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Rachel and Cody are Getting Married!
Rachel and Cody will be tying the knot this coming summer and today I get to share a few of my favorite images from their recent engagement session! 🙂 If you’ve been reading these pages for a while, you know how much I prefer to photograph couples in their own environment, places that mean something to them as a couple. Getting in line with the hundred other couples in front of the waterfall at the local park just isn’t me – these mean *so* much more when we can take a part of their lives together and entwine them into their photos. So you know I was happy to hear…
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Meagan and Ryder are Getting Married!
Combine perfect weather, perfect light, and a little Captain America and you get a few more of our favorite engagement photos from our time with Meagan and Ryder: It really was difficult to get them to let go of each other once in a while (which really is perfect for engagement photos 🙂 ). The above is one of my favorites from the whole day, from the color and foreground framing to the expression and the semi-hidden clutching going on 🙂 We had a lot of fun shooting around Beaumont, from there we headed over to Raos Bakery – a place Meagan and Ryder like to hang out in. I…
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Nederland Engagements | Lindsey and Trent
Lindsey and Trent are getting married! 🙂 And so we kick off our time with BellaFotografica’s wedding couples from 2011 – yes, we’re in the middle of wedding season for 2010 still but most couples book us a year or more in advance and we’re always itching to get started 🙂 We began this hot and windy afternoon on Boston Avenue in Nederland – both Trent and Lindsey are from this great town and we felt it important to get some photos in and around their heritage: Handsome couple! 🙂 Lindsey is a nursing major at Lamar Port Arthur and Trent is a business major at Lamar Beaumont (careers close…
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Nederland Engagements | Celina and Matt
Whenever I meet with a couple for a wedding consultation, one of my main goals is to get to know them – find out how they met, how he (or she 😉 ) proposed, things like that. As we move into discussing planning their engagement sessions I stress how important it is to use locations that mean something to them as a couple, like where they met, where they went on their first date, where they like to hang out. Ten or thirty years from now they can point to the photos in their engagement album (you do plan to get an engagement album, don’t you? ) and say “that’s…
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Stacey and Jeremy – Engaged
I just got in from Stacey and Jeremy’s engagement session down in Nederland and Port Neches, Texas. Great couple, they worked at Sandersons back in the day when my wife and I went there on our first date – I am sure they waited on us when we were there… Anyways, enough about me! 🙂 Here’s a sneak peek taken at Sandersons… more to come 🙂 I’m really looking forward to your wedding day, have a great week! 🙂
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Gwen and Don’s Engagement
Gwen and Don were so awesome to work with – a great couple from Nederland, TX getting married this July! Gwen had a quick bright smile and Don was just laid back and fun to be around. We photographed their engagement all over Beaumont, looking for new places we hadn’t been before. See what I mean? Both had great smiles that just lit up the scene. 🙂 At one point Don brought out his guitar and serenaded Gwen in the park. He plays very well: Here Gwen is professing her true love to Don; I love how the sun is peaking through the trees: 🙂 “I can’t help, lovin’ that…
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Johnna and Adam’s Engagement
This past weekend marked the beginning of our time with Johnna and Adam – a great couple from Nederland, TX getting married next summer! The sky was a bit overcast, but that only made for a huge softbox and we had fun getting some great relaxed engagement portraits of the lovebirds 🙂 We began with a few images around Johnna’s home, then headed to Boston Ave. and surrounding alleyways for the next couple of hours. Adam worked around there for quite a while so we took some photos of his old stomping grounds. Some of you may remember Adam as the go-to guy at Setzer Hardware, part of Nederland’s heritage…