O hey 1pm and I'm just now posting. It's been that kind of day. Moving on.
I woke up to a text from A saying: "It's wedding wednesday. You should blog about the honeymoon." How sweet of him to remember, right?! But I can't get that out of order, so, sorry A, today I'm blogging about my bridal portraits. The honeymoon shall appear on here in a month or two. After all, who wants to look at wedding posts day after day? Oh, HA, ME. I DO.
Who knew that bridal portraits would be SUCH an ordeal? Finding a place to take these was more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. All of the "cool" places in Houston required a permit to shoot there - which was around $100. And I kid you not, this new hoity-toity venue wanted to charge a $350 fee JUST TO TAKE PICTURES FOR AN HOUR. WHAT?!
I ended up getting super lucky. I had been calling The Houstonian (fancy hotel when old man Bush lived right after being president) for weeks and wasn't hearing back. I finally got a hold of someone and they felt so bad about my issues that they let me take them there for free. If only they could have solved the heat and mosquito problems!
This picture shows perfectly just how AWKWARD this whole thing was. Throw your veil up! But then act like you didn't and just smile normally! Yep, I'm awkward.
This is the picture I used for my portrait at the reception and for the newspaper announcement.
And then I went home and ate 5 pounds of bread and carbalicious goodness.
You look beautiful!! I have never realized that people charge that much just to take a picture on the property. I didn't have to worry about things like that in small town Mississippi. ha! The venue was gorgeous as well! Love all the pics pretty girl! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy tears, happening now. You look beautiful!!! And my bridal portraits were also so freaking awkward! They were like, "Look at the camera, then drop your chin, then look back with just your eyes, but don't smile, but smirk a little." Mmmmmkayno. :) You're the prettiest little princess ever!
ReplyDeleteYour dress is to die for! I love it!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning!!! You looked sooo pretty!! And I had the same issue of finding a place to take my pictures. So expensive just to take a few photos!
ReplyDeletehow precious. amen for wanting 5 pounds of bread....i dread that, esp since i thought it was a good idea to order a very fitted dress...bad decisions. these are beautiful though. ps love the lace.
ReplyDeleteSo gorgeous! My favorites are the outdoor ones. You are so beautiful!
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Kait, as always you look beautiful! It's always fun to look back on times that were stressful and realize everything has way of working out!
ReplyDeleteOh hi. You are stun-ning! I seriously love your dress it's so elegant and pretty! You can talk about weddings all you want.. I love it since mine will be happening probably never ;) I especially love the ones with the sun in them!!
ReplyDeleteSoooo beautiful! I'm totally jealous over that dress right now. STUNNING :)
ReplyDeleteYou are beautiful and that dress is Ah-mazing!
ReplyDeletewowowow stunning kaitlyn!
ReplyDeleteSO pwetty! You can come take my pictures for me because you are 11ty billion times less awkward than me.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I absolutely lovee your photos and get excited just thinking about taking mine. Oh, right, I need to be engaged first...soon hopefully!
ReplyDeletegorgeous pictures doll! I especially love the outdoor ones and the one of you sitting in the chair with your bouquet! I had mine taking at an old plantation home in the middle of nowhere and I had the opposite problem you did, instead of heat I was FREEZING! The photographer had to edit out my goose bumps haha
ReplyDeletelovely! My friends go to the Houstonian all the time. And another friend/girl I used to know (haha) of mine got married there. I went to Memorial High school right near there.
ReplyDeleteLove all of those photos. So pretty! I could look at wedding photos all day everyday!
ReplyDeleteYour dress is so beautiful! I love it that you did bridal portraits which means you got a lot of great pics in your dress.
ReplyDeletethey are all absolutely gorgeous! and I love your bouquet!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, these are so pretty!! I absolutely love your dress. I didn't do bridal portraits but sometimes I wish I had!
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they were going to charge $350 at that place for you to just take pictures is wack! I didn't know that was even a thing. I am glad you got this gorgeous place for free. You look so beautiful! I especially love the last one that you used for the paper, gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteyou look beautiful!!!! this may be a silly question but these weren't taken ON your wedding day? like pre-wedding pics? neat idea! I've never heard of it!
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely gorgeous! I just found your blog today and I've blog stalked a lot of it and I think I love you. Hope you don't mind. Plus all your bow stuff made me love you even more!
ReplyDeleteThese photos are incredible!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great weekend!
-Sheree
The Hartungs Blog
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love looking at your bridals!! you will too after you have a kid and get old and want to remember the younger version of yourself. depressing you? Who am I kidding you will always look young!! sometimes different sites run specials on the Houstonian, yall should stay there for a night!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures! Love the dress and the flowers!
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