It was great to walk around and see our work portrayed not only in our booths, but in many of the vendors that we have worked with in the past year, such as Vintage Villas, The Terrace Club, Vista West Ranch, Wildflower Cakes, Lakeway Resort and Spa, Kindred Oaks, Arbor Pointe Event Center, Bella Notte on Main, and Amanda Pye of Austin Makeup Design. Barr Mansion also has a display album, but since it’s so big, they left it back at the Mansion, so future clients can check it out there.

Thanks SO MUCH to Signs Express for printing my new banners so fast and for Stacey Hogge from Petal Pushers for providing the AWESOME flower arrangement for my booth!

Here’s some fun images from my booth setup.  I took them all with my kick-butt Canon G9 point-n-shoot camera.

You can see images like this as well as others by visiting our website at www.hookedphoto.com.

We started out the day with capturing her at Jackson Ruiz salon and the folks there are awesome and they really know how to pamper their clients.  They do an awesome job with the hair and makeup and I HIGHLY recommend them to any bride.  I know they are pricey, but they are so worth it because I know that every bride wants to look her best on their wedding day.  Kendra, the gals, her mom, her surrogate mom (a close neighbor that she grew up with) and Jeff’s mom all came along to get pampered.

We then moved on to the cememony and reception site, Barr Mansion.  We really made a good impression on the owners, too, in that I have already been called by Rick, one of the manager’s at Barr Mansion, to have some images from this wedding to be used for their new website and marketing materials.  I was VERY excited and honored to hear about this.  This place really provides so many opportunities for photographs.  I always love capturing this one right before the ceremony.

My second photographer HJ Brockway captured this awesome image of the bride and  her father coming down the aisle.  This is a great reason to hire two photographers because we can capture multiple angles at the same moment.  I was up at the  front end of the aisle anticipating the father kissing the bride away and the father handing her off to his new son-in-law.

It seems that all of the giggles come out and all of the stress is gone once the rings are placed on their new home and the couple is pronounced as man and wife.

I wonder which cake these kids are waiting for…

Another highlight of the night was Kendra dancing with her daddy.  One of the unique aspects of this wedding was that she and her father danced together first, and they put on a show with a choreographed dance.  This is one of the few moments when they were ‘slightly’ still.  They really had the entire crowd’s attention.

After the first dances, it was one big dance party after that, and EVERY song was jammin’, and everybody was out on the dance floor for a fun hip-hop time. 

I’m so happy that they chose us to be their photographer.  It was fun to catch up with this couple and to see how in love they are and how comfortable they were behind the camera.   Here is some of the fun that we captured.

Her dress really goes with her wedding theme – simple, sweet and sexy! We will see this couple again in September at the Barr Mansion.

Anyway, we made our first trip to Barr Mansion this year. It was a beautiful, sunny day, but it was c-c-c-c-c-cold! The high was in the upper 50′s! The bride and her bridesmaids really had to brave it in their beautiful strapless dresses. I felt so sorry for them!

I felt a really strong connection to this couple because the groom, Albert, is currently serving in the military. I was in the military (US Army) for 11 years, and it was quite an adventure. Albert has already served two tours in Iraq, and unfortunately will have to make another one very soon.

This was one wild reception, too! Many of Albert’s buddies from Fort Hood came down, and it was non-stop action from minute to minute. We were able to capture a lot of fun times.

We went out to Dun Vegan Keep and the weather was gorgeous, too. I tried out some new lighting techniques, and I was really happy with the way that they came out, too.

We’ll see this lovely couple in April.