Hey ladies and gents, sorry for the long hiatus between posts. We were moved to a new server recently and that caused a few hiccups but we are back in action once again, yay! Robyn and Maria over at Verite Boutique Photographers sent us this great urban engagement session shot in San Francisco. I just think it’s fun and delicious and sexy. Enjoy!
Check out this totally adorable wedding sent to me by the fabulously funky and adorable Indianapolis-based photographers Bobbi + Mike. Kristi & Kyle were married at the Cincinnati Art Museum and held their reception at The Westin. I just adore the modern color palette of red and grey. These days I am into everything grey, I am almost obsessed….I think it is totally the new black and offers a super fresh, casual look. Despite the pouring rain, this couple and their guests obviously had an amazing time and Bobbi + Mike captured it all beautifully!
Who else made this wedding fabulous? These people:
Floral Designer – Hyde Park Floral
Reception Venue – The Westin
Cake Designer – Classic Confection Cakes
DJ: “Music By Request” DJ Butlers
* This wedding was submitted to The Unbride via Two Bright Lights.
I hear that this adorable couple Chris and Destiny are readers of The Unbride. Their awesome wedding photographer Amanda Patrice sent me a few images from their engagement session and I started swooning. These two are big fans of comics and graphic novels so why not incorporate them into some fun pictures, right? I love a good creative engagement session and this is one idea I actually haven’t seen before. Hope you all enjoy!
If you are a photographer, we want to see your most creative, fun & kooky engagement sessions and weddings.
I’m kind of in love with this photo by Nicole & Brad Wolf of SOTA and I thought I’d leave you ladies with some Monday morning bridal eye-candy.
Happy Monday everyone! I was just tickled when lovely and talented LA photographer Christine Chang decided to share this engagement session with me. She asked Candice and Johnny what sorts of things they like to do together. In their perfect honesty they replied, “We don’t do much, all we do is eat and do laundry”. I find them so incredibly charming and I’m just in love with the session that followed. I hope you enjoy too and I hope this inspires you to do your own thing for your engagement session. Whatever it is, it just represent you in some way. Your lifestyle, your personalities, whatever.
Thank you so much for sharing these with us Christine, we can’t wait to see more from you in the future!
Hello Unbrides. Sorry for the hiatus. I was in Haiti and then Vegas and then DC all in the last month and things have been busy so I apologize for the lack of posts recently. Some of you may remember the IKEA engagement session we posted a few months back. Well it looks like it may be becoming a bit of a trend because I just received another one from the very talented Thomas Ward. Check out this super cute session.
Photographers, we want to see your most Unbride weddings and engagement sessions…keep ‘em coming!
{You find beauty in ordinary things. Do not lose this gift.}
Introducing Eclectic Images: Our Featured UnBride Vendor. Here is some information about them in their own words.
I found the above message in a fortune cookie years ago. It came at a pivotal point in my life when I was feeling unfulfilled with my then job (in finance) and I felt a stirring inside for something more. At that point I decided I was going to do whatever it took to become a photographer, even if that meant working at the mall portrait studio (which I did!) After “paying my dues” for a few years working at the portrait studio and also at a local newspaper as a photojournalist and shooting weddings part time, I finally jumped in full time about 5 years ago. And I’ve loved every moment since.
A little more about me – my name is Heather Banks and I specialize in weddings and portraits, though my motto is that I’ll shoot anything. I live in Austin, Texas with my husband Mike (we’re newlyweds!) and our two Boston Terriers, Linus and Moo, in a groovy 1970’s house that we are currently remodeling (we call it our brady bunch house). I’m also opening a studio soon in the fabulous East Village Lofts on East 11th Street right in the heart of Austin.
In addition to taking wedding photos and family and senior portraits all around Austin and central Texas, I’m also a destination wedding photographer, I’ve photographed weddings all over Mexico and also in St. Kitts, Barbados, Napa, and Martha’s Vineyard to name a few.
www.eclecticimagesphotography.com
512-947-7864
info@eclecticimagesphotography.com
This super stylish save the date comes from one of our absolute favorite husband and wife photography teams, Michelle Ferry and Josh Beller of Mi Belle. No superimposing here, they actually had the sign custom set to announce their date. Way to go the extra mile and completely set the mood for a fabulous celebration.
I thought that while half of the country is snowed in right now, it might be an appropriate time to post these gorgeous snowy day portraits that my good friend Nicole Wolf of Sota Dzine shot during one of the last big snowstorms. Let me tell you, as a wedding photographer…there’s nothing we love more than clients who are willing to be a little adventurous and take some risks…even if it means getting that gown dirty or wet or both. Come on Unbrides, this is the stuff we are all about. If you live close to your photographer or have a 4-wheel drive, why not get out there in the snow?
Hello Unbrides!!! Today we are super excited to reveal a collaborative effort between myself and my amazing Unbride partner, Ellen Petty. We are both pleased to announce and show off the brand new Studio Diana Photography blogsite. Studio Diana is the Washington DC area studio that I run with my lovely mother who gave me my start in wedding photography about 8 years ago. Although I moved to Los Angeles a few years back, I’ve still been flying back to the east coast to shoot about a dozen weddings a year. In 2006, I started working with an amazingly talented photographer named Jenni Green who started shooting for us as a principal wedding photographer in 2008. Anyway, long story short…after the gradual evolution of the studio, we needed a whole new look and website. So I turned to my favorite designer, Ellen and this (click here) is what she and her amazing team turned out. I hope you’ll all come take a look and leave us a comment & subscribe to our feed because there will be lots of wedding goodness to come. 
xo,
Justine
Remember Julie & Joe’s gorgeous vintage-inspired wedding which was featured a few months back? Well Julie was kind enough to share her finished video by Alan Silva of Artistic Imagery with us and it is just beautiful. See it here.
Introducing our latest Featured UnBride Vendor, Our Labor of Love.
Website: www.ourlaboroflove.com
Blog: www.ourblogoflove.com
We LOVE Our Labor of Love, which is why we invited them to be a part of our UnBride Guide. The UnBride Guide will be debuting in January. Some of the coolest cats in the wedding industry, all together in one guide. Here’s what makes Our Labor of Love so very UnBride:
We think you, your family celebrations, your friends and your true loves are beautiful, and any images that represent these milestones should illustrate the pure joy in these moments. In fact, the wife part of this husband-and-wife team will no doubt disarm you with her gentleness and charm while the husband part loosens you up with his cynical witticisms so that before you know it, you’ve got a miasma of artful photographs so achingly beautiful it will make your heart break like an egg. In fact, that is our hope here at Our Labor of Love Photography Studio, to break open everyone’s heart, because a closed heart is not photogenic.
The idea of shooting an engagement session at IKEA would not have occurred to me in a thousand years but I’m so glad that it occurred to the extremely talented DavidM. Talk about unlimited sets! Of course if I attempted this, I would probably get thrown out of the store but luckily DavidM and his super cute clients made it happen. Visit DavidM’s blog for more awesome images.
So who is going to be the lucky one to win a free engagement session in NYC? Send your email to themoldbreakers@gmail.com
Here is the fine-print that is a bit hard to read above.
*You must live in the NYC area or be willing to travel to the NYC area for the photo shoot. We are remainign anonymous to ensure contestants do not go to our website for inspiration. We do not want to mess with your creative flow, so just be yourself and be completely original.
Back in September I had the pleasure of photographing Emily & Andrew’s wedding, which turned out to be one of my favorites of all time. It’s stylish simplicity was just so refreshing and beautiful. Some of you may remember Andrew as one of the amazing creators of my own wedding video.
Recently Emily & Andrew moved out to Los Angeles to begin their new life together and Andrew launched his own new video company so be sure to check them out. Visit Stereo Waltz Films to see some of the amazing work he has on there.
And especially check out Emily & Andrew’s own incredible video here.
So much has changed since I got married. One of my favorite changes that makes me want to get married again, is the fashionable e-sessions. I love how these photographs (when done well) really capture the spirit and personality of the individual couple. Wedding photography is about the day and their commitment and often family and friends. An e-session is just about the couple and who they are together. the above are a handful that really caught our eye. Finding stores and signs and doorways to frame a passionate kiss. Gorgeous!
Photo credits: refresh couple: Lisa Carpenter, record store and diner window: Amanda Kraft, red doorway: Justine Ungaro
Please say hello to our newest featured vendor, Michelle Hayes.
Website: www.michellehayesphotos.com
Blog: www.michellehayesphotos.com/blog
I would describe my style as modern, stylish and photojournalistic. Modern because wedding photography can be what ever you want it to be, there shouldn’t be rules and stylish because I used to work in the fashion industry so I love anything fashion-forward and editorial-like. But I have to say my specialty lies with documenting the event in an unobtrusive manner. I recognize the importance of capturing the moments, whether small or large, because the bride and groom will not always remember them throughout the whirlwind of emotions going on that day. Years from now when a couple looks at the pictures they will see a complete perspective – from environment, captured gestures, looks and overall feeling. I am able to achieve all this by simply documenting the day as it unfolds in a fun, relaxed manner while gracefully fitting in. Combine all this and you get something I like to call wedding photojournalism with style.
In complete opposition to “Question One” we would like to feature the gorgeous wedding of Laura and Susie. They were married in Portland Maine this Fall, prior to the passing of Question One. We actually saw this wedding in two places, So You’re Engayged and on Brooke Schwab’s blog.
From Brooke Schwab, who photographed the wedding: “This wedding was sweet and beautiful! Laura and Susie two met 6 years ago through a job and fell in love quickly. They moved to maine to work and knew that this is where they would be married. These two were fun brides and I learned that it sure does take a lot longer for two brides to get ready. We shot along the coast of maine and in a national forest prior to the ceremony and it was beautiful (minus the rain). The reception was held at a beautiful home with an attached barn where they had an early dinner with friends and family. This misty wedding day was a beautiful affair.”
Thank you for continuing to inspire us.
