Jacqueline + Joe

On New Years Day 2009, I posted on Craigslist about wanting to get my foot in the door with wedding photography. My first bride that booked me was Jacqueline, whose wedding was in August. I knew we were going to work beautifully together. I met her in Austin and she was with her mother, sister, and her sister's children. She and her family was so absolutely sweet, and she was genuinely interested in booking me in order to not only get her wedding documented with photos, but to help me with my portfolio! She and her family was just so great!

I didn't meet her fiance (now husband), Joe, until the day before the wedding, but everything was cake! They weren't from Austin, but Jackie and her family were happy to meet me there!
They both attended UT, and Jackie's parents both work at UT, so they had their service at the University Church and their reception at the ballroom on campus!

I had to get so many photos of these flowers - they were beautiful!!


While the ladies were getting ready upstairs, the guys were downstairs playing pool and this little one was playing checkers with Grandpa!


Joe told me that they have been together for five years! So, I took Jackie's engagement ring and snapped this shot! :)


Married!!! On to the party!



The reception, like I said, was also on campus so everyone just walked right on over there!

Joe is a musician, and had a very good reason why his guitar was there at the reception! ;)

Joe, his best man, a good friend, and HIS MOTHER played as the band at Joe and Jackie's reception! I loved it, because it was so personal and great! Fun fact: my father and his band played at his and my mother's wedding!



I had such a great time at this wedding! Everyone was dancing, dining, having fun! It was just great!! The family and friends were all so wonderful and beautiful! I want to thank Jackie and Joe and your families for having me document your wedding day! Best wishes to your future!

xoxo

Back in the Saddle and Melanie + Lloyd

I'm not sure why, but I always forget to update this blog! It's pretty bad! I have so many other blogs that I somewhat keep track of, and then this one is just...I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'm going to need to make a ton of posts including things that are new and photo shoots that have been well since shot, but yet to be blogged! I'm going to try to catch up tonight or tomorrow (since I have to wake up pretty early tomorrow)!!!

So, here's a wedding from earlier this year.
Melanie and Lloyd contacted me in around April about their December wedding for 2009.
After booking the date, I started thinking about all of the fun things we could do for their engagement session. A week before the session date, I sent out my "week away" confirmation I normally send out to customers. You know, just to check and make sure we were all on the same page for the session date!
That's when I got the news that they had just found out they were expecting and would have to reschedule the engagement session and possibly the wedding! How exciting for them - I was in class and had the biggest smile on my face when I read their good news about their little peanut!! I immediately sent them an email congratulating them and just asking to be filled in as far as the wedding goes.
After a few weeks, I got an email basically saying that they actually did reschedule the wedding...for that Saturday!! I was so happy to still be shooting their wedding!

It was a really great, intimate backyard wedding held at the home of Melanie's sister! They did everything themselves and Melanie said she basically planned everything in about three weeks! I applaud her, because it was awesome!!



I loved the details at the wedding! The colours and the softness were just great - especially with the great, green astro turf at the top of the steps!!


This was Melanie's wedding dress that she bought from Ross!! How cute, right? I love that she has the chance to wear her wedding dress all of the time if she wanted to do that!

Lloyd (in the blue shirt) with his best man. The guys were just waiting in the living room until it was time!


Melanie may not have spent over $3,000 on a dress, but that doesn't mean that her mother wasn't needed when putting her wedding dress on!



Those colours! I mean, REALLY! :)


Sealing this post with a kiss...no, THE kiss! :)
Good night, all!!

Melissa's Bridals

Since Melissa and Justin have tied the knot, here are a few of my favourites from Melissa's Bridal session! For this session, we woke up quite earlier than both Melissa and myself are used to (sunrise) and it was held at the Texas State Cemetery! It's a beautiful place, and offered a lot for our session!

This is the photo that Melissa chose as her print for the wedding!

This is my absolute favourite photo from the session! I love it!

This was a great bridal session and I loved it!

Melissa + Justin - 13 June 2009

Melissa and Justin contacted me through CraigsList. They were my fourth wedding that I booked, and were SO sweet and fun!

Their wedding was an outdoor wedding (literally one day before the record 100 degrees and up streak here in Texas) at The Ranch House at Tera Vista in Round Rock, TX. It was beautiful! The interior was just lovely and the land surrounding the Ranch House was great - it's a golf course!

This is the first post in the "flash back" posts.

Thank you to Melissa and Justin for allowing me to take part and capture your beautiful wedding!

With love

Welcome Back, Alyssa!

Wow! Talk about a long hiatus! Too long, if we're being honest! I'm not completely sure why I haven't posted in a while. I have been quite busy with weddings and Summer session classes, but although I'm still going to be busy, I'm going to commit time to blogging and updating everyone with photos, and specials and deals!

This post is going to be extremely short, but I wanted to post a small sample square of some of my favourite shots from my most recent wedding! I loved everything about this wedding and will elaborate on it all in good time! This post is a bit of a jump forward, and I'll be flashing back to blog about sessions/weddings that were done before this one! Whew!

Anyway, here is a sample square of photos from Melanie and Lloyd's wedding on the 18th of July 2009!

Like I said, I loved everything about this wedding!

You may also notice I have a new logo! I made it myself! I am proud! :D

Expect more updates, because they're a'comin'!

With love.