Preview: Rachel's Bridals

Addyama winners

who needs one when you could have three?

The Madmen

and a coca-cola girl. these girls were all gorgeous tall model worthy beauties and one of them might come for a vintage/trash the dress shoot soon!

The Addys return

The ad tables:

Addy's

This weekend I helped The Amelia Strauss with 2 shoots: a portrait session with darling little 7-yr old AB and the Addy's, Birmingham's advertising award event. The food was incredible, here's a peek (from Saturday Gourmet):

mini burgers!


this one's my favorite, mini eggs benedict!






I've been craving vintage suitcases and now I know what for! I might clean some up to use for food displays!





Of course since I'm wedding planning I paid extra close attention to the presentation, and now I feel that the pressure is on to have a ridiculously cool set-up. Maybe I can get a vintage fan and typewriter too, eh?
Either way, super fun, and some more images will be up in the next few days from the addy's, AB's shoot, and a headshot.

Bouquet shots

Yesterday I went to a trash the tutu session with Amelia and her friend Jamie Burnett which was a great time, I'm very lucky to have met Amelia here in Birmingham! Ashley, a now retired ballerina with the Alabama ballet wanted some artsy shots of her in her last costume, a spanish inspired red and black number. I was assisting with lighting mostly so I didn't get any shots but check out Amelia and Jamie's blogs soon to see what we were up to!

Amelia let me borrow a 17-55 f2.8, the lens I've been wanting for a while now so I felt pretty inspired to shoot. Also, I am getting married in 9 months and am inspired to make my own bouquets so I've had 2 trial runs for fun. It seems like it would be super hard, and I haven't been mix and matching at all, just one kind of flower at a time. The first was roses, and I only bundled 4 together because that's what I had at the time but the second go round were gorgeous purple tulips. I want yellow ranunculus however I would use these for a shoot any day. So basically, hire me to shoot your pictures and you get a floral genius as well. Or, someone who can throw together a bouquet for you to carry around and feel pretty with. Oh, and the flowers? 6.99 at whole foods.


navy and yellow are our colors, hence the ribbon and pins. I kind of like the color contrast but am not 100% sure.


Garrett and I have an Alice in Wonderland thing. I'm hoping to subtly work it into the wedding... maybe a bottle that says drink me? we'll see.