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.
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 MoreCouples who choose the Texas Hill Country for their wedding are usually looking for the same thing; somewhere that feels real. Not a backdrop, not a stage set, but a place with its own character that the wedding gets to inhabit. Camp Lucy's Vineyard is that kind of place, and it is one of the few venues in the Dripping Springs area where the setting does as much work as anything the couple brings to it.
Read MoreThere is a version of your wedding day that happens around you, and a version that happens to you. Most couples want the second one. They want to feel the weight of the morning, the stillness before the ceremony begins, the particular quality of a room full of people who love them. They want to remember it from the inside. After years of photographing weddings across San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country, we have come to believe that presence on your wedding day is not an accident. It is something worth thinking about, and worth protecting.
Read MoreCocktail hour has a way of ending before couples arrive at it. The ceremony finishes, portraits begin, and by the time everyone finds their way inside, the passed appetizers are gone and the best conversations already happened without them.
It's one of the most common things we hear about after a wedding, and as San Antonio wedding photographers, it's one of the most preventable.
Read MoreI've been thinking lately about why couples almost never request black and white photos leading up to their wedding. They want things to look real, not like some stiff, over-produced editorial where everyone looks like they’re holding their breath. They mention the light. They mention candid moments that capture the feel and atmosphere of the day.
Read MoreThere's a thing that happens sometimes, where you show up to photograph a wedding and it doesn't feel like work. Not because it's easy, but because the people make you forget you're on the clock. That's the only way I know how to describe Jasmine and Rino's day.
Read MoreAs a San Antonio wedding photographer team we have photographed weddings where the guest list barely reached ten people and weddings where the dance floor looked like a concert by the end of the night. After more than 200 weddings across Texas and beyond, one thing has become incredibly clear to us. The size of a wedding never determines how meaningful it feels.
Read MoreThere are some wedding days that follow a plan from beginning to end, unfolding exactly as imagined. And then there are the ones that take on a life of their own, where the unexpected doesn’t interrupt the story but becomes the reason it is remembered so vividly. Mackenzie and Jeff’s wedding at Camp Lucy was that kind of day, and as a Dripping Springs wedding photographer, it is exactly the kind of story we are drawn to.
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