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Most couples start with a season. Some start with a venue date that happens to be open. Either way, the month you choose shapes the day in ways that are easy to overlook: when the light is soft, how warm the afternoon feels, and how much time you have between the ceremony and sunset.
Read MoreSomewhere in that conversation we learned that Steve works for M&S Engineering. Royce knew the company well, having photographed for them back in 2011. A first meeting turned out to have an older thread running through it. We settled on eight hours of wedding day coverage and waited for the date to arrive.
Read MoreSome engagement sessions are built around a single location. Frances and Jhean's moved through three, and each one gave the afternoon something different.
Read MoreMost of the planning conversation happens before the wedding: what time the ceremony starts, who's in which photo, how the day will flow. Less gets said about what happens after, once the day is actually over and you're waiting to see it. Here's how that part works.
Read MoreMost couples in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country book their wedding photographer 9 to 14 months before their wedding date. If your date falls in peak season, or you have your heart set on a popular venue, booking closer to the 12-14 month mark gives you the best shot at getting who you actually want.
Read MoreFor years, our Nikon Z6 files went through the same process after every wedding. We'd edit them to emulate Kodak Portra, chasing that warm, filmic color that the camera didn't quite give us straight out of the box. It worked, and a lot of the images you've seen from us over the years came from that process. But it was still a workaround, an extra step between what the camera captured and what we actually wanted the photo to look like.
Read MoreEvery wedding we photograph is captured in color. The black-and-white images a couple eventually sees are not shot that way in the moment. They are chosen that way afterward, during editing, once we can look at the full day and decide which photographs are actually about color and which ones are about something else.
Read MoreSome 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.
Read MoreLa 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.
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