You guys, Meghan and Matt are ridiculously adorable together.
I am SO GLAD this session is FINALLY (and by “finally” I mean “10-months-later”) on the blog because it was so unique to them.
Matt is a band director and Meghan is now a math teacher. So it made perrrrrfect sense for us to create a classroom setting for their engagement photos last December. Ahhh, young teacher love.
Thankfully Meghan’s mom had a lot of this available for our use since she ALSO is a teacher. I cannot say enough thanks to Mrs. Stearns or to Meghan and Matt for  hauling it all out for our session after I presented the “what-if-we-built-a-classroom?” scenario.
Now Meghan is in her first year of teaching but even at this point with just student teaching under her belt Meghan had the “teacher stare” down solid.
This was definitely one of my most favorite parts of the session — when we had Matt write “lines” saying “I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher . . . “
It didn’t seem to work for him, huh?
 Preeeeeeeeesh, presh, presh, preshpresh.
Thank you two for being so willing to pull together a semi-crazy photographer idea and to work your teacher selves in front of the camera like the crazy-beautiful-in-love duo you are. I’m not sure about how proper that last sentence-structure was, so I’ll just be glad neither of y’all are English teachers. However, there’s no promise my mom isn’t going to comment on this post to correct me though . . .
On that note, be looking back on the blog relatively soon for Meghan and Matt’s wedding blogpost from this past May!
Revisiting Meagan and Matt’s Fort Worth Stockyards engagement session from last December was so fun for me because I don’t end up shooting a whole lot of engagement shoots for couples whose wedding I’m not also shooting.
Meagan and Matt already had a wedding photographer when they saw some engagement photos I did for a friend Meagan worked with so they decided to book a session with me as well. This day was literally the first and last day I’ve seen these two. They came in and out of my life in a matter of two hours.
But I really liked them, and these photos have stuck with me. Matt had such a sweet, sweet way of interacting with Meagan and I could tell that Meagan had an effortless way of bringing out the lighthearted side of him.
I hope you guys are doing well. I have a feeling y’all are.
 
My little-photographer’s-heart leapt for joy to get to pose these  two on Matt’s motorcycle because I always love when a couple seizes an opportunity to integrate something fun, fresh and personal into their sessions . . . especially when that fun, fresh, personal item is a motorcycle.
We’ll end with a few of the photos I snagged of these two beautiful people in a bar where we ended the session.
Kelsi’s bridal portrait session ended up being accidentally perfect. She is from my husband’s hometown of Graham, TX so when she said she wanted to do her session in Graham I immediately remembered this spot.
It’s right along the road to my mother-in-law’s home so we would pass it every time James and I would visit his family and every time I would think, “One day I want to shoot there . . . “
I pitched the idea to Kelsi about shooting her bridals in a junk yard and she was all for it!
I was immediately drawn to this oil rig and Kelsi was SUCH a trooper to hop up on it (as much as a girl in a wedding dress can really hop on to anything), especially in the freezing cold.
 After we took this series of photos Kelsi told me that Brett (her now husband) actually works in oil! How wonderfully, accidentally applicable.
 Kelsi, thanks for being so willing to take photos in a junkyard — you are gorgeous, gorgeous in even the grungiest of surroundings.
Oh, Bekah and Graham’s engagement session was so fun and these two are a DREAM to work with. Cannot wait to post photos from their wedding from this past June!!
You might notice that the Massey family is wrapped in a blanket in the photo below? That’s because it was STINKIN’ FREEZING this day. We actually ended up just shooting half a session because we couldn’t hack it and then finished up with the second half of their session later (those photos twill make it to the blog soon enough).
Hugs for the Walters family!
I cannot stress ENOUGH how excited I am to shoot Dani and Joe’s upcoming wedding next month. Here’s a peek at a couple of their engagement photos in Southlake.
Brittany is SUCH a doll and Matt is just the sweetest guy. They got married in February!
And we’ll end with just a teeny tiny snippet of Magaly and Jonathan’s December wedding — a beautiful couple (inside and outside), venue (haha I Â guess the “inside and outside” line applies here too), and day. Fun story, I’ll be doing an anniversary session with them in their wedding attire in December since the wedding day did not allow for naturally lit bride-groom portraits. I’m so excited to reunite with them!
Thanks for hanging with me while I work my way through these recap posts from my 2011 back-blogging. If you’re new to the blog, you might be confused as to why I would be posting year-old work, and understandably so! I explain why here and here. Soon and very soooooooon I’ll be caught up to recent work. Let’s all sing it together:
“Soon and veryyyyyyyy soooooooooon!”Â
In the meantime, always feel free to view my most recent work on the JZP facebook “like” page here! Keep checking back as I’ll be catching up in a whirlwind of blogposts leading up to more detailed posts of my most recent work.
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