My Trashing of the Dress

I did not really trash my dress....but I really had a great time on Sunday working with my photographer Sarah in my "trash the dress" photo shoot. You know wearing a bridal gown definitely gets you noticed. I had several on lookers honking their car horns and yelling congratulations as we walked around looking at locations...little did they know I have been married for two months now. I even had a homeless person ask me where my groom was and if I needed a ride since I was walking around in my wedding dress with a bag on my shoulder. It was nice to get noticed..I really felt like a supermodel or something. We took pictures in an artsy part of town and alot of the vendors were real nice in allowing us to shoot some photos in their stores. I can not wait to see some the photos, we took some of me in middle of the street with the downtown skyline as a back drop, on a fire escape, working on a car (my husband is going to laugh at that) and on a bright orange Vespa motor scooter. One of the photos that I can not wait to see is the one with all of my bridesmaids shoes since they were all different ( I did alot of driving around town to gather all the shoes from my bridesmaids for the shoot). Sarah and I had so much fun, it was really enjoyable and lot different from when I took pictures after the wedding. I will post some photos when I get them in ...... 6 weeks ( I hope it is sooner).

Trash the Dress

Now the wedding is over..I am now planning with my photographer my "Trash the Dress" session. These session originally took place with brides jumping in to bodies of water. Granted that these made for some pretty pictures, but I am not willing to ruin my wedding dress. I am looking at what people are now calling an "Urban" trash the dress session. Below are some photos of an urban session. To find out more about trashing the dress, click here.
The image to the right is from fellow blogger bride Heather, when she had her trash the dress session. Click here to see her trash the dress session.

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Wedding Picture Preview

Here a taste from my wedding. I am not going to show any of my professional photos yet, since my mom has not seen them. It was such a fun day and I really think that it shows in our photos.

Can Not Wait

We have be getting pictures from friends and family that have attended the wedding, but today..we finally get to see our professional photos. I can not wait to see them. I love her work..I just hope there are enough of them and there aren't any photos that I wish I had. I know that Sara did a wonderful job. Then we will have another decision..which ones to get and what sizes to get them in. Even when the wedding is over, you still have decisions to make.

Point and Click

My fabulous photographer Sarah Gee has a new portfolio site with some of her pictures on it. Check it out at http://www.sarahgeephotography.zenfolio.com/. There are even some our engagement pictures on the site.

Lisandra and Aaron Part II

Here are more photos from Aaron and Lisandra's wedding. The photos are from Jen Huang Photography. For more information click here.

Jen Huang=Lisandra and Aaron Part I

Jen from Jen Huang photography contacted me to share some her wedding photos that she has taken. These pictures are from Aaron and Lisandra wedding. Lisandra and Aaron met at their church. Lisandra also had this to say about her big day for other brides and grooms, "I thought it was very beautiful: Don't forget that you're planning and preparing for a lifetime with each other, and that should be the most important thing to the both of you, more than the flowers, caterer, dress..etc. Don't get married for the wedding, but get married for love. Love will not always 'feel' like butterflies and warm kisses, but unconditional love will help to sustain the both of you no matter what comes your way."

If you would like to see more of Jen photography, please click here or contact her here.

Picture Perfect

Engagement Pictures: Part IV

Go Sarah, Go Sarah. Thank you. Sarah is my photographer. I went to her house last night and picked up my engagement pictures. Sarah is wonderful photographer and really captured who the broomjumpinggroom and I are. Even though we were a little late to our session, she still got some great shots of us. I am really pleased with them and can not stop looking at them. I need to sort through them to see which one that I am going to use for our save the date cards that I want to order by the end of the month. Since I have just got them last evening, I have not selected the one or two that I am going to post. Give me a couple of days and I will get some up.

Engagement Pictures: Part III

We did it!!! We took our engagement pictures yesterday. It was not without a few hang ups. We were a little late and this time it was not my fault ( I tend to run on my own time) but the Broomjumpinggrooms'. We were suppose to meet the photographer at 7:00 pm and my fiance thought I said 7:30pm. We got dressed and rushed down there and made it by 7:25pm before the sun totally set. We took our pictures by this beautiful arch in the arena district of Columbus. The arch use to be an old train station. It was nice setting and I think that we will really have some good shots.

I wore a brown linen dress ( I know in the picture it looks like it is black) with the this necklace. I was going to wear some brown linen wedge sandals, but opted for my brown thong sandals that were flat. They were much more me since I love flip flops and I did not want our pictures to be to formal since we are casual people.

The Broomjumpinggroom wore this shirt. It is brown with olive, black and cream stripes. He wore it with a pair of jeans ( one of the pairs that I like on him) and his brown boots. It he wore anything else..it would not look at him.

I can not wait to see the proofs and select the picture for our save the date cards I am making for the wedding. We might have been a hard couple to work with since we kept cracking up at each other. I wonder if we will do that on our wedding day. I really appreciate Sarah taking time out to do this last minute photo shoot before she goes into labor. Did I say I was excited to see the photos?(smile). Well, one more thing off of the to do list.

Engagement Pictures:Part II

I am going to try it again. In a previous post I talked about how my photographer was pregnant and on bed rest. Well she is off of bed rest and ready to roll. So we are going to try to take our pictures later on today. We are going to the take the pictures in downtown Columbus. There is so many great places for us to take pictures. The only question is what to wear. I had bought a dress, but now I am not sure if I like. I will definitely have to pick out another outfit as a back up. I will post later how the shoot went. I hope that Mina (my photographers soon to be daughter) can hold off for just another 24 hours.

Wedding Slide Show

From one of the photographers that I enjoy looking at their pictures is Ross Oscar Knight Photographer. I have blogged about his pictures before. He has some new wedding slide shows on his blog. Click here to view them. They may give you some inspiration.

Engagement Pictures

We were suppose to take our engagement pictures today, but my wedding photographer is not able to do them as scheduled. It is not like she just did not skipped out on me, she has been put on bed rest since she is due any moment now with her first baby. She was going to try to do the shoot, but I really did not want her water breaking during our session. We have rescheduled for October, since I will still be able to take them outside since it still will be nice here. Fall will be in full swing in October also, so maybe we will have some beautiful foliage in our photographs. Even if I do not get to wear the summer dress I bought for the photos, it just gives me an excuse to purchase another outfit. I much rather go through all of this now instead of around my actual wedding day.

Photographer + Website = Click

My photographer has a new website. It is still under construction, but there are some pictures of her work. Congrats Sarah. I can not wait to take our engagement photos in September with her. I have posted about her work before on my blog, to check some out click here. To see more and to contact her, check out her website .

Mitch + Keisha = Ross Oscar Knight Photography

Here are some more photographs from photographer Ross Oscar Knight. I talked about him in one of my previous post about a beautiful engagement that he photographed. These photos are from a wedding his he did for Mitch and Keisha in beautiful, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. I do not know what I like more, the photographs or that gorgeous beach (that I wish I was on). Enjoy.

Ross also did Mitch and Keisha's engagement photos as well. Click here to view them.

( all photos are property of Ross Oscar Knight Photography )

Pretty Pictures

Here are some more photos from my photographer Sarah. I can not wait to see what see takes at my wedding. Enjoy!!!

This one is taken at the place where I am having my ceremony and reception.

If you like the pictures and want to contact her ..you can reach her at vicphotogee@yahoo.com.