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Rock the Dress – Jennie

Katy — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:21:49 +0000

I had the pleasure of doing another “Rock the Dress” shoot with Jennie. I actually photographed Jennie and Adam’s wedding nearly 2 years ago so it was lovely to be able to take more photos of Jennie in her gorgeous dress.

We chose a beautiful day for the shoot and started off in Chesterfield. I really wanted to get a venue with a piano for the shoot with Jennie as she is an amazing musician and Head of Music at Aston Comprehensive where I used to teach. Having done a wedding fair at The Pacific Lounge Bar in Chesterfield I saw that they had a white baby grand so thought that the modern, chic bar would work really well with Jennie. We only had about 45 minutes to do the shoot here as they are a very popular bar and on a gorgeously sunny day it was soon getting really busy.

The Musical Bride

Beautiful Bride

Beautiful Jennie

Rocking the dress

Elegance

After taking photos in Chesterfield we didn’t want to waste the gorgeous blue skies and sunshine so we ran back to our cars (Jennie in her wedding dress & me with all the camera equipment) and decided to head out into the Peak District. We drove out to Surprise View near Hathersage as it is one of my favourite places. It was gorgeous out in the countryside and because of the wonderful weather the views were amazing. Jennie looked stunning and was brilliant at clambering up onto rocks for the photos that I wanted to take.

Rocking the dress on the rocks!

Just stunning

Surprise View

A beautiful bride in the beautiful countryside.

I had a brilliant time doing the “Rock The Dress” shoot with Jennie. It was so much fun to get the chance to let Jennie get back into her wedding dress again and have a chance to take some stunning photos.

Rock The Dress – Jen

Katy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:39:49 +0000

I had the pleasure doing another Rock The Dress shoot with Jen. Jen works for Gemini Directories which produces the Made in Sheffield Magazine and Hillsborough Directory. I met Jen at the Perfect Pink Tea Party which was put on to bring businesses together and raise money for the Weston Park Cancer Care charity. When Jen heard about my Rock the Dress shoots she was really keen to get the chance to wear her wedding dress again.

Jen got married on the beautiful island of St Lucia so it was great to be able to do a shoot with her in the English countryside. At this time of year I love the bright yellow colour of the rape seed oil fields so we decided to do the shoot in one of those. It really complimented her colouring and added to the romantic feel of wearing the wedding dress again.

As before when I did the Rock the Dress shoot with Liz I took Jen to Vicky from Passion Beauty Studios to have her make up done for the shoot. Jen looked gorgeous and it was a real pleasure to photograph her in her beautiful wedding dress. She rocked her dress as well as the Strawberry Hat!

Beautiful Bride

Hidden

Beautiful Bride

Makeup by Vicky from Passion Beauty Studios

The Stunning Dress

A Country Bride

Rocking our "Strawberry" Hat

Rock the Dress Shoot – Liz

Katy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:40:07 +0000

I am really excited to announce a new portrait shoot that we are now offering here at Serendipity Photography. We love photographing weddings but also having the chance to get creative and do more artistic photoshoots so our “Rock the Dress” shoots are a perfect combination of both of these.

Rock the Dress shoots are an idea which are becoming more popular here in the UK. They started in the USA but more brides are jumping at the chance of wearing their dresses again. The Rock the Dress style shoots can range from “Rock” to “Trash” or “Paint” the dress. We featured a Paint the Dress shoot on the blog from March. A “Rock” shoot is more about a fashion style shoot where the dress isn’t ruined in any way…it might need a trip to the dry cleaners but if you do the shoot shortly after your wedding you’d be doing that anyway! A “Trash” or “Paint” the dress shoot is more for those girls who don’t mind “ruining” their dress by getting it wet or throwing paint all over it.

Rock the Dress shoots are a wonderful chance for brides to wear their wedding dresses again have their hair and makeup done and then have a wonderful photo shoot. What girl wouldn’t want to do that? It’s a chance to relive those wonderful moments and indulge in some real “girly” time. The photo shoots that we have done have been with individual brides but we’re looking at the idea of “Rock the Dress” parties where a few girlfriends can and do a shoot together. A perfect girlie afternoon.

We team up with Passion Beauty Studios who do the make up for the girls and then we head off to a location which is chosen after talking to each bride individually to see what they are looking for and what they enjoy doing. This makes the shoot individual and personal.

Last week we did a wonderful Rock the Dress shoot with Liz who had a beautiful lace wedding dress. Liz was super excited about wearing her dress again and being pampered. We took the photos down in a wonderful old cemetary. Liz loves amateur dramatics so we had looked for a theatre for the shoot but then we found this location which had a real dramatic feel to it. For a couple of hours we had fun taking beautiful photos of Liz. Here are a few for you to look at.

Entrance of the bride

Bridal Avenue

Framed

Elegance

Contrast

The Strawberry Hat

The end

Trash The Dress – Part 1

Katy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:10:20 +0000

About a month ago I met Laura from Little White Book wedding planners for a coffee. We hit it off and were coming up with lots of different creative ideas of how we could work together. When I left the meeting I was buzzing with ideas and couldn’t wait to make them happen. The thing we both wanted to do was to do a “Trash the Dress” shoot. These are becoming more popular in the wedding industry and a great way for couples to have a bit of fun after their wedding doing something a little different in their wedding outfits. Trash the Dress shoots can range from “Rock the Dress” which is where the bride and groom have the chance to wear their outfits again and get a little more creative to “Trash the Dress” which is exactly what is says on the tin…the dress gets trashed but lots of fun is had in the process. Photos can be taken in the sea, a lake, climbing a wall, running through mud or even cutting the dress up!

Laura and I planned a day which would consist of two shoots, a “Rock and Trash the Dress” shoot and then a “Paint the Dress” shoot. This part is about our “Rock/Trash” shoot which we did in Rivelin Woods. Laura volunteered to model for this and was brilliant on a sunny but freezing day. We did a mix of shots in the river and a few “sex and city” inspired shots as she was walking through the woods. The shoot ended up with Laura jumping up and down in the river, getting water & mud in her boots. We even had a few passers by helping out by throughing wet leaves at Laura. One old man got really involved and I almost had to step in to get him to stop! There are a few “behind the scenes” photos which I’ll blog about later.

Laura created her dress from an old dress she had. The bouquets are from Petalis and the head pieces/hats are by Imogen’s Imagination.

Taking a stroll

Rocking that dress

Sex & The City inspired...

Fun & Sassy

Bouquet by Petalis and Hat by Imogen's Imagination

Trashing the dress

Doing what we all want to do!

Mud, mud glorious mud!