Have you fallen in love? This community is for you. But it's not just any love we're talking about.

The Spoken Bride is a romantic--alight with anticipation for her wedding day, but she knows the foremost romance in life is a divine one. It shapes her entire identity: she knows she is worthy, beautiful, dignified, simply because she is.

She is a fiancée, best friend, sister, bride, and helpmate to heaven.  Beauty pierces her heart and draws her into the sacred. She wants not only her wedding, but her marriage to reflect this in every way: through awe-inspiring liturgy, decor, and photographs, each infused, above all, with the radiant beauty only made manifest in sincere holiness. No matter her past, she has a love for all that is pure. She desires nothing more or less than to make a complete gift of herself. She chases fearlessly after virtue, knowing excellence is the path to true freedom, and freedom is for love. 

Deeply, profoundly, she is in love.

We're here to spark something. To showcase wedding inspiration that fixes our eyes on the beauty of the Creator. To offer a resource for finding vendors who not only have a wealth of talent for their craft, but who are on fire for the sacrament of marriage. To help you plan for the biggest day of your life, but also for a lifetime: a marriage free, faithful, total, and fruitful in every sense. To be a witness, galvanizing the culture with the goodness, truth, and beauty of Catholic marriage. We're here for you, in community and sisterhood, and we are ultimately here to walk alongside you in living out authentic love between man and wife. The kind of love that makes people stop and take notice. The kind that's set apart because it transcends this world.

OUR STORY

Spoken Bride took root in a string of Instagram comments between Jiza Zito, Stephanie Calis, and photographer Elissa Voss the summer they began a conversation about an unmet need for community and connection among Catholic wedding vendors and the brides they work with, and for a resource that provides visually gorgeous wedding inspiration, made all the more beautiful by a holy liturgy and Christ-like love. That same summer, Andi Compton--a past collaborator with Stephanie--commented that one of Jiza's Instagram posts spoke to her heart, and the name for this ministry was born.   

Spoken Bride launched in May 2016 in honor of Our Lady, the purest, most radiant bride.

Through spiritual and practical support for Catholic brides and newlyweds, Spoken Bride presents the Catholic faith as an invitation, knowing a beautiful wedding and marriage has the power to stir the soul and draw us into the beauty of the Creator. Knowing vulnerability and authenticity are a means to communion, and that every bride's feminine genius offers a gift to the world.

Spoken Bride's ministry is built on daily blog and social media content, testimonies and galleries from real Catholic weddings, a Vendor Guide designed to connect couples with wedding industry pros who share their faith, and a Shop offering distinctively Catholic products for prayer, the wedding liturgy, and the home.

Spoken Bride seeks the intercession of Our Lady and the prayers of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux and the first married saints from modern times.

“Spoken Bride exalts the beauty of a wedding in the Catholic Church and those important first years of married life. I encourage brides and newlyweds to explore this site as they experience how the beauty of married love, grounded in the Catholic faith, leads to a life of joy unimaginable.” - Most Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, D.D., Archbishop, Archdiocese of Louisville

“I’m so grateful that Spoken Bride exists! It is such a beautiful and faithful offering to Catholic couples who are discerning and preparing for marriage;
I wish it was around when I got married!” - Jenna Guizar, Founder & Creative Director, Blessed Is She

“It is a pleasure to offer my encouragement and support to Spoken Bride; yet another partner who helps to shepherd couples preparing to enter into the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.  As the Team and Contributors of Spoken Bride highlight so well, through the Sacrament married life is infused with truth, beauty and goodness.  And that the sanctity of the marriage bond and the recompense for spousal love is guaranteed by the Silent Partner, the One who never betrays and cannot die – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  May God bless your good work!” - Very Rev. Martin A. Linebach, Vicar General, Archdiocese of Louisville

“I have followed Spoken Bride since their launch in 2016 and have found such inspiration and hope in watching their steady growth which serves to affirm the need for such a site. Spoken Bride creatively and refreshingly takes the doctrine and dogmas regarding the sacrament of marriage and makes it not only applicable but appealing to the modern Catholic woman. Their platform provides the Catholic woman--whatever stage in life she might find herself in--the opportunity to showcase her heart.” - Carolyn Shields, Founder, The Young Catholic Woman

“In a time when marriages are in decline, Spoken Bride is a witness to the beauty of sacramental marriage.  As great care is taken by a bride on her wedding day, so too it apparent that Spoken Bride is attentive to every detail, from the stunning images they share to the rich Catholic content they provide.  Spoken Bride inspires couples to have a beautiful wedding day and a beautiful marriage.” - Edward Herrera, Director, Office of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of Baltimore