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We get to hear our baby’s heartbeat together for

We get to hear our baby’s heartbeat together for the first time since November today! ☁️ ✨😊️
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I’ve been recording videos from my solo appointments but it’s seriously not the same and sometimes those little things feel really big. 🤍
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Photos by my sweet friend and team member @haley.garces. If you’re wondering when to do baby bump photos, I highly recommend the 5-6 month mark! You’ve usually got a cute bump but can still move around with ease and that is EVERYTHING. 😂

These moments are priceless when you spend your ca

These moments are priceless when you spend your career making sure people don’t have awkward hands, double chins, and feel large in photos. 🤎 Truly love it.

Tell me you work in events without telling me you

Tell me you work in events without telling me you work in events. I’ll go first. 😂
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My right eye won’t stop twitching every time I hear September by Earth, Wind, and Fire.🤪 (Is this the most overplayed song at receptions?! I vote yesss.)
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OKAY GO. 😂
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P.S. LOVE this BTS photo captured by a wonderful relative at a recent wedding. I truly love it when family takes a moment to document something special during the day. The more memories, the better! So honored I made it in this snap and they shared it with me. 🥰
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Here to the happy days yet to come, especially the

Here to the happy days yet to come, especially the amazing celebration for these two next year at @rosewoodmiramarbeach with @tylerspeier at the helm.✨
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So grateful to all of our couples, the wonderful women on my team, and a beautiful wedding season ahead. Winding down after a full spring here at Sarah Ellefson Photography and somehow it’s only March. I swear it was just December, seriously don’t know what happened. Did that happen to anyone else?
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Between all the 2020 celebrations moved into a new year and our upcoming 2021 couples, the calendar is looking full in the very best way. 🤍

8 Facts About Me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1. I

8 Facts About Me.
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1. I believe Tyler Cameron dated farther up the social celeb ladder than Wells Adams in Bachelor Nation. (You can’t think about this emotionally, it must be an argument of pure reason factoring in everything about who they have dated. (Net worth, elitism, social circle, famous family members, and golden ratio of shin to thigh bone, etc.)
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2. Both my husband and I thought we’d become lawyers at various points growing up. Neither one of us pursued that and now we just channel that internal sense of justice into disagreeing about point #1.
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3. How do people come up with 8 things?
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Photo by the lovely @haley.garces . Baby by me. Earrings by @shopcarmenandco ✨✨

When it doubt, put a peach on it. #lifelessons ⠀

When it doubt, put a peach on it. #lifelessons
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There’s a story to be told behind every wedding and when I have the chance to style an invite for a photo, I love to tell snippets of that story in the little trinkets I include. 💫
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All credit for this concept goes to Lady Mary Montagu, an English socialite and courtier who is most widely known for bringing the concept of the smallpox vaccine (👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼) to Western society after observing it in Turkey. When she wasn’t casually saving lives, Lady Mary loved to stir up a ‘lil intrigue by sending friends coded messages in flowers and gems. Love me some drama, honestly would have done the same because court must have been boring on occasion, right?🔥
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In this scene, the miniature seashells represent a destination wedding in California but the peach and vintage airplane opener show that it was hastily moved to Georgia. The spread fan was a gift to each guest attending, helping everyone beat the summer heat. All the florals included are the wedding colors, showing off the palette to those who couldn’t attend! 🤍
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It’s the miniature seashells for me though, like a little visual treasure hunt. 😍

Let’s normalize posting when baby daddy is a sna

Let’s normalize posting when baby daddy is a snack and you are also so close to having a spicy margarita again.🍾⁣⁣⁣⁣
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P.S. You know you’re pregnant when... Typing the word snack makes you hungry. ⁣(Who are we kidding tho, this is me always. Pregnancy just emboldened me to demand ridiculous snacks at all hours.😂)⁣
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How to take a chunk of time off and have peace wit

How to take a chunk of time off and have peace with your income as an artist. ✨ (Post 2/2)
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BTS how I’ve prepped for time off:
✨ I receive commissions (a.k.a. passive earned paychecks) from various stockists and galleries who use my work in their stores. Some payments are monthly, some are quarterly! I also receive a payout for any work sold directly from my print shop. For each, an automated chunk of that check was put in a separate saving account for 6 months so I could pay myself out when I decided to take time off. (@qapital does this for you, just set and forget. So amazing.)
✨ Any little extra money that came in outside of regular income event-based streams, I also threw in as I could. Little by little, it adds up! Because it was *extra*, I didn't even miss it and wasn't tempted to spend it.
✨ I've thought ahead to business expenses that will happen while I'm *out*. Recurring subscriptions I can't cancel (like client gallery hosting), contractors who serve my business (@inlineaaccounting does our books and @chanelandlee does operations support), any upcoming team member payments for event work. All of it will be covered by the continued earnings of my print shop, I'll just shift that income into paying expenses vs. saving. So simple. So much peace of mind.
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Honestly? I just wish I had hopped on this train sooner. My hope is to keep up this habit so I can fund a longggg staycation or adventure every year for us. My husband and I both work so hard, now that we are growing our family I'm just starting to realize how much time FLIES. A little planning ahead is going to create so many beautiful memories!
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If you are dying to start a print shop, I'll be relaunching Pathway to Profitable Prints next week and the waitlist is in my bio! Hop on for info.💡
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Dream along with me today, if you had three months off and knew your income wasn't going anywhere, what would you do? ✨