Yay! Sarina just told me that some of the photos from her bridal shoot are up on the splash page for Giao Nguyen, who is the San Francisco-based makeup artist and designer who did Sarina’s birdcage veil.

Check out the photos here.

Link to Sarina’s bridal session here.

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Suzanne was married last September and not only did it pour on her wedding day, but it was hot and humid too! A chance to come in and try some bridals with her hair down, in a relaxed environment was appealing to her.

(check out the look on Suzanne’s face in the far right image! I think Tammy had just made a funny face!)

If you’ve followed my wedding work at all or knew me back when I was planning my own wedding last year, you probably know that I am a sucker for birdcage veils. It was really difficult for me to narrow these down to a few favorites, so please indulge me to show you lots of arty noir birdcage veil shots!

I really hope birdcage veils don’t go out of style this year. That Hollywood glam look will never get old to me.

We did a short segment of the photo shoot out in the parking lot outside my Lowell studio space. It was cold, but I wanted to take advantage of the beautiful cape I commissioned one of my 2009 brides to create for me.

Suzanne had flowers put together by her local florist, and the results were astonishing! I took them home after the shoot and ONE WEEK LATER they are still blooming. Check out Stapleton Floral Inc in South Boston for elegant bridal flowers!

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Last week, right after getting back from Phoenix/Key West and having half of my gear stolen by an American Airlines baggage handler in Miami, my good friend Tammy Swales came for a visit from Rochester NY via Mystic CT. In anticipation of our time together and because I was excited to shoot in my new studio space, I put out a casting call for some studio-based bridals so we could play around with the equipment and learn the space.

And boy, did we have fun!

For some of the shots with Jessica, we wanted to get her curls flying in the air, so Meg would spin the chair and then hop out of the way. It was very funny!

To my own embarrassment, I’ve taken to the tradition of doing a ridiculous portrait with one of the props from each studio shoot. You’ll remember the giant flower from the juxtaposition group shoot, for example. Well, this time Jessica’s earmuffs were just too amazing to resist. I think I might win another sexy award for this one!

[ tammy's blog post here ]

Check out these images from Jessica’s bridal session:

Thank you beautiful Jessica for letting us play dress up with you! It was so fun to do these bridals!

[ more images from the session here ]

more later!

Gwen’s juxtaposition shoot photos were featured by Dorene over at Unveiled Bridal Designs.  I love that the project is getting some wider exposure!

By this time, most of you have heard about “trash the dress” bridal sessions, or TTD as they are known colloquially in the photographic community. In 2006 and early 2007, news of these crazy photo shoots was picked up by numerous news sources (including The New York Times and Good Morning America), with reporters typically casting bemused glances toward the photographers who chose to take photos of the recently wed swimming in lakes, frolicking in mud, covered in paint, or riding a Harley.

Wedding photographers around the world were (and still are) especially inspired by this trend after seeing photos that incited our imaginations and promised to fill our portfolios. Beautiful brides in Times Square! Newlyweds riding in the country, wedding gown trailing down the side of the horse! Brides floating in the ocean!

Brides themselves, these days well versed in the wide range of images offered by bridal magazines and photographers’ blogs, have seen it done. Brides read those articles in The New York Times and laughed, but we photographers knew that many of you secretly dreamed of another opportunity to wear your dress and get fabulous photos. (more…)

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