Juxtapose This! by Kate Mefford » Events

Tate Financial Group’s 30th Anniversary Shindig

Kate — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:51 +0000

Last Thursday, I photographed an event for Bobby’s firm. His boss, Darrell Tate, has been in the financial industry for 30 years, and that is a reason to celebrate!
Darrell’s wife and daughter, Erica, spearheaded a group to plan this party, and I think it went beautifully. It was a warm atmosphere with comfort food and fun decor…you can’t ask for much more.

A special shout out goes to Emily Youngblood, the event planner for that evening, as well as Lite Dallas, Edwards Floral, and Gil’s Elegant Catering for their work in making the Cotton Mill shine!

Suzanne and Erica, Darrell’s daughters are the sweetest. This makes me wish I had a sister!

How gorgeous does Erica look? Smokin’! She works with Bobby and Darrell and is such a fun chick.

The details were so fun to shoot!

LOVE these lounge areas.

The moments were heartfelt, and there were several generations of McKinney’s leaders in attendance making them happen.

Darrell and “his bride”…

Millie made a card for Darrell and put it in his hand while he was talking to a VIP. She looks so proud. =)

They had a super cool hand rolled cigar station!

I have to end this post with bottoms up! What a great event!

Chef Millie’s Turns 3! Par-tay!

Kate — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:43:47 +0000

We kicked it old-school for Millie’s third birthday party. There were no bounce houses or celebrity guests or new cars or diamond rings. We focused on family and friends and sugar….lots and lots of sugar. Of course I didn’t get any, but photographing kept me busy, thank God.

Held at our home away from home, Spoons Cafe, Millie’s party was chock full of good times, including cupcake decorating, dancing, drinkin’, and eatin’. Here are my faves from that day…there were a ton of fabulous moments!

It was great seeing Bobby’s cousin, Natalie, who came in from Burnet.
Millie thinks Nat hung the moon!

Toni from Spoons did an amazing job on the giant cupcake birthday cake!

Presents, glorious presents!

Our good friend Jenn helps her son James get all chef-like.

Bobby’s mom is a hoot, and so is Millie’s buddy, Joshua! Crackin’ me up all over the place!

Millie was impressed by the fire. I hope that isn’t a sign for what’s to come in her teenage years.

Soooo adorable. I love how sweet Bobby is to our girl. They have the most precious relationship.

Not so great of me, but at least we got one of all three of us!

Millie, aka Shirley Temple, put on one heck of an impromptu performance for the guests.
The entire square footage of Spoons was her stage!

Mills just loves her Uncle Joe.

Cupcake decorating was the main event.

We were so glad to get to hang with Matthew and his mommy, Jackie.
We have known them since our baby playgroup days!

Oh, the cuteness!

This is one of Millie’s BFFs, Harley. She is a whirling dervish who we just lurve so very much!

Very very sneaky (said with a Spanish accent).

Cousin Jack was gettin’ his grub on!

Uncle Scott and Aunt Sarah feed Mills one last little bit of sugar for the road.

What a party! Not sure if we will be able to top that next year!

Philip’s Fabulous Fiftieth

Kate — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:01:46 +0000

Ask me what my favorite event has been in my career as a photographer. Go ahead. Ask.

I will tell you that it was Philip’s birthday party that went down last Saturday.

The location—vacation-worthy
The food—a mathematical equation involving art and insanely delectable ingredients
The decor—meticulously arranged and coordinated to create the chicest, most comfortable place to par-tay
The guest of honor—a cool dude

I would love to thank the team from Caplan Miller Events for their amazing work designing and coordinating the party of the century, as well as for recruiting a dream team of vendors.

David Kurio blew the roof off with his stellar floral arrangements. Howard from First In Last Out Designs established an out of this world experience for the guests with his lighting design. The Four Seasons had the guests fully sated in the catering department with their picture-perfect eats. Outstanding work, guys!

Now, for the images…the best part! Eeeee!

Lake Travis is truly stunning. What a perfect match for David Kurio’s floral designs!

Seriously, the decor was the chicest. I was in awe.

Sweet niblets, the place looked AMAZING.

Yum! Appletinis!

This is a real person. Look closely!

Oh. My. Goodness. The food was beautifully done!

It still blows my mind.

Delish!

We had a brief thunderstorm situation to deal with just before the guests arrived.
The girls at Caplan Miller had it UNDER CONTROL, babes. Let me tell ya!

I could have photographed the guests for at least another complete day.
There were so many fascinating people at this shindig that I was like a little kid in a candy store.

The entertainment features were Mysterious Ways, the Spazmatics (who I want to marry…all of them at once), and SISTER SLEDGE!
It’s a given that people were gettin’ their groove on!

Speech from the birthday boy.

The 15 minute fireworks show was crazy cool. I honestly have never seen a better one in my life.

Amazing. Towels were needed. Loved it and crave more. Maybe next year?

If You Think THIS Blows Your Mind…

Kate — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:06:53 +0000

…then wait till you see the rest.

I am currently in production, editing the photographs from Philip’s Fabulous Fiftieth birthday party that was held on Saturday evening on Lake Travis. I got to work with some stellar vendors that put forth great efforts to make this shindig a one of a kind event. Stay tuned to see what I have in store!