There’s nothing like all of us Dallas/Fort Worth wedding vendors getting together for  a little Thursday Therapy. Thursday Therapy is a monthly networking event hosted by the lovely Kelly Simants of Sweet Pea Events and last Thursday’s event was at the very yummytastic Vapiano at Mockingbird Station. Kelly asked me to document the fun and so I brought a simple camera/lens setup along with me. All of the images are up on facebook with everyone tagged, but here are some of my favorites, plus I can fully explain about my upside image series (see below).

Tony Valadez is my homey.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Josh Rodriguez, ridiculously adorable and kind.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Jared Rey. Always smiling, always awesome to talk to.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

The beautiful Amy Karp.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Nancy Trillo.   A totally awesome person to know (and she’s beautiful, too, in case Hiram decides to give me grief).

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Kristen Hoffman, coordinator at Simply Perfect Weddings. Simply heart her and not just because I shot her wedding so many years ago 🙂

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

I met fellow photographer Alicia Stepp-Woody at Thursday Therapy several months ago. She’s awesome-sauce.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Saylor & Cindi, a totally wonderful husband/wife photography team!

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Robin from Difiori. She rocks my world. A florist, finally, among all of the photographers!!!

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Tanya Perez is ridiculously adorable, even when she’s hiding from me.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

The following images were shot upside down. Seriously. So the story is that that the outside had these HUGE red umbrellas and everyone was turning an electric shade of red when I photographed them. My only option was to shoot as is and then turn everything black/white in post but I refused to give up. I turned my camera upside down, bouncing my flash off of the concrete and getting MUCH better skin tones! WINNER!!!

Hello Jason Haung, hello.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Photographer Erik Clausen waves hello. Hi Erik!

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Look! Tony’s face! YAY!!!!

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

Josh Littrell. Josh & I have a great ‘how we met’ story. It was a couple of years ago and we were attending a photography seminar in Dallas. It was break time and were hungry. So we scored some chicken fingers & fries at this little restaurant in the bar and made it back well in time for the presentation to resume. We still joke about our upcoming seminar on how to score food at any event 🙂

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

One more! The lovely ladies from Helmut Walker Photography, my amazing new friends from K&S Photography and myself.

Thursday Therapy at Vapiano in Dallas

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