February 27, 2012
This grocery shopping engagement shoot made me giggle. It's not often I see a supermarket looking so chic and cool. In fact I love it so much that I'm even considering not doing my usual 'let's put off the food shopping until all we have left in our cupboards is mayonnaise and gin...' dance and popping down to my local store right now to see what inspiration is lurking among the tins of beans and frozen peas...Read more...
January 30, 2012
Hold the phones! This might be one of the cutest engagement shoots I've ever seen. No joke! Theo & Lisa are rockers at heart who love charity shop and vintage shopping, hip hop music and hanging out...and that's exactly what they wanted for their engagement session - a simple shoot that shows the real them. I flippin' love it.Read more...
January 12, 2012
This isn't the usual kind of shoot I'd feature but sometimes we could all do with a bit of extra geek chic in our lives! Jennifer & Scott met in 2005 at Anime Expo, one of the largest Japanese animation and video game conventions, held annually in Southern California. At these events a lot of people show up wearing costumes of their favourite anime characters and at this particular convention they both happened to come dressed as their characters from the video game series, Final Fantasy. Jennifer was dressed as Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2 and Scott was dressed as Seifer from Final Fantasy VIII. Their shared love of the series served as a great conversation-starter!Read more...
December 21, 2011
Originally from Bangkok, Thailand Karn & Poey both moved to Brisbane, Australia to study. They followed each other over and during one of their travels to Melbourne, Karn popped the question. This hip and quirky engagement shoot is such a perfect depiction of them as a couple. I love it! "We met them at a local indie market where we had an instant photo booth stall and they decided they’d love to celebrate their engagement with photos" photographers Seth & Tenielle of Feather and Stone Photography told me. "All the styling was completely their own, their own personal style shone through completely. They are two of the sweetest people we’ve worked with!! We LOVE when couples individual styles really come through the photos."Read more...
December 20, 2011
I've something a little different for you this afternoon in Yashwin & Avani's engagement ceremony. In India, where the couple live, having an engagement ceremony is just as big a deal as the actual wedding. As photographer Kismet Nakai explained, "What usually happens in India is that when the couple gets engaged, even if there is a sweet proposal in private, there is always a 'formal' engagement to announce it to the world. It's almost like a mini wedding. In this case they had their engagement party on the same day as Avanis parents 25th anniversary so it was a combined party with like 400 people (imagine how big the wedding is going to be!!!)."Read more...
November 30, 2011
Kim & Phil were the lucky couple who won an engagement and video shoot with Assassynation, Sassy n Frank and Elbie Van Eeden. Their idea for a crazy shoot was a food fight as Kim explained in her entry, "We got engaged on 1st April 2011, yes you heard right, April Fool's Day, and with this in mind we would like to continue our personalities and character traits in an engagement shoot. The theme I see is a food fight, with bright and colourful food such as cupcakes, hotdogs, condiments (almost American food style) between myself and my fiancé."Read more...
November 9, 2011
I'm often asked by wedding photographers what I look for in engagement shoots. You see, unlike many wedding blogs I actually feature very few pre-wedding shoots - in fact since January this year I've actually only featured 30 (out of approximately 780 blog posts in total!)Read more...
October 12, 2011
Before my shoot at The Photography Farm, the 'farmers' (as they've become affectionately known) were treated to a beautifully styled engagement shoot with Heather & Rob. The couple have booked Lisa to shoot their wedding in April and very bravely agreed to have their engagement shoot at Photography Farm. They told Lisa of their love of camping so the styling team ran with that theme! Hazy Days lent them 'Sandie' the caravan, Paper Pom Poms made some well..paper pom poms and Hannah of The Tea Set brought everything together!Read more...
August 22, 2011
So I saw a few of these images on various forums late last week, and then people started emailing me to tell me I had to check them out...and I'll be honest, at first I was like "Huh? I don't get it!" But then I received an email from Amanda Rynda, the photographer behind this engagement shoot, and I realised I hadn't seen the full story. A zombie attack engagement shoot? Eff yes!Read more...
August 4, 2011
The idea behind Rebecca & Ben's engagement shoot was a simple one - to capture them in some of their favourite places in their own neighbourhood in Brooklyn. "We went to their local bookstore, record store, and a fantastic hand crafted furniture shop (in the beginning of the set with the horse and cool stuff) called From The Source," photographer Evangeline Lane told me. " Some of my favorite shots are those in the elevator...which was a spontaneous spur of the moment decision."Read more...
August 2, 2011
Rock n Roll Bride regular and favourite Sassy of Assassynation Photography would like to offer one lucky reader of Rock n Roll Bride a free engagement shoot including professional (and erm... awesome) hair and make up to by another Rock n Roll Bride favourite Elbie Van Eeden (whenever I have a photo shoot or event to go to I always ask Elbie to make me up - she's the BEST!) Sassy wants to shoot the most awesome engagement shoot idea, so you'll have to come up with something good! She wants to be challenged (tip: as does Elbie so come up with some awesome hair and make up ideas too!) The shoot can take place anywhere (in the world!) but travel costs must be covered for Sassy, Elbie and Frank...Read more...
July 29, 2011
Now that I’m writing my final ever ‘Alice in Weddingland’ post I really don’t know where to start. I am now happily married and honeymooned, and it is the best feeling in the world. So I shall simply relive that amazing day with you, through this article, and hope that I can convey at least some of the magic that the day held for me. I hope you enjoy this final instalment: Alice in Weddingland got married!Read more...
July 26, 2011
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Lisa Gratton of Ophelia Photography while she was over in London on vacation. Amongst many things, we spoke about Lisa's desire to create something a little different and fun around her engagement shoots and this Batman-inspired session proves her point nicely!Read more...
July 23, 2011
I get a number of emails from my newly engaged readers who are looking for something a little different for their bling, so this week I thought I do some more fantasy shopping and share some of my favourite non-traditional rings. Oh I'm so good to you. Feel free to add your own links to engagement rings you've seen and loved on your internet travels to the comments section.Read more...
July 22, 2011
"Angelo and I were super lucky to have design/photography duo Everywhere We Shoot on board to do our prenup photography," bride-to-be Rin writes. "These guys are friends who frequent the same gigs, art spaces, and thrift shops that we go to. Their philosophy has always been to keep doing and creating, not for money, but just because they love what they do. And knowing that we were on a budget-DIY-wedding, they agreed to do a pro bono engagement shoot for us in a heartbeat. I was also blessed to have a former schoolmate slash band groupie of mine, Kitty Caragay, do my make-up."Read more...
July 13, 2011
Monika & Jeff's engagement session took place in the desert. Their photographer Tom Fowler was keen to explore an outside/inside theme as well as showcase the couples personalities through the props they chose.Read more...
July 5, 2011
I don't share as many engagement shoots as many of the other wedding blogs. It's not that I don't love them (for the record I think every couple should do an engagement shoot - they're a great way to get to know your photographer and practice posing before your wedding day.) However it does take something extra special to make a couple shoot worth sharing on these pages, when you get sent as many awesome weddings as I do, usually these take priority for me. Yet I think Ryan & Lanie's shoot certainly fits that inspiring bill.Read more...
May 25, 2011
Alix & Zack...ahh what's not to love? I'm secretly still a bit of a closet goth at heart so anything gothic inspired really gets me excited...and cupcakes, cupcakes always make things 100 time better don't they? Alix wrote to me to tell me all about their engagement shoot with Rock n Roll Bride favourite Lisa Devlin. "So what do you say when the fabulous Lisa Devlin asks whether you'd like to shoot your forthcoming engagement shoot at, none other than, the Hasselblad Studio in Hoxton? How about "Hell Yeah!!!"Read more...
May 16, 2011
Liz & TJ's engagement session and silent movie inspired video are simply perfect. The couple met in a tattoo parlour and so getting a tattoo together as part of their engagement session is both appropriate and awesome. Plus The Exorcist is arguably the most controversial movie ever (or it was in it's day) and the second part of their shoot took place on those famous steps...Read more...
May 16, 2011
Shelby & Bliss wanted their engagement shoot to take place in a tattoo parlour because Bliss is tattoo mad! "The inspiration for the shoot came mostly from Bliss's amazing tattoos," Shelby told me. "The tattoo parlor we shot in is where he gets his tattoo's done. When I was in there with him we thought how cool it would be to do our engagment session in the parlor. We love the "Sailor Jerry" feel of the shop and decided to capture that between the two of us. Our photographer Jeremiah did an amazing job capturing it all! We love him and we love the pictures!"Read more...