Inspiration Shoots and Boards:
Styled Shoot at The Contemporary Austin
featuring madeline Harper Photography
We’re loving this intimate, gorgeous editorial developed by Madeline Harper Photography and inspired by the colors of pears picked straight from a tree, the textures that fall brings with its bread coming out of the oven and sweet sage garnishes. The details styled by Kindle and Gather are both timeless and incredibly fresh and relevant. We love the focus on organic touches like the calligraphy tablecloth (see the beautiful poem that inspired it below) and the stunning and ever-slightly-unruly florals by Bristol Lane. The grounds of theThe Contemporary Austin set the perfect scene for the dreamy mood and it’s all captured beautifully by Madeline Harper Photography. Enjoy!
The First Marriage, by Peter Meinke. imagine the very first marriage a girl
and boy trembling with some inchoate
need for ceremony a desire for witness:
inventing formality like a wheel or a hoe
in a lost language in a clearing too far from here
a prophet or a prophetess intoned to the lovers
who knelt with their hearts cresting
like the unnamed ocean thinking This is true
thinking they will never be alone again
though planets slip their tracks and fish
desert the sea repeating those magic sounds
meaning I do on this stone below
this tree before these friends yes in body
and word my darkdream my sunsong yes I do I do
Photography: Madeline Harper Photography // Styling: Kindle and Gather // Florals: Bristol Lane // Calligraphy: Kindred Papery // Venue: The Contemporary Austin // Film Lab: The Find Lab
// Rentals: 10th Collection // Cake: Simply Delicious Custom Cakes // Hair + Makeup: Hannah Zieschang // Models: Jillian + Colton Moore // Dress: Unbridaled