Category Archives: Bridal

Bridal/Rock the Dress

Celeste’s Bridals

These are some of my favorite bridals. Ever. I have been dying to post these for a couple of months and now that Cody and Celeste are finally married, I can!! This is Cody, Celeste’s fiancé’s, horse Norman. We could not have had a better horse. Norman is the most docile horse I’ve ever seen....

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blair :) - amazing* as always.. I’m absolutely in loooove w/ her dress :) what a beautiful bride she makes.. & I love the idea w/ the horse!

Ali Cupp - LOOOOVE every single one of these shots!! Tara you are amazing!

Lisa Byrne - I LOVE the way the frilly edging of her dress shows up even more and is more dramatic in the black and whites. Beautiful images as usual! Very inspiring!

Katha - This is by far my favorite of bridals of all times!!! She is beautiful and love the horse pictures!!!

jessica - These are stunning!! Celeste made a gorgeous bride!

Brittany Sartain - WOW!!! These are amazing and the bride is absolutely beautiful! There is nothing better than a girl and the horse she loves! After seeing all the pictures with the horse, now I really can’t wait for mine and CJs engagements! :)

Kim - Gorgeous! Simply breath-taking… the bride, the horse, the photos, the element of it all is God given … :)

Elise Ellexson - WOW!!!!!!! favorite bridals EVER!!! :) all of these are just.. PERFECT!!! :) i LOVE her dress and she is absolutely beautiful!!!

Carley - LOVE this post!!
Beautiful bride! I love the hat, & the picture of Norman wearing the hat :)- You’re so creative!! Great job, as always!!

meagan - loveee all of these! my fav. that i think would make a perfect canvas is the one of her laying her head on normans & her gorgeous ring is just so sparkly! :)

Kaley - 1. She’s beautiful!
2. That dress could not be more gorgeous!
3. Tara, you’re amazing!

Misty - These are beyond stunning!

Angie S - Ooowwweee these are beautiful Tara! Celeste is gorgeous and Norman didnt look too bad either :) I agree these should be in a magazine somewhere.

Rosa Schleh - I LOVE her dress!! GORGEOUS!!! she is a beautiful bride, love all of these pics!

Rachel Stewart - I agree with you… one of my fave bridal sessions. Her dress is so different and beautiful. I love the photo of Norman wearing he hat. These are awesome!

Lindsay’s Bridals with Bernie

Lindsay and Matt tied the knot last night and now they are off to Paris and then Rome for their honeymoon!!! :) Congrats guys!!! Wedding blog to follow!!

BERNIE!!

Bernie did so good. :)

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Stephanie Wilkinson - I love her shoes!! awesome shoot!

Elise Ellexson - LOVE these.. she is beautiful and im in lOVE with her dress!!!

Jenny McNeal - She is so cute! Love the bow tie on the pup! Too cute!

tiffany@SHM - these are adorable!!! and i demand some info on that bike, lol :) i want that!!!

Elise’s rainy, FUN bridals

For Elise’s bridals I decided to carry out a couple of ideas that I had stuck back. Of course for BOTH of these ideas I had envisioned warm light on a beautiful day. But as usual, Texas weather had other plans. The day of the bridals Elise and I watched the weather texted back and...

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Gabrielle - BEYOND AMAZING!!! Love it!!!

kudos to you :)

erica hignight - I have been waiting ALL day for these!!! They are beautiful! I wish I could have been there to see her! Congrats Elise! Love you baby girl!

Nykie Grove-Eades - How cute is she!? Lovely shoot! again….

Jennifer - Niiiice…all of em :)

Nicole - cute bridals! Like the picture line idea! the one where she’s throwing the gumballs with the rain in the background reminds me of that Barney song….”If all the rain drops were lemon drops and gum drops oh what a world it would be….”

Tawana Johnson - Elise, Congratulations to you and Carson. Never imagined the two of you would be getting married when seeing you as a couple waaaay back in junior high, amazing. You look absolutely beautiful in your wedding gown. Tara, again fabulous job. I am so happy for you all! Best Wishes, The Johnsons!

Ali Cupp - I am absolutely in love with these pictures! Elise is beautiful! My favorite is their pictures hanging on the clothes line! I love all of them!!!

Natasha Smith - WOW! Stunning!

Elise Ellexson - okay, you already know how much i LOVE these :):):) thanks everyone for the sweet comments.. tara is the ABSOLUTE BEST!!!!

Matt Baeza - Photography is my passion – more Photo Editing, actually. But these are amazing pictures! It’s amazing how Tara Swain put her mind together and collaborated these magnificent pictures. Tara Swain is one amazing photographer! =]

Carsen Ellexson - Tara this just shows how amazing you are and proves what me and Elise are always telling everyone about you! Thanks for all you’ve done again
P.S. : Elise is having way too much fun going through the gumball slideshow over and over haha

Holly Fitter - Elise is so adorable! With all of the accessories and the setting, these bridals are really timeless and fantastic. So amazing Tara!