Wedding Photography for Stylish Couples
For 2012, I have migrated to a new blogsite for both my wedding portfolio and blog. Additionally, due to the popularity of my elegant style boudoir photography. I have also launched a boutique boudouir photography site and boudoir photography blog. I welcome you to visit my new websites and blogs and look forward to hearing from you!
The Ottawa Wedding Show – The Wedding Palace is only a few days away and we will be setting up shop in booth #306 to welcome you!
I am looking forward to meeting you in person and having the oppourtunity to answer all your questions about wedding photography and showcase some of the professional wedding photography services available for 2012 and 2013. I love the wedding show for the oppourtunity to meet brides and couples in-person and to make those personal connections that are not as easily established over the Internet alone.
Last year was a lot of fun and I met many of my current 2011 brides at the last wedding show – some showing up with some wonderful inspiration boards and others with their eyes wide-open to be inspired! Some of Ottawa’s best wedding planners and wedding design professionals will be in attendance and showcasing their distinct flair and inspiration for your stylish wedding. Planning and designing the wedding of your dreams is truly exciting and is an expression of yourselves as a couple – having the best people in your corner to bring your personal style to life cannot be unrrated.
This is also an excellent oppourtunity to speak directly with some of the wedding venues that you may be considering. There are some awesome Ottawa Wedding venues that will be showcased there and they will be availalble to give you an idea of how their specific venue is set-up and how it might fit in with expressing the style of wedding you are planning…
Looking forward to meeting you all!
After a beautiful and intimate Summer wedding on the main balcony of the Chateau Laurier overlooking the historic locks and Parliament Hill, a reception in the main ballroom followed with piano music and some great speeches. It was a beautiful ceremony and reception and I look forward to more wonderful opportunities to create wedding photographs in this historic and beautiful wedding venue. To respect the privacy requested by my clients, their personal photos are not included, but here is a peek at some of the lovely details that simply made for a lovely wedding day, I’ll let your imagination do the rest…
Chateau Laurier Wedding
Boudoir is a beautiful genre of photography and it is one that I absolutely adore. For me, Boudoir is a beautiful and intimate portrait of yourself and there is a special interplay between subject and photographer that is essential for my client to relax, be herself and in the end, really see herself in the final boudoir portrait.
It is one thing to look like you are “putting it out there” for someone else all sex kitten like (which too is fun), but it is far more powerful image in my
opinion to be able to capture the authentic beauty and vulnerability of my subjects that only a lover may witness…this is magic. I am proud to say, that I rarely touch up my images but rather use light and camera angles to create the most flattering look. What I love most about this is that my clients and truly see themselves as they are – stunning- and not feel that they are looking at a “doctored” version of themselves that doesn’t feel authentic.
Here are some sneak peeks from Miss M’s recent Boutique Boudoir Session at the Thompson Hotel in Toronto. Miss M was in for hair and make-up bright and early and with her Jimmy Choo heels and a suitcase of Victoria Secret in hand…she was stunning and we had a blast. For Miss M, we are creating an elegant and sexy album that will be an amazing gift and surprise for her groom. Here are just a couple of images from her session…but there are so many more…
If you are thinking of having a boudoir photography session with m photography, as either a gift for yourself, your fiance, or someone special or if you would just simply like to celebrate a milestone, contact me for a consultation. I offer private boudoir sessions, boudoir soirees (boutique bachelorette parties) and boutique boudoir marathons quarterly.
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A sneak peek at Chris and Gaby’s intimate wedding at The Schoolhouse…An amazing day with her sister arriving from Venezuela by surprise. Surrounded by familya dn friends both near and far… Congratulations to you both!
Want to see more?View my portfolio.
I met Megan and Adam earlier this year and we did a winter engagement session in Gatineau park to create some custom wedding invitations. Since then, time has flown and the big day arrived …and it couldn’t have been a more perfect day. Megan’s wedding dress was inspired by a McCaffery Haute Couture gown, but was exquisitely hand made by her aunt. Anyone who has tried to make a pillowcase in grade 8 can appreciate the work this must have taken and the dress was wonderful and Megan looked simply elegant in her wedding dress.
During our first consult, we also discovered that we were neighbors and both loved our local florist at Mood Moss Flowers in New Edinburgh. They did an outstanding job creating these stunning floral designs for the ceremony, the reception and the bridal bouquet.
Megan and Adam were married at the historic Strathmere Inn during an outdoor ceremony among their closest friends and family and they enjoyed a reception in the coach house afterwards….it was a beautiful day and I was so happy to be there to capture some special moments…congratulations Megan and Adam. Here are some of my favorites from the day…
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I am waaaay behind in blogging and have so many lovely engagement sessions and weddings to post… and I will…soon. In the meantime, as I continue to edit and design albums, I am also trying to create a cosy studio space for my lovely clients to be welcomed into, view their images and plan our creative ventures. In the process of doing this, I felt it was really important that the space feel like me and be an expression of my style. I have learned a lot about what inspires me and found some vocabulary for it. Vanity Fair comes to mind when I think about the mood I try to strike with my favorite images. The mood, the fantasy, the dream, the colours…the stuff daydreams are made of (mine anyway). On the other hand, I am inspired by nature, the countryside, earth tones, stone, texture and light. I am as comfortable camping at the beach as I am in cashmere. That being said, I love couture…the materials, the craftmaship and best of all the creativity of design. I am guilty of loving print magazines too much and love Paris and Italian Vogue for inspiration. So yes, I am absolutely inspired by my European travels to France, Italy, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia…so the word eclectic definately factors into my style and inspiration. The castles, the linens, the food, the wine, the colours, the smell of the earth in Provence…And I found the perfect urban chic vintage couture inspiration blog to help me out: The Urban Lifestyle Decor blog (insert petit merci).
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How does all this translate into my style? How will I express this in the studio environment? Good question. So I hired a designer. The same designer who did the amazing and creative space for the Fraser Cafe (my local favorite restaurant) Marilyn Donahue. I loved her design instantly and think she is just amazing! She hit the right amount of modern urban chic vintage couture with natural elements…instantly!
Some of the elements I know with near certainty include a warm muted Persian rug, with a down filled Belgian linen couch and possibly a crystal chandelier (pending designer approval…of course) and an investment with one of my fav stires that I have never shopped at, Restoration Hardware.
So while the studio takes shape I will leave you with an inspirational image that I so wish I could have done myself, but was created by the truly amazing Tim Walker, and a few of my favorite finds that will soon be a part of creating the m photography studio.
Updates soon!
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