Memory Box Photography

What a crazy fun day! Connor and Kate’s wedding pics will be on the blog soon enough, but I thought everyone would like to see the memoryBOOTH pics from last Saturday! The reception was in the Arkansas Ballroom of the Peabody Hotel – Little Rock. The reception was great, the food was awesome, and the people were incredible. memoryBOOTHs are always some of the highlights of receptions for me. It’s so much fun to get to interact so much with people and be high energy the whole time.

Often, the couples will come up with something pretty clever to have as unique props in their memoryBOOTHs. Sometimes this is a big hat or costume, other times I’ve had people bring a mini-chalkboard, things like that. Kate decided to do these really awesome mustaches-on-a-stick that she found online. Then, she took it a step further and made some glasses to go with them! As you can see from the pictures, they were a huge hit.

If you were a wedding guest and see your picture in these or in the slideshow, know that you can also click here and enter the password mcnabbMB and order pictures and/or digital files! If you just want it for your profile pic, check out the albums on Facebook: Part 1 and Part 2 and tag away.

I offer memoryBOOTHs as add-on’s to most wedding packages, but they’re also available by themselves. If you’re interested, shoot me an email and we’ll chat!

Here are some of the pics, but if you want to see more, be sure to click the link at the bottom!

Clever…..

He was in the middle of telling his brother, the groom, that he was fired.

Am I the only one that thinks of Arrested Development when I see this?

And as promised, here’s the link to the full slideshow!

I don’t post a lot of teasers for memoryBOOTHS, but I just wanted to throw out there that on Saturday, this happened. Some of you remember my tweet from that night. Well, about 6 minutes later, it came to fruition.

More to come Thursday, and a wedding post for Connor+Kate to follow!

This may not be exciting news to anyone else, but I’m really pumped about it. About a week ago, I ran out of the business cards I had to hand out if anyone asked while I was shooting a wedding. Heartbreaking I know, no more free lunch drawings. Right before I went to order more of them, I realized I kind of wanted to redesign my card. Everything else about my business (my website, my blogs, my albums) is very crisp and low on the frill-o-meter…everything but my cards. So I started to get to work on designing them, and hated them all. And now, the perks of dating a graphic designer. I asked Emma to design me a new card. She did a great job and had some awesome options, enough to make the desicion process pretty difficult. In the end, though, I’m REALLY pleased with the results, I hope you are too!

Thanks Emma for the awesome design, and thanks White House for getting them to my house the day after I ordered….as always.

A few months ago, I got an email from Paula (Kate’s sister) asking about wedding photography. I wasn’t sure what to think, since Paula isn’t the bride, but Kate, Paula and I all met up at San Fransisco Bread Company to meet each other and talk details. I didn’t realize until walking into the store, “Oh…..dang. I didn’t tell them what I’d be wearing or anything.” Fortunately, they were ordering right as I walked up! Luckily, by the end of that meeting, we were getting along great and really clicking. A few weeks later, I got to meet their mom and Connor at Community Bakery (the best).

Connor and Kate met at Harding University when Connor ran a music venue. He said every once and a while, they’d have people come and watch a movie on the projector and hang out, and the rest is history! I’m really excited about their Little Rock wedding next weekend! It’s going to be an all day affair, and LOTS of fun! But until then, here’s their engagement pictures!

Just a quick note, I’m using a new layout for the time being, trying to be a little RSS Friendly as I get more emails about how my last one wouldn’t work well with RSS readers. I’m definitely no web expert, so I just did what I thought might work! Also, if you dont follow me on twitter and dont get my POSTEROUS links, feel free to add this site to your RSS as well!

http://austinjwalker.posterous.com/

New post is in the works! Be pumped.

Austin

This week, I’m spending in San Diego with FSM. I’ll spare you the details, but heres some stuff I’ve snagged along the way. I’m flying back Monday. All I have to say is I walked up a 150 yard hill and didn’t break a sweat. I’m convinced San Diego shares a forecast with heaven….and Arkansas with…well….you know.

Connor and Kate rule. More on that later.

Saturday I shot Brian and Mallory’s Jonesboro, AR wedding. I met Brian and Mallory some time ago when Mallory sent me an email asking about engagement pictures. I have no clue how it happened, but she found my site, and one thing led to another, and I got to be a part of Brian and Mallory’s day! The entire day, I was somewhat nervous that it would start to rain, but instead, the clouds provided some perfect cooling shade. It was still pretty humid, dont get me wrong, but it was much better than if it hadn’t had any clouds in the sky. Right now, they’re on their honeymoon in EUROPE! and will eventually move and start their lives together in California.

The wedding ceremony was at Mallory’s house, and the reception was at the Campbell House following. A special thanks to my second shooter, Jessica Fleeman. Feel free to go check out her blog, she should have some of her shots up fairly soon! Also, it was great to meet the videographer, Joshua Mink.

Tent provided by Fred Willis of Jonesboro (not positive on his last name).
Chairs from Party Gras of Little Rock.
Florist was Backstreet Florist/Shirley Hale of Wynne.
The reception was catered by the Nelsons with Loree Thompson as the chef!

Here’s a glimpse into Brian and Mallory’s wedding day!

Also, dont forget about the memoryBOOTH from the reception!

Forrest City, what can I say?! First things first, I’ve never seen more police cruisers sitting in speed trap position without an officer inside since I lived in Memphis. Well played, officers of Forrest City….well played. Secondly, Forrest City knows how to rock the memoryBOOTH. I dont know how many people were at the reception, but it was so cool! What a great venue for something like that. And, as you will see when you look through the photos below, the people were crazy and definitely ready to have some fun! Hopefully this wont be the last memoryBOOTH this crowd sees!

Here’s some of the pics! At some point next week, I’ll have a FB album up online. It’ll be hosted by my personal account, because for whatever reason Facebook doesn’t allow fans to tag pics on my fan page, so instead I put the booth pics up on my personal FB page. Then, you’ll be able to tag away and add them as a profile pic if you wish! Be looking later next week for a blog post to find out how to order any of them you’d like to! And if you’d like, you can go on to the client proofing part of my website and type in the password fcBOOTH to see more of the images and order your own copies!

Without further adieu, I give a selection of memoryBOOTH pics from Brian and Mallory’s wedding!

The catcher of the garter.

and here’s Josh the videographer!

these girls may have taken 231 pictures….and this was their all time favorite pose.

….your helpful reminder…

so…they did a smiling pose, and I said do something crazy…they both did…well…this….

and then they realized what almost just happened.

memoryBOOTHs are a great setup for any party, wedding, reception, or anything else. Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in booking one for your event!

I thought I’d start the week off strong with a good, sweet and simple teaser from the wedding this weekend! I’ll save the couple’s write up for their post Friday! And for those of you who took advantage of the memoryBOOTH, your pics will be ready to rock on Thursday, as promised! I’ll also put a FB album up for you guys to tag away. More on that later!

Wedding season is in full swing, and I LOVE it. A special thanks and shout out to Jessica Fleeman for second shooting for me! I’ll shoot everyone a link to her and to the other vendors friday. But for now, enjoy the teaser!