Wedding Ceremony/Reception: Occasions at Stone River and at Ashley’s Parents’ home.

Weather:  Your typical August weather in Texas, you know, HOT!!!!!!!!  (over 100F….)

Ashley and Bobby are among one of the sweetest couples you’ll ever meet.  I still remember the excitement of her voice as I called her on the way back from Dallas to Austin when my wife Hazel was working in Dallas last year.   We finally met with her and Bobby who flew in from Florida in Dallas, TX a couple of weeks later.  Bobby is an active military personnel in the US army (and served in Iraq).

Their wedding day coverage consists of a wedding ceremony/reception, then a break, then a home reception for their family.   It’s actually challenging to photograph a reception at home because if it’s on a dance floor, you have lots of opportunities for great images – at home, you have to work a lot harder to get the moments because there are simply less opportunity to get great expressions/funny moments, etc.   We also took some time for a portrait session of Ashley and Bobby in between the wedding reception and home reception.

Ashley is wearing her mom’s wedding dress.

We love Ashley’s preacher for letting us THIS CLOSE in the ceremony 99% of the time we can’t get on the altar.

Tears welled up for the guests during the toast…

I got a feeling this might happen

Looks like the the lady on the right got the bouquet…

Nope…

As a joke, Ashley and Bobby decides to spray the guests with strings….

Usually the typical picture is maybe the bride and groom closing their eyes and the guests are all looking happy throwing them petals.. i love shots like these that are out of the ordinary wedding images where the guests are dodging them and covering their eyes to avoid being sprayed

We spent about 20 minutes at the reception for some pics in different locations (the series below probably took 4 minutes to do, just simple fun pictures):

Swans….

Then we drove around in Bobby’s car and trying to find some fields that we can use as background with a nice sky…  They completely opened up when they’re alone by themselves, it’s great – not to mention it’s 100F+ out and they still enjoyed themselves.

In the car she mentioned she has a pair of boots ……

Is it barley?  I dunno

This is actually in their parents neighborhood….

Congratulations Ashley and Bobby!!  What a fun day!

Sometimes, you CAN wear your dress again!

Some of the images from the session – we took these near the water wall next to the Galleria in Houston, TX.

It was pretty misty/rainy in there – and yes, the umbrella says it all

Congratulations Roann and Bryan!  

The day-after session is somewhere between a bridal and an engagement session   It’s a great way to do portraits in their wedding attire without having to worry about the wedding (because it’s done!)

Lauren’s mom knew the owner of a local ranch/resort, so we were able to use the property – luckily since it never rains in the summer, we were also able to get some really nice light going through the session.

]]> http://www.austinweddingsphotography.com/2009/08/27/lauren-brian-the-day-after-session-temple-tx/feed/ 0 http://www.austinweddingsphotography.com/2009/08/19/josh-abbott-band/ http://www.austinweddingsphotography.com/2009/08/19/josh-abbott-band/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:30:34 +0000 tonyku http://www.austinweddingsphotography.com/?p=310 I had the pleasure of working with Josh Abbott and his country music band from Lubbock, TX about a month ago in Round Rock, TX.   His manager, Bruce at KB Talent, got married last year on April 12th with Kelley that I photographed their wedding and asked me if I wanted to do a photo session for the band for their new CD cover. 

The whole session was about Round Rock and Brushy Creek – they took me to places that I didn’t know existed.  They wanted some sceneries for the cover to along with some portraits of the band.

This is THE round rock that gave the name to the town Round Rock, TX (where I live)  I have driven by this round a couple of times throughout the year and never thought much about it (it’s on Brushy creek on the west side of Round Rock), I just thought it was a weird looking rock in the middle of the creek!

We also snuck out to a railroad track somewhere…..

The band wanted to do a jump shot (except Josh)

This is “the” Brushy Creek.   

In the new song he wrote, the “round rock” is actually where they sit – it’s Brushy Creek near his girlfriend’s grandfather’s house.   It’s actually a really great location for portraits particularly late afternoon when the whole place is lit up with some really nice light.

Can’t wait for the new CD Josh!!