Wedding Blog

Tomorrow we're going location scouting for our engagement photo shoot. As we plan, I am coming up with more and more engagement photo ideas.

Below images courtesy of Flashdance.

I have been dying to write a post with that title. We met with one of my bridesmaid’s sisters who is a budding photog in Austin to take some pictures right near South Congress. I think she did such a great job, and I felt so comfortable with her because I’ve known her for about 15 years.

So here’s how I remember it.

One day I was minding my own business; the next day complete obsession had set in.

I had become a bona-fide Flickr stalker.

It all started when we had our engagement shoot with our super talented photographer Erica Berger. A day or so later, I saw on Facebook that Erica had posted some of our pictures on her Flickr stream. I scrambled…

Deciding on a photographer for our wedding was an easy decision. We only met with a handful of people, but as soon as we began talking to Jordana we knew she would be the one. I actually found out about her amazing photography skills here on the Weddingbee boards. Jordana also did this amazing shoot with Mrs. Meatball!

Our engagement photos are in, and we couldn’t be…

Some of you super observant readers noticed my new bio picture and guessed that we FINALLY had our engagement pictures taken. You were right! I’m under strict orders from the mister that these pictures not get plastered around the internet… but I couldn’t hold out from you guys. So, I figured I could post just a few of my favorites, and deal with any consequences…

Laura Taylor from The Darling Life Photography shared so many pictures with us from our engagement photo session. I wanted to share some of the outtakes. It is really fun to get to choose from SO MANY! I am lucky to have a generous photographer.

This is my favorite outtake - I love that I am handing him all of the “boy” balloons

As everyone knows, I am obsessed with balloons, so the first round of pictures I shared are all with balloons. I really think they turned out well. We wanted to take some without the balloons too, and I think they also turned out great! Here they are.

These pictures were taken in Central Park. It was hazy/cloudy all day but I think it helped with the…

A few weeks ago we spent the day with the amazing Laura Taylor from The Darling Life Photography. I have been a big fan of her work for years and she kindly agreed to take our photos. We had a great time gallivanting all over New York City taking pictures with Laura. She was patient and fun to shoot with.

Here are some of our favorites…

I thought I’d take the chance to share a few more of our e-pics with you all. We wanted them to be very city and very us. Because our photographer is Sassy Bridesmaid’s best friend, we were pretty sure that he’d do a great job of capturing who we are, but we were still a little nervous about using our first “friendor”.

John of John Martin…

After our full day enjoying the architecture and beach in La Serena, we jetted on over to Coquimbo with our photographer Kyle Hepp. Coquimbo is the neighboring port town to La Serena. At the edge of Coquimbo is an old fort that looks like ramparts of a castle - a very romantic location for an evening photo shoot!

There’s a café at the fort, and in…

Our engagement pictures are in!!!

Kyle was really awesome to work with. There was a whole slew of locations I wanted to shoot at in La Serena, and she entertained all of them! Even though we’re getting married in the States, we thought it appropriate to document part of our lives in South America.

Let’s take a tour of our little town in Chile, shall we?

We started…

The Dude and I took our engagement pictures a couple weeks ago with our wedding photographers, the Nichols. They’re a husband + wife team based here in Austin, and they are amazing! When we told them we wanted a vintage-inspired shoot, they were right on board. Jennifer emailed me asking if I had anything in mind for the shoot, and I told her there was…

That’s where we spent the afternoon, kissing between the stacks… and on the stairs … and in the hall.

But it wasn’t just for kicks. We were mugging it for the camera of Julian Allen.

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You know how all the wedding tips for budget weddings tell you to find someone who is just getting started in photography — someone amazing and affordable? Julian is that person. I…

Did you know that South Americans hate it when people from the US call themselves Americans? They love saying “America’s a continent, not a country, #$(&@!!” I now find myself saying things like, “Hi! I’m United-States-ian!” You learn all sorts of interesting things about your home country when you move abroad.

This isn’t a post about living abroad, though, because Mr. Bear Cub and I are going…

WAY too early on a Sunday morning during a late April heat wave, Mr. Swan and I had our engagement shoot with our photographer, Dante Williams. We decided on South Street Seaport, which is quaint yet touristy little area right on the water in lower Manhattan. It was good to get there early, as it can be a total mob scene during the weekend.

Let me…