Patchin and Justin's Wedding - October 24, 2009

I don't think you could get better weather to get married in. We had an outdoor ceremony at the Rainbow Lodge. That was my first time at the Lodge to shoot a wedding and I really like it a lot. They have a huge back deck with stairs and beautiful landscaping to provide an amazing backdrop for pictures. Here are a couple pictures but find the rest on our Facebook album!

Davis Wedding at St. Paul's Church

Yesterday was a fun fun day at Nicole and Myron's wedding. Nicole and Myron exchanged vows at the beautiful St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Houston Museum District area. I had been there once before for a another wedding last year and absolutely love that place for weddings. The architecture is gorgeous and the locations for images are endless.
Nicole and Myron are some of the most genuinely sweet people you'll ever meet. I've thoroughly enjoyed the time we've spent together over the last couple of months. Everyone in the wedding party was so much fun to work with. I got to run around with the guys before the ceremony, hanging out outside the church and in different little areas taking fun, GQ images. All these guys had swagger and style. As you can see from the images, they got some model in each of them. Of course the girls were not to be outdone and they definitely took it up another notch. We got so many fun shots outside with the whole wedding party after the ceremony before heading to the Crowne Plaza hotel in Downtown for the reception. During the reception, we sneaked the couple out to the hotel lobby area for some fun together. We love to do this to really get them some alone time together and of course explore the venue for some interesting shots.
Here are some images from that wedding. Find more images on my Facebook page.
Until next time.
Trung

November weddings

Wow, what a crazy busy couple of weeks lately. I've been so incredibly bsuy lately with all the weddings in the last couple of weeks. October and November have been very abuzz with weddings. On October 25th, we had Amber and Craigs beautiful wedding and reception at The Gallery. It was our first time at the venue and we loved the place. It was beautiful place that had a lot of great little areas in which to take pictures. Of course, we all had a great time, good music and lots of fun people dancing!! Their images can be viewed at www.montagephotographers.printroom.com/boutwell.

On November 8th, we had Katie and Brandon's wedding which started and ended at the chic Icon Hotel in downtown Houston. An added bonuse was that their makeup artist, was none other than Heather from Hues by Heather (http://www.huesbyheather.com/). She's a good friend and a really funny person. We captured some beautiful shots of Katie in the elegant hotel room and then more images at St.Paul's Church in the museum district. Later that night, we had opportunities to explore the many unique spaces all over this newly renovated Icon hotel, which used to be a bank years ago. We actually snuck into one of the original rooms in the hotel where there are swanky vintage lamps with blue velvet couches. We came out of room with some very moody and romantic images. I will post some really soon. That wedding was a lot of fun as I got to work with their wedding planner, Samantha Darr, of Soiree Bliss (http://www.soireebliss.com/). She's a doll with so much energy and so amazingly accomodating. I hope to work more with her on future weddings. Katies images will be online next week after they come into the studio to see them first.

This is a picture from that cool Icon Hotel room.

I'm currently in Reston Virginia, at the Sheraton hotel, awaiting my shuttle to the airport. A close college friend, Armand, married his sweetheart, Dandy. They asked me to be their photographer. What an honor to have such a close friend ask you to be a part of their wedding celebration. I'm blessed to be able to share my art with them on their most important day. The reception was at this Sheraton hotel. The artsy interior decor made the romantic pictures I try to do at every wedding a breeze. We had a lot of places with which to get away from guests and capture some intimate moments. I was able to hang out with a lot of old college friends from my alma mater, University of Virginia. I hadn't seen some of them for 6 years. We got up this morning to have lunch together before everyone went home. It was so good to see everyone. It's always interesting to see where people are in their lives after not having seen them in such a long time. Some people are doing the same thing they were doing 6 years ago, others doing something totally different. Okay, I'll post some images soon.