WARM AND COZY SPRING WEDDING TABLE IDEAS WITH SOJOURN WEDDINGS

WARM AND COZY SPRING WEDDING TABLE IDEAS

INTIMATE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

I really do have the best job. If you haven’t heard me say that before, maybe you should head over to Instagram and give my account a follow. I talk about it way too much! One of my favorite things about my job as a film photographer within the wedding industry is maintaining relationships with like-minded wedding vendors. I love getting together to chat or grab a meal, and I especially love when we get together and collaborate on a special project in order to create new content for ourselves and exercise our creative muscles.

Kim with Sojourn Weddings is a Houston + destination wedding planner who is also quite talented with florals. She’s relatively new to Houston and is really shaking things up with her fine art style and beautiful vision. I always love watching her travels & floral adventures on her Instagram stories with the occasional appearance of her pup!

A few months ago, Kim asked if there were any dates we could get together and photograph a floral arrangement she had made. This thing was bodacious as heck and perfectly suited for a minimal and cozy spring wedding. The way the sweet pea scent filled the room and draped out of the florals to kiss the table was one of my favorite ‘moments’, as I like to call them, of this arrangement. The letter pressed menu and striped linen napkins added to the cozy feel of the table we designed, making an opened bottle of champagne at the table feel perfectly at home.

We shot well past when I should have with film (as it needs SO MUCH natural light if you’re not shooting with a flash) and I’m so happy with the moody vibes these images have.

If your wedding day is all about a minimal, artistic, cozy vibe, I know just the girl for you. All vendor credits listed below!

Photographer: Christine Gosch | Wedding planner + florist: Sojourn Weddings | Letter pressed menu cards: Isidore and Augustine | Linen napkins: Sur la Table | Film lab: The FIND Lab

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES

ERIN + THE MONARCHS

Houston film photographer

Time for a personal post! My good friend Erin, creator of some of the most beautiful, delicate, and elegant hair accessories you’ll ever see, moved into the sweetest little house in the heart of Houston. It’s on the most perfect, picturesque street with a sense of community, pride, and serenity amongst the neighboring houses. After she & her husband Billy were all moved in, she started thinking about what she might want to do with their new home to make it their own. She envisioned a lush, botanical garden, lizards, and butterflies gracing her house daily. When she got to work planting all of the plants she wanted in order to attract butterflies, she noticed the sweetest tiny caterpillars on the milkweed plants she bought. She wanted to protect them, so she bought a little mesh enclosure to keep the birds from eating the caterpillars.

As the grew, and they grow fast, she joked that the chrysalis they form in order to transition into a butterfly looked like a gnocchi, so she named that first one Baby Gnocchi. Then followed Mark-aroni & Riga-toni. As we headed to lunch one day, Erin was kind enough to let me photograph some of her little caterpillar babies, and a butterfly that had just come out of it’s chrysalis. After that, this turned into several different rounds of caterpillar-raising, and she did it so well! She knows which were boys and which were girls, how to tell which are thriving versus those who were not, and how long they’d be in their chrysalis based on the color of the casing. It’s wild, you guys, and so cool to watch her dive in and be so passionate about these butterflies.

It was such a joy to see these little guys at all stages of their lives before Erin set them free to join the migration south to Mexico. Erin documented it so well, too. I encourage you to hop on over to her Instagram & watch the highlight labeled ‘Butterflies’. It’s amazing! I want to photograph them a little more next year, so maybe I’ll do a yearly post about this if Erin’s willing to raise more cater-babies. To see other personal posts, click here. Thanks for reading!

Caterpillar mama: Erin Rhyne | Photographer: Christine Gosch | Film lab: The FIND Lab