After spending the day in Houston with Fer, an amazing wedding photographer based in Mexico, for his workshop, I feel energized and inspired! It’s always interesting to see how other photographers work. I loved being able to play with new ways to see light and create a more dramatic image. We don’t always have time to get images like this on the day of the wedding, so I’m hoping to encourage clients to consider adding a day-after session to their wedding collections. It’s a great way to capture amazing images without the stress of the wedding day timeline! Please contact me to learn more about my day-after sessions!

Here are a few of my favorite engagement and wedding session images from the day. I admit, there are a few that make me so, so happy…in a “OMG, I freaking shot that!!” kind of way! I have to give a special nod to the In-Tandems, an amazing photography duo, who were our models for the day. They are the sweetest people and really rocked it in front of the camera.

I LOVE DIY weddings! When a couple takes time to put themselves into a wedding, the wedding is always more fun. This wedding was full of fun details including hand made cloth napkins in my favorite colors yellow + gray. And who doesn’t love balloons? Hand made origami aisle markers? Yes, please! Cute little bird tattoos (real) for the bride and MOH? Um, hell yes! They even wrote their own vows full of sweet “why I like you” what-nots!  Photo booth – a huge success. You should add one to your wedding collection! An important word of advice for you DIY brides: be a bride on your wedding day! Amanda + Corey smartly hired Ventana Wedding & Events Productions to handle the set up and day of coordination. They did an amazing job at putting Amanda’s designs on display allowing the bride + groom to have a stress free not to mention kick ass time at their wedding. I am so glad I had the opportunity to help out She-n-He photograph Amanda + Corey’s wedding at Vintage Villas. They could not have been a nicer couple!

Here is a look at real honest to goodness love. Meet newlyweds, Victoria + Taylor. Their story is a sweet one. We spent the morning and afternoon together to get these frames. I approached this session a little differently than most. I really wanted to explore something new – the intimacy of relationship. My goal was to get the couple to a real place of comfort and really get them to open up to one another in my presence. I can make any two people look happy together. We all have our tricks and ways of putting people at ease but I wanted this to be real. No staging on my part. Being vulnerable is a difficult thing to do. Most people…ok everyone…feels nervous once the camera shows up. It takes a real commitment to get to this place. Every part of this session had meaning. We spent time just hanging out in their most private space, their home, forgoing typical locations which had little to no meaning to them. We explored their neighorhood with their awesome yellow tandem bike which was a gift from the person who married them. They talked about the significance of the bike. During their pre-marriage counseling sessions their pastor asked them to best describe their relationship. They said they were always together. Never apart. So on their wedding day, their pastor presented them with a personal gift, a tandem bicycle. It had belonged to him and his own wife for nearly 20+ years. He wanted it to be a reminder to them of when their love was young and new. A reminder of how they needed to stick together for marriage is a long journey.

Lastly, they had a small request to recreate a photo of Victoria’s grandparents. How could I say no to such an awesome idea? We went to the tennis courts and I posed them just like in the photo I had seen so lovingly displayed in their bedroom. If you know me, I have a soft spot for the grandparents. I think it turned out great!

This kind of session takes a great deal of trust and patience. I hope they enjoyed being part of this as much as I loved photographing them.