Hello, and welcome to our blog. Here you will find posts about the weddings and couples that we have the joy of working with. If you have any questions or would like to comment, please don't hesitate to do so. f you like my work, please be sure to check out our website, www.cbaileyphotography.com, with my completed portfolio and more information about our studio.
I had the pleasure of working with Katherine for her wedding, and I cannot find enough wonderful things to say about her and her husband, Michael. They're both such fun, kind and genuine people, and they're true encouragers...they're those kind of people that after you've hung out with them, you just feel great!
Here are some of my favorites from Katherine's bridal portrait session at the River Oaks Garden Club Forum. I'll be posting photos from their wedding soon.
More catching up! Here is a beautiful bridal portait session with Elizabeth at the Houston Country Club. Elizabeth and Brett married last June, and you can see their engagement portraits on the blog here.
In July I did a bridal shoot in Savannah, Georgia. Wormsloe Plantation and Bethesda were kind enough to let us shoot at their stunning locations. Bethesda is "the oldest child caring institution in the country," established in 1740. The history is so incredible in this great city, and I love the oaks and moss everywhere. Enjoy!
In May I photographed Caroline's bridal portraits. We had a beautiful day to work with at River Oaks Country Club, one of my favorite places for bridal portraits. The warm light poured in through the windows perfectly, and Caroline looked stunning.
Here are some of my favorites from the shoot.
Well, once again I have fallen behind on my blog posts...but that just means I'll have lots more to share over the next 3 or 4 weeks!
We had a fun and exciting June here at the studio, photographing several beautiful weddings. I'll be posting my June brides portrait sessions here this week and next, and then will rewind all the way back to February with some work I did in New York. Then we'll work our way back up to May, with lots of weddings and portrait sessions. Stay tuned!
Here is a shoot I did for Belen's Bridal Portraits. We photographed at the Houston Country Club, and had beautiful day. Belen looked absolutely stunning!
In February I traveled to the Bahamas to photograph Kate over her bachelorette party weekend. Kate and her friends had traveled to an island called Green Turtle Cay, and I met up with them for a couple of fun days. We had such a great time hanging out and getting some fun pictures.
On my second day there, we boarded a boat that left from Brendall's Dive Shop. Brendall is world famous for his dive tours and his delicious cooking. Brendall himself was our captain, and we set out with our snorkel gear ready for the day. I of course had my cameras.
What followed was some of the most beautiful snorkeling I have ever done. We found a large reef that was full of incredible wildlife. Shark, stingray, barracuda, and all sorts of colorful fish swam around us. Some of the girls even saw some baby sea turtles. While we snorkeled, Brendall swam around and gathered lobsters for us. It was incredible to see him work. He would hold his breath and dive down, searching out the nooks and crannies for lobster. As you can see in the photos below, he caught us a feast!
When we were worn out from snorkeling, we headed back to the boat to break out the rum punches. Brendall returned with his catch, and took us to a beautiful stretch of beach on a small neighboring island. We unloaded, and walked the beach, finding an abundance of sand dollars and starfish. While we enjoyed the waters and wildlife, and took some photos, Brendall was hard at work cooking up an awesome lunch. After about 45 minutes, he blew his whistle for us to return and eat. I have never tasted anything more delicious in my life!
We returned that evening late hoping to take some bridals of Kate. Kate had brought her short wedding dress, one that she was going to change into in the middle of the night at her wedding. We only had about 5 minutes to shoot before we lost all light, so we moved quickly and got a couple keepers. The next morning we woke up for sunrise to get some more photos of Kate in her dress.
Here are some of my favorite photos from an incredible weekend in the Bahamas.
Thanks Kate for everything!
You might remember Kate from her and JJ's ranch engagement shoot late last year or from the short movie I made a couple weeks ago of her wedding ceremony. Kate has been a dream to work with, and I've had so much fun capturing all of the parts of her and JJ's wedding.
We took Kate's bridals at Shadowhawk Country Club on a windy and cloudy day in February. When she arrived to Shadowhawk, the weather didn't look good. We shot with what we had, using some nice soft window light.
After we finished up around the club house, I wasn't totally content. Kate was wearing her mother's beautiful cathedral length veil, and I really wanted to do something to feature that. I had come up with some ideas and locations on the course to shoot that would feature her beautifully in the veil, but they didn't really fit the weather we were dealing with. So I decided we would just head over towards a hill that I had seen earlier, and try to make the best of it.
It was a good thing we decided to give it a try, because right after I posed Kate on top of the hill, the skies began to open up just a bit. The sun had made its way down, and there was too much cloud cover for a much desired dramatic sunset. However, the sky opened up just enough to give us a nice, deep blue and purple sky, which was a welcomed sight after having nothing but cold, grey skies all day. For the next 15 minutes we just played with the wind and light, and had so much fun getting these photos of Kate.
