Posted by: Aves Photographic Design | June 22nd, 2011
I love it when we finally get to post the bridal portraits after the wedding! These are what I feel like are every girl’s rite-of-passage to get to look and feel as beautiful as they should in their wedding dress, and also to make the other girls jealous of your fabulous dress (I’m mostly kidding about that last part). Now that the bridal designers have started doing some stunning skirt gathers, asymmetrical hemlines, rosettes, and prettyprettypretty bustles with just the right amount of sparkle, all of our bridal sessions get to be different and fun (the dresses of five-to-ten years ago were getting a bit repetitive, were they not?). This season has been all about the fresh, fitted, pretty, swooshy gowns that you want to scoop up and take home for your own private closet-o-bridal-beauty. And no, I do not have one of those. Yet.
Photographing you at your most beautiful and getting to make you feel as amazing as you look (through pampering, constant coaching for the most flattering angle/reassurance of your gorgeousness, and Will’s model-fanning-skills with the reflector) is just a perk that comes with this whole wedding photography job. It’s a girl’s day for sure, so bring your entourage (you need someone to help stir up a ruckus; bring your loudest and proudest girls to help ooh and aah at your bridal beauty), your white sheet (for dress protection any time it touches the ground. NOW you know the secret that all of us photogs use), and your fierceness (for all of the feroche* modeling you’ll be doing). You may also have to pretend that it’s not a million degrees outside, that there aren’t random tourist-looking-people photographing you from afar, or that you aren’t being bitten by mosquitoes while your hair fabulously blows in the model wind (which could possibly just be the Texas humidity being pushed toward you by Will’s model fan/i.e. reflector). It’s all very America’s Next Top Model-Esque and oh-so-glamorous.
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Now, images from Kayla’s bridal session. The best thing about her is that she is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. Anyone will tell you that, although you’ll know it the instant you meet her.
These were done at the Omni Hotel in Fort Worth, where Kayla and Kyle’s wedding was on Saturday. Amazing view of Downtown, and lots of fabulous furniture and views to work with. I’m adding it to my Best Location Ideas List.
Let me just say that these chandeliers in the huge hallway at the Omni are SO pretty for a dramatic, large, gorgeous canvas bridal portrait. Rustic, yet elegant.
Kayla, you are {obviously} gorgeous. We are already in LOVE with the wedding pictures, and we know you will be too. We hope you and Kyle are somewhere beachy sipping on fruity drinks with umbrellas in them and listening to the waves crash on the shore. And that you get called “Mrs. Citrano” like 100 times a day by the honeymoon men that are supposed to help make you feel married while they bring you more fruity drinks and fresh towels. It is really cool to hear your name said like that, isn’t it? XOXO, Lauren and Will
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*I borrowed that word from Project Runway and my cat’s name.**
**Lady Feroche, in case you were wondering. She compliments her partner in crime, Sasha Fierce, very well. You can find pictures of them if you search this blog.
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Posted by: Aves Photographic Design | January 11th, 2011
When I saw Erin’s soft hair loosely pinned back, vintage lace dress, and twine-wrapped berry bouquet, I knew we were on the same page.
A new field we found near Fort Worth.
I loved the idea of incorporating the chunky necklace into some of the bridals. She pulls them off so well, too.
So Ralph-Lauren. The black-and-white model-ey goodness is what I love about these.
I told you you looked gorgeous!
Walking away, all fabulous.
Congratulations, Erin and Mark, on your wedding on Sunday! It was so earthy, organic, and perfectly you. And I really thought I saw Taylor Swift there singing. If I could box up your wedding and take it with me everywhere I go for inspiration, I would. Not just the prettiness, but the love. We hope you have a wonderful time on your honeymoon! XOXO, Lauren and Will
Tags: BRIDAL, Bridal Portraits in a Field, Dallas Fort Worth wedding photography, earthy organic bridal portraits, Fort Worth Bridal Photography, lens flare, Marty Leonard Chapel, soft sunlight, sun coming through the veil, vintage bridal portraits
Posted by: Aves Photographic Design | January 6th, 2011
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a bridal session. We usually have to wait until after the wedding to post them, which means it’s been months and months since the session and the newness has worn off by then. We may or may not have a chance to post every bridal session because we know you’re ready to see the wedding pictures and care more about those. But in this case, we did the bridal session after the wedding, so we are able to share the “newness” with you now!
Note: We have a giant stack of bridals we are really wanting to share (after our giant stack of weddings!), so you may get treated to those as soon as the pretty ladies’ weddings have passed. Especially this Sunday’s wedding (congratulations, Erin and Mark! We can’t wait! Mark, you will love Erin’s bridals). GORGEOUS. Aaah!
Note #2: If you don’t mind not having a bridal portrait up at the wedding, doing the bridals afterwards is SO much fun. Since we don’t have to worry about getting the dress dirty after the wedding, we are able to do so much more photographically (and the places we can go..sooo pretty and fun. The possibilities are endless). Also, you’ll probably be more relaxed and will be able to have a lot of fun with them. Think about it.
OR, you could bring your new hubby (Did I really just use that word? I may rethink that.) and make it a Second Day Shoot instead. Getting pictures of the two of you as you actually are together AND in your wedding clothes in the perfect locations with the perfect controlled lighting situation is REALLY a good idea. Think of all of the fireplace-worthy pictures you’ll get. Every person that has done these has enjoyed them thoroughly and hasn’t regretted it. And don’t worry, we don’t make the groom feel out of place or too “posed”. Sometimes guys are worried that they may lose their man-card by doing bride/groom pictures after the wedding, but really, aren’t you instead gaining married points?? I think so, young groom. I think so.
That may have sounded like an advertisement. But…ehh, I’ll leave it on anyway. You know we just want the best for you and your walls.
Pretty light coming through the bride’s veil is my favorite. When we are able to get weather like this (THANK YOU, OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER!), we are so lucky, because it is when the warm prettiness comes out to play.
Kayti’s curls make me smile. I think she looks so Abercrombie-esque here.
Giant tree-looking weeds are always good for pictures.
Another field we found with what I have dubbed “fake wheat”. The way it catches the light adds even more to the image.
This one may be my absolute favorite. Gorgeous, Kayti.
Somebody just left a tree there for us to use as a seat. Thank you, whoever you are.
These shoes have now made it through their engagement session, their wedding, and now the bridal session. They served their purpose well.
Kayti, you look amazing. Thank you for letting us capture these to forever remember this exciting time in your life! XOXO, Lauren and Will
PS-I promise I am going to take down that Santa-hat-adorned birdie sometime! He is starting to look out of place, isn’t he?
Tags: BRIDAL, Bridal Portraits in a Field, Converse Sneakers at a wedding, Dallas Fort Worth Wedding Photographers, Fort Worth Bridal Photography, Fort Worth Bridal Portraits, I love these., warm sunlight bridal sessions
Posted by: Aves Photographic Design | August 22nd, 2010
Before I get to the field part, we must take a moment of silence to observe this Maggie Sottero gown in all of its gown-al, bridal beauty. And the fact that it was made for Jenna. Who just so happens to be a Maggie Sottero bridal gown model. Now, anyway. Because I said. Her Mom Paula agrees with me.
The tiny, delicate, soft rosettes on Jenna’s shoes. I’d like to take them, shrink them down using Willy Wonka’s Shrinking Machine, and make a necklace out of them to wear every day. Not just the rosettes. The shoes.
I was happy that Jenna chose this one for the Fine Art Gallery Wrap at the wedding. It’s my favorite.
The trees and the sunlight framing Jenna.
Jenna floats through the field on a cloud of silk. Soft, creamy, silky silk.
This one’s my second favorite. One thing about Texas; it may be hot, but we’ve got the best nature over any state. Our tall grass can’t be beat because it comes with trees.
Warm and wispy.
A feather, a birdcage veil, and chandelier earrings. Enough said.
Nathan will love this one. Of his WIFE.
Jenna’s makeup was done for these and for the wedding by Shannon Caldwell, Airbrush Makeup Extraordinaire. She doesn’t call herself that; I do. She does only the airbrush makeup, which we love most in pictures for obvious reasons.
Now email her if you don’t have a makeup artist yet and you plan to look stunning/beautiful/soft/pretty/alloftheabove on your wedding day: shannon@something-you.com
I don’t get paid to say that; we like to share the pretty and the {good} professional when we know it is available to you. You can thank us later.
Ever since we bought our vintage couch, I had been wanting to photograph it in a field with a fabulous, laughing bride on it. When Jenna set up her bridal session (to be held in a field, no less), I knew she was such a bride. Nathan’s Dad Doug gets Father-In-Law-Of-The-Year-Award for helping us transport it in his truck and moving it to all of the locations I pointed at because he probably didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he agreed to this (brides and vintage couches don’t just appear in fields magically, you know :) A shout out and a great big thank you for use of your truck and your muscles, Doug! And Paula, MOB-of-the-Year for being the other fourth of our four-part entourage and helping keep the pretty!
You look stunning, Jenna.
One more gown shot for those who are still looking for their wedding dresses and need ideas. Taken at Our Old Stomping Grounds because a) the management likes us, and b) we still have the key. New tenant of #503, you maaay want to change your locks ;) Did you like our dark red, hot pink, tiffany blue, and princess purple walls that we left for you? I bet you had fun painting over those. Heheheee.
By the way, I want my wall hooks back. Heheeee again; j/k. Will actually refused to take those down because he’d prefer for me to buy new $48 dollar hooks instead of unscrewing them himself. Will, you give me no choice. Our clients deserve the best. And now, until you buy me the new hooks (yes, I’ve decided that you need to be the one to go out and buy them now), they will know when they see the gold one that you still haven’t done it yet.
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