Jonathan & Caeline chose to have their engagement photos at Mercer Botanic Gardens. This is one of my favorite places to find bright & beautiful colors almost year-round.
Caeline said she was looking for Spring Court vibes… if you know you know 😆
We wondered around the gardens trying to recreate that light and airy romantic feeling in all of their photos. Take a look and tell me what you think? Is it giving Tamlyn & Feyre? Have you read the second book? 🤫
When I say I like to step outside the norm for engagement photos… I mean it. I would love to say “Sky’s the limit,” however I’m not about that skydiving life & sometimes there are limits when it comes to who would let you take photos or not.
Russell & Amanda are big bowling enthusiasts. When they told me this, I thought, why not take their photos in a bowling alley. Their photos were scheduled during summer, and since it is so hot outside, it’s nice to do things inside for a change.
They showed up to our engagement portrait session with a whole rolling bag filled with their balls, shoes and so much more. Bowl & Barrel was so amazing to let us take photos in their industrial styled alley.
Though the alley was not a place the couple would usually go to bowl, they loved the look and even had a Red-Bull at the bar before the couple headed off to celebrate Russell’s birthday later that day.
Most of the time, when I go to Galveston for engagement photos, it’s at the beach. This time, I got to start the engagement photos at a put-put golf place first! I had so much fun putting around (pun intended) with Christ & Rachel.
We shot a couple of photos at Magic Carpet Golf (a haunt of the couple’s). Chris and Rachel were so much fun and competitive. I loved their fun, bubbly personalities. After put-put, we headed to the Pleasure Pier, but found out we were about a week too early. Sad face. The pier wasn’t opened so we settled for beach photos with the pier in the background.
See the photos below.
Prepared for a rainy engagement shoot, I wondered the paths at the Houston Arboretum with 2 umbrella’s on hand. Like magic, as soon as I met up with Ryan & Allyson the rain stopped. With the weather looking up, we headed into the park. We wondered some of my favorite locations inside the park as well as some new locations I’d never ventured to before.
As we wondered around the park we talked about their wedding plans and their ideas on their honeymoon. It was fun to see them so excited about the wedding, but the honeymoon even more. I told them about the resort Andy and I went to for our Honeymoon and how much we loved it, and talked about the benefits of a travel agent.
I truly enjoyed spending the afternoon with Ryan and Allyson. Congratulations, and happy wedding planning!!
The streets were calm as people made their way to and from the city. I met Preston & Olivia near what I thought was an apartment complex nestled inside the city, but was actually a hip looking office building.
After I got in trouble for climbing a cute spiral staircase, we took a couple of photos on the only spots we were allowed to stand on then made our way toward the large structure that housed the House of Blues, a dueling piano bar, blowing alley and so much more. There were so many great angles and murals all around us.
We were gifted with a breathtaking sunset as we ended our engagement portraits on top a parking garage. See the gorgeous engagement photos below.
It was a gorgeous day in October when I met up with Blayton & Ryleigh at the Addison Woods venue in The Woodlands. The adorable couple walked me around the property talking about life, their future and what they loved about the venue.
Ryleigh was especially smitten with the two story bridal suite, and no one could blame her. It’s breathtaking! The property had a quaint white chapel, a large & elegant barn for hosting receptions (the two story bridal suite) and a grooms cottage nestled into the back of the property surrounded by trees and a little pond.
Some of my favorite places while taking photos was the tire swing, near where Blayton and Ryleigh will get married, the staircase coming down from the bridal suite and a quiet little spot hidden behind trees by the lake.
Check out the happy couple’s engagement photos below!
