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Most 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThere 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.
Read MoreMost couples start searching for a San Antonio wedding photographer the same way, they open a browser, scroll through a few websites, look at some galleries, and quickly realize that nearly every photographer they find seems talented. The images are beautiful. The websites are polished. The reviews are glowing. And yet none of it tells them what they actually need to know before making a decision that will shape how they remember one of the most significant days of their lives.
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