Today I’m very excited to share with you the last of my trash the dress shoots, for this year. When Stephanie entered my Rock ‘n Rock Bride competition back in April and told me all about how her husband Glen proposed to her in a room full of balloons and how her wedding venue was double booked with a balloon model convention, I had a feeling I knew where this was going!
As she explained “I showed up the day before the wedding to find the lobby of the hotel we were getting married in filled with huge balloon sculptures! This was a bit of a shock and we were told they couldn’t be moved. In the end we decided it wasn’t worth stressing over the day before the wedding, and they actually went down really well Read more
When organizing Susheela’s second trash the dress shoot (the first can be seen here) which was going to be shot at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes to reflect Susheela’s love for all things retro, I was looking for some fun bridal accessories that would tie in with the theme and compliment her red polka dot shoes.
I came across I Heart Buttons on my travels in the land of wedding blogs and just loved the stunning button bouquets of Lesa Simons, the creative genius behind I Heart Buttons. So I contacted Lesa, who just happens to be the sweetest lady and most generous wedding supplier I have worked with this year, to see if we could work together on the shoot. To my delight she said she would love to and her good friend and colleague Karen Robb, from Read more
It felt like Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny had all paid me a visit at once – the day I received Katie’s submission to my Rock n’ Roll Bride competition. She said “I’d love my Trash The Dress to be exactly that and I want to have lots of colourful paint thrown at me, the more the merrier! I’m not intending to stuff my dress in a box and keep it for years I want it to go out with a bang!!”
What excited me even more was that Katie contacted me in April and she wasn’t getting married till September. I loved her determination, commitment and vision.
For some time now, I have been wanting to create a shoot that involved powdered paint as inspired by the Color Run & Indian Holi Festival. Having Read more