Oh, January 2012. You were so good to me.
First I got to meet up with Kaity and Matt for their engagement session. (They’re awesome and I shot their wedding this August.)
Part of rocking out a windy photo session is embracing it — ‘atta girl, Kaity!
After that came Deanna and Scott’s engagement session in downtown McKinney (precluding their May wedding at the Dallas Arboretum).
Also January included the wedding of the oh-so-lovely Maribel and Cosme in Wichita Falls! Fun story — Maribel and James attended the same 3A school from elementary through high school graduation.
Okay, so maybe that wasn’t really a story, but it is meaningful.
A STORY would be me more like me telling you that in Jr High and High School James was a skinny little skater-boy with a full-on afro.
January was apparently the month of hometown weddings because this next wedding was for a couple who were in my LITTLE BROTHER’S grade at Tolar (Jacob, I said it once and I’ll say it again, you can NOT be old enough to get married yet. There’s NO WAY!). Whitney and Caleb, I cannot believe you guys have almost been married for a full year! I hope it’s been the sweetest year of y’all’s lives.
Fine, I’ll say it. Y’all are darling. Stinkin’ darling.
 Fun times, fun times.
Yes, January was good to me.
You guys, Meghan and Matt are ridiculously adorable together.
I am SO GLAD this session is FINALLY (and by “finally” I mean “10-months-later”) on the blog because it was so unique to them.
Matt is a band director and Meghan is now a math teacher. So it made perrrrrfect sense for us to create a classroom setting for their engagement photos last December. Ahhh, young teacher love.
Thankfully Meghan’s mom had a lot of this available for our use since she ALSO is a teacher. I cannot say enough thanks to Mrs. Stearns or to Meghan and Matt for  hauling it all out for our session after I presented the “what-if-we-built-a-classroom?” scenario.
Now Meghan is in her first year of teaching but even at this point with just student teaching under her belt Meghan had the “teacher stare” down solid.
This was definitely one of my most favorite parts of the session — when we had Matt write “lines” saying “I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher . . . “
It didn’t seem to work for him, huh?
 Preeeeeeeeesh, presh, presh, preshpresh.
Thank you two for being so willing to pull together a semi-crazy photographer idea and to work your teacher selves in front of the camera like the crazy-beautiful-in-love duo you are. I’m not sure about how proper that last sentence-structure was, so I’ll just be glad neither of y’all are English teachers. However, there’s no promise my mom isn’t going to comment on this post to correct me though . . .
On that note, be looking back on the blog relatively soon for Meghan and Matt’s wedding blogpost from this past May!
Revisiting Meagan and Matt’s Fort Worth Stockyards engagement session from last December was so fun for me because I don’t end up shooting a whole lot of engagement shoots for couples whose wedding I’m not also shooting.
Meagan and Matt already had a wedding photographer when they saw some engagement photos I did for a friend Meagan worked with so they decided to book a session with me as well. This day was literally the first and last day I’ve seen these two. They came in and out of my life in a matter of two hours.
But I really liked them, and these photos have stuck with me. Matt had such a sweet, sweet way of interacting with Meagan and I could tell that Meagan had an effortless way of bringing out the lighthearted side of him.
I hope you guys are doing well. I have a feeling y’all are.
 
My little-photographer’s-heart leapt for joy to get to pose these  two on Matt’s motorcycle because I always love when a couple seizes an opportunity to integrate something fun, fresh and personal into their sessions . . . especially when that fun, fresh, personal item is a motorcycle.
We’ll end with a few of the photos I snagged of these two beautiful people in a bar where we ended the session.
Oh, Bekah and Graham’s engagement session was so fun and these two are a DREAM to work with. Cannot wait to post photos from their wedding from this past June!!
You might notice that the Massey family is wrapped in a blanket in the photo below? That’s because it was STINKIN’ FREEZING this day. We actually ended up just shooting half a session because we couldn’t hack it and then finished up with the second half of their session later (those photos twill make it to the blog soon enough).
Hugs for the Walters family!
I cannot stress ENOUGH how excited I am to shoot Dani and Joe’s upcoming wedding next month. Here’s a peek at a couple of their engagement photos in Southlake.
Brittany is SUCH a doll and Matt is just the sweetest guy. They got married in February!
And we’ll end with just a teeny tiny snippet of Magaly and Jonathan’s December wedding — a beautiful couple (inside and outside), venue (haha I Â guess the “inside and outside” line applies here too), and day. Fun story, I’ll be doing an anniversary session with them in their wedding attire in December since the wedding day did not allow for naturally lit bride-groom portraits. I’m so excited to reunite with them!
Thanks for hanging with me while I work my way through these recap posts from my 2011 back-blogging. If you’re new to the blog, you might be confused as to why I would be posting year-old work, and understandably so! I explain why here and here. Soon and very soooooooon I’ll be caught up to recent work. Let’s all sing it together:
“Soon and veryyyyyyyy soooooooooon!”Â
In the meantime, always feel free to view my most recent work on the JZP facebook “like” page here! Keep checking back as I’ll be catching up in a whirlwind of blogposts leading up to more detailed posts of my most recent work.
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