Katie Mathis Photography

06/06/2023

“The love you deserve will choose you just as confidently as you choose it. The love you deserve will fight for what you have when difficulty hangs heavy in the air, it will insist that you are stronger together, that you are capable of beating the odds, that you are filled with the potential to turn your losses into lessons — into seeds that will make it stronger. The love you deserve will be your voice of reason, it will calm the soft creature you are when doubt sinks into your skin, it will build your restless heart a safe place within itself.

The love you deserve will love you unapologetically, and that beauty, that softness, will inspire you to believe in the human being you are becoming. The love you deserve will see gardens within you where you see cemeteries. It will reflect it's vision into your eyes, it will show you the way the world sees you. The love you deserve will support you, it will ruthlessly believe in your mind, it will celebrate your depth of feeling. The love you deserve will be proud of you — not just when you are a shining example of yourself, but also when you are not. The love you deserve will love you, even when you do not deserve it.

The love you deserve will clap for the parts of yourself you always used to hide, it will cherish the twists within your soul that others always wanted to untie. The love you deserve will peek into the most profound parts of who you are, and it will cradle you there. It will not cower, it will not run away. The love you deserve will be your best when you are not your best. It will show up for you in the dark.

But most importantly, the love you deserve will teach you how to trust in the timing of your life. How to trust in the fact that it was always going to find you. The love you deserve will teach you how courageous it is to simply have faith in the heart of another, how difficult and messy and beautiful vulnerability can be after years of hurt. The love you deserve will teach you that you were never too much for those you always tried to give your soul to. You were always enough. You were just giving your heart to the wrong people. You were always worthy. Please don’t ever forget that.” Unknown

Venue Nicewonder Vineyards

11/24/2020

“You were an unexpected surprise.

The defining moment. The collision of stars that slammed into me hard and sent my neat little world plummeting into the ocean.

I never expected it to be you, you know?

But it is you. It’s all you. And now there’s no looking back.”

-Beau Taplin

More from this adventure couple and their special day on the blog: http://theycalluswild.com/nashville-family-photographer-blog

03/18/2020

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03/05/2020

“There are so many people out there in the world, but you are the one person in the entire universe that I can imagine happily growing old with. No matter how much time passes by or how old we get, no matter how many gray hairs and wrinkles we both end up getting, I know that you are the one person in the world that I am truly meant to grow old with. I love you so much for who you are and I could never get tired of you, even on the days where we have our disagreements. As long as we are side by side and hand in hand, I can grow old knowing that I am the luckiest person in the world because I will have you right next to me.”

-Anonymous

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03/04/2020

3 months later & I’m finally out of Facebook jail 🎉

01/03/2020

Stay single until falling in love means finding a partner, not a purpose.

Stay single until you have concrete goals, and plans, and dreams, and places you want to go. It doesn’t mean you have to have accomplished all (or any) of those things yet. It just means that you need to find purpose within yourself, so that the person who one day becomes your significant other will always be a teammate and partner but never the sole reason that you have to exist.

Stay single until you know who you are outside of whoever you date.

Stay single until you understand yourself outside of the relationship you’re in – where you know what kind of person you are and what you like and what you want to spend your days doing, without needing a significant other to define those things for you.
Stay single until you love yourself enough so that another person’s love makes you joyful and happy and full, but not whole.

Stay single until your own self-love is enough for you. Stay single until you learn how to be proud of yourself when you accomplish something, and how to be gentle with yourself when you fail. Become someone who knows how to love their own company, so that you can still find joy and fullness with a significant other without ever depending on them for completeness and wholeness.

Stay single until you love yourself for the right reasons.

Stay single until you love yourself not for how much money you make, or for how cool your life looks on Instagram.

Instead, stay single until you love yourself for experiencing hardship and continuing to get out of bed anyway. Stay single until you love yourself for the fact that sometimes you’re scared, or intimidated, or insecure, and you try things anyway. Stay single until you love yourself for the fact that you’re kind to people for no reason other than to be kind. Stay single until you love yourself for being vulnerable, and for taking risks, and for trying to be a better person every single day.
Stay single until you become someone who lives boldly.

Stay single until you’re someone who makes an effort to feel alive every day.

Stay single until you are someone who makes yourself try things that scare you, and things that expand your world, and things that are outside of your comfort zone, and things you know nothing about but want to learn something about. Become the kind of person whose thirst and thrill and joy for life are constant companions among you, so that you never become complacent or idle or empty.

Stay single until you become someone like this. And once you do, take your time to enjoy it. Remember that you are not becoming this person for someone else, you are becoming this person for you. Give yourself time to live it, to experience this life and this self all on your own. If a soulmate happens to come into the picture, great. They will only be bringing more joy, and laughter, and lightness into a life that is already complete, and filled, and whole.

- Kim Quindlen

12/01/2019

I’m headed to Thailand tonight for an engagement session and have all the romantic feels for what is yet to come. This is not a notice that I’ll be away from my office for 10 days, there are no off days in this freelance game, but I will be 17 hours ahead of my Nashville peeps so please be patient with me.

Ps. That EXTENDED Black Friday sale is going strong, but it will end Monday night ( http://theycalluswild.com/investments/black-friday-sale ) ✈️

11/30/2019

Eyes talk.

Black Friday sale going strong >>> http://theycalluswild.com/investments/black-friday-sale

11/28/2019

Black Friday S A L E

$200.00 for a FULL SESSION (usually $395!)

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11/19/2019

Exciting news!!

It’s happening! Well, it’s been happening, but it’s almost done and I feel like it’s time to finally share all this good ness with you! Not only did my little photography business get a facelift, it also now has a traveling studio! And I will be bringing it to your door starting January 2020...

11/13/2019

Don’t feel alone if you haven’t booked your family photos yet, it’s mid November & I haven’t even booked them for my own family! If you’re still in need, I have a few more dates available before it’s too late 🤘🏼

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