Couples Photography

This is where I got to shoot last week — American Fork Canyon in Utah. Yeah. Not quite Temple, Texas. And those people in the photos? My awesome brother and his beautiful fiancee. I was SO excited to shoot their engagement and bridal photos. I would’ve been so jealous if anyone else got to, and it meant so much to be able to do them. I can’t wait to show you (and them) more. We got a great mix of fun and sweet and romantic, but here’s a quick preview of a couple of my initial favorites.

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Typically I don’t post this many photos from a single session (for time and brevity’s sake), but I just couldn’t restrain myself this time. Everything about this session was incredible — the people, the mood, the locations, the people, the people, the people. I love them. And I absolutely love these images of them because they are so them. Since the first email I received from them I was dying to meet them and photograph them, and they were just as awesome as they sounded.

We were doing some three generational photos, and this was one of the first shots of the day. As you can tell, we had a lot of fun from the very beginning. You gotta love when your clients are so naturally natural.

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Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer

This couple is amazing. They were fun and affectionate and romantic, and I felt like I was shooting for an engagement. Young love is beautiful and exciting, but photographing such a happy couple after they’ve raised their kids and been together for decades adds so much more to the romance.

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Temple Belton Salado Texas TX family photography photographer

I asked them to walk to the bottom of the ramp, and completely unprovoked they started dancing together. Swoon. I love these shots.

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Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer

The reason the family was all together for this occasion was to celebrate the 50 years this couple has been married. Their son scheduled the session with me, and I loved his descriptions of his family members in his emails to me. After I read this line from his email, I knew I’d be asking them to make their own music to dance to: “Now-days, they’re master-gardeners and I can still see some of the old magic between them when they dance, assuming the band is to their liking.” How perfect that they’re dancing in their very own garden as well!

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Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer

I LOVE this family shot. I think one of my favorite things about it is that no one is looking at me at all. It’s like I’m not even there.

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Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer
Temple Belton Salado Dallas Waco Austin Texas TX family photography photographer

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Meet my new favorite family ever. I want to move in…and let them teach me Christopher Walken impressions. I can’t wait — can’t wait — to show you more, but most importantly I can’t wait to show them the rest of their photos because I know they will mean so much more to them than anyone else.

I feel so honored to have been invited to peek into the relationships in this family. They are so full of life and humor.

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I love being able to work with kids so often, but sometimes it is so fun and refreshing to work with all adults (well, and a couple pugs in this case). I can’t tell you how much fun this session was.

We had an awesome group — a newly married couple with their dogs for some family photos, in addition to her mom and sister who are all really close. They were all hysterically funny, and it was fun incorporating some more personal touches into their session, like the wine and the tandem bike (seriously, who else is cool enough to have a tandem bike on hand?). I knew it was going to be awesome when I was laughing out loud reading the pre-session questionnaire.

I had in my mind before I met up with them that if we were having enough fun I was going to make them pose like the classic Goodfellas photo since they’re way into mob movies. We did. And it was awesome. (Not pictured here, though. It was just for them.)

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Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer
Temple Belton Salado Waco Austin Texas TX family photographer

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One freakishly freezing morning in mid-April, I met up with Melissa and her mom to take her bridal portraits. I was wearing a cami, a sweater, and another thick sweater on top of that and was still shivering and shaking from the cold so that tells you how awesome Melissa is for sucking it up and going strapless. We tried keeping her warm between locations with a bathrobe, but I’m telling you she didn’t complain once, and it was cold!

It was fun doing her bridals since I’d also shot their engagement photos, because I already knew their style and could kind of match the locations — the bold greens, the rustic details, and the water. Here are a few of my faves.

Congrats to an amazing couple!

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Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography
Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography
Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography
Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography
Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography
Temple Harker Heights Texas bridal and wedding photography

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