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So our engagement pictures had to be rescheduled a few times:)  Our first date we had planned, I won the tickets to NYC so obviously I rescheduled.  Our next date was the Friday it snowed all day, again we had to reschedule.  This Texas gal wasn’t about to freeze her booty!  Finally, we were able to take our pictures this past Wednesday.  We had such a blast!  The weather was cold, but not too bad.  Our photographer made us feel so comfortable.  Chris’ first response when we were finished was “I can’t see anybody else taking our pictures.”   I was so happy.

We wanted the pictures in downtown Houston which is where we actually met, and I lived when we first started dating.  We have lots of memories there so I wanted my engagement pictures there.

We started in Discovery Green Park which is a park in the middle of downtown.  It was amazing the places in the park that we took our pictures.  I think the pictures are going to look like we were in country instead of downtown.  We took some pictures in these tall plants that looked like a wheat field (ironic I know), another one this dock they had by this water, and a few in the grass.  I was really glad we had a variety of pictures instead of having all city looking pictures.

We changed clothes and headed to the theater district/Rice Hotel.  So I called the Rice Hotel (where I lived when Chris and I started dating), and they told me it was going to $1,000 to receive a permit to take pictures in the Rice.  Chris and I had so many memories in that place, but I wasn’t about to pay that price!  Well, my awesome photographer read my mind and suggested us sneak in there and play dumb if they told us something.  We took pictures in there without anybody telling us anything! 

One of Chris’ favorite thing about our photographer is that she is a fellow Longhorn.  Well, she earned some big bonus points with our next shot!  There is this place downtown called the Longhorn Grill.  They have this window with a big Longhorn so we took a few pictures with the Longhorn.  She took one where we were leaning in kissing and the horns were coming out of Chris’ head.  He is super excited about that picture.

The last picture was the a picture with the downtown skyline.  I really wanted one of these since it showed we were downtown.  Again, our awesome photographer did some research and found a great place was in the parking lot of Sabine Lofts.  It was so funny, because we could see the apartments but couldn’t get the lofts.  Our patient photographer drove with us for about 20 minutes as we tried to get here in our car.  It was so worth the wait, it was a perfect downtown background. It was such a perfect way to end our pictures. 

So the pictures should be ready online in about 2 weeks so I’ll keep y’all posted!

Today is exactly one year away from our wedding.  In exactly one year, I will be Mrs. Dupuis dancing with Mr. Dupuis.  It sounds so funny to me.  I feel like I am talking about my future-in-laws, but that will be what we are in a year.  I always wondered why one of my sister-in-laws thought it was funny about saying Mrs. Dupuis to Chris’ mom. I remember her telling me that they are all Mrs. Dupuis.  I wonder if it is going to be weird calling her Mrs. Dupuis after we get married.  I guess only time will tell.

Today made everything feel very real now.  It’s like yesterday the wedding seemed so far, and today is seems so real and close.  I really don’t understand my logic.  It is like today is the last day October 30th will be just another day.  From here on out, October 30th will be my wedding day and my anniversary. 

The countdown begins!

So my wonderful future sister-in-law suggested that I keep a wedding blog so all my friends and family can keep track of my wedding planning!  I thought that was a wonderful idea so here we go!

So Chris and I have been interviewing photographers for the past couple weeks.  Chris wanted to grill them with really hard questions like so where do you see yourself as a photographer in 5 years and what can you provide me that the other photographers can’t.  I swear he thought it was a job interview and wanted to be the mean boss! 

Anyways, the first photographer was a couple and was way too quiet for us. If I am lost for words, then we have a problem!   They were also very weird about the rights to the pictures.  We would have all the rights for the engagement pictues and bridal portraits, but wouldn’t get them until after the wedding so we would have to buy all prints from them.  I really want to make my save the date magnets and they said we would have to buy them from them!  So they got the X.

The second photographers were these two mexican ladies that I loved, but were way too loud for Chris.  His exact words were “God they just annoyed me, and they were so loud.”  Honestly, I think I loved them more as people than as photographers.  When I was showing my mom their pictures, I was really disappointed with her pictures.  We just got along so well, but I don’t need to hire friends, lol.

The last one was just right!  She was a really sweet Asian girl who could keep up with me talking but not overwhelm Chris.  We both really like her!  We are sending our deposit today so we have her!  I love her pictures!  They are a good mix of contemporary and romantic which is exactly what I want!  So when I emailed her, she said she was really excited and that my laugh was infectious.  We are super excited!

Here is the link to her page!

http://www.sharonnicolephotography.com/index2.php?v=v1