they'll come to you. And then when should couples be starting?

trying to have a more cohesive look. Like should they have a general idea before going in and booking vendors, or is this something they can kind of do along the way?

So

I get a mixed, mixed bag. There are some couples that come to me and they haven't started planning at all. And then I have other couples that already have their venue booked, they have their photographer booked. but maybe they don't have their stationery picked out yet, or they don't have their linen colors picked out yet, or their florals. so I'd say I definitely get a lot in the beginning and some that are just in the middle of the process.

So I would say the best time to really start designing and thinking about your wedding, depending on where you are in the process, about eight to twelve months before your wedding

Mm.

date. I I feel like a lot of couples now are actually booking way in advance and thinking about their designs way in advance. Maybe it's

I agree.

almost like what, eighteen months now, probably on average, maybe two years. But then there's other side of some couples feel like if they plan too early, their tastes might change and

Mm.

I think with working with couples too, like the version of who you are as a couple in this moment, like probably won't change in the next twelve months. And I always try and make sure that there's really sentimental pieces that are connected into the wedding, not just like what is this big flower trend that's happening where I really like calla lilies. It's like, why? Was it your grandma's favorite flower?

because whether if calla lilies stopped trending by next year and this person still decides to use calla lilies, that has sentimental meaning.

Yeah.

And it's okay if Instagram doesn't know that because your friends and family know that.

Yeah, for sure. What about like season, location, guest count, budget? When should those like realities start influencing the inspiration board?

Yeah, I would say definitely be very choosey about your venue depending on maybe what

Mm.

you're what you're drawn to. I've observed a lot of couples just booking a venue and then trying to fit what they like afterwards into the setting and it's something that's

very conflicting. So you try and find the happy medium there. Maybe you don't use, you know, those certain wicker chairs and you use something that's like more walnut.

to fit like the environment. So if you haven't already booked your venue, really start to think and do this filter process of like what you're being drawn to on Pinterest or another inspiration images. and if you don't have your if you already have your venue booked, the same thing. What what works with your venue, what doesn't, but still feels like you.

Yeah, we do a lot of lighting, drapery, chandeliers and whatnot. And so like sometimes they'll come to us with a venue that we can't attach anything to the ceiling. So I'm like, well, we gotta take anything hanging out of there unless you wanna bring in rigging and you know, it gets really costly and expensive at that point. So it it is I always feel like find the venue and then I I don't know, it it seems to get easier at that point.

Yes. And then and budget too. I mean, I all

Yeah.

Yeah.

my couples, you know, on average, either what's your overall wedding budget or what do you want to put towards design? and that's a lot where people are getting discouraged now, especially in this large influencer weddings world that we're currently living in and

It's okay that you can't afford an a hundred thousand dollar wedding. That's not very possible for most people, myself included. I did not have

Yeah.

a large wedding. instead, it's just ask what you need to compromise a bit. Like, what are your three most important design decisions that you want? Is it the flowers? Is it one big installation? Is it a really intricate tablescape?

While you might not be able to have everything that you love, you can still prioritize the things that mean the most to you.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, good point.

And is that something you take into account when you're helping couples create their vision? Like, because I mean, you've been around the industry in a lot of different facets. So I'm sure you have a pretty good idea of what weddings are costing right now. And that can be frustrating for a couple because there's no price tag attached to anything they're seeing on Instagram. But do you kind of help them like take maybe it is an influencer wedding or a celebrity wedding and say, Yeah, we can take

like pieces of this and elements with this that fit within your budget. Like do they usually bring a budget with them too when they're talking with you about inspiration and vision?

Yeah, usually they'll they'll bring a budget to me and depending on their board and what they're drawn to, I've I'll be very realistic about what's possible versus

Mm-hmm.

what isn't. I ask, are you using the chairs at the venue already? Are you like what plateware are you using? Are you using the one that's already provided? And most of the couples do obviously, because you know, a plate can cost like twenty dollars just to rent individually, depending on what you get.

Yeah. That adds up.

So I always I try to work there with what they're already have at the venue if they're choosing to, you know, opt into those options and build that within the story of their vision.

you brought up something that made me laugh. Is it so I I was gonna ask at one point where should couples stop collecting inspiration altogether? Because

Mm-hmm.

there's times where I I tell like my bride, I'm like, you need to put blinders on and stop looking at like Instagram and stuff because you're we're we're we're like at the home stretch and we're trying to change way too much of the design. You know, so like is there a point where you feel they should stop looking?

Yeah,

I would say definitely close Pinterest.

Yeah.

Delete your account. at the end of this process, so you should be able to describe your wedding without opening Pinterest. So that could be something like we want it to feel like an intimate dinner party that's a little moody and nostalgic with lots of warm light, burgundies and browns and blues, seasonal flowers that are feel loose rather than too tight.

Chrome details and nothing too formal.

Mm.

Like if they can describe

Mm.

it within three to four sentences, they're good. They do not need to open Pinterest ever again, regardless of what people

Yeah, I love that.

are doing.

That's a good test.

Can yeah.

And that that kind of answered our next question. So I don't know if you're able to dive into that a little bit more, but we were gonna ask like how many different ideas can a wedding realistically handle before it starts feeling like incohesive, visually disconnected, just it it feels kind of like a hodgepodge mess a little bit.

Yeah, I think a way to control that chaos, I think especially with Pinterest is creating categories for

Mm.

what you're looking to do. So you have a flower folder, you have a wedding dress folder, you have tablescape folders. and I would say do that process after you've really determined like

what do you want those three key feelings of your wedding to feel like. I know I keep going back to the feelings, but I do think it eliminates about like 80% of the stress when you're going through inspiration photos for the first time or even like the 15th time. because you're gonna be able to look at these photos and say, this is what feels like this versus, you know, maybe this inspiration photo I saved a year ago that maybe I actually don't like anymore, like feels too loud.

Or too loud for the venue or too colorful.

Yeah. Well so speaking of feelings, like I feel like couples get stuck on like colors and flowers and a specific like decor piece, but how can they like really identify the feeling that they want the wedding to have?

I think sitting with your partner, I think this is the other thing. I think that sometimes we talk about planning as such like an individual thing. Usually time

Yeah.

it's the moms or the brides, of course, or grandmas are involved. And I'm noticing, I mean, we've been seeing this for years now, that couples are really taking control of the narrative. Like there

Mm-hmm.

is no

Mm-hmm.

more traditional. There

is

Yeah.

the traditional now is do what

Non

traditional.

Exactly. And

I think sitting with your partner and picturing yourself when you're sitting at your dinner table, like what do you want to see when you look around? Do you want to see your

Mm.

friends really close and laughing and like and dim light? Do you wanna see this big vast open tent and maybe you did a nice floral installation on the top?

I think really creating that story with your partner and what you want it to feel like together, I think really helps.

Yeah, I think that's important.

Yeah. So have you ever experienced this or for any couples listening, if the couple has completely different tastes, like different ends of the spectrum, how can they find like the common thread between their two visions?

Yeah, this one comes up a bit.

It does, yeah.

Yeah.

there'll be some niche, you know, niche hobby that one of them has. for instance, let's say like skateboarding, all right.

Mm-hmm.

You know, one partner loves skateboarding. Instead of like translating that into like a literal, like a figurine for the place cards, like

You can do the exercise of looking through like skateboard magazines or movies

Hmm.

and like what's the typography, what's the color schemes that like they're using a lot of, or which ones are you drawn to?

Yeah.

or like even textures or you know, like the the wood and I think there's a lot of different ways to look at those kind of niche things through a different lens.

instead of just looking at it like quite literally of we're gonna have tiny little skateboards sitting around the dining table.

Yeah.

but maybe, yeah, maybe your invitations kind of reflect the typography of like their favorite skateboard magazine.

No, that's a good way

Yeah.

to bring it in. I never even thought about using that. But yeah, that's a great

I had

one thing I always think of is we had this groom once where he was a big car guy. And yeah, they didn't do anything like super literal, like little cars as the table numbers or at the welcome table. But and I know that garter tosses aren't, you know, super in anymore, but I think it just has stuck in my memory. It was so funny. He had one of

those little carts. No, like the little carts. Yeah, yeah. So he had the little

The hood, the hood. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

you would lay out like under it

cart, he was laying on it, and then he did that for grabbing the garter from the bride. And it was really cute, honestly. It was

really funny.

Wait, that's crazy. That's funny. Yeah,

Yeah, but that's really cute.

That's a fun way to do it.

it is rare

that's hilarious and really convenient.

And it was just, yeah,

a way to incorporate his love of cars and you know, there's football fans who will when they do the garter toss, like they'll tie a garter around a football and throw that. Like there's

Th football. Yeah.

Yeah.

ways to incorporate it without, like you said, being super literal about it.

But

Yeah. I had a couple actually that they went to the same college together

Mm-hmm.

and their mascot was polar bears. And we were trying to figure out ways how we can incorporate polar bears without it being, you know, like on a napkin or something. we had thought about ice cubes, but you know, like custom ice cubes are so expensive. I'm like, my god, I'm like this is crazy. So

They're really expensive for water.

I was like, why don't we just get like this is actually literal, but why don't you just get like little tiny like polar bear figurines and like hide them in little places, like somewhere in the

flowers or like by the bar. And it's kind of just like a little peekaboo moment and like everyone knows that you guys can. Yeah. So it's

Yeah.

Yeah. Like a Where's Waldo?

kind of just like a fun little like, ooh, like I saw a little polar bear in there, you know, like just like kind of like a secrety, kind of nicer way to to bring a polar bear in without.

Having a mascot running around. Yeah.

Like subtle.

Yeah. Yeah, you have a mascot

show up in the middle of them dancing time. Actually, yeah.

That would be fun too, actually.

So yeah, people always I have a lot of people come to me too. Just I had this one client that she was getting married in Italy and her and her partner really loved like 90s romance rom-com movies.

yeah.

Yes.

And I was like, Okay, how do I bring this like the some of the things that people bring me, I'm like, wow, this is incredible. And it actually forces me to really think outside the

yeah, exactly.

and the first thing that I thought about when she said that I was like Ever After with Drew Barrymore or

Mm-hmm.

the the movie Kate and Leopold. Like they were all like reflective of that kind of like Renaissancey time. but still done in like a really modern way. So I pulled a lot of references from that. to kind of like gauge like here's the colors you should go for, like here's a guest attire that's not like literal a period piece of that time, but

Something that feels like a hint to it. so yeah, a lot of people come to me with a lot of fun things.

I love it. All right. So what should couples do with images they love but they know that are not realistic for their wedding budget anymore? Delete Okay.

Delete. Because

once it once they're gone and like you're really embedded in your vision now, you see like what feels like you, what's affordable. I mean, granted, I feel like when you start planning your wedding, like a thousand dollars starts to feel like five dollars, which is great. Exactly. Yeah, you start spending like it's monopoly money.

Well no, I always say there's there's money, then there's wedding money. So I'm like So Yeah.

and it i I it's so it's so easy to just get caught up in like, well, what's another this and what's another that? But I think when you really feel rooted in in what you've decided and the overall feeling and, you know, the colors in your venue, anything that just feels like too out of touch for your budget, just remove it and get familiar with what your wedding's going to feel like within the reality that you live in.

Mm-hmm.

So let's say a couple has now they've identified the feelings for their wedding. They have nice little neat categories on their Pinterest board. what other information should accompany these inspo photos so a vendor understands what the couple's actually responding to and what they want for their day?

Yeah, I think a part of my process is breaking down each of those distinct categories into their own slides, essentially.

Hm.

Mm.

with flowers. Once they, you know, they have a good idea of what sort of flowers they like, depending on the season and the colors.

I take that and I break it down into one little board. And then I even go as far as picking out certain stem selections. So if

Mm.

they like something during the fall, I might pick some burgundy foliage or maple leaves. and they can send that to their vendors and say, you know, this is what I'm thinking for flowers. This is my style. Does this resonate with you? And I also think this practice helps.

Find vendors a lot quicker than going through all

Mm.

these different people because you don't really know what you like yet. So you might be picking someone, a vendor that does more traditional style and tight roses. but your vision's actually a little bit more organic and wildflowery.

Mm-hmm.

but you don't know those things yet until you know you're really in the planning process. So

Yeah.

it also just helps really refine like the amount of time that you're gonna spend like looking for vendors because you have a clear

starting point and you have a clear blue blueprint to help you find those vendors a lot quicker.

Yeah. Are there any mistakes that couples make when they share their information with vendors that they should be aware of?

I would I think if you're doing an overload of sharing, it's hard for I mean, obviously vendors are so creative and they can piecemeal things together and also see like this is kind of what they're going for. But it could also affect your quote as well. you know, maybe you

actually like more like white and green flowers, but you have kind of a mix of these like burgundy, jewel tones. Sometimes these flowers cost a little bit more money depending on like the certain shades and the season. So I think having this starting point also helps you get more realistic quotes from potential vendors that you're gonna work with because they know exactly what you're looking for. and they're able to, you know, give you a proper price.

It's well, it's kind of interesting because I met with a couple a couple of weeks ago and they shared their, Pinterest board with me before I met with them. And I kind of started out. I'm like, hey, I've been looking through there, you know, your Pinterest board. I go, I just want to be realistic. Do we have like $25 to $35,000 budgeted for just lighting? Because everything I'm seeing is over the top. You know, like we're covering ceilings with with fabric. We're doing you know, like it it it was very intense. And they're like, We do not.

And I'm like and I'm like, Okay, then what do we like out you know, and th let's start picking out what do we like out of that. But that, you know, that I think it's a good point. It it will really affect your quote if you you know

Yeah.

yeah, if you don't go in there and really clean it up and get what you like.

Exactly. And that's where the compromise comes in. Of course we want everything. But honestly

Yeah, a hundred percent. Of course.

sometimes too much is it's a little too much. Like you don't need the draping and

Yeah. No.

the crazy lighting and it's just like pick one of those things.

Yeah.

I had little up lighting at my wedding and it was in a small like restaurant, but it felt like a wine bar. That's like the mood, you know? And Yeah,

Yeah. Yeah. Makes a big difference.

Yeah.

and I think when, you know,

I love a theme. I'm also like, you don't have to do any you know, theme. The theme is the couple, you know. but I think just starting with that feeling like your favorite restaurant or you know, you and your partner go for a walk in the park and there's like always a favorite spot that you love to sit in. Like, what does that feel

Mm-hmm.

like? Like what are the colors that are around you? Like and

Again with like budgeting, it's like, yeah, maybe I actually don't need all of this because we love this spot in the park and it's just very open and natural and it doesn't have all of these, you know, crazy things. And you probably cut like forty percent of your budget right there, not

Yeah.

to do draping or, you know, get all these crazy things. But I love I love all, you know, big weddings, small weddings, medium weddings, but

Yeah.

Yeah, I think I really try and work with couples that are in this in between. and just getting creative with them of like what they like and even though they don't have a large budget because I was also that bride that liked a lot of

Yeah.

things. And it's really important for me for my couples to feel like this feels distinct and it feels individual to their story and who they are without

Mm-hmm.

spending a hundred thousand dollars, even fifty thousand dollars.

Yeah, good good point.

Yeah, important to them

no matter how big the wedding is. Yeah.

Yeah.

do you have maybe an example or a story you could share with us where the couple's original inspiration changed once you helped them find out what their vision really was?

Yes. I worked with this one client. She was getting married in Washington. And she's getting married somewhere along the coast. I forgot the venue. But she wanted a lot of her Pinterest was very coastal references and stripes and like the roping and things. But she also liked like I s the a lot of the tablescapes that she was saving were like very modern, like the

Hmm.

I always forget the name of those tables. The And

serpentine. Yeah.

serpentine or caterpillar, yeah.

and she had like the ruching of the linens and like chrome silverware. So I you know, was thinking about this coastal Washington and I'm like, why don't we kind of tie in like a space needle reference into this?

Mm.

yeah.

And like, let's get rid of, you know, the ropes and the stripes. And we ended up coming up with something that still felt very coastal and warm and organic, but with those like chrome finishes and like more sculptural florals instead of something that was,

Mm.

you know, super gardeny and organic.

Yeah.

so yeah, I'd say we started off a little bit more in that that warm

kind of coastal Nautica kind of feel. and then we ended up somewhere really cool.

Yeah, that it sounded like it was really pretty. So

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, and chrome and the space needle together? Like that sounds super cool. Yeah.

Yeah. And

even like the ferry too, we I pulled

yeah.

yeah.

from in her color palette just the like the cut like the color of the leather. And it was

Yeah.

like so these blues and like these really like like this really beautiful brown and you know there's a photo of like the the sound in the back and yeah it's it's really it's really rewarding a lot of the time 'cause I'm like how can we make these things work together? And

There's a will, there's a way.

Yeah. Hello.

Do you get a lot of

couples that will send you photos of their wedding afterwards? 'Cause that must also feel so rewarding, like working through them, through their vision and their inspiration and then seeing the final result. That's probably so exciting.

Yeah, I just had my first bride that I ever worked with, her wedding just passed. And it was amazing. Like

yeah.

you know, she like loved fly fishing with her partner. So again, working a lot of like what does fly fishing even feel like? Like it's

Yeah.

pretty meditative. You know, I learned a lot about fly fishing which I was doing

Yeah.

and even through the colors, like, you know,

during sunrise. Like what is the water? It's like this kind of yellowish, maybe like a mossy green, like the way the sun is hitting the light

Mm.

the water. And so we pulled those references in and you know, not every couple is gonna do exactly what their brief says, you know, but I like to see like what made it through and maybe like things that they've changed. but it still felt very rooted and

what we started with and you know what came together. So yeah, it's been that just that one wedding so far, but I'm excited to see the rest. I have

Yeah. Yeah.

another couple that's getting married at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. So cool. They like thrifted, they spent almost a year thrifting all of these vintage cookie jars.

wow.

The seventies and the sixties and they're gonna use that as like their their vases for their flowers and there's like a clown and like a lamb. Like it's so it's so cool. everyone's

Yeah.

just so unique.

Yeah, no, everyone has and that's fun. And they probably went out and had a great time like

finding

Yeah.

all that stuff and doing that. That's that's great.

Yeah.

So all right, we're getting ready to wrap up. But before we do, if someone's listening to this and has like 200, 300 saved images sitting on their phone or Pinterest board right now, what are the first three things you'd tell them to do?

Step one, define the three feelings that you want your day to feel like. Two, if you don't have a venue already picked out, or maybe if you do, go through those feelings and your venue and really filter what feels like the day that you want to have through your Pinterest

Mm.

board. And three, if it doesn't feel like you, just get rid of it.

You can appreciate

I love that.

Mm-hmm.

the image. You can like it for what it is. You can like Selena Gomez's wedding, but want a dive bar wedding.

Yeah.

so yeah, I would say really just to get rid of something that's just like, I like this, but it's not for me.

Yeah, I like it. All right. So thank you so much for being here with us today. R-

Yeah.

where Rebecca, where can folks connect with you, learn more about you?

Yep.

you can visit my website at themoodbrief.com or you can go on my Instagram, @themood.brief, and then I'm also on TikTok.

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