Few weeks before in a beautiful Resort in Skopelos island Greece, a very unique wedding took place. The weather was beautiful, the resort gorgeous ( http://www.adrina.gr) and the couple amazing. What a great day to celebrate a wedding!!!
My friend Apostolos Nouvakis, a talented photographer from Skopelos, recorded the most beautiful moments. Take a look!!
The bride arrived by a boat
Here comes the bride!!!
The Orthodox Christian Ceremony
The cake
The welcome drink
The happy couple
One of the most beautiful beaches in Skopelos island, is Milia. And maybe the most appropriate for your beach wedding ceremony. Long beach, beautiful sea and of course one of the most popular beach bar Apple Paradise.
Take a look and enjoy!!
( credits for the photos to : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1214709876 )
By the time you are in Skopelos island you probably want to entertain yourselves, right? I am delighted to present the best bar-clubs, either you want to have an ice coffee or a nice cocktail.
Kariatis Bar
Kariatis bar by night!
Mercurius Bar
Bardon Bar – club
The specific bars are able to accommodate your guests at your wedding or pre wedding party of your. Or even your marriage;
(photos : http://www.facebook.com/mariasalpadimoy)
We are very happy to announce that we expanded the horizon of our contacts – colleagues in the Greek islands and we are able to handle wedding services for our customers on the island of their choice.
Additionally, we have the valuable assistance and access to the major hotel facilities in Halkidiki.
Tags: Beach Weddings, Weddings
A group of recent New York brides spill on their wedding-planning thrills and fiascoes. (By Denise Penny and New York weddings )
The Engagement
“When it happened I didn’t cry as much as my mother, who lost her mind.”
Anyone resort to strong-arming?
Raeanne: Sort of. We had been dating for five years. Would I have waited five more? Probably not.
Alex: I had help. My husband has a group of eight best friends; as soon as one proposed, it was like dominoes. He was so happy not to go first.
How long were your engagements?
Nina: A year and a half. I wasn’t looking forward to the planning.
Meg: You were smart! We didn’t give ourselves time to enjoy it. Our engagement quickly became about money and feeling guilt about wanting certain things. That sucked.
Sita: Mine was six months. Intense. We wanted summer and didn’t want to live with wedding planning for that long.
Raeanne: The upside of our one- and-a-half-year engagement was getting our first-choice venue, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and paying 2007 prices for our 2008 wedding.
Did you pay for your wedding?
Raeanne: Well, we paid for the band.
Chloe: We paid for part of ours—not the lion’s share. My mother said, “If you elope, we’ll just give you the money and you can use it for a down payment.”
Meg: Mine too!
Raeanne: Mine too!
Chloe: Now I feel horrible for choosing a party!
Meg: I felt so wasteful. Vendors told me to take the money and run. They told me that we’d regret it when we’re their age, and I thought, You can say that now because you’ve already had yours.
Ramona: For me, the party was so much for my parents.
Sita: We considered eloping, but my dad would have killed us.
The Planning
“I was prepared not to be human for the month before the wedding. I felt like a machine. I never slept.”
Did any of you hire a wedding planner?
Meg: We did. My family and my husband didn’t get along with her.
Daphne: I didn’t have the best experience. We hired somebody for the day of. She came in and started contacting the vendors without talking to us, changing times after things had already been set.
Nina: I hired Preeti Shah of Spotlight Style—she was incredible for day of. I had two weddings: an Indian reception on Friday night and a Western wedding on Saturday.
Alex: We interviewed ten. With each one we were like, Eh. And for the money you’re paying! We asked our venue who they like working with and who had worked there before. It was the best strategy. It’s been several months since our wedding and I still miss my planner, Eyal Tessler of In Any Event, every day.
How involved were your parents?
Raeanne: I fought with Mom about silly things I didn’t want to spend money on—like, she really wanted valet parking. Also, she wanted her name and my father’s name on the invitations, and I wanted them to come from us. She said, “No, we’re hosting this. I want our names on it.” The wedding brings out a whole other side of people.
Meg: My mom didn’t think navy blue was formal enough for our invites. I went back to Kate’s Paperie like 18 times.
Sita: My dad wanted these really traditional, enormous multilayered invitations from India, which I wanted nothing to do with. I ended up ordering them; they came, Dad saw them, they were not loved, and they were returned.
How involved were your grooms?
Alex: Very.
Meg: Surprisingly opinionated.
Raeanne: His thing was the music. We hired the Lou Davis Band and they were incredible. But other than that, he couldn’t get into the details. My mother and I are very detail-oriented, and he got tired of hearing about it.
Did the wedding planning take a toll on your relationship?
Sita: It was six months of planning, with no mother involved. The two of us planned everything. I would have meltdowns and yell at him.
Alex: We fought. My husband would say, “You’re going to drive me insane. You just need to make a decision!” But you stress about every decision. All of a sudden, you can’t make one. At one point we decided to schedule times to talk about the wedding. We said, “You know what? We can’t talk about this all the time!”
Sita: My husband would say, “You’re more than the wedding.” It became my mantra: I’m more than this wedding; this wedding does not define me.
Trash the dress, also known as fearless bridal or rock the frock, is a style of wedding photography that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place. It is generally shot in the style of fashion and glamour photography. (wikipedia)
Usually brides decide to have pictures taken on a beach, but other locations include city streets, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings.
Some sources claim that the trend was originally started in 2001 by Las Vegas wedding photographer John Michael Cooper. However, the idea of destroying a wedding dress has been used in Hollywood symbolically since at least October 1998 when Meg Cummings of the show Sunset Beach ran into the ocean in her wedding dress after her wedding was badly interrupted. Since then the style has spread around the world and most notably in the UK, with photographers like Steve Gerrard and Mark Theisinger, amongst others, shoot their unique ideas of Trash the Dress.
A model often wears a ball gown, prom dress or wedding dress, and may effectively ruin the dress in the process by getting it wet, dirty or in extreme circumstances tearing or destroying the garment.
It may be done as an additional shoot after the wedding, almost as a declaration that the wedding is done and the dress will not be used again. It is seen as an alternative to storing the dress away, never to be seen again.
How to Trash Your Wedding Dress
A new trend in wedding photography offers brides an edgy alternative for the wedding dress after the ceremony. “Trash the Dress” allows a bride to abandon the idea of a perfectly preserved wedding gown by taking post-wedding photos in edgy, artsy settings. Brides wear wedding gowns in settings such as peeping out among corn stalks, climbing into the loft of an abandoned barn and splashing around in the ocean waves.
There’s nothing more fun for a wedding photographer than “Trash the Dress” photos. They require timing, skill, and often difficult locations to get the shot just right.
Things You’ll Need:
- Wedding dress
- Photographer
- Sense of adventure
Step 1 : Commit to the trashing. You’ve committed to the groom. That was the easy part. Now you must commit to trashing the dress. While this may be an easy decision for some, it will be difficult for others, and it’s not for everyone. Depending on your photography session photos and poses, your dress will likely get dirty, snagged or torn.
Step 2 : Know that it’s not about destroying the dress. Trash the Dress is a non-traditional and artistic way to capture additional memories of the dress you love so much. Chances are, you won’t be wearing it again, and neither will your daughter.
Step 3 : Select a photographer. Preferably, you will want a wedding photographer who has conducted a Trash the Dress session or is familiar with the concept. Otherwise, set up consultations with a few wedding photographers in your area to discuss the idea.
Step 4 : Choose a location. Be creative and imaginative, exploring intriguing settings in your city or town. You probably pass great venues every day without even realizing it. Consider subway stations, abandoned warehouses, salvage yards, farms, fields or lakes.
Step 5 : Trash the dress. (Again, you don’t have to totally trash the dress here.) Just relax and enjoy yourself during the photo session. Again, this is your chance to preserve your wedding dress in a distinctive way. Use your imagination and don’t be afraid of a little dirt or a minor snag.
Step 6 : Clean it up. After your session, you can still have the dress cleaned and preserved for safe-keeping. Who knows? Maybe you’ll want another session in a few years. Or, one altruistic alternative is donating your dress to a charitable cause.
By: Dahlia Rideout
Photo by Bartosz Jastal / Poland
Photo by Javon Longieliere / Georgia – United States
Photography- Del Sol Photography
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Tags: wedding photography
Need some more advices from the experts? Here some from expert stylish and founder of stylista.com, Chantelle Znideric
Wear a wedding dress that suits your body shape
- With so many dress choices out there the task is indeed a daunting affair. Don’t be fazed by what seems like hundreds of different dress styles and avoid advice from hard selling shop assistants (some benefit from substantial commissions).
- Everyone is individual so remember, what might look fabulous on somebody else may not necessarily suit your body shape or proportions.
- Take a friend along who has a similar build and frame to you, when you pick out a dress get her to try it on for you as well. It’s always easier to see what you like and dislike on somebody else.
Focus on enhancing your best bits
- The secret to looking great whatever size you are is to enhance the bits you like about your body.
- For example, if you have well toned arms, beautiful shoulders and neck then don’t just go for a typical strapless style; draw attention to this area by choosing a dress with an unusual neckline or a halter neck style for instance.
It’s not about what you wear but how you wear it
- You are gorgeous so just remember that – YOU are the one getting married after all!
- You are the lucky one getting married, so you will be wearing the biggest smile ever – you will instantly look and feel more confident without even knowing it!
Feel confident underneath it all
- Never underestimate the power of sexy underwear – there’s nothing like wearing beautiful lingerie to make you feel a million dollars
Tags: brides, fashion, Wedding gowns
Advice from my friend Elaine in U.k
(http://www.reellifephotos.co.uk /Elaine@weddingphotos-video.co.uk )
Although I don’t want to destroy any bride’s dreams, particularly if you have already decided upon or bought your perfect wedding dress, this very popular style of dress tends to be very uncomfortable when worn all day, with many attempted photos being ruined by the constant need to hike the bodice up again when it has slipped unacceptably low.
It also tends to rub so we often see brides with sore red patches by the end of the day.
This style is so difficult to hold up, that many brides lace themselves in super tightly, which – besides being very restrictive – means the photographer is then asked to remove the “second boob” that overhangs the real ones.
There is even a real risk in well-endowed brides of the sheer weight of their assets dragging the dress down, leading to discomfort.
So whether you are a buxom D cup and beyond or a delicate A cup, the problems always tend to manifest themselves! I hope this little snippet of information has helped you in your search for the perfect wedding day!
Tags: brides, Wedding gowns, Weddings
Cuffs make bouquets neat and easy to carry. They give you a chance to express your personality. When deciding how to match cuff to flower think about the same elements you would consider when choosing an outfit for yourself. Color, style and proportion. Some proposals with Martha’s Stewart help. Splendid!!
Sweet finish
Elegance
Just a satin ribbon
White Rose bouquet
photo credit : Martha Stewart weddings
Tags: bridal bouquets
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