Working Alongside Chris Ramey of Made In Texas Productions | WalstonPhoto

Last week we photographed an engagement session for Frances and Jhean, whose wedding is coming up later this year. Their session took place at two of the spots where their wedding will unfold: Hotel Valencia, where they'll get ready, and San Fernando Cathedral, where they'll say their vows. Since the day was about capturing great content for their wedding website and invitations, we joined up with Chris Ramey of Made In Texas Productions, their videographer, to walk the spaces and set the stage ahead of the big day.

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Engagement Photos at the San Antonio Botanical Garden

We've spent a lot of time at the San Antonio Botanical Garden over the years, mostly for weddings, but the same qualities that make it work for a ceremony make it one of our favorite spots for engagement and bridal sessions too. It's rare to find one location with this much range in a single afternoon: palm and cycad groves, open lawns, formal gardens, and quiet wooded paths, all within a short walk of each other.

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What It's Like to Photograph a Wedding at JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort

Some venues ask a photographer to bring energy to the day. JW Marriott Hill Country asks the opposite. It's a resort built for people who want to slow down, and that shapes how a wedding day unfolds here more than almost anything else about the property. We've now photographed two weddings on this property, each different in size and rhythm, and both shaped by that same unhurried quality.

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What It's Like to Photograph a Wedding at La Cantera Resort

La Cantera sits high above the Texas Hill Country, and that elevation shapes everything about how a wedding day unfolds there. We've now photographed two very different celebrations on this property, one a full evening celebration with sunset vows and golden hour portraits, the other a smaller gathering built around an outdoor dinner and quiet sunset light. Both days looked nothing alike. Both were unmistakably La Cantera.

What It's Like to Photograph a Wedding at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio

We have photographed at the McNay across multiple contexts: a full wedding, an elopement session, proposals, and engagement sessions on the grounds. Each time, the venue brings something that is difficult to create elsewhere. The Spanish Colonial Revival mansion, the 23 acres of manicured grounds, the art collection inside, none of it feels like a backdrop. It feels like a place that was built with intention, and that intention carries through into everything that happens there.

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What It Feels Like to Get Married at Hotel Emma — A San Antonio Wedding Photographer's Perspective

There are venues that beg you to dress the space, and there are venues that do the work for you. Hotel Emma is the second kind.

Situated in the Pearl District along the northern reach of the San Antonio River, Hotel Emma occupies the 19th-century historic Pearl brewhouse that was never fully scrubbed of its past. The exposed brick, the vintage brewery tanks standing sentinel in the Elephant Cellar, the ivy climbing the open courtyard walls — none of it was staged. It was already there, already telling a story. For couples who care about that kind of authenticity, there may not be a more natural fit in San Antonio.

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How Emiliano Planned a Surprise Proposal at the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden

Emiliano and Sofia made the drive from Houston with a few nights in San Antonio ahead of them. They had restaurants to try, things to see, the kind of easy trip that gives a couple a getaway form the stresses of work and responsibilities. Emiliano had something else in mind for one of those mornings, and he had been thinking about it for a while.

The Japanese Tea Garden was going to play right into that plan.

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Inside the Mini Bridal Jubilee at Stoney Creek Venue in Bulverde, Texas

…The Mini Bridal Jubilee, thoughtfully organized by The Hills Wedding Guide, carried that same feeling from the very beginning. It did not feel rushed or overwhelming. It felt like something meant to be experienced slowly, with purpose.

Leci and Thomas’s Elopement Photos at the McNay Art Museum

That is how we found ourselves at the McNay Art Museum with them, wandering through its grounds and interiors, letting the afternoon unfold without pressure. There was no rush to get to the next thing, no audience waiting. Just the two of them, newly married, stepping into this next chapter with a quiet kind of confidence.