nick + heather | lubbock wedding photographer

This past weekend we had a PERFECT day for a wedding at the oldest church in Lubbock, TX! This was our second wedding at St. Paul's Chapel and we have just fallen in love with this little chapel! :)
This is just part 1 of maybe 2 OR 3 posts... Nick & Heather set asides so much time for pictures on their wedding day that we almost didn't know what to do with ourselves!! It was perfect! (which is why there are so many pictures to share!!) :)
and you know how we love to share pictures...
Have we mentioned how much we love working with Jill, from Eat, Drink and Be Merry?! Well we do...and she did an amazing job yet again with this wedding! Definitely give her a call if you're looking for help planning your big day! She's the best!

Now on to the pictures...Nick & Heather were so natural in front of the camera and had so many fun ideas themselves they made our job so easy & fun-it should be a crime!
:)
Enjoy some of our favorite portraits, and come back for more of these, and more from the wedding later this week!
aric + casey




love the colors, and expressions in these next two! so fun!



quick shot in the limo before heading to the next spot...









I think Heather looks like Carrie Underwood the country singer...what do you think?!
either way, she's one stunning bride!


love me some flare!

and sunsets...


and swingsets... (& kisses) ;)


:)
p.s. just for the record- Nick & Heather opted to do a first look...which is why we had so much time to get such fun and unique portraits of the two of them... I'm just sayin'! ;)

heather + mike | lubbock wedding photographer

First, I want to start off by saying a big THANK-YOU for everyone who gave their input on the "pop quiz" below. You can never really know what we're up to over here sometimes-but I do promise that your input helped us our immensely! we love you guys so much-everyone who supports us, encourages us, blogstalks us and so on! You guys are the reason that we get to keep doing what we love to do-and for that we are forever grateful!
:)
Now on to heather & mike's wedding! It was the most serene and wonderfuly cloudy day here in Lubbock-not too hot, not too cold. It was perfect.
Throughout the wedding planning process Heather had asked us several times about doing the "first look". She couldn't decide, she was nervous about it, she didn't want it to be wrong. So we talked her through it, telling her all along that it was up to her and we were okay with whatever decision she made. She finally decided on doing the first look-and I don't think she could have made a better decision- all morning long she was a little nervous about everything, and the second she saw Mike it all went away. We took the two of them off for some fun portraits, and Aric asked her how she felt-and her response was- "I'm not nervous at all anymore!"
perfect.
just another reason that first look's are so wonderful!
I'm jumping down off my soap box, I promise!
This was our second wedding to work with Jill, from Eat, Drink and be Marry- she's so wonderful!
:) Here are a few favorites from their wedding!!







love these two...













a few wedding details...

love this shot Aric got of heather & her dad walking down the aisle...


heather must have said something funny here... :)




they had a candy bar at their reception so we used it for their ring shot...and then I ate the candy afterward. ;)

and in honor of October/fall/halloween-we played around even more with the ring shots


the reception was beautiful! Here are just a few details...

stacy + james | midland wedding photographer

i don't think there are words to describe Stacy & James' wedding.
it was a masterpiece, from the ceremony, the dress and flowers, right down to the reception- table linens, and cake- every detail was beautiful, and perfect - much like their day...
i mentioned before that their reception was the coolest reception of the summer, and i just might have a few pictures coming up to prove it... maybe...
:)
there are so many pictures that i better get to them before you all get bored with my ramblings...
enjoy some of our faves from stacy & james' wedding!
:)
aric + casey

we'll start with the girls gettin' ready...





and while the girls got ready, the guys played some golf...

watched some football...

and then got ready... :)

arriving at the church!

beautiful flowers...


i don't really know why, but this is one of my favorite dress shots!


love this.

seeing dad for the first time...so sweet...and BEAUTIFUL light!


I'm overly obsessed with this picture of Stacy walkin' over to the church...the light coming in was absolutely the most gorgeous light ever...i wanted to move the wedding outside...haha

ceremony

a little spin on the traditional church shot- (excuse the punn...)



waiting to go into the reception...someone's excited!!


some details...


drum roll please....
yes, that's right- Aaron Watson and his whole band were at this reception and played a full set!!!! Talk about AMAZING!!! It was one of the coolest things ever!!!

and even cooler...Stacy and James danced their first song to him playing live... COOL!!!

yep, awesome

And once he was finished with the set- the DJ got everyone out on the dancefloor... (at least the few people that didn't wanna two-step...)


the train was one of the longest i've ever seen...

everyone was havin' so much fun...even the DJ of Boyd DJ services was gettin' in to it







and then there was this guy...
he knew the entire dance to thriller...and yes, of course-he danced it out all by himself on the dance floor... when he found the camera-he didn't move away from it...

and then they were off...happily ever after!


even though it's not a very good picture- we had to get one of the photobooth!! This was the first wedding that we shot that our photobooth was at too!! Everyone loved it!!
www.fourframesphotobooths.com

and lastly- i had to sneak this picture in...Aric took a few pictures of this little girl dancing and she wanted to see them...
it's just too adorable...