I started as a free lance journalist, writing about trendsetters, edgy artists, musicians and innovators with life-changing ideas. I went into experimental theater and wrote a book about it with the goal to "free" people from the daily rut and transform their outlook on life to new powerful levels. As an interior designer and a health nut entrepreneur with an organic farm to table restaurant, I styled businesses with vintage or up-cycled pieces. I built Adobe villas in high heels and drank home brewed spirits with my workers, who grilled sardines on old tire hubs. The art gallery we built from scratch with re-purposed materials showed "young at heart" modern art, throwing vernissage parties for a couple hundred guests at a time. Santa Fe added art therapy college courses and understanding what drives us.

In many travels and adventurous up and downs of life I learned how to find beauty in every day; in the marginal or the grand, in the expected and in weird and unexpected places - and became a creative solution Ninja in the process. And all the above became creative tools in my wedding production kit.

When I started my green wedding business there was lots of kicking traditional vendors butts: "Do you recycle"? "What do you mean, recycle??" "Can we have organic chicken?" "No." What about organic veggies? "If we do that for you, we'll have to do for everybody…" That was 8 years ago. The green wave with lots of press coverage has come and gone. Some vendors have changed but many other waste happily ever after.

Our planet is sick. Some say we have already overstepped the line of no return. It is pretty urgent to change the billion dollar wedding industry and stop it's crazy waste and pollution - that's why I am into weddings again. Cause there won't be any partying in Dystopia.