About Jubilee Occasions
Hello and welcome! My name is Amanda Monk and I own and operate Jubilee Occasions. The decade long story of how I became an event photographer, planner and officiant is a long, fun and continually evolving one.
I am a photographer at heart. It's nothing my family had ever had any interest in but I remember falling in love at a young age in 1997 and getting my first professional film camera in the year 2000 and has never been far from me at any point of my life since. I learned to develop my own film and eventually add on digital within a few years. My hobby led to a profession in photography and later event planning.
It all started when a brand new company asked me to join them after their first two weddings in 2014. At the time they were so new that they could not pay anyone to help them. And so it began that I was offered leftover wedding cake as payment! I'm pretty sure I have eaten over 1000 different wedding desserts since then and continue to love eating wedding cake! It is there that my true love for the great outdoors and especially Valley Of Fire bloomed. It is where I would grow from an inexperienced assistant to learning all the backend business, then, becoming a full fledged planner with a team of my own in 2019.
By 2022 I had been invited and worked for multiple companies in various positions. It was my most successful year as a planner, photographer and officiant! I didn't know another Vegas photographer who was also a planner and an officiant. A hybrid role I had been playing since 2018. It has since gained traction in the Vegas wedding scene as of the last year.
Most couples and industry personnel will tell you that I am hard to miss! They know me for my energetic, non-stop talk, stories or crazy gold boots and hats! But most of all..the couples I have the privilege of working with. The extra mile I go to make sure they feel heard and that my commitment to them is felt during a very stressful time of wedding planning. So much so that I continue to this day to meet their new bundles of joy, visit them in their home state or countries and continue a friendship long after we leave the work of their wedding day behind. It's where we no longer know each other for a single event but so much more. We grow to share heartache, triumphs, surprises and new memories created together.
Whether it's called a job or career, work is more than something I do. It's part of who I am and the reason I believe that connection is the ultimate luxury. It's how I've been serving couples since the beginning of my career.