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from Slow Flowers Journal Spring 2023: You Are Invited

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EMMA MAY DIXON An Oregon-based flower farmer and designer who has a love for photography. Through her lens, Emma captures the visual language of the garden, the home, and everyday moments of life as it unfolds. These are the moments she chases as she works with her family, and helps tell their stories. Emma’s photography is featured in “Furrow & Flour” (BLOOM Imprint, 2023), and she is the co-host of “A Blooming Good Time” podcast. @emma.may.dixon

MAYA LITTLEFIELD. Maya is a ceramicist, floral designer, farmer, and sometimes-photographer based in Burlington, Vermont. She has also been a backpacking guide, a vegetable farmer, an outdoor educator, and a ski instructor – always spending as much time as possible outdoors. It was through these various lines of work that Maya realized she could combine her creativity and love of nature through floral design and flower farming. Maya currently works as a florist and farm manager at West Lane Flowers in Colchester, Vermont. @mayalittlefield

ALISON ELLIS. A Vermont-based floral designer and author of “Falling into Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Today’s Modern Wedding Business” (Wildflower Media, 2020). She founded realflowerbusiness.com to share step-by-step business training that helps build long-term success, including "Flower Math," which teaches florists how to maximize profit margins. realflowerbusiness.com

MISSY PALACOL. A Seattle-based portrait and brand photographer, digital marketing expert, speaker, and travel junkie. She teaches people and companies how to capture their authentic visual brand, and how to leverage social and digital media to grow their businesses. In 2014, Missy left her job in corporate marketing and struck out on her own with Missy Palacol Photography, capturing rich and memorable images for individuals, families, events, and brands. missypalacol.com

SLOW WEDDINGS you are invited. to our first Slow Weddings issue –16 pages that express love and marriage through flowers both charming and creative. From Virginia and Maryland, to Nebraska and Maryland, locally grown flowers and sustainable designs elevate these beautiful ceremonies.