CONCIERGE EXPERIENCES FOR COUPLES

Storytelling in Wild Places

Planning, photography, and travel guidance for couples who want an unforgettable experience without the stress of planning it alone.


Planning Support • Storytelling Photography • Location Guidance • Travel Design • Florida & Beyond

Planning Support

Helping turn ideas into a workable plan.


YOUR JOURNEY, EXPERTLY GUIDED

Location Guidance

Finding places that fit the experience you want.

Storytelling Photography

How it felt, not just how it looked.

Travel Planning

Recommendations, lodging guidance, and destination support.

Ways to experience life together

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Proposals

Thoughtful proposal planning, location scouting, surprise logistics, and proposal photography designed to help you create a meaningful engagement story from the very beginning.

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Engagements

Engagement photography sessions built around meaningful locations, shared experiences, and authentic connection instead of stiff poses and cookie-cutter photo shoots.


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Elopements & Intimate Weddings

Intimate wedding and elopement planning with photography, timeline guidance, location recommendations, and personalized support for couples choosing a more intentional wedding experience.

Honeymoons & Travel Planning

Custom honeymoon planning, destination recommendations, lodging guidance, travel itineraries, and romantic getaway experiences designed around what matters most to you as a couple.

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Anniversaries & Just Because

Anniversary celebrations, vow renewals, romantic getaways, and relationship milestone experiences created for couples who want to reconnect, celebrate, and spend meaningful time together.

Location Scouting

We'll help you find places that feel like you - whether that's a hidden spring, a quiet beach, a mountain overlook, or somewhere you've never heard of before.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY THE WHOLE PLAN.


The ideas that mean the most to us are often the easiest to put off. Life gets busy, schedules fill up, and before long another year has passed since you first said, "we should do that someday."

We love helping couples bridge the gap between dreaming and doing, turning meaningful ideas into real experiences that don't stay stuck on a wishlist forever.


PLANNING SUPPORT

Timeline Design

A thoughtful plan built around great light, meaningful moments, and enough breathing room to actually enjoy the experience.

Travel Planning

Recommendations, lodging, and local insight that help turn a destination into something that feels personal instead of overwhelming.

Permit Guidance

We'll help navigate permits, access requirements, and location rules so you can focus on the experience instead of the paperwork.

Logistics Support

Weather plans, meeting locations, travel coordination, and the little details that help everything feel effortless when the day arrives.

How Your Story Comes to Life


Every River Branch experience follows the same philosophy: less stress, more connection. Here's what that journey looks like.

THE RIVER BRANCH EXPERIENCE


1. The Dream

You share what matters most. The places you've always wanted to see. The way you want the day to feel. The memories you hope to create together.

Some couples arrive with a clear vision. Others only know they want something different than what's expected of them. Either way, this is where possibilities begin taking shape and ideas start becoming something real.

From there, we begin building something uniquely yours.

2. The Plan

This is usually the point where excitement and overwhelm collide.

The idea feels real enough to pursue, but there are suddenly decisions to make, details to consider, and a hundred different directions you could go. Instead of spending months wondering if you're making the right choices, we'll help you sort through the possibilities, find what feels right for the two of you, and create a plan that supports the experience you're hoping to have.

By the time everything starts coming together, you'll be free to look forward to it.

3. The Experience

There comes a point when the planning fades into the background and the reason you started all of this in the first place takes center stage.

The conversations happen naturally. The laughter comes easier. Time feels a little slower. Instead of thinking about what still needs to be done, you're finally free to be exactly where you are, sharing an experience with the person you love.

4. The Keepsake

The day eventually comes to an end, but that doesn't mean the experience is over.

The photographs become something you return to over the years. A reminder of who you were, what you were dreaming about, and the season of life you were living when it all happened. They sit on walls, fill albums, make their way into holiday cards, and become part of the stories you'll share with family and friends for decades to come.

What begins as an experience eventually becomes part of your history, and the photographs are what allow you to revisit it whenever you want.

THE HEART BEHIND RIVER BRANCH

Why Connection Comes First


Florida adventure elopements, proposal planning, travel design, guided adventures, and destination experiences.

River Branch exists to help you slow down, breathe deep, and focus on what matters most - each other.

River Branch was built around a simple belief: the relationship matters more than the performance. The planning, the place, the timeline, and the photographs all exist to protect what matters most - the two of you being fully present together.

Connection Over Performance

It's not about the perfect timeline, the perfect photo, or creating a show for everyone else.

It's about being fully present with the person beside you.

Guides, Not Just Vendors

We're here to listen, encourage, solve problems, and help you navigate the journey from beginning to end.

Because the best experiences are built with friendship & support.


Wild Places. Real Moments.

The landscapes are beautiful.

But the connection you build inside them is what you'll carry home.

Photos That Bring You Back

Years from now, your photographs, films, and albums won't just show you what happened.

They'll remind you how it felt to be there together.

The Story Before River Branch


A New Chapter, Built From Real Experience


Every story has a beginning, and River Branch began long before it had a name.

For years, DeShawna has been trusted to photograph hundreds of wedding days, proposals, portraits, events, and meaningful celebrations through DeShawna & Co and in partnership with Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons. Her experience also extends beyond the camera, working in wedding planning with Fairy Tales & Wedding Bells and getting to see an entirely different side of what couples carry into a wedding day.

Together, those experiences shaped the way she sees people - not just through a camera, but in the quiet moments when they need calm, guidance, encouragement, or space to simply be themselves.

River Branch grew from that work.

It came from noticing that the most meaningful photographs were rarely the loudest moments. They were the in-between ones - the hand squeeze, the deep breath, the look across a room, the walk under the trees, the little pause where everything finally felt real.

  • DeShawna was not only professional and extremely knowledgeable with photo poses, she worked at the perfect speed to make sure that we not only enjoyed the day but will have amazing photos to look back on. She took the time to protect my new husband and I’s wedding day, was flexible with an unseen challenge throughout the day and was so kind. You can tell she cares about what she does and wants that to show throughout the day. I HIGHLY recommend as a wedding photographer. Thank you DeShawna!

    —Stacey Owojori

  • DeShawna has photographed so many of our family’s important moments and events! Both my grand babies newborn pics, my wedding, my son’s wedding, and even another son’s funeral. She is caring and compassionate. She truly loves what she does and is amazing at catching even the littlest details. Her pictures truly capture time in a moment! She shows up, works hard and is extremely easy to work with and reliable! I can’t imagine having anyone else as our photographer! I recommend her to anyone looking for that something special in a photographer!

    —AnneElissa D’Avis

  • Working with DeShawna was like a breath of fresh air! She came to St Pete from Orlando to take our engagement pictures. We clicked instantly, felt like old friends, and she made us feel so comfortable taking our pictures in front of hundreds of people on a crowded pier. Our wedding day a few months later on Clearwater Beach felt the exact same. She immediately got to work while I was finishing getting ready. My family and friends were in awe of how flawless she helped make the entire day go. The day was hot, but you can’t tell in these pictures because she captured every picture so well. She also helped make our ideas become reality with certain shots we wanted. I cannot recommend her enough!!!

    —Jeanna Oliver

We can’t wait to hear your story


The River Branch Signature Experience     

proposals • intimate weddings • elopements • honeymoons • anniversaries • meaningful relationship milestones.

Download the River Branch Pricing Guide for founder pricing, what’s included, destination options, and the ways we help make the experience feel supported from the start.


Questions Couples Often Ask


We’re here to help.

A few things couples often wonder before reaching out



LET’S PLAN YOUR PERFECT DAY


Tell Us What

You're Imagining

Every story starts somewhere. Some couples arrive with every detail mapped out and every box checked, but most don't come to us with all the answers already figured out. Sometimes it's a proposal you've been dreaming about for months. Sometimes it's an intimate wedding that feels less hectic than organizing seating charts. Sometimes it's a honeymoon, anniversary, or weekend getaway that gives you the chance to slow down, reconnect, and spend intentional time together.

And sometimes all you know is that you want something different. Less pressure. More intention. More of what matters and less of what doesn't. The kind of experience you'll still be talking about years from now because of how it felt.

Maybe you already have a destination in mind. Maybe you just want epic scenery and a reason to get away together. Wherever you are in the journey, we'd love to hear about it. Tell us what you're imagining, what matters most to the two of you, and what you hope this chapter of your story feels like.

Start with the dream. We'll help you find the path.