Those of you who have worked with Mulberry & Sage in the past may have heard us casually refer to our friend and coworker Serena. We thought that now would be the perfect time to fully introduce her, as her name keeps coming up both in in our reviews, and also in future couple consultations. While Courtney and Megan are the key partners in Mulberry & Sage, one of the things that we pride ourselves on is being submerged fully in our community around the Metro Detroit area of fellow photographers and business owners. After all, being involved that a photography group is originally how Courtney and I (Megan) met 3 years ago. Being a business owner in the photography realm was once described to me as “the loneliest, most social job ever.” And that completely rings true. Outside of photographing the weddings together, most of our jobs are spent in our separate homes, editing, marking, writing blogs, and parenting our children (while also simultaneously hinting to them that they are next in line to take over our gig when we’re old and crusty.) Obviously since Courtney and I tag-team the business owning title, we communicate with each other pretty much daily.

While we do our best to always photograph weddings together, sometimes we need to split up and divide and conquer. We do offer intimate wedding packages with only one photographer, rendering the other of us available on certain days. Or, it may be a birthday weekend or family vacation weekend for one of us, leaving the other one of us available for photographing weddings. All of this is my long, drawn out way of saying that, sometimes, you may not see the Courtney & Megan duo, and in those cases, we rely on our amazing network of fellow professional photographers to seamlessly step in and fill our shoes. Serena has been a professional wedding photographer for over 5 years herself, and is someone that we constantly call on to be our trusted stand-in. And that relationship goes both ways fairly often; I will always be Serena’s second photographer for weddings days that she books through her own business when I am available. We’ve photographed many (many!) weddings together, and we always showcase the exact same look and feel that you’d be used to with any other Mulberry & Sage wedding. And that’s exactly why her partnership with us is so special.

When Courtney was out on maternity leave last fall, Serena stepped in and photographed quite a few weddings with me. Heck, she even showed up one day with a 6 pack of Ginger Ale in her camera bag because she had literally gotten food poisoning the night before, and she was still there. (And you would have never known by looking at her.) We acted silly trying to get people on the dance floor. We learned line dances. We took blackmail photos of each other’s dumb photography poses/antics to entice laughter. If you can’t have fun with the people you work with….well, I don’t really know a cute answer to that, but I would imagine that it sucks. You’ll be seeing more from Courtney and Serena’s weddings this spring/early summer as well.

If you hear us talking about Serena, rest assured that you are in amazing and capable hands for your wedding day. To see some examples of weddings that she has been a part of alongside us, we’re happy to send you links to wedding blogs we’ve published from 2017 and 2018. Serena can also be found via her website at www.littleanchorphoto.com & about her personally here.

Don’t judge the Instagram selfies. @mulberryandsagephotography

Team Member Spotlight Happy Reviews:

We met Megan & Courtney at the bridal expo in Port Huron. They had the cutest setup and it immediately caught my eye. They were the only photographers we met with and immediately booked with them. They were genuinely so nice and so much fun to work with. They were also so professional and always responded to my emails promptly. We had so much fun during our engagement session! Posing for pictures can be awkward but Megan and Courtney kept us laughing the entire time! Our pictures came out perfect that we had such a hard time picking our favorites! This made me so much more excited to work with them on our wedding day! Courtney sadly couldn’t make the wedding due to her being at the end of her pregnancy but Megan made sure she booked someone else to be the second photographer( and she picked a great choice with Serena). We once again had the best time working with Megan- my bridal party and my parents were raving about her afterwards. Megan fit right in with everyone and she felt like a friend! Our wedding pictures blew us away! They came out absolutely amazing!!! I would highly recommend these ladies to everyone! I hope we can work with them again in the future :-). Thank you again!!! -Theresa, November 2018 Bride

We used these lovely ladies as our wedding photographers and they are absolutely amazing! Megan was our main photographer and Serena was the 2nd, and they were with us every step of the way. She made everything so easy and was so accommodating. We got special access to Spartan Stadium last minute and she came up with great ideas and our photos turned out amazing. Our pictures came fast and turned out stunning! We will definitely use her in the future for our major milestones! – Lauren, November 2017 Bride