![]() ![]() You’ll narrow down what you’re wearing-Darah and Siobhan are a great help with that, as they have experience knowing what sorts of things shoot well and look flattering and which ones you’ll wish you had maybe just skipped-you’ll strap on the most fabulous pair of shoes you own, you’ll flip your hair over once or twice, toss back the last of the champagne, and step onto set.Īnd here is perhaps where the biggest Oh, thank God crosses your mind, because here is where, before every single pose you do, whichever lady is shooting you at that moment literally shows you your pose by physically getting into it themselves, God bless them. Miss B Wilson from Just B Beautiful was there to do all of the above for us, and she was completely awesome. Somehow, although they were strangers just minutes ago, this quickly all seems totally normal.Īnd yes, an on-site professional makeup artist and lash application (because false eyelashes are non-negotiable in this situation, please) comes built into the price of the session, and hair is also available for an add-on if you aren’t confident in your ability to tousle your own bedroom curls. In no time, you will feel totally comfortable trying on both the nightie and bra-and-bikini set you brought and discussing the merits of each, and having Siobhan help you with those tricky back straps of a garter belt. The third thing I will tell you is that it is beyond important that you are completely at ease with whatever photographer is shooting this thing, or it’s just not going to work, and that the ladies at Dollface, Darah and Siobhan-they do both their wedding photography and boudoir photography together-feel like insta-girlfriends as soon as you sit down on their plush, pretty couch, pop the bubbly, and start gabbing. The second thing I will tell you is that yes, there is champagne. There’s not enough La Perla in the world to fix a face that says I’m naked and so freezing I could just about die, so it was on my mind. Not the first thing you were wondering, perhaps? Well, I tell you what-as a constantly freezing person, it is one of the main things I was wondering. 76 degrees! I looked at the thermostat while I was sitting in the makeup chair. The first thing I will tell you is that the studio is warm. Now, if you want to frequent some lovely Philly businesses such as, oh, I don’t know, say, Lithe Method, Pangaea Earth Foods, and Skin Palette before your shoot-though try not to have any tan lines Photoshop isn’t a miracle-worker, you know-however, you might find it’ll give you a little boost.) Seriously! This is not some front-on, in-broad-daylight Maxim shoot, and you shouldn’t think of it that way. (Oh, and perhaps a quick word on prep: No, this is not something you should, like, starve yourself for, or anything. ![]() Especially because after this, I honestly think every bride out there ought to at least consider trying this out. And since it is our journalistic duty as magazine editors to sometimes guinea-pig ourselves in strangely intimate ways and report back to you, our dear readers, on the grisly details, that is what I’m going to do. Go ahead and click the link, I’ll hang out right here.Īnd so we went. They’re Dollface Studio-they also do wedding photography, actually-and yes, they’ve got boudoir galleries up. There are a good many photographers in the Philadelphia area who are doing or who will do boudoir photography, but there’s one studio for whom it’s really their thing, and after recently relocating their studio, rebranding, and relaunching their website, they invited me and a few of my lovely female colleagues to come in and try it out ourselves, with a complimentary mini boudoir session each. It’s boudoir photography, the kind in which you-the bride, in this context-partake in a professional photo shoot in which you are in your pretty underthings, and then give the resulting pictures to your groom as a wedding present.īut I think I’ve figured out now why I couldn’t decide how I felt about it before-and how I feel about it now. And also gross.īut there’s one that’s been consistently on the rise for quite some time, now, and I couldn’t ever really pinpoint how I felt about it. ![]() Morning-after photography, for instance-where your photog shows back up the morning after your wedding to ostensibly photograph you and your groom in the throes of brushed-teeth and posed (read: fake) morning-after passion? Gross. Middleton walked down the royal aisle in one over a year ago? I think they are lovely, chic, sexy and elegant in the most perfectly bridal way, and I looove that girls are wearing them right now. Long-sleeved wedding dresses, for instance-the kind that have been truly having a moment since Ms. From where I sit as a bridal editor, I usually know instantly what I think of a “trend” in the industry when I see one. ![]()
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