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That is the part of Gavin and Emma’s story we kept coming back to. When Gavin asked us to photograph a surprise proposal at the McNay Art Museum, the surprise was never about whether it would happen. It was about when. Emma had no reason to think the answer was this particular evening.
Read MoreWe have photographed a number of proposals at the Japanese Tea Garden, and each one has its own character. This one was different because Joshua and Aspen did not share the garden with anyone. They reserved the waterfall after hours, and for the length of their reservation it belonged only to them.
Read MoreMonica thought the trip was about her aunt. She and Alejandro had driven in from Mexico with a few days planned around a visit, the kind of trip built around family rather than anything else. What she did not know was that Alejandro had been planning something else entirely, and it was happening the very next morning.
Read MoreEmiliano 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.
Read MoreThere is a certain kind of stillness in San Antonio just after sunrise, the kind that feels borrowed, as if the city has not quite decided to wake up yet. It is in those early hours that places like the Japanese Tea Garden feel entirely different. Softer. More intimate. Almost like they are meant for only a few people at a time.
Read MoreThere are certain moments in our work that slow everything down in the best possible way. The kind where you look at each other afterward and say, “Yeah… that one’s going to stick with us.” Erwin and Kristine’s proposal at Hotel Emma was exactly that kind of moment.
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