Cross the Stage Pictures are Ready!

NS and GP students! Just a reminder that your "Cross the Stage" pictures are ready for pick-up at our Studio. Call us at 713.451.5287 if you need directions to us!

Bridal Extravaganza

The team had a wonderful time meeting all the Brides and Grooms a few weeks ago! We look forward to your wedding. We also like to give a "shout out" to all our new friends and vendors in the industry. Although, our weekend our not ours, it is our please to make your special day as wonderful as possible. See you all soon!

Bridal Extravaganza Show July 10th and 11th

It's that time of the year again. If you missed the January show, be sure to make plans to attend the July show! Bring your bridesmaids, your mom or even that lucky fella that gave you that beautiful ring! Stop by our booth #1235 and say hello. We'd love to visit with you! Tell all your friends, we'd love to see them too...

Be sure to visit the Bridal Extravaganza website at www.bridalextravaganzashow.com to find out any information you may need to know for this wonderful weekend! Order tickets online to save a little and avoid standing in long lines!

Christmas Portrait Special

The Holidays are upon us and closer than we think. We are having our Christmas Portrait special again this year. The Special days are November 20th through December 22nd. Appointments are filling up fast, really!

The special is designed for families (7 or less people, please), couples, individuals and children. Please see the information above.

Please understand that the background is NOT a Christmas theme. The background is selected to complement the feel and attire of your clothing... or where it will hang in your home. These finished portraits may be given as Christmas gifts, however.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Updating Our Blog!

Be prepared for an onslaught of updates and postings. I am terribly behind so I will be playing catch-up the next few weeks. Hopefully, I'll get some great stuff online right before we begin our crazy Prom and senior season. Toni will be dragging her tongue!

We are now on Facebook! Woo-hoo!

We have now joined the next genre of internet communications. So for those of you on facebook, be sure to become one of our fans. You can visit us by searching "The Gallery Balthazar." As soon as I figure out how to link the page to our blog, I will update this entry. See you soon!

Gobble, Gobble

Anne, Mark, Sonya and Toni would like to wish all of you and yours a very "Happy Thanksgiving." We have much to be thankful for and hope we continue to be blessed!

Texas...Fight

Christina has made the wonderful choice of becoming a Longhorn (absolutely no bias here). Her mom told us the news this afternoon. Your first football game experience there is going to be amazing. Hook 'em Horns!

Three more off to A & M

Just found out today that three of our seniors are off to College Station in the Fall. From left to right we have Gabriela, Evette and Jackie. Make us proud even through you are going to be Aggies! :)

Congratulations to our Seniors

We see our customers three to four times from the moment portraits are taken to the final delivery. In this time, we get to know the families quite well. I am pleased as punch (not sure what that means) to announce college acceptances to three of our seniors. From left to right, Raven has been accepted to NYU. Chasity will be attending Stephen F. Austin University. And, the University of Missouri has given Gahn a full athletic scholarship to play football for them. We are so proud of you all and thanks for sharing, so we can share with everyone else!

Beware of the Deceptive Photographer

In the past several weeks, we have had parents and seniors from various high schools calling us in a panic. They want us to take their Senior Portraits, but are being aggressively called by the yearbook photographer saying they HAVE to take senior pictures with them. Actually, parents and seniors the only thing you HAVE to do with the yearbook photographer is photograph to be in the yearbook. You DO NOT HAVE to buy the packages, but you may have to pay a small fee for the yearbook image. There are also studios calling and saying they are your school's yearbook photographer, when that is not the case. Be careful of this. You DO HAVE A CHOICE and we are honored that you choose us.

From All of Us...

...at the Gallery Balthazar, we would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter, for it is a joyous occasion for all who celebrate. Alleluia!

We're live, we're live!!!

OMG!!!  Our new website is FINALLY up for everyone to see.  This has been a long time coming and we are all like kids in a candy store.  Yes, it's 2:00 in the morning, and yes I'm still at the Studio.  I was on my way home about 1:30 and remembered about an email I had forgotten to send.  Decided to check to see if the site was up and as I hit "return" I saw it...our logo.  I screamed and called Mom and told her.  She screamed.  Then, text messages were sent to Mark and Sonya because I knew they had to be sleeping at this hour...NOT!  Soon my cell was ringing and the 4 of us were on conference call (can't believe Mom knew how to connect Mark) all on computers and looking at all of our hard work finally becoming a reality.  Be sure to visit us online and tell us what you think.  Going now, like we can actually sleep now...

Our New Website

Okay guys, everyone keep your fingers crossed! After working all week and into most of the night each day, we hope to have the new Gallery Balthazar website live by Tuesday. It has been a labor of love with just a few knock-down, drag-out fights between the 4 of us... creative differences :) We are all going home at a decent hour tonight to get some much needed sleep!