I know, I know, this is my third bridals post in a row but I just got bombarded with brides, okay?!
This particular bride is Jacklyn, and I am so, so pleased to be able to share her bridals with you this morning before I pack up and head to Graham with James for a long over-due visit with his family!
We started off the shoot working with a pretty little chair Jacklyn had brought along for the shoot. She saw it at a friend’s house, liked it, and asked to borrow it.
I love when clients get the opportunity to bring a piece of furniture to a session because it really does add one more fun, unexpected dimension to the shoot.
The wind was for us, and not against us, this particular evening and for that I am thankful.
I just think this above shot is knock-the-breath-out-of-you gorgeous, Jacklyn.
It’s not at every bridals shoot that there’s a bit of an outfit change, but Jacklyn had a spunkier-version of her outfit that she wanted to sport at her reception, so we mixed it in with some shots with my aqua cruiser bike that matched the feel of the outfit change.
I love, love, love that Jacklyn found a way to work her personal style so much into her wedding day attire.
Did I mention that she’s also wearing adorable turquoise Chucks under that pretty white dress? I love it.
So we’re posing with the bike and I’m moving her around and asking her to do this and that’s when Jacklyn mentions that she’d be up for actually riding the bike. Haha. I love an adventurous bride! It wasn’t the easiest thing to do — steering a bike in a wedding dress while holding your train — but Jacklyn made it look effortless.
Gosh, Jacklyn. You’re just beautiful. Entirely and completely.
Hope you’re having a wonderful time on your honeymoon in the Barbados with your h-u-s-b-a-n-d!
Meet Meg.
Meg got married last Saturday, and although I wasn’t available to shoot it, I am sooooo pleased that I got to be a part of her sweet wedding in this way — bridals!
And was she working it or WHAT?
Hellooooooo, beautiful.
Now, for those of you who know and love Meg, you’ll know that pretty red guitar of hers is never far from her. Homegirl can sing and play.
More of the guitar and her amazing voice later in the post.
Freckles.
Here she’s serenading us with a song that she wrote for her now-husband and I just really never wanted her to stop singing it so I just kept taking pictures.
And we’ll end on a comical note — she and Greg love to play video games together so she brought along her x-box controller.
I love the fun, playful images we got with it!
Thank you for letting me be a part, Meg.
Remember Claudia and Doug? Well they’re married now and have the same last name. Here are a few shots from their lovely wedding day — full of joy, intentionality and love. Lots and lots of love.
As you can tell, Claudia had a lovely start to her morning with her (now) sister-in-law doing her hair and make-up (Laura, you did some FLAWLESS work, by the way), and one of her bridesmaids massaging her bridal shoulders.
This is actually the dress I wore on my  wedding day too! When I pulled it out of the dress bag I did a happy little surprised dance. Claudia, you have excellent taste!
(side-note: I accidentally used the wrong color sash in the picture — I didn’t even realize there were any other sashes in the bag! Sorry, Claudia.)
James set up and shot this above detail photo and I’m just really proud of it.
Claudia and Doug are intentional people. For instance, their wedding colors — a very specific teal and pink — were plucked from the very sunset the evening that Doug proposed. That is what I mean by intentional.
As I mentioned in their blissfully engaged post, Claudia and Doug are both photographers, so it was an honor to be chose to photographically document their wedding day. Notice they even used some of the vintage cameras from their engagement shoot in their wedding decorations!
Claudia made the cute bird cake-topper herself!
Doug and his groomsmen formed a tie-tying support group in the men’s room.
Here Claudia’s sweet maid-of-honor admires her best friend as she just donned her wedding dress.
I loved the mass of shots I got of Claudia’s dad seeing her in her dress for the first time. Here are just a couple of my favorites of that moment.
As I mentioned above, Claudia and Doug are photographers which makes photos a very special component of their wedding day. For these reasons Claudia and Doug opted to do a “first look” before their ceremony.
Claudia, I’m pretty sure you were a hit.
Every time I’ve been around these two, Doug has had this precious way of looking at Claudia that seems as if he can’t believe it’s really her standing next to him. This look was even more prevalent this day.
Because Doug and Claudia chose to do a first look, we had plenty of time to follow that special moment with some portraits of the two of them soaking up their soon-to-be-wedded bliss.
We followed the bride and groom portraits with some shots of the wedding party.
A few minutes before the ceremony James came and found me with an excited smile on his face. “Get Claudia to make the face that shows how she feels right before she gets married.”
These were our Doug and Claudia’s “I’m-about-to-get-married” faces:
I pair photos together in diptychs such as this one and the two aisle shots paired above to show some of the advantages of having a second-shooter on one’s wedding day — you get to see the wedding day from two different vantage points.
The ceremony started with their friend leading the group in “In Christ Alone” and it was a sweet time of worshipping Jesus.
In being around these two, you’ll find that they’re the type of people you consider an honor to know, and an honor to get the opportunity to witness such love.
Doug and Claudia were so overjoyed they could barely contain it — and it was contagious. Joy was everywhere at this wedding. Just everywhere.
After some shots with sweet family, Doug, Claudia and I ran up to the balcony to catch the tail end of the sunset.
And on that note we entered the reception, where the celebration ensued with dinner and some sincere toasts from the best man and maid-of-honor and that led us up to some lovely outdoor dancing.
And then they were off — all married and sharing the same last name.
It was such a beautiful wedding, Claudia and Doug. This single post couldn’t even contain all that was lovely from your day.
Thank you for letting me be there to document your big, big love for each other.
I’m beginning this post where I left off in my last post, just beginning the wedding ceremony of Tiffany and Trevor.
James had the important job of photographing from his hidden spot in the choir loft, and he got some really great face shots while I shot the stage from the floor.
One benefit of having a second-shooter:
This picture above just makes me happy. I can just hear them thinking, “We’re almost husband and wife!!”
Reason #417 why I love Tiffany and Trevor: their kiss was immediately followed by a high-five.
I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts that Tiffany and Trevor, having lived in Denton all their lives, have connections, one of which is with Frenchy’s Lawn and Tree Service. Frenchy’s is a business local to Denton that places messages on their signature orange vans all across town. This day he gave a shout-out to the newly minted Mr. and Mrs.
Annnnnnnd reception. Marines were ALL OVER this wedding. All Marines. All the time. Everywhere you looked there were swords and uniforms.
Annnnnd for the bouquet toss . . . I love putting Tiffany’s reactions from these next photos with the girls actions in the next-next photos.
(Don’t worry, guys. It’s still Tiffany that Trevor is kissing, she just changed into her reception dress.)
Well, Mr. and Mrs. Sewell, I guess this is where I’ll end my post of your glorious wedding.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting me be a part.
And thank y’all for being such a big part of growing Jillian Zamora Photography into what it is today.
The end of this blogpost almost feels like the end of an era — the Tiffany-and-Trevor-wedding-mania has been the life-blood of Jillian Zamora Photography for so long now. Their (first) engagement shoot was the very first post on this blog. I would be sad, but Tiffany has already told me she’s started a list of all the photo shoots she’s planning on having me do for them in the future. And I’m entirely okay with that.
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