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Anna & Blake | Austin, Texas | 06.26.2010

Jake H — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:26:21 +0000

One of the best wedding ideas EVER – a two piece dress. No frustrating bustling required, no dragging it all over a messy dance floor – just poof, almost like magic, you have a cocktail dress! Kind. Of. Awesome.

Amanda & Adam | Austin, Texas | 06.25.2010

Jake H — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:56:32 +0000

I would like to have a full moon at every wedding please, thank you very much. Also, 5 cakes. I mean, who ever said that you could only have one or two? 5 cakes will do.

Jennifer & Aaron | Austin, Texas | June 6th, 2010

Jake H — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:31:23 +0000

It was a beautiful early-June evening at Barr Mansion, and Aaron made his poor groomsmen wear sweaters. SWEATERS! In Texas. In June. That’s a true test of friendship, and why he also totally deserved having to down that entire Smirnoff Ice. Revenge is best served cold…and disgustingly sweet? Oh well, at least they got to wear Vans…

3 months of stuff and things…

Jake H — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:57:28 +0000

Finally! A very belated post featuring a few of my favorite non-wedding day shoots from the last 3 months – portrait sessions of every shape and size. I’m incredibly excited to get some of this stuff up for public viewing at last – since I’ve been spending the last 6 months or so working on developing some new looks and techniques and using a number of new locations, well, I guess you could say that this marks the official unveiling of a season’s worth of experimentation…

Dede & Darin | Austin, Texas | May 30th, 2010

Jake H — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:42:04 +0000

Whenever a bride picks red as her wedding color, it makes me very happy. When the groom’s cake has a deer on it, it makes me even happier. However, when the flower girl dances around with the bouquet IN HER MOUTH, well, that just makes my day.

Kristen & James | Wimberley, Texas | May 15th, 2010

Jake H — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:51:42 +0000

Kristen and James managed to choose an almost unbelievably photogenic location – Old Glory Ranch in Wimberley, Texas – and were graced with perfect weather and sunset timing. Absolutely storybook. However, I have to say that the winner for my favorite part of the day is a dead heat between 1) the amazing note to James from one of the groomsman that introduced me to the term “golden salamander,” and 2) the beer donkeys. Beer donkeys? You learn something new every day. As of press time, I think the note has a slight edge…

Julia & Henri | Austin, Texas | April 17th, 2010

Jake H — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:38:26 +0000

As they supposedly say here in Texas, “if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and it’ll change.” There couldn’t have been a more fitting phrase for Julia and Henri’s wedding day. Well, maybe “wait 20 minutes” would be just a BIT more fitting. Anyway, thanks to the live radar feature on the Weather Channel iPhone app (saving your wedding ceremony…there’s an app for that), we saw that the ferocious line of thunderstorms would quickly pass by. So,the ceremony was pushed from 7:30 to 7:50, leaving us with an awesome background of storm clouds illuminated by lightning as opposed to a collection of guests that were soaking wet from walking to the tent from the dining room. I’ll happily take lightning over a sunset any day…

Heather and Taylor | Austin, Texas | March 10th, 2010

Jake H — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:26:47 +0000

Heather chose Roadhouse Relics for her and Taylor’s engagement session – I didn’t quite know what to expect as I’d never actually shot inside of the place before, but I now have a new addition to my small and exclusive list of “utterly fantastic” places to shoot. This place is just amazing. It’s relatively small, but what’s crammed into that space is just overflowing with goodness…

Blithe & Scott | Round Rock, Texas | December 30th, 2009

Jake H — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:28:34 +0000

When Blithe and Scott brought up the idea of shooting their engagement session at Ikea, I was incredibly excited about the possibilities but not too hopeful that it would ever come to fruition – getting permission to shoot on private property is always a hit-or-miss affair, and when it comes to large retail chains, my hit rate so far has been 0%. Surprisingly, the folks at Ikea in Round Rock were incredibly inviting and allowed us to go throughout the store at our leisure, even though it was INSANELY busy that day. The funny thing was, all of the shoppers seemed to be so involved in searching for deals that not one single person even asked what we were doing or gave us strange looks, even when we had multiple lights going off – they just walked right past us to look at the merchandise! I guess when you’re in Ikea you’re on a mission…

Jess & Justin | Austin, Texas | January 3rd, 2010

Jake H — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:30:43 +0000

So, I went to a portrait session and a wedding broke out! Jess and Justin’s session was without a doubt one of the most unforgettable shoots of my life – not because of the awesome location, Austin’s own Hotel Saint Cecilia, one of my absolute favorite settings, but because of the unexpected way in which the day unfolded. This requires a bit of backstory – Jess and Justin are both in the military and were due to ship out in about 10 days, with plans to get married when they returned. They were originally going to two very different locations - Jess to Spain, and Justin to Alaska. However, they discovered that if they were married prior to shipping out that they could be assigned to the same place, so plans were made to have a small private ceremony at Mt. Bonnell, officiated by Justin’s best friend, with a full-sized wedding taking place when they return from their assignments. When someone is willing to give up living in Spain to come live with you in Alaska, you know you have something special! Anyway, our original plan was to spend a couple of hours shooting around the South Congress area, and then for Jess, Justin and friends to head to Mt. Bonnell for the ceremony. Well, mother nature didn’t like that plan, so we headed back to St. Cecilia for the shoot in order to avoid the rain. As the rain continued and plans for a Mt. Bonnell ceremony began to look bleak, the decision was made to have the ceremony on the patio of their room at St. Cecilia and, since I was there with my cameras and all, well, of course I photographed the ceremony as well! It was such a change of pace not having hundreds of guests watching, and I felt very lucky to be a part of something so unique and intimate. Congrats guys, I hope you enjoy Alaska…you can always go visit Spain on your honeymoon!