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Nationally Award-Winning Wedding and Event Planner Samantha Moss Launches Direct-to-Consumer Lifestyle Brand Sam After Hours

After building a nationally award-winning career as a wedding and event planner, surviving cancer twice, and living through the loss of her baby after 46 days, Samantha Moss has launched Sam After Hours, a direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand built around the quiet moments people carve out for themselves at the end of a long day. The launch marks Moss's transition from event planning into building her own brand for a nationwide audience.

Published 12:31 PM ET · Aug. 21, 2026

Sam After Hours has officially launched as a direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand founded by nationally award-winning wedding and event planner Samantha Moss. Based online at samafterhours.com and available to customers across the United States, the brand reflects a personal turning point in Moss's professional life and a broader shift in what she believes people are looking for in the moments they carve out for themselves.

Before founding Sam After Hours, Moss built a nationally award-winning career in the wedding and events industry, working closely with couples during the most demanding and emotionally significant days of their lives. That work gave her an up-close view of how people mark occasions and what it takes to hold space for other people at the highest-pressure moments of their year.

Behind the scenes, Moss carried a very different set of experiences. She is a two-time cancer survivor, having faced uterine-cervical cancer and later ovarian cancer. She is also the mother of a baby who passed away at 46 days old after a stay in the NICU. Those years reshaped Moss's understanding of what it means to hold time, and of what she wanted the next chapter of her professional life to look like.

What emerged from that period was a decision to build something of her own, focused not on the biggest days but on the smaller ones. The evenings. The end of a long week. The private moments most people rarely think of as worth honoring, and that Moss believes are exactly the ones worth designing around.

Sam After Hours was built around that idea. The brand launched with a lineup created for the audience Moss found herself thinking about most, adults who value quiet, well-considered moments over louder consumer trends, and who want brands that feel personal rather than corporate.

The direct-to-consumer model is central to how Sam After Hours operates. Rather than distributing through large retail channels, the brand ships nationwide from an online storefront, allowing Moss to maintain a close connection with her customers and to shape the brand in response to real feedback from the people using her products.

Sam After Hours is available now at samafterhours.com.

About Sam After Hours

Sam After Hours is a U.S.-based direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand founded by nationally award-winning wedding and event planner Samantha Moss. Built for the quiet moments customers set aside for themselves, the brand ships nationwide through its online storefront at samafterhours.com.

CONTACT:

https://www.samafterhours.com

https://instagram.com/samafterhours.co

hi@samafterhours.com

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