Boudoir Session

(Sorry I couldn't think of a catchy blog title at the moment but figured the pictures might make up for that)

So I decided to go through with it and a couple weeks ago had the time of my life. Laura from Pennace Photography was amazing! She makes you feel so comfortable that I didn't even need an ounce of alcohol to get me relaxed like I thought.

My amazing co-worker did my makeup and made me look like rockstar on the cover of Maxim. Here are a few sneak peeks.

Yes that is Twilight that I am reading, don't judge. LOL It matched my big sexy red heels!


One of my favorite pictures from the shoot!

Amazing shot

She took over 650 photos in an hour and half and there were just so many great shots it was hard to only choose 40! This was well worth the money and I am so thrilled that I have these photos for the rest of my life because one day I am going to look at them and be like "Damnnnn, Grandma was hot back in the day!" LOL jk.

I received the "Little Black Book" the other day and I cannot wait to give it to him this weekend before his bachelor party. I'm hoping to tape his reaction on my phone since it's going to be a good one! I will keep you posted on this for sure!

*all photos courtesy of Pennace Photography

Not motivated for a wedding....

Ok so don't read into the title just yet! It's not what you think.



I had lunch with John yesterday since he's been working a lot lately and we barely saw each other this weekend since I was visiting my sister. And the conversation went a little something like this:


J: I was thinking how awesome it would be to receive pictures of you for my birthday since it's my last year as a single man.

Me: (almost spitting out my food) What? Umm you mean boudoir photos??

J: What are boudoir photos?

Me: Who put this stuff in your head?

J: No one, just a random thought.

Me: Normally a bride gives her groom the day of the wedding boudoir photos.

J: Oh, I didn't know that.

*side note: his birthday is in the middle of August*



And so the conversation continued on but I wasn't sure if he was serious or not. This came from way out of left field. I wondered who put that bug in his ear! My first reaction was not a good one but I didn't let him know that. I just kept it inside to boil. This was just so random I was still in shock. I didn't even think he knew about pictures like this.

I've never really given the idea some serious thought. I personally didn't think he would like a gift like that. I saw Mrs. Cola's Boudoir photos on WB recently and they looked amazing and she's like me "size wise" so I knew not to worry about that.

So I came back from lunch and couldn't stop thinking about this random conversation we just had. I really would love to surprise him with a little black book of photos but I don't think I have hundreds of dollars to spend right now. So I took to the classified section of WB to see if anyone is offering boudoir sessions in the NYC area. My search didn't go far since the listing was one of the first ones. Laura Pennace is a photographer who is looking to expand her work outside of wedding photography. I was shocked at the price! I thought it would be at least $1000 for a session.

So I contacted Laura and we exchanged e-mails back and forth all day and it was so easy to talk to her and ask questions. All of a sudden I got this sudden urge to get my butt to the gym so I can look good in these pictures. I thought to myself, ' a wedding doesn't motivate you but a boudoir session does. Huh, that's kind of funny.'


So as you can see the title of this post isn't what you thought it was. I am still so excited for this wedding, 81 days!


I am meeting with the photographer today to discuss ideas and get to know her better to establish a level of comfort which is her number one concern. I'm very excited and still a little in shock that I'm actually going ahead with this.

More details to come.

Have you considered a boudoir photo session?

AAAAAMMMAZING!

Photo by Michael Steingard

This picture is absolutely amazing and I'm so excited that it's taken by our photographer! He just posted some pictures on his blog and it couldn't have come at a better time. In exactly 4 months from today, we will be getting married! Oh.my.gosh.

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I couldn't be happier with our choice and he is worth every penny! His work continues to amaze me and I'm so happy with the way our e-pics came out, that I'm left with one less detail to stress about on the day of and that's such a great feeling!

How were you feeling at the 4 month mark?? Did you start to feel the stress?

You're going to trash what???

An extremely popular trend among destination weddings is the Trash The Dress (TTD) pictures taken a day or two after the wedding.


On the wedding day the bride is always so careful not to get her dress dirty. Once the wedding is over with then what do you do with the dress? You can preserve it, but I don't know many that do. Some put their dress on eBay or craigslist! But wait! Why not be photographed in the dress some more and have some fun with it? To me it means more "cool" photos that's thinking outside the box.

Our photographer also shot Mrs. Sea Breeze's wedding and TTD session and that's when I fell in love with the idea. Here are some more photos from our amazing photographer:

I just love the color of the sky in this picture.

A little salt water won't hurt ;-)

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Many destination brides have said that their wedding gowns have come out CLEANER after taking pictures in the ocean. Can you believe that? My one and only concern is the risk of possibly ruining my dress. I spent more money than I had imagined on my dress and I would hate to see it ruined.

Will you be preserving your dress after the big day? Possibly selling it on Ebay or Craigslist?

A picture is worth a thousand words...

I wanted to take a little break from the dress shopping to talk about one of my favorite passions....photography. I actually considered going to school for photography after I won an award in my HS art show for a photo I took of an ex-boyfriend buuuuuut I decided to stick with majoring in Travel & Tourism instead although continue to have a love for photography. This part of the wedding planning was important to me and I felt that I would skim out or eliminate other aspects of the wedding in order to spend the money on a fantastic photographer. In my eyes a picture can last a lifetime and I want to make sure that every aspect of our special day is capture in a special way (ok didn't mean to sound cheesy and rhyme but it's true!). The resort offers an on-site photographer who is extremely reasonable in price but looking at the photos I just wasn't blown away and their photos didn't seem to be unique. It wasn't until one day I stumbled upon a Facebook group called 'Majestic Colonial Brides' that was my savoir!! Here I could speak to tons of past and future brides that got married at the resort. This is where I learned that most brides share a photographers travel cost to come down and shoot their weddings! That's genius! I checked out several photographers websites and the photos that have been posted previously and this one photographer kept popping up in the photos that I loved! Michael Steingard eh?! I found out that him and his uncle, also known as PhotoPhil, shoot about 55 + weddings a year at the resort! Plus they also handle the photography for the resorts official website. With that being said I knew I had to hire him! I mean just look at his amazing photographs:

http://www.michaelsteingard.com/

Was it hard to choose a photographer? Do you like candid shots or traditional posed?