Epic in Shiner

Over the last year and half I’ve booked a lot of brides over the phone (a lot), I don’t know why it’s just worked out that way. Maybe I have some great phone voice that I never realized??? Anyway not to get off track, coming up in May two out five weddings will be of happy couples I never met before. Wow! The great thing is I get to trapes all across Texas... does that make me a destination wedding photographer?

So Carli and Claudio where a little bit different, Carli booked me a while back and I got the chance to meet both of them briefly about a month before the wedding so at least we weren’t total strangers.

The wedding was epic (they have the pose to prove it) and totally beat any expectation of a back yard wedding, wait until you see the “tent”.

I had a great time, the day and evening were perfect and hope to head back to Shiner real soon for yet another wedding.

Oh and did I mention this is one out of three Aggie weddings in a row? Don’t get me wrong I love my Aggies but for an Austin guy that’s pretty good! For the record my loyalties lie in East Tennessee.

Props to Barbara (http://www.barbaralegerephotography.com) our 2nd shooter for stopping to get this shot.

Getting ready with Summer.

The little blue hose rocked! We got a ton of great shots back there.

Summer's little girl rocked it out as the flower girl.

I really wonder if any bride and groom can actually hear what's being said during their ceremony? I recently celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary and watched our footage, it was a really good sermon!

This was the most fun wedding party I've seen in a long, long time. It was a lot of fun to shoot them.

In true backyard wedding fashion the bride and brides maids were barefoot.

The "Epic Pose".

Here's the tent from a far... it was enormous.

The best man was great, he was slaying the audience.

Claudio's dad during the speeches.

Oh and the brewmaster hooked Carli and Claudio up with their own special wedding day brew.

Ryan

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I wish they had senior pictures like this when I was in school... maybe I would have picked up a camera earlier in life!

This was a great shoot, for all their bravado teenage boys (sounds weird to say boys, I can’t say teenage men and teenage males sounds a little sterile like I’m a cop or a lab tech), tend to be a bit shy in front of the camera but Ryan nailed it. Oh and if you didn’t notice another Austinite headed to Aggie Land.

Austin, Mayfield Park, Aggie, A&M, senior

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Sarah and Kevin Engagement

Sarah and Kevin are both alumni of Texas A & AM. Being big Aggie fans, they decided the do their engagement shoot in College Station. I had never been to College Station before, but we got some phenomenal shots from all over campus, The (infamous) Dixie Chicken and adjoining bottle-cap alley. Sarah and Kevin were a lot of fun to hang out with and they are going to rock it come wedding day!

Not only were they a lot of fun but Sarah and Kevin were great sports and would do ANYTHING I asked.

Penny for good luck before a test, what kind of grade does a diamond get you... a 3.5 for your sophomore year?

In The Century Tree...

...and under.

Aggies lover their rings.

I thought this alley was the coolest

I'm never shy to get down on the ground and crawl around to get a shot, I drew the line at rusty bottle caps.

Inside the Dixie Chicken!