So when we had the idea of presenting 3 images from each wedding, it became a real daunting task to go through all 30k images.   We knew we had to have some ground rules.  We decided that the majority of the images need to be both bride and groom together, that they’re nearly all moments with a few portraits thrown in.  And, we need to have over 80% of the images with either the bride or the groom in the picture (and limited the number of guests images – so quite a few really crazy and wild reception photos didn’t make the cut).

Still, cutting down from 29219 down to just 93 images and limit them to 3 images for a single wedding was a lot of work.  I hope you enjoy watching the slideshow as much as I enjoyed making it – I can still remember each wedding as if it was yesterday!  Some of these are also my clients favorites – we did a survey last year and will be publishing those shortly as well.

The slideshow ends with one of my favorite reception images from 2010 – and is also appropriate because I want ALL of my brides feel like Jessica and her sister at the end of one of the most important days of her life:

A BIG thank you to all of our clients for a great 2010 and best wishes to y’all for 2011!!

Wedding and Reception:  Courtyard on St. James Place, Houston, TX

Our first wedding of 2010 takes place on a beautiful day in Houston, Texas!

Tara and Erik met each other through Tara’s sister Tammy and her childhood friend Timmy.  (They are also the best man and bridesmaid of the wedding, Timmy and Tammy).  Apparently Tara and Erik went to the same  high school in Texas but didn’t know each other at the time – they actually ended up meeting each other at Timmy and Tammy’s 21st birthday celebration in Houston (but Tara was living in NYC at the time).

We did their engagement session in November just before Thanksgiving.  They are early birds – I prefer the light either at daybreak or dusk, so we were out around 8-8:30 am chasing the light in downtown Austin with their bikes.  The wedding coverage also starts at 8 am

Tara is a high school arts teacher –  I can tell how dedicated she is as a teacher – she is actually texting to about next week’s lesson plans on her wedding day!

One of the best parts of the wedding is the moment right after the ceremony:

One of the many reasons why kids are great at weddings

The major theme of the wedding is anything with birds – they decorated each table with branches, white birds and pink/hot pink flowers and floral theme.  I think even Tara’s hairpiece is representation of feathers/birds in a floral shape.

The groom’s cake is a scuba diving cake, very cool!

One of my favorite pre-bouquet photos….

These are some of the most fun moments I have ever witnessed between a bride and her sister.  Tammy ended up spinning Tara around…

Piggyback rides…

And vice versa…

I love it, coffee cup dancing!

Congratulations Tara and Erik!  Birds of a feather, as they say.

Houston wedding photography by Austin wedding photographer, Tony Ku, Ku Photography LLC