Picture Perfect!

It finally happened! We took our engagement pictures!!

Today was beautiful... sunny, clear blue skies, slight breeze... and best of all-- NO RAIN!

We started at 6:00pm in the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens where we met Joseph and Stephanie Ellis of JosephMark Photography. For the first location I wore a navy and white dress by Antonio Melani and Eric wore Seven for All Mankind Jeans with a white Polo and his Lucchese boots. The first couple shots included Eric and my most favorite things... our dogs!! Louis and Lucky were so well behaved and helped create super fun shots! Those pictures will be priceless! After we finished shooting with the dogs, we took pictures at several different locations around the rose gardens. I got to preview one photo that Joe took looking through a bunch of Lavender at Eric and I. It was so beautiful! Joe is such a talented photographer with a beautifully artistic eye. The Fort Worth Stock Yards right before sunset served as the backdrop for the second round of photos. I wore a cream colored dress with my Leddy Vaquero TCU boots, while Eric sported a light brown Polo with his jeans and Lucchese boots. We took so many neat shots! In one of the shots we were in the middle of the street with the "Fort Worth Stock Yards" street sign in the background. Eric was holding me in his arms and dipping me slightly. The sun was perfectly shining in the background... Joe said it was one of the best stockyard shots he has taken in a long time... if not ever! (That made me so excited because he has taken SO many amazing pictures in the stockyards.) The last location was by the Ashton Depot on the outskirts of downtown Fort Worth. The abandoned parking lot Joe chose to shoot from had a perfect and beautiful view of the downtown skyline. By this time it was completely dark outside, so the lights made for very dramatic, incredible photos! Joe found a small puddle of water in the parking lot and was somehow able to capture our reflection in the water with the skyline and lights... I saw the preview on his camera and it was breathtaking! For this set of photos, Eric wore a solid black Robert Graham button down (it had beautifully embellished cuffs, of course-- a Robert Graham signature) with jeans and black Prada loafers. I wore a silk black baby doll style tank by BCBG Maxazria with jeans and black patent Tory Burch wedges.

I could not be more pleased with the way our shoot went, and I know I will be overjoyed when we get to look at all of our beautiful photos!! Eric was even commenting on how incredibly talented Joe is and how his passion for photography is so evident. During the last set of photos with the downtown skyline, Joe was laying on his stomach on the ground so he could capture the shot from just the right angle. He got all excited every time he captured a perfect shot. Eric and I later commented on how blessed he is not only for having such a priceless skill, but also to be able to do what he loves and get paid for it! How rare! Joe and Stephanie are a very positive and uplifting couple to be around... we can't wait to see them again on our wedding day, and I can't wait for them to take my bridal portraits in the spring!!

Hooray for a fabulous day of picture perfection!