Fall Wedding in the Texas Hill Country - Nimitz Museum

This past October we had a wedding each weekend and no two were even remotely alike. Each bride and her family were so unique to work with and it made the fall really fun to see how each person had their vision come to life.

Lucky for me and my poor blogging skills, Style Me Pretty had been publishing a lot of our weddings lately so I can leave the blogging to them! Taadaaa. Thanks for saving the day SMP.

First up, we have Meredith and Andrew who had were married at the same church her parents were married in and had their reception at the same location her grandparents had, The Nimitz Museum. It's always fun when a wedding is a family affair and this was no exception - her father made the deals with the vendors, her mother kept busy with more projects than I could count and Meredith was right in the middle of managing it all, embarking on DIY projects and working full time as well as conducting a cross country job search and planning a post-honeymoon move to California. To say that young lady was amazing would be putting it lightly. She was rocking some crazy organization skills.

Meredith chose to go with an elegant fall harvest theme - complete with a wheat logo, wheat centerpieces and monogrammed beer steins of german wheat beer waiting for the guests upon their arrival. But that wasn't all. A stunning tent was decked out and with the help of Sprout flowers and the stage was set for a beautiful wedding followed by a dance-all-night party.

This wedding is a perfect example of how lighting can take an event to the next level. When you are working with a tented space, particularly a large tent like this 40' x 140' tent, it makes a huge difference to break up the large expanse of white. Lighting can be a great option. We also chose to light the floor of the untented courtyard with the same pattern so that when guests arrived the mood was set and the ground was covered in a warm welcoming light pattern. I was quite pleased with the overall effect.

From beginning to end, this wedding weekend was beautiful and most important it was fun. For more many many more of La Dolce Vita's fabulous images via Style Me Pretty click HERE.

Well that was fun...

Ten days ago my website went down. Not the best thing in the world but not the worst either I don't suppose. But, it took my e-mail with it. YOWZA! That was a little tricky. I was able to notify clients but there are so many e-mails I get every day that got bounced back and I'll never know who was trying to contact me. Hopefully they'll try again. Apologies to any of you out there that attempted to contact me and got your e-mail returned. Even more to those of you who though I had closed up shop after our initial contact! I'm still here, I promise!

In the meantime, everything is back up and running and I've now been inspired to get the website updated as well. So look for some much overdue additions to the galleries shortly.

Whew!

This has been a busy wedding season! Fall is an awesome time to get married in the Texas Hill Country. The weather is beautiful - sunny during the day, just barely cool at night. The rain has left everything lush, green and blooming. We've had a wonderful variety of weddings the past few months. From Hill Country elegant at the family ranch to down home casual for the Canadians at Luckenbach. It's been so much fun! But, it's also meant that the blog has suffered. That's what happens when you launch a site before one of the craziest times of the year. Have I said already how fabulous fall in the Hill Country is? In fact, the calendar for next fall is already filling up.

I've had the opportunity to work with some amazing photographers and really lovely brides so I promise to post pictures as soon as I get my hands on them!

Hello, 2009? Is that you calling?

Aaaaaaaat Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaast (cue Etta James here).

Here I am, standing with one toe precariously dipped into 2009 and the vast pool of technology. Social networking. The BLOGOSPHERE...or is it blogasphere? Whatever. The INTERNET. A blog. I'm a blog-ger. I'm still learning the terminology here so forgive me while I test how it rolls of the ole fingers. Seriously, I have no idea why this has taken so long other than I'm slightly afraid of technology. And I have to little kids, two businesses and my computer hard drive has crashed twice in the past two years forcing me to start from scratch. Yes, back up the hard drive, I hear you, I get it. Point is, I'm starting now and I'm excited. Behind the curve but excited none-the-less.

Annnnnd we're off....

Hello internet, my friend. I'm told that you will let me gush as much as I should so choose. Purrfect. Just what I'm looking for...due to the fact that I live in a small town and however Norman Rockwell-esq it might be, I can only blather so much to the 10 people that live here about all the lovely things in my head. Ok, so maybe there are more than 10 people that live here. But you get my point. The WORLD is now my oyster. Or would you say the INTERNET is now my oyster? Perhaps you'd say neither because I have texture issues with oysters.

See that phone above? It is a photograph. I took it. I don't know how to photoshop it so bear with me. I mean to post professional photographs - by real photographers. But sometimes one isn't available so you have to take what I've got.

Next up is a sneak peak of Alice and Taylor's June wedding at Becker Vineyards. I just got my hands on the photographs so I'll be posting them soon.