Hello, I'm Julie, the founder and co-creator of Magnolia + Ember.

My husband, Colin, and I share some of the most intimate days in a couple's life with them. By trade, we are a photo & video team planning adventure weddings, but our passion comes from a place far beyond the landscapes. Our energy and personal experiences are the life-force behind our work. We are ceremonialists with a gift of intentionality and presence.

Myself, I'm an overly detailed storyteller, and these are immersive stories that are too long for an Instagram caption. Moments that have shaped the core of M+E.

You deserve to know who you’re spending your elopement day with.

P.S., I wrote a book too

It's how we met! Colin borrowed a copy after seeing it on someone's coffee table. He sent me an email that started it all.

July 29, 2025

sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

This is the long story short about our Colorado elopement location, meeting Dermot Kennedy, chasing the fullest version of ourselves, and a bookstore in Nashville.

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