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The Anderson Wedding – Houston, TX

December 17, 2020

Eric and Julia in November. This sweet backyard wedding and night goes down as one of my favorite memories of 2020. Our evening ended (as she mentions below) with cheering, clapping, and crying while watching Kamala and Joe. My “job” was done around 7:00, but I was welcomed in to witness history and quite honestly didn’t want to leave this wonderful group of strangers. There was something so powerful about experiencing these emotions alongside them. I’ll never forget it.

“Originally, we planned to have a 200 person wedding on a vineyard in Austin. We had actually just received our Save the Dates one week before our jobs sent us home to work remotely. We made the decision to postpone the big party but not to delay the actual marriage itself. We kept our original November 2020 date but switched to a 16 person guest list in the backyard of a family friend, Julie Watkins. When Julie heard about our cancelled wedding, she not only offered to host but also assembled a dream team of women who came together to put on our wedding day. It was absolutely beautiful from start to finish and was made all the more special by the Election being officially called for Biden & Kamala! We got to spend our day excited and confident about the future in more ways than one. In a very bizarre year, we feel lucky to have been able to celebrate our marriage at all.”

Photographed in Houston, TX

Venue: Home of a family friend
Dress: Theia from Unbridaled
Hair & Makeup: The Fairest One
Linens & furniture: Swift + Company
Caterer: El Tiempo
Cake: Moeller’s Bakery
Flowers: Assembled by family friend Annette Schatte

Filed Under: married

Bludorn for Eater

December 14, 2020

Bludorn Restaurant photographed for Eater Houston: How One of Houston’s Most Compelling New Restaurants Opened During an Endlessly Complicated Year.

Filed Under: eats

Stitzel-Weller Distillery

December 8, 2020

The legendary Stitzel-Weller Distillery.
Photographed in February for Big Heart Media.
(Yes, I was bourbon geeking out real hard).

Filed Under: companies

The Skahn Wedding – Marble Falls, TX

November 10, 2020

“It only took two canceled weddings and four months of growing a baby to finally do the dang thing.” – Caroline

David & Caroline’s intimate backyard wedding. This one was as special as it gets, considering Caroline (who I call ‘Tig’) is my very best friend of more than 15 years. What was supposed to be a Cabo wedding in April…then in July…turned into a backyard wedding at her family’s lake house in October. It was the last hurrah to close on 22 years of memories at this home, so the weekend was every type of bittersweet.

The first time in our long friendship that I thought, “this is the guy that Tig is going to marry” was about 10 seconds after Mark (my husband) said to me, “I want to introduce the guy I’m playing golf with to Tig.” It’s an awesome detail for a lot of reasons to me that my husband introduced my best friend to her husband (and then married them), but one of the most important is that in the 12 years that Mark has known her, he has shot down every person that I’ve mentioned introducing to her. So when Mark had only spent just a mere few hours with this David guy and found him to be up to his untouchable standard for Tig, I thought, “well then this must it.” And we’re all so glad that it was 🙂

Dress – Amsale
Hair & Makeup – Gertie Glam
Suit – Bonobos
Flowers – Floral Designs by Randi
Caterer – Bittersweet Cakes and Catering

Filed Under: married

The Ivers Wedding – Houston, TX

June 24, 2020

Scott & Virg’s Quarantine wedding, May 2020. I feel a lot of weight when photographing weddings. They’re all historic moments. But the honor of capturing this one, in the middle of a pandemic, was not lost on me. More than ever I  was so aware of how their future kids, maybe grandkids, would look at these photos from 2020. Thank you to my friends for letting me be a witness.

“The original plan for our wedding was to have a small ceremony in the chapel St. Luke’s followed by a larger reception at Armadillo Palace on May 16, 2020. To be honest, a large, traditional wedding had never been my dream, but it had snowballed into that during the wedding planning process. In March, it of course became apparent that our plans would need to change in light of COVID-19. After surveying our options (thanks to our amazing wedding planner who made that part easy!), we decided the safest thing to do was to postpone the reception until October. However, we still wanted to find a way to get married in May and start our life together. The next two months were full of attempts to make decisions amongst so many ever-changing unknowns. At the end of the day, we decided the most important thing to us was to include as many of our loved ones as possible. And this meant getting really creative. While only our immediate families would attend the ceremony, we moved it to the larger sanctuary so that the church could livestream it for all the people we wished could be there but couldn’t, including many family members across the country who couldn’t travel safely. I got ready with just my mom and sister but “Zoomed” with friends before walking down the aisle. The guests from Houston were invited to a car parade at the church, and many watched the ceremony from their phones (some even dressed in cocktail attire) in the parking lot so they could drive by after. And that evening, we had a small dinner with just our families, a sweet reunion after two months apart. In the end, even though it was so far from what we planned originally, our wedding was the most joyful celebration and reprieve from the fears and sadness of the pandemic. And ironically, it was kind of the intimate, non-traditional wedding I had always wanted!” – Virg

Photographed in Houston, TX

Venue: St. Luke’s United Methodist Church
Planning: Julie Marie Myers, Keely Thorne Events
Dress: BHLDN
Flowers: Flora + Fauna
Hair: Beautique
Makeup: Consultation with Maitee Miles

Filed Under: married

Jason & Cara – Engaged

January 16, 2020

Nonstop laughter roaming EADO with Cara and Jason. Shooting these fun friends was the perfect wrap on 2019’s work and I’m just a tad excited about their Cancun wedding in July!

Photographed in Houston, TX

Filed Under: engaged

Blood Bros. Barbecue

January 15, 2020

Blood Bros. Barbecue photographed for Houston’s 2019 Eater Awards.

“2019 was packed with strong contenders for Restaurant of the Year, but no new eatery in the city better exemplifies Houston’s diverse culinary scene than Blood Bros. Barbecue. From its beginnings as a pop-up to a bona fide Space City phenomenon, Blood Bros. Barbecue has always exemplified the city’s distinct culinary ethos in a way that Houston can really be proud of.

Whether it’s green curry boudin or barky brisket or juicy pork belly burnt ends, the meats at Blood Bros. are always top-notch, and the lines that snake out of its building on Bellaire Boulevard are proof that its barbecue operation is really clicking. When combined with sides like brisket fried rice, pinto beans, and jalapeno creamed corn, this is the kind of meal that feels like going on a trip across the world without ever leaving the neighborhood.”

Filed Under: eats

The Spruill Wedding – Houston, TX

December 2, 2019

Chase and I went to middle and high school together. Though we’ve drifted apart over the years, I’ve kept up with his adventures and successes, always continuing to think of him the same as I did during our teenage days together – one of the nice guys. It took about two seconds after meeting Liz to know that he’d found the perfect girl to match his own coolness. She is smart, kind, funny and silly gorgeous. Both of them are the kind of people you just want to be around. To witness love, friends and family like theirs was the best way to wrap up this year’s wedding work. I’m really proud of this one and so thankful to have been a part of this perfect day.

I’ll kick off the party photos with some double exposed 35mm film. It was a fun surprise to see the results of shooting part of the roll at the bowling alley between their ceremony and reception, and the remainder on the dance floor. These are some of my favorites from the Nikon One Touch that I’ve ever gotten back! Processed and scanned by Photo Vision Prints.

Photographed in Houston, TX

Ceremony – Church of the Annunciation
Reception – Sunset Coffee Building
Coordinating – Kristin Kennedy
Floral design – Bramble & Bee
Band – Royal Dukes Band
Wedding dress – Muse by Berta
Groom’s attire – Ralph Lauren
Hair & Makeup – Hey Lovely
Cake – Cakes by Gina
Catering – Cafe Natalie

Filed Under: married

The Taggart Family

November 20, 2019

Drew, Kata, Hannah Rose and Geoffrey in downtown Houston.

Filed Under: portraits

The Schwab Family

November 18, 2019

Sweet Annie, Matt and Sarah. Hard to keep it together shooting some of my best friends love on their little girl.

Photographed in Houston, TX

Filed Under: portraits

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