Pink lighting by Beyond

Tami is girly, fun, spunky and has a whole lot of sass and I love her.  She is oh so amazing to work with and I always feel super lucky when a client of mine selects her staff for floral design or coordination.  I am so excited for her new space here in Fort Worth and last night she showed off her new digs to some other wedding vendors in the area.  Here are some photos of her party, yummy treats, beautiful new space and some friends and well, a ton of PINK!

Tami's seating area filled with cute furniture and fabulous photos by myself and a few other amazing local photographers.

The consultation room (LOVE, love, love the chandelier)

Tami wore a super chic pink dress and here she is showing off a pink snow cone.

Tami & Marla of Pea Pod Events

Delicious spring rolls by City Club of Fort Worth

Mmmmmm, cheesecake lollipops by Sublime Bakery

An all pink party drink menu!

My girls, Sarah Halferty & Sarah Rizy, chatting it up and having fun.

Since there were other photographers around I jumped in front of the camera for a photo with Tami! (Thanks Michelle Peyronet!)

Chelsea is a senior this coming year at Saginaw high school and absolutely stunning.  I enjoyed getting to know her and learn a little about her future plans as we explored Fort Worth.  She is a cheerleader, gymnast and did I mention beautiful?   Really, I just loved her and all of her photos.  Here are some of my top picks from her Fort Worth Senior Photos.

I have known Melinda for ages!  In fact she was the first wedding coordinator I ever worked with.  In my first year of business I photographed a fun wedding at the Fort Worth Zoo and Melinda was working as the event coordinator there at the time.  Fast forward some years and know Melinda is concentrating on a new avenue, professional organizing!  Lord knows we all need help with that!  She can whip your home office into shape, re-do your business show room or just help you do a major overhaul in your life when it comes to where things go.  I asked Melinda to share some tips on kitchen organization as I know that for my family that is the hub of the home.  It gets completely disorganized!  Plus with all my bride readers out there these tips may help as you unpack those kitchen gifts after your honeymoon!

The easiest way to make a huge impact in your kitchen is to remove everything except non-essential items from your countertops.  Clean countertops create the illusion of lots of space and openness, even in the smallest of kitchens.  If you have appliances that you use daily, leave counter top appliances to two max.

Organizing your pantry:

• Start by sorting through all of your foods and pairing like items with like, then purge all expired foods.  Donate foods that you won’t eat but are still good to your local food bank.
• Place foods you eat often and other frequent-use items at eye level.  If you’re trying to eat healthier, place junk foods in harder access areas.
• Keep older foods to the front and newer foods towards the back.  This helps you remember what foods you have to eat or preserve before they go bad.  Employ this trick in your refrigerator as well to back on food waste.
• Lazy susans and small tiered shelves are great add-ins to help you see all of your canned goods and spices.  You can also Velcro spices to the inside of a cabinet door.  Other ways to make better use of your space are to keep dry goods, grains and pastas in stylish canisters on your counter or store them in storage containers instead of their original bags.  If using storage containers in the cabinet, opt for square over round to utilize all of your cabinet real estate.
• If you have a lot of vertical space between shelves, small wire add-in shelves will make good use of the excess space.

Sweet vintage details from antique malls and flea markets, attention to the little things, home made and home spun and delicious cupcakes from J. Rae’s filled this beautiful and spiritual day.  Ruth and Andrew were married at 809 Vickery here in Fort Worth.  They had planned an outside wedding in the garden there but the weather had other plans so we moved inside and we just loved it anyways!  Andrew is the brother of a dear friend of mine, Wendy, the owner of Bliss Bridal.  Wendy was a huge help and played coordinator as well as supplying Ruth’s amazing Watters gown and Sara Gabriel veil.  Despite the weather we ventured out into the city in the rain and had an amazing time for their romantics.  I actually LOVED the reflective surfaces of the puddles of water and the texture it added to their photos.  Here are some of my favorite romantics, their details and a few moments!

Ally & James are super sweet and I just adored my time with them alone.  I could have just spent the entire day with them loving on one another and I would have been happy as a peach.  We of course took some photos outside of Robert Carr Chapel before heading to the T&P Building for their reception but some of my favorites were taken right outside and inside the hallway leading to the train platform.  They also had some fabulous details thanks to Tara Wilson Events & flowers by Lush Couture.

Some of the HOT Details Allison had at her wedding

Ally and her girls in thier fun summertime green dresses.

James and his guys clowning around at Robert Carr

The ring bearer's jackets hanging in the chapel with some very destroyed boutonnieres

Ally & James on the steps of Robert Carr Chapel

Love the available light in the hallway heading towards the train platform.

Ally wore these cute ballet flats but I just adored her drop earrings