Happy Anniversary to Carlee and Patrick, who got married a year ago today at The Mansion at Judges Hill.

They met at ACL over late night pizza.  Since I’ve met them, they have moved from Boston to NYC to San Francisco.  They hope to make it back to Austin someday and had a wedding that celebrated in an oh-so-Austin way:  Radiostar was their band, plus they jaunted around the city on a trolley with friends and family.  I especially loved their cake ball cake. Great fun and great style!

I’ve shot a lot of weddings in the past decade.  Every now and then I stumble across outtakes that I thought were funny or just different enough that I wanted to keep them.  Here are three.

1)  a wall of cucumbers smushed onto a salmon, then covered with whipped cheese of some sort.  It was supposed to be gourmet, but I just giggled when I saw it.  I still remember giggling!

2)  Lawrence Welk.  Who gets to sit at this table?  Is he hip again and I’m the last to know about it?

3)  Ghost at a wedding.

By the time you read this, Julia and Taylor may already be married!  They’re having a garden party morning brunch wedding.  I’m especially excited about the cake, it’s going to be made of donut holes.  And they put their homemade BBQ sauce in jars to give away as favors.  It sounds so cool, but I’m not surprised after our very fun engagement shoot around Austin.

People told me I would get jaded from photographing weddings, but after ten years, I still love it.  Even better, I was able to both attend and document an intimate civil ceremony for my friends Mike and Sonia.  It gave me such a good feeling to see them say their vows among good friends in a simple setting.  It was a wedding at its purest!

After the ceremony, we all headed over to Perry’s for Porkchop Friday.  As an extra treat, the bank vault was available!  We drank dirty martinis, ate iceberg wedges, oysters, carpaccio and of course, giant porkchops.

Mike and Sonia are having one more celebration tonight.  The invite says “All white dress is requested”.  Sounds fantastic.  I’ll be there with my camera..

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Silly self portrait of three wedding photographers.  I broke the cardinal rule and made myself look bad.  All those chins! (It’s because I have short arms).  I have come to terms with it and love how happy we all look.  “We” being:  Jenny De Marco, me and Alina Prax.  They are both super talented, be sure to check them out:

Jenny De Marco Photography

La Dolce Vita Photography

GetMarried.com loved one of our bride’s bouquets!

It was Kim’s bouquet and it was created by the talented Wendee Sawran of Unexpected Elements

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I don’t know much about San Antonio, but had a great time checking it for Lauren and Paul’s engagement shoot.  Lauren is a native of San Antonio and Paul has joined her in this fair city.  We got along famously and I’ve been looking forward to their wedding ever since.  Yep, you guessed it…today is the big day.  They’ve got a great party in the works.  Can’t wait!

Elizabeth Anne Designs is a showcase of impeccably styled weddings and we’re jazzed that they recently featured Erin and Abe’s French-inspired wedding at Laguna Gloria and the Driskill Hotel.  The color scheme was indigo blue and daffodil yellow.  BZ Events was the event producer with a team including Primizie Catering, Petal Pushers, Stardust Pastry, Ilios, Marquee Rentals, Rachel Titsworth, Wendee Sawran and The Nash-Hernandez Orchestra.

Erin and Abe are foodies, so the food was amazing, plus they had custom napkins that said “Magnifique” and “Belle Soiree”, which just tickled me!  But my favorite photo is the one of Erin and her dad during their first dance.

Always a pleasure to have our clients’ weddings on Style Me Pretty.  It’s the ultimate flattery and this wedding deserves it.  Kim, the bride, wanted an Anthropologie feel to her wedding and there were many great details that fulfilled her vision.

Today is Friday and since Kim and Dave’s wedding was on a Friday,I asked Kim to do the international symbol for “working for the weekend”.  Happy Friday everyone!

Lively, colorful, full-of-summer vibe in this floral arrangement by Brooke Howsley of Pollen Floral Art.