Bride, groom, cake, bridesmaids, groomsmen, dresses, tuxes or suits, location, food, drink,you name it, everything gets done to the ‘T’ on the wedding day. But the one thing that will always stand out are the flowers. Done well, they add to the event like frosting to the cake. After all, without frosting, all a cake really amounts to is sweet bread that cooked a little too airily. Done poorly flowers will..you know what, I won’t even go there for fear of the jinx 
Read on and see some more work from Carla at Elements in Old Lyme…
Jennie and I have been shooting around at different locations with diferent couples putting together a portfolio of what our vision is. We were lucky enough to have met Carla from Elements flowers very early on when we started this venture. She wanted great images of her flowers because she never seemed to get any after the event. So in quid-pro-quo fashion, Carla gives some floral flare to our shoots, and we provide her with great images.
As you may have guessed, these are teaser images for the full shoot so keep watching!
Wedding dresses to me, have a personality all their own. At least they do since Jennie and I have been loaned eight of them. Each dress gains a nick-name as we begin to work with it and muster ideas about where models should showcase them. The dress in the picture after the jump is one that gained a nickname for me as soon as I saw it. Having never seen it worn, nor ever seeing an image of the bride in this cute little number, I can assign a personality to it unhampered by preconceptions. Jennie laughed at my name for the dress, but I think it’s grown on her because it has certainly stuck. Click more for the jump…
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Once in awhile Jennie and I will have a big idea. The Midsummer Night’s dress shoot was one of those. The idea, 5 dresses hanging over a beautiful stream. Smoke blown into the trees was to capture the streaming sunlight painting ethereal rays over the scene. Well, mother nature didn’t agree with our plan. A calm early morning gave way to an unreliable, omni-directional breeze. No amount of smoke would fill the canopy and if it did, it would have found it’s way in front of the dresses ruining the image. It did work for one image…click on ‘more’ below the image for the rest of the story…
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Jennie and I had an idea, shoot brides and grooms in controlled situations that showcase some of our fantastic local venues. It’s a chance for us to work with vendors, models, and venues while creating some great images. Here’s what we’ve learned, working with venues, not terribly difficult, all we had to do was ask. Working with models, again not so difficult, all we had to do was ask. Then it dawned on us…wedding dresses…where could we find wedding dresses for different models for the different shoots? Before we started trying bridal vendors Jennie told me to let her try something. I waited and by the time a few days had passed Jennie called me elated, “I think I’ve got eight dresses for us!” Jennie had put a post up on facebook and the call was answered. A bunch of generous friends offered up their nuptial accouterments, (i.e. beautiful gowns) We got the idea that we wanted to shoot the gowns themselves, no models, just the gowns themselves. That’s when the theme ‘A midsummer night’s dress,’ came to fruition…
This shoot was going to be big, an actual production. The basic idea behind the shoot was to capture something surreal and make the dresses the stars. This shoot is kicking off what we hope to be several shoots showcasing each dress somewhere different and unique. That idea aside here is what we came up with: Hang the dresses majestically over a flowing brook, pump smoke into the sky to catch rays of light and light accordingly. The setup took two days. Day one, my 3 year-old son and I went down to the brook to clear some paths to the water so we could maneuver for setup and shooting. Later that day my assistant [read: friend] Erik showed up to help hang the rope…
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