First Dance Photos

Taken by Collin Richie

Taken by Collin Richie

Taken by Collin Richie

Taken by Collin Richie

Taken by Collin Richie

Taken by Collin Richie

All photos taken by {Collin Richie}

Roots and Wings.

Our wedding was what I like to call "Modern Old South."

The reception took place at the Paul and LuLu Hilliard Art Museum and A. Hays Town house on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus. The original museum was built in 1967 by the nationally celebrated Southern architect A. Hays Town and was designed after the 1812 Hermitage Plantation in Darrow, Louisiana. The new museum directly contrasts as well as compliments the old museum. The new museum has a fourth wall of glass that reflects the old museum during the day and casts a blue light every evening, creating a dynamic juxtaposition between old and new that is visually striking. 

I thought there was no place more fitting for a wedding than a space that is the new and modern counterpart arising from an older structure; the new modernized museum speaks to the past and pays homage to its predecessor by reflecting the former museum in its glass wall. When looking at the old building it is visually heavier than the new museum and almost feels "rooted to the ground" while the new building seems to float above the ground... 

Roots and Wings, people. Roots and Wings.

All images Via {Paul and LuLu Hilliard University Art Museum} and {Google Images}