A wedded couple at Milltown Historic District in New Braunfels Texas
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Wedding The Grande Ballroom | New Braunfels | Maeve + Tat

ByPhilip Thomas

Maeve and Tat tied the knot a couple of weeks ago at The Grand Ballroom, New Braunfels, Texas. The couple first met at Rackspace in San Antonio, Texas. I loved working with this down to earth couple. The Grande Ballroom is a New Orleans style venue with original wood floor, and a stately grand staircase,…

I love images that look seemingly simple, and yet this shot was challenging to capture. The focus is on Alison, our beautiful bride, and her father during their joyous first dance. But I’m always looking for more, and I love multi-layering my images and tell the story in the most profound way possible. The challenge is to capture these moments in real-time with interactions from the photographer. If I can do this in one shot, then this is a good example. My back was up against the reception wall when capturing these. At first, the flower girls noticed me but eventually placed their attention back toward the subjects.
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Layering images – Image of the week 10

ByPhilip Thomas

This weeks it’s all about layering! Stuck inside during COVID-19 lockdown, I thought I would have so much time to shoot mini-projects. But in reality, I’ve been busier juggling kids, online school, cooking, and everyday household chores; time is getting away from me. Plus, um, making those homemade Old Fashioned’s. Yum! Actually, no, I don’t…

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Spring, Texas Wedding – Home wedding – Ashley + Jacob

ByPhilip Thomas

Here we are precisely ten years later, after their first date, Ashley and Jacob tied the knot at a home wedding in Spring, Texas. Together they have experienced much together, including world travel, first jobs, and long term careers.I loved photographing their special day with just a few family members. It was quite extraordinary and…

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Image Of The Week 9 -Finding Reflections – Philip Thomas Photography

ByPhilip Thomas

This week’s picture of the week shows the reflection of the couple’s first dance through the Skyroom’s glass and downtown San Antonio’s. What’s great about editing images for a couple, like this week for Loran and Andrew, is coming across a picture I missed kinda the first time. Perhaps I didn’t’ recognize why I liked…

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Travis Park UMC + St Anthony Hotel Wedding Reception | Alison+Connor

ByPhilip Thomas

Alison and Connor’s wedding was magnificent! The ceremony was at Travis Park UMC and ballroom reception at St Anthony Hotel downtown San Antonio. The couples engagement session from last summer is here. There are so many great moments throughout their day for these high school sweethearts! Many thanks to Stacey DeWine, an event planner who was so…

San Antonio bride drinking gin on bus after tying the knot on a winter's day
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Image of the Week 8 – What is wedding photojournalism?

ByPhilip Thomas

I missed the last week with my postings due a crazy one of editing, but now I can get back to posting my thoughts about my work and why I think specific images work. Weddings are full of emotion. There’s excitement, tears, laughter. There’s highs, lows, and humor! All in one day. My work is…

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Chapel of the Incarnate Word Wedding | Rosenberg Skyroom UIW | Loran + Andrew

ByPhilip Thomas

Ceremony: Chapel of the Incarnate WordReception: Rosenberg Skyroom at UIWWedding Planner: Sweet August Events – Janell and KatherineCatering: Jerusalem CateringCake: Cakes by CathyPhotobooth: Artemis PhotoboothHair + Makeup: Mistique Makeup – SuzieEntertainment: DJ DaquariRentals: Illusions RentalsTransportation: Elegant LimoPhotographer: Philip ThomasLoran and Andrew’s engagement session

Bride gets ready in reflection of a room mirror at La Cantera Resort San Antonio Wedding Photography Philip Thomas
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Image Of The Week 6 – Working with shapes in photography

ByPhilip Thomas

Here’s an image captured a few years ago for Alex and Kristina. As the bride dressed, I noticed these beautiful photographs of cowboys riding horses and couldn’t help myself using the shapes to frame her in the reflection. In this instance, the composition works. Weddings are very fluid, and if a composed scene doesn’t, I move…

An interesting juxtaposition as the wedded couple practice first dance and chairs are pushed out of the ceremony to the reception ballroom
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Image of the week 3 – Juxtapositions

ByPhilip Thomas

I love winter weddings for their low light. Thankfully, here in south Texas, we have a few weeks of cold weather, sometimes we will get ice and every ten years, maybe some snow. Nevertheless, many weddings are inside at this time of the year, which forces me to push harder to find exciting juxtapositions and…

Couple Debra and Ryan on hotel balcony at Westin Riverwalk Hotel Jewish Wedding Ceremony Reception San Antonio Texas-Philip Thomas Photography
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Westin Riverwalk Hotel | Wedding + Reception | Debra + Ryan

ByPhilip Thomas

Debra and Ryan met in high school, became friends, started dating at UT, and have been together ever since. So, here we are, over ten years after their first date celebrating their wild and magnificent celebration at the Westin Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. We start the post with their rehearsal welcome dinner at The…

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Image of the week 2 – what is wedding photojournalism?

ByPhilip Thomas

This week’s picture of the week features the father of the bride as he sees his daughter for the first time in her wedding dress. Captured at the JW in Houston, I live for moments like these. For more on my thoughts about wedding photojournalism or reportage go here. Weddings are, of course, highly charged…

The annual San Antonio Weddings Magazine 2020 Cover Contest is now LIVE!
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I need your vote! | San Antonio Weddings Magazine 2020 Cover Contest

ByPhilip Thomas

I need your help! Please share this post. The annual San Antonio Weddings Magazine 2020 Cover Contest is now LIVE! Visit www.sanantonioweddings.com/photoshootout Please help win this for two of my couple, Leslie + Brandt and Kelsey + Dan.Remember that you can vote daily so be sure to vote once a day until Sunday, January 19th!

A favorite clicks of 2019 from my last wedding of the year. Here are two sweethearts, Densil and Stacy that tied the knot two weeks ago. The couple found holes in the fence of the venue and comically, were checking out guests heading toward their cocktail party after the ceremony. LM104330
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My favorite wedding images of 2019

ByPhilip Thomas

These are my favorite wedding images of 2019, most of these are unposed images and free of photographers’ direction, full of emotion pictures that document a couple’s story. Every year (see more from 2018 and 2017), like any photographer, I’ll work on areas of weakness and eliminate mistakes while pushing creatively. It is, after all, about ‘seeing.‘ It’s…

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Ingenhuett on High Wedding | Comfort Texas |Densil + Stacy

ByPhilip Thomas

A handsome couple, Densil and Stacy tied the knot a couple at Ingenhuett on High of weekends ago in Comfort, Texas. I loved working with these two who have known each other for over twenty years! This Dallas couple owns a quaint house in Comfort, so it made perfect sense to have their wedding celebration there…

Laughter and joy as couple walk away from the wedding ceremony at The Witte Museum
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The Witte Museum Wedding + Reception | Kelsey + Dan

ByPhilip Thomas

Here’s a curated set of images from Kelsey and Dan’s wedding a few weeks ago at The Witte Museum, San Antonio. I’m so thankful to have met this fantastic couple, and to Peggy Walker, mother of Sara, a bride a photographed many years ago and referred me to them. Kelsey and Dan met in New York…

Last dance at Omni La Mansion Riverwalk hotel in San Antonio Texas shot through the window with curtains drawn
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La Mansion Hotel Wedding | San Antonio | Blanca + Walt

ByPhilip Thomas

Blanca and Walt’s tied the knot at Omni La Mansion Riverwalk hotel in downtown San Antonio, Texas. This refined hotel in a Spanish colonial building is genuinely historical and one of my favorites along the river. I’m so happy for them! They’re two smart, intelligent, and pleasant couple, and I had so much fun hanging…

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Brazos Hall South Asian Indian wedding | Neha + Mrugesh

ByPhilip Thomas

Neha and Mrugesh are Chicagoans who decided to have a destination South Asian Indian wedding in Austin, Texas. They met at a friend’s birthday party, and cunningly Mrugesh asked for a cooking recipe from Neha, and that’s how it all started (a good one:-) Their wedding and reception were at Brazos Hall. We start their celebration…