blissfully engaged
blissfully engaged: allie + connor // fort worth sunrise engagement session
It required a 5 AM wake-up call for this summer sunrise session in Fort Worth with Allie and Connor but I’d take that alarm over and over again to spend another morning documenting HOW. MUCH. FUN. these two have together. It is always seriously such an absolute ball to spend any length of time with Allie and Connor and I’m already counting down the days to their wedding next January.
Thanks to Meagan Betchel for waking up super early to do Allie’s hair and make-up before our 7 AM start time — ‘ppreciate you!
Allie + Connor, y’all are awesome. Keep up the good work.
blissfully engaged , familiar love
portraits: hannah + jonathan // denton lifestyle photographer
Hannah + Jonathan will always have a most special place in my heart. I’ve known Hannah since college and have always been both impressed, as well as personally blessed, by how fierce an encourager she is. I met Jonathan when I had the joy and privilege of documenting + witnessing their proposal, their engagement as well as their wedding. Because of the season of life I was in during the majority of that timeframe (they got engaged when my daughter Juniper was very much a NEWborn + I have a distinct, sweet memory of having to wake my sleeping squishy baby to kiss her goodbye before I left the morning of Hannah + Jonathan’s wedding) I sadly didn’t get most of those images up on my blog. That first year of my daughter’s life was such a (happy) blur and I was doing my best to balance work + life in this starkly different season of life that I had to learn from scratch how in the world to navigate (MEANING like a grand total of four things got blogged that year hahahah). But oh, what joyful memories Hannah + Jonathan’s proposal, engagement, wedding are for me though. I’ll never, ever, ever, ever be able to wrap my mind around the blessing of being entrusted with capturing those for them. So when Jonathan reached out recently about surprising Hannah with a session just because around some of the same spots we hit up at their engagement session two years before (SWEET HUSBAND POINTS, AMMIRIGHT?) I was immediately on board. Here are a few of my favorites from that session around Denton.
I’ve also had the distinct pleasure of seeing Hannah start her own wedding photography business and just BLOSSOM in that. I am so proud, just as a friend, watching her excel and thrive. You can view her work here.
Since we’ve had 80-degree weather the past couple of days I thought it appropriate to share Katie and Tyler’s sunny October engagement session with y’all. You guys, give me a hilarious couple + skipping in a floral off-the-shoulder dress + a groom who randomly throws up a shaka (hang loose) sign during the engagement session and I’m a happy photographer.
I love these dripping sunshine ones but I gotta tell you that some of my favs from this session were taken in those last 5 minutes of light on the water. Man oh man, that last light gets me every time. Enjoy some of my favs from Katie and Tyler’s White Rock Lake engagement session.
Their first date was at West Oak Coffee Bar. Well, at least it was supposed to be there, until Jacob’s alarm didn’t go off (he accidentally had set it as a weekday alarm instead of a weekend) and Liz sat there waiting on him to show up, praying that he wouldn’t because WHO WAS THIS GUY GONNA BE ANYWAY, and was a blind date really worth the effort it takes to meet someone new? Her prayers were answered, this bozo stood her up.
And I suppose that could have very well been the end of the story. Except Jacob apologized profusely and Liz is incredibly gracious, so they had a second first date a week or so later. Jacob arrived half an hour early this time. That was January. And now they get married in two days.
As the older sister to the bozo, I couldn’t possibly be more thrilled to have my brother marry someone as warm and thoughtful and generous and wonderful and (OBVIOUSLY) beautiful inside and out as Lizbeth. She’s PRIMO sister material, as she’s already shown time and time and time again even in the relatively short span I’ve had the privilege of knowing her.
And, y’all, just look at how unbelievably happy my brother is. LOOK.
A HUGE HUGE HUGE FOREVER THANK YOU to our collective friend Cindy who set up Jacob and Liz in the first place.
To Jacob she said, “You need to date my friend, Liz. She’s amazing and you’d hit it off.”
To Liz she said, “You should meet Jacob — you both like travel and missions and you’re both kind of weird.”
BOTH ARE TRUE AND THIS — all the love and joy that can be so clearly seen in all of the photos in this post you just made it to the end of –WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT YOUR BEAUTIFUL MEDDLING, CINDY. THANK YOU.
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