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Aly -N- Cece Moody Engagement session at Austin's own Mohawk. by Melanie Grizzel

Aly -N- Cece Moody Engagement session at Austin's own Mohawk.

Aly and Cece met almost six years ago when Cece was feeling a little squirrely (and  a little sauced) and made a fated prank phone call to Aly. What was supposed to be a quick fun little chat turned into a two hour conversation, which became a two week conversation. They decided to meet up and thus began their journey, together. A beginning as friends is how I met my better half too. When these guys tell me they want to see themselves having fun in their wedding photos, I understand completely and I can relate!

Fast forward five years, Aly and Cece have endured a big move and a five year relationship, that's huge. Cece asked Aly's family for her hand in marriage and they said yes, and Aly said yes too at Universal Studios Harry Potter World. #nerds. Their wedding is coming soon, in fact they will be wed on my 10 year wedding anniversary with Steve. What a fitting celebration for us and a tribute to love itself.  #loveislove

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Aly -N- Cece in love at the Mohawk in Austin, Tx

Austin original, husband and wife wedding photography team based in Central Tx. We specialize in documentary style wedding photography for couples who seek a unique, colorful and timeless look for their wedding photos. With experience in Advertising and Editorial Photography and Design we bring a unique perspective to Wedding Photography, Bridal Photography, Engagement Photography, and Boudoir Photography as well as Custom Wedding Invitation Design. If you’re looking for the bold, fearless and the Best Wedding Photographer in Austin Tx, you found the right team! Available for destination wedding photography worldwide.

Carolyn -N- Eric Pearl Brewery San Antonio Engagement Photography by Melanie Grizzel

Carolyn and Eric, engagement session in their home city of San Antonio. We went to Pearl Brewery district. I LOVE it there. seriously folks I only want to shoot there from now on. and the couple just purchased a home in the beautiful and historic sSouth Town. So we ran over there before it got to dark to nab a few shots. it was outstanding. Plus I got to take my whole family for a much needed 20 hours in San Antonio. These guys are going to tie the knot in the spring and I am so excited to be there. They are fun and funny. and I am getting the sense that Eric might be a little unruly. We'll see ;) 2015-09-30_0004.jpg2015-09-30_0001.jpg2015-09-30_0002.jpg2015-09-30_0005.jpg2015-09-30_0011.jpg 2015-09-30_0012.jpg2015-09-30_0017.jpg2015-09-30_0014.jpg2015-09-30_0010.jpg

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Austin original, husband and wife wedding photography team based in Central Tx. We specialize in documentary style wedding photography for couples who seek a unique, colorful and timeless look for their wedding photos. With experience in Advertising and Editorial Photography and Design we bring a unique perspective to Wedding PhotographyBridal PhotographyEngagement Photography, and Boudoir Photography as well as Custom Wedding Invitation Design. If you’re looking for the bold, fearless and the Best Wedding Photographer in Austin Tx, you found the right team! Available for destination wedding photography worldwide.

Smitha -N- Yash / Austin Engagement Photography at Swift's Attic by Melanie Grizzel

Smitha and Yash are planning a wedding back home in North Caroline, but first they wanted to get an engagement session in their new home town, Austin. The couple got engaged at Swifts Attic back in September and what a better place to take those engagement shots than the place where it all began?! One early morning last week we took the run of the place and made these wonderful photographs. Thanks guys. It was great working with you!   She-N-He, an Austin original, husband and wife wedding photography team based in Central Tx. We specialize in documentary style wedding photography for couples who seek a unique, colorful and timeless look for their wedding photos. With experience in Advertising and Editorial Photography and Design we bring a unique perspective to Wedding PhotographyBridal PhotographyEngagement Photography, and Boudoir Photography as well as Custom Wedding Invitation Design. If you’re looking for the bold, fearless and the Best Wedding Photographer in Austin Tx, you found the right team! Available for destination wedding photography worldwide.

Jamie -N- Zach / Austin Pease Park Engagement Session by Melanie Grizzel

Jamie and Zach, newly minted Austinites, choose Pease Park and other Austin local hotspots for their Engagement Photography Session.               

After Zach broke his hand on a motorcycle, he met Jamie while under going hand therapy in VA. Since they had spent so much time together he just had to ask her out once he was done and she'd restored his hand. While she had laughed him off in the moment, thankfully her girlfriends called him for her and rest is history. It was love at 27th site! Recent DC transplants the couple is really enjoying what Austin has to offer and making their new MARRIED life here together. For their engagement session they wanted to take a little Austin home with them so they chose My Butter Half Wall and the Graffiti Wall at Castle Hill and we ended our session at Pease Park. It was a gorgeous day! Their wedding will take place early summer 2016 in DC, among the beautiful pink flowy cherry blossoms.

She-N-He, an Austin original, husband and wife wedding photography team based in Central Tx. We specialize in documentary style wedding photography for couples who seek a unique, colorful and timeless look for their wedding photos. With experience in Advertising and Editorial Photography and Design we bring a unique perspective to Wedding PhotographyBridal PhotographyEngagement Photography, and Boudoir Photography as well as Custom Wedding Invitation Design. If you’re looking for the bold, fearless and the Best Wedding Photographer in Austin Tx, you found the right team! Available for destination wedding photography worldwide.

Samantha's Bridal Session at Sawyer & Co / Austin Bridal Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

50's themed bridal photography session at Sawyer and Co.

Samantha Perry Brown is a little off beat, note her idea for her and now husband Jon's engagement session - levitating engagement session in austin, tx! check it out I knew we were going to find something a little different and fun for her Austin bridal session. She snagged a charming little short cocktail length wedding gown from Stephanie James custom. It was a lacy off white wedding dress with scalloped bodice and a pink bow sewn right into the front of the gown. This adorable wedding dress has obvious 50's look to it and I wanted to honor the era by photographing her at a 50's style lunch counter in Austin called Sawyer & Co. Barely open a year Sawyer and Co was the perfect backdrop for this 50's themed bridal session. There is one one more 50's style restaurants in Austin I am just aching to shoot in. the food is good and the ambiance is amazing, you be the judge. check it out. 1950's themed bridal portrait session at Sawyer and Co. in Austin, Tx. She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We photograph your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique and creative perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Katherine -N- Robbie / Urban Engagement Photography / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Andrea -N- Dylan / Urban Engagement Photography / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

Andrea -N- Dylan

Austin Urban Engagement Photography

 

Andrea Crow + Dylan Smith / BMX bike track / Austin Engagement Photography / Austin Federal Building / San Antonio and 4th.  

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Helene -N- Darrin / South Austin Engagement Photography / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

Darrin is an American in the Air Force and Helene is Norwegian living in Cairo working for the UN. They met while the pair were stationed in the same country, however brief. They played volleyball and Helene quipped her team was the best. Darrin will retire soon and Helene will join him, but they decided to get married now to make the transition a little easier when the time comes. So surprise they're actually just married!

Happy Wednesday.

South Austin - Engagement Photography Session

 

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Anna -N- Allan / Allan House Wedding / Austin Wedding Photography by Melanie Grizzel

Anna -N- Allen at the Allan House, Austin

Location: Allan House / Flowers - Exquisite Petals / Catering - Taco Deli / Rentals - DNA / Make-up - Lucie Marie / DJ - Greenbelt / Officient - Spike Gillespie

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Emily -N- Blake / Inn at Wild Rose Hall / Austin Wedding Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

So we decided on the beautiful and rustic hill country venue of The Inn at Wild Rose Hall. I wore a short dress. The groomsmen wore jeans, the bridesmaids wore mix match navy dresses. And there were
Cowboy Boots! Lots of them. Both bride and groom wore Lucchese ;) I always loved the vintage feel of a birdcage veil, so I picked that, and rocked it, I must say.We served Matt's El Rancho, one of our favorite Austin Tex Mex joints. We served amazing cupcakes by the ever so talented Megan DuBois of Queen of the Frontier, she also created the rustic and beautiful display, mostly a collection of family dishes.
Did I mention I collect Coca Cola antiques? Because let me tell you my favorite part of our wedding. Well, other than marrying my knight. I had my florist Zinnia and Co. fill old wooden antique Coca Cola crates with beautiful baby's breath, billy balls, and candles. It was exactly how I pictured it in my head. Rustic, vintage, simple, casual, welcoming, warm, and unique.
We danced the night away and our wedding party did not dissapoint. We closed the place down with a 20 minute encore of Michael Jackson classics. Everything was perfectly and seamlessly stages and executed by Leah Robertson from Austin Elite.
I think one of my favorite moments was walking towards Blake, my arm wrapped up in my father's. This was it. It was finally here. And amongst all this planning and details, it came down to one thing. He was handsome, he was strong, he looked not-nervous. He looked happy. He looked ready. I am so proud of the man he has become and I can't wait for the years ahead of us

Photography: She-N-He / Coordinator: Leah – Austin's Elite / Location: Inn at Wild Rose Hall / Caterer: Matt's El Rancho  / Flowers: Zinnia and Co. / Cake + Cupcake: Queen of the frontier

 

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day…YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We’re a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We’re listening. 512-351-9314. We also service San Antonio, Dallas, New York City, and any and all remote destination locations.

Joanna -N- Jeff / Downtown Austin Session / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

Austin Urban Engagement Photographer Joanna and Jeff the lucky winners of one of our "engagement" session give-aways! They have been married for some time but their amazing story is Joanna's amazing transformation. They dutifully took their engagement pictures in the northeast with their photographer before their wedding. When she saw the photos from her session Joanna was disappointed with her appearance. After their wedding she went on a diet and started exercising. Jeff is an airline pilot, he travels a considerable amount of time. She was able to devote a good amount of time to her new hobby. In less than 2 years she shed more than 80 pounds. It's hard to bounce back emotionally though and Joanna still doesn't see the fit person she has become. Hopefully these images will help with that ;)

For their session we chose the urban setting of downtown Austin. Green doors, back alley loading docks and exposed brick were perfect for this oh so urban loving couple.

Congratulations to you Joanna, for getting your life back! All the best to you both.

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She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day...YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We're a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We're listening. 512-351-9314

Liz -N- Doug / South Austin Engagement Session / Austin Engagement Photography by Melanie Grizzel

Liz was hands down the most afraid subject I have ever worked with. She told me over the phone that she was completely unphotogenic. I explained this was a phenomena that only exists in ones head and that everyone is beautiful in some way and can be photographed as such. But as you can see, I was completely wrong, she's a hot mess ;) Just kidding, what a total knock out!

When we started our session, I drug them to a little less populated area of the neighborhood where they asked to be photographed.  I pulled her aside and started working with her letting her know it's not a scary thing, it's like dress up and can be fun. After we worked together for a  few minutes with both mine and Doug's encouragement she was a little less nervous. In any engagement session it usually takes couples about 30-45 minutes to relax, drop those christmas party snap poses and prom photo painted on smiles. That's when the magic happens.

There is a wonderful story of a photographer from the 50s or 60s who carried an 8x10 camera on all of his gigs. He was commissioned to photograph a famous actress in her time, so he went to her dressing room and proceeded to talk with her and snap his shutter and swap out backs for an hour or so and when he thought that he got her to a comfortable place he loaded in his only loaded film slide. All the rest were empty, he wanted to make sure he had her right where he wanted her before he fired off a sheet of film. They were very expensive, and he didn't want to waste a sheet. I believe the subject was Joan Crawford and the photographer was George Hurrell I think this might be the portrait or at least the same session. click Joan.

Bottom line, Liz is gorgeous and she and Doug chose 27 of 80 images to grace their walls and home and Liz may not be afraid of the camera anymore.

That makes me very happy and proud.

 

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day...YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We're a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We're listening. 512-351-9314

Best of Austin Engagements 2011 / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

Best of Austin Engagement Photography 2011!

We LOVE to shoot engagement sessions it really gives us such an awesome opportunity to get to know our couples. You really get to break through it all and explore each person.

Happy Monday!

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day...YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We're a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We're listening. 512-351-9314

Stassney -N- Tommy - Contest Winner / Night time Engagement Photography / Austin Engagement Photographer by Melanie Grizzel

Stassney and Tommy have been engaged for 1 million years. :)  We met them at a bridal event way back in 2009.  Since then we had gone back and forth a few times on whether we'd be able to shoot their wedding.  Dates and plans had changed a couple times and it was looking like it wasn't going to happen for us. Flash forward to a contest we ran a couple months ago, "Be our # ____ fan." Well, her good girlfriend won the contest and handed it over to her. Stassney was thrilled and told me to "come up with something cool" for the shoot.  I wanted to do a sordid affair in the style of late night paparazzi. They were all in!  As you can see, we worked in some not too obvious pieces too, for their Memphis home walls. After our session, they decided to bust their budget and they have now brought us on to photograph their March wedding. I am thrilled that everything has worked out. Stassney is like a sister to me these days and I just can't imagine not being there for her. I'm so happy to be charged with photographing their long-awaited wedding day! Congratulations you two, see you in 6 weeks!

She-N-He Austin Wedding Photography and Design specializes in making your day...YOURS. We capture your wedding just the way you see it. We're a husband and wife team with backgrounds in Graphic Design/Art Direction and Commercial/Editorial Photography respectively. We bring to you a unique perspective that is romantic, modern and timeless and 15 years experience shooting all over the world. Call us and tell us all about your big day. We're listening. 512-351-9314