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We shot Alan and Marianne's post-wedding shoot a while back. I think it was actually towards the end of May. I think that part of the reason I didn't want to post their images on the blog at first was because they were all so good (excuse the tooting of the horn), that I didn't think I would do the shoot justice by posting 5 or 6 images.
They flew in from Vancouver with the hopes that we would go out for a shoot, photo and cinema, and they would come back home with some really nice images. We surprised them. We surprised ourselves.
The shoot was supposed to be 2, maybe 3 hours. We started shooting at 4:30 or so and went all the way to midnight. It was one of the most fun shoots we've ever done.
Here's what we went into the shoot knowing:
// they've been together for 16 years.
// they aren't lovey dovey. come on. they've been together for 16 years!
// they fly a lot to visit family, so airports are a big part of their lives.
// she loves her dress. so we're doing part of the shoot in her real dress to get some really different pictures, and the rest in a secondary dress that she cares less about.
// she's hoping it doesn't rain. we're REALLY hoping it does.
Here's what we came up with.
-amina
I was super excited when Miss Kitten said they wanted to do a TTD (Trash the Dress) shoot the day after the wedding. I knew we had to find some cool locations and I started brainstorming right away.
We arrived to Grand Cayman Island 3 days before the wedding, which gave us time to scout some locations. We were staying in West Bay on the North side of Seven Mile Beach. Right around the corner from our place was an awesome beach and pier away from the tourist resorts. It made a great location and was empty the day we shot. The other building locations were on the same road as the cottage we stayed in; we even borrowed the bike from the owners to do the shot of Mr. and Mrs. Kitten riding! That was so fun!
Mr. and Mrs. Kitten were so awesome to work with, they smiled and laughed the whole time. I can only imagine how it felt to be in the same dress that just the day before was going down the isle towards Mr. Kitten and was now playing in the surf of the Cayman Islands! What an amazing two days!
So here it is, Mr. and Mrs. Kitten’s Trash the Dress!
Last June, I had the pleasure of shooting Natalie and Mike, an awesome couple whose wedding was at a historical site in Vineland, ON.
I had been looking forward to their wedding so much since we first met just over a year earlier. It seemed that right from the get-go, they put all their trust in me, knowing that the more freedom I had, the more amazing their photos (and day) would be.
Their day was quite unique. The girls had a yoga session in the morning to relax themselves, and then they went to put some final touches into their reception decorations. After they were all dressed and done up, they drove to the chapel in a Mustang convertible, giving Natalie's hair a good dose of adventure. She looked awesome.
But the best part of the day for me was when Natalie and Mike crawled into the waterfall. It was 15 minutes before the reception was to start, and Natalie commented on how refreshing the water looked. Next thing I knew, we were all in the water doing an “on-the-wedding-day” trash the dress shoot!
So a big thanks goes out to Natalie and Mike for being so awesome, and to Cyndal as well, who was a great help in general (she came out and assisted me with some photo-related things).
Donna and Bobby came to us after their wedding and asked if we could do something a little different from the norm. Obviously, our ears perked up.
They were looking for something that in our opinion, was to look a little on the gothic side. Ever seen Sweeney Todd?
Donna brought a hair stylist and a makeup artist to our studio 3 hours before the shoot, and they did her up nice and good. They even put a little eyeliner on Bobby, but in the end we felt it was a little too Green Day.
I think this time John wins the shoot with “best Sweeney photo” (see first image below). I was a close second.
Here are some of our favs - some “a la Sweeney” and some “a la Still Motion”.
A couple days after their wedding, we took Amit and Mandy out for a Day-After shoot. I tried to persuade them to do a TTD shoot - but when you go all the way to India to have your garments custom made…. I guess it's hard to wrap trashing around the brain.
I could see the look on Mandy's face when she saw the rubbish we'd be putting her into at the shoot location we chose. “Don’t worry” I told her. I assured her that it just looked like we'd be trashing, but we really wouldn't.
Without a thread out of place (on Mandy at least), we finished the shoot. Here are some of our favourite images:
Amina and I are totally stuck in editing world right now, trying to get all the weddings out the door in the next few months. You may remember the amazing TTD movie that Patrick posted from NYC with Frances and James. I wanted to post some of the pictures as I just finished them up and I think they're pretty swell…! Let me know what you think of them; I'd love to hear.
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