Cool Surprise

I got a cool phone call last week from the Brownsville Herald (the local newspaper) saying I had won the reader's choice award for favorite portrait photographer. I didn't even realise there was such an award so I was naturally surprised and elated. For those of you who voted I would like to thank you very much. It made my week for sure.

Happy Birthday Hannah!

Today was Hannah's Birthday. We had a small party with both sets of grandparents and mom and dad. I certainly hope she had as much fun as we did.

Hannah seems to have an infatuation with ducks so as you can tell ducks is what she got.

Hannah assessing the mess she had got herself into. Probably not the last time either.

After we got her cleaned up it was time to conquer the small mountain of presents. She was definitely up to the challenge.

Valley Wedding Pages Feature

The Valley Wedding pages is a local wedding guide that is well known to most of the vendors as a top notch publication. As well as being printed on fantastic paper, it is extremely easy to navigate for our local brides and has a lot of great information for a time when there are a lot of questions. In the past the Valley Wedding Pages has used their own resources to provide a cover image. Recently though, they decided to start featuring local photographers for the cover and I was super excited to get the call that they were interested in some of my work to be the first. It is a great honor and I really am proud to get one of our brides on the cover of such a great magazine. Above is the image they chose.

Still trying to get caught up!

Since Page, Hannah, and I got back from our latest trip to Oklahoma I have been desperately trying to get caught up with everything. The move to the new office has been quite an adventure as well, but when it is all done, I know it is going to be worth it. We have also added a new gallery to the website that features some of my maternity and baby photography. So check it out when you get a chance. Above is a picture of my girls in front of the new office. Have a safe and fun labor day weekend everyone!

10 Days Left

There are only 10 days left to save $2,000 off of your wedding package.  If you have a wedding in the coming year there is no better time to save money than right now.  We have never offered a discount of this amount before and we want everyone to capitalize on the savings if possible.  Feel free to call or email with any questions or to book your date.

We have a new studio!

We have a new studio!  Better than the old one if you can believe it.  Some of it is still under construction, but we are real proud of what we have so far.  Pictures and directions on the website are soon to follow.

Early Booking Incentives

Yesterday we attended the Mcallen Bridal Show which was another huge success. We met a lot of great people and had a really good time talking with everyone. Originally we had told everyone about a special Richard was going to run for the first 10 couples to book post show. We have decided to sweeten the deal up a little. Richard Parker Photography is now offering an unprecedented savings to encourage couples to book early for their wedding dates in 2008 and 2009. We will be offering a savings of $2,000 off of all our packages for the rest of August. In September the savings will still be an impressive $1,500 off all packages. In October the savings will drop to $1,000 off and finally November $500 off. These savings again are to encourage early booking for the coming year. Richard does not book over 24 weddings a year. As soon as those spots are taken then he will not be taking any more clients for 2009. Moral of the story.... book early for the best deal and an assured spot for the coming year.

-Page Parker-