Hi there! We're Luke and Cat, and we're so happy you're here. We hope you'll stay a while! We’re a husband and wife wedding photographer team based in Houston, Texas. Ranchers-turned-photographers, our world looks like this: a Craftsman-style farmhouse; our newborn, Knox, in our arms; coffee in the kitchen; Edison lights on the back porch; and a pair of English bulldogs at the foot of our bed. Read more...
 
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Sneaky Little Elves!

Dec 22, 2012 / Our Life

We saw some of our friends do this and we HAD to make one for ourselves!

We couldn't stop laughing when we saw our faces on this! We have watched it on repeat for a few hours.

Hopefully, you get a kick out of it too!
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3 Years Down!

Dec 12, 2012 / Our Life
Today Luke and I get to celebrate our THIRD wedding anniversary! We've had a fabulous day so far... treating ourselves to lunch in the big city at our favorite noodle joint, Pei Wei. We've both been really under the weather now for almost a week. This morning when I woke up I was able to take a deep breath through my once-stopped-up nose and I was so excited that we could spend our anniversary less sick! :) It's the little things, people. :) :)

So I was just thinking that about 3 years ago at this time I was just getting into my wedding dress and getting ready to do our first sight. We had an amazing wedding photographer, Lauren Clark Photography, and she told us that since we were getting married in December at 7:00 PM we needed to do a first sight so that we could have daylight portraits of us. As a photographer now, I understand exactly what she's talking about. But at that point, I just knew, "Well if Lauren says that's what we need to do, we're going to do it." So Luke and I did a first sight and it worked best for us. And check out Luke's face! Priceless!




That day seems like forever ago, in some ways. I look at these pictures and think about the people we were back then - I thought that we knew exactly where we were headed. Luke thought that he was marrying a graphic designer, and I thought I was marrying a cattleman. I figured by now we'd probably have a kid or two. Here we are, 3 years later, living out a dream we didn't even know we had at the time - owning our own business together and getting to do one of the best jobs in the world - photograph people on THEIR days like ours above. Goes to show you that God has even better things in store for you than you might imagine!


The other day one of Luke and I's best couple-friends (is that a phrase? I just made it one) was telling us how sad they were that they missed our wedding. For one reason or another, they were out of town that day or something. Without even thinking, I said, "Hey, it's no big deal. You might have missed the wedding, but you've been here for the marriage." And that's the honest truth. It's easy to get caught up in weddings - things like the flowers, the dress, the fact that (in the picture above) I keep thinking I might should have had my roots touched up one more time before the wedding.... whatever... BUT three years in I can tell you if you do things like you're supposed to, a wedding is just a tiny, gone-in-a-blink-of-the-eye opening act to a marriage. Marriage is a whole different deal than a wedding... that's for sure. And I'm thankful for that.

I'm thankful for all the moments that make up the past 3 years of our life. Highs and lows, laughter and tears, laundry pile-ups and dirty-house meltdowns, saying hello to new friends and goodbye to old ones, adding 2 bulldogs, 1 stray dog, and 2 porch cats, surviving 1 round of home renovations, sharing countless summer-cold's, Luke letting me buy new Nike Free's all the time, me letting Luke buy new Yankee Candle's all the time, door slams, front porch sitting, McDonald's ice cream trips, late night oreos and milk... It's all ours.

Happy anniversary to my best friend! Life is perfect with you!
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We work here! Our office!

Dec 4, 2012 / Our Life

We finally got around to taking some pictures of our own home.

What better place to start than a tour of our office! We redid our office this year a little bit. We have had the same desks for about a year, but we repainted the walls from a dark navy blue to a light minty green that matches our branding more. We feel so happy any time we step into our office now! The wall color we chose is Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue.

We used to have our walls filled with canvases, but when we repainted we wanted something a little different. Luke's always wanted a chalkboard, so he got one that he can write on. It usually says the name of whoever we're having come to our house that day, not "Luke and Cat's Office" as below. Luke just wrote that before he took the picture. Sometimes it just says Wilma and Hudson, of course. One day I walked in and it said "NOT Welcome Zombies" but we might have just spent the past 2 days watching Season 1 and Season 2 of The Walking Dead. And if you aren't watching that you should. :)


Instead of the canvases that used to hang on this wall, we now have framed and matted pictures from some of the weddings that we've shot that have been featured on wedding blogs. Our talented calligrapher friend Jennifer Taylor from Sugarland hand calligraphied the couple's names and where they were published on the mat of the frame. We picked up these simple white frames with mats from Hobby Lobby. The pictures inside are 5x7's. We have some new ones we need to put up but we can't figure out the best place in our office to put those. Open for ideas! :)


So that's Abby and Shelby's desk, and that's the door to our storage closet. Somehow we started putting the notes/cards we got from our clients on that door and never stopped. If I'm having a bad day, I can just stand at that door and read a few words from some very special people we know and feel better.






Here you can sorta see a little peek into our hallway which we also repainted this year to a bright purple shade. But that's another blog post :)


This bookcase from Ikea is the main workhorse of our office working system. It has so many great storage places and we love it. The canvas above is a 30 x 40 canvas of us that our amazing photographer friend and mentor Millie Holloman took of us in 2011 in North Carolina. Our whole home is filled with pictures from our shoot with Millie and she is our photographer for life.


These vintage cameras sit atop our bookcase. A few we have picked up ourselves, but the majority of them have been treasures found by my mother-in-law. Luke's mom is a professional treasure hunter (antiquer) and keeps an eye out for cameras for us. Anytime she sees one she gets it for us. We are so blessed by her love!


Our favorite in the camera collection - an old movie camera. If you hold down the button right under the words "Brownie" it actually still makes a click click click movie noise.






Our lamp that we found on the sale aisle at Target made us so happy! We had been on the search for the perfect lamp for a while and this was it. The silver bulldog was a gift from one of my best friends.




We live in an old house - all the doorknobs are different. This is the one for our office.


So that's where we work! :)
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