Styled: Fantasy Series Part 4! Royal Victorian

Now for another installment!

Yes, yet another skipped part of this wonderful series!

As we continue to work on these shoots, I feel they are getting better and better. We are really able to find our niche with each shoot and I am really proud to show them to you all. This part of the series is called “Royal Victorian”. Inspired by everything dark, romantic, and royal, we had our very first table set up in this shoot. I think you’ll fall in love with the magical location and romantic look of this shoot just like we did. Oh, and the dress… AMAZE.

ENJOY!!!

We were blessed enough to have this shoot featured on Wedding Chicks! Such an honor. Comment below to let me know what you think of the Fantasy Series! I’ll be posting a sneak peek from our last one soon, so comment to let me know you’d love to see it!

Photography: Kristen Booth

Hair and Makeup: Celeste Styling and Artistry

Props and rentals courtesy of: Etablir Shop

Styled: Fantasy Series Part 3! Secret Garden

I’ve recently realized the depth of how terrible of a blogger I’ve become, and frankly, I’m quite ashamed.

As penance for my extreme lack of participation and showing you all what I have done in the last year and a half or so, I will attempt to play a bit of catch up and show you now!

Many of you know (and may have already seen) that I am a part of a team creating a little something we like to call “The Fantasy Series”. We just shot part 5 of this series a couple of weeks ago, so I will start by catching you all up on this fabulous project! Our fearless photographer, Kristen Booth, is a self-proclaimed fairy tale wedding photographer and this project is really her baby. It truly shows her brand and the ideal bride that her amazing talent would be perfect for. I’ve shown you parts 1 and 2: “Ethereal” and “Queen of the Marine”. Now, I give you our third installment: a magical shoot we called “Secret Garden” that included a pink dress, lace suspenders, and a horse!

Hair and makeup done by the third party in our team: the wonderful and amazing Celeste of Celeste Styling and Artistry. This girl has amazing talent and should be hired by everyone. Go call her! You will NOT be disappointed. Thanks so much also to Brooke and Kirtane, our gorgeous models. We couldn’t have done any of this without your talents!

Anyhow, without further ado, I give you “Secret Garden”, a love story in the spring.

Sneaky Peeky: Fantasy Series Chapter 3

Hey all!!

So first off, I’m so sorry I’ve been away for so long. Life has been crazy and I’ll tell you why: 1st off- I just got married!! Yep! As of June 30th, I became Mrs. Ashley Faria! Unfortunately, as with weddings and other major life changes, my schedule got pretty crazy and the blog definitely was the first to suffer. I really am sorry and I’m working on it!

2nd- because of this crazy wedding thing, hubs and I have been settling into our new home, which doesn’t have any Internet! Yep, I am currently without full access to the world wide web, which extremely inhibits my ability to blog so many wonderful things that I want to share. So, for now I must be content with one image, a sneak peek of what is to come as soon as I can work it out.

What you see below is officially Chapter 3 of the Fantasy Series. If you are unfamiliar, you can check out the “Queen of Marine” and “Ethereal” images in my previous posts. These two were the first in our six part series. And now I can show it to you! As always, huge love for Kristen Booth (photography) and Celeste Bernabe (hair and makeup) for their major talent and cooperation through these shoots. I love our team and I hope you love the product we put our hearts into.

Soon I’ll reveal the rest of this portion of fantasy.

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Fantasy Series Styled Shoot: Queen of the Marine

Ohhh my, my, my, it has been far too long since I’ve posted. And THIS particular post is much overdue as well.

If you all remember the Ethereal styled shoot back from a few months ago, that particular shoot marked the start of The Fantasy Series with the lovely photographer, miss Kristen Booth, and the also lovely hair and makeup artist, miss Celeste Bernabe. These awesome ladies and I got together again for number two in the series, and it was honestly beyond anything we had expected. As you can tell from the title, this is an ocean-inspired shoot with a nice kick of fantasy. Kristen found the perfect location for this shoot AND an amazing trunk that looked like it washed up from a pirate ship! Everything was pitch perfect and I am so honored to have been a part of it.

I know it’s cold outside right now, and it may seem odd to post a summer wedding inspiration the week of Christmas, but let’s just say if you’re getting married this summer, we’ve got some ideas for you! Plus, I think looking at beach-scapes helps to warm the soul a little as well.

Enjoy! ❤ ❤

The ring

Every queen must have her crown, so I made one! This baby was both my biggest obstacle for this shoot,

and also my pride and joy after actually completing it.

Our queen with her crown…

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is our veil. When Kristen came to me about the theme for this shoot, I immediately thought of using a net as a birdcage veil. With the help of some pearls, a starfish, and a few shells, this baby looks like its straight from the ocean.

If any readers are interested, I could do a DIY post on how to make and personalize your very own! Just comment below and let me know if that would be something you’d like to see!

Lastly, Kristen has this awesome idea to put a very nautical-looking book we found right into the water. Once she did, the waves actually washed over it and turned the page! This was the striking result:

I hope you all enjoyed viewing these as much as we enjoyed making them. For you ladies who are having a summer wedding, you could always consider having an ocean theme, then you could rock a fishing net as a veil! 😉 If you’re daring enough, you can make anything work for your wedding. I believe that brides should add those types of details to their own special day to make it even more special.

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Styled: Ethereal Fairytale Bridal Shoot

Hi all!

So if you’ve been to my new portfolio page, you will definitely recognize these photos, and frankly, this post is WAYYYY overdue.

I had the absolute pleasure of working with Kristen Booth and Celeste Bernabe for this gorgeous ethereal themed bridal shoot.

This was the first in a series of themed bridal sessions we’re going to do over the next year and a half… Yes, we are CRAZY, BUT, we absolutely love it 😉

The main inspiration for this session was simply the word, “ethereal”. Our entire shoot was designed and focused around that one word. In the end, our goal was to make the gorgeous Gabi look like a little forest nymph who was born and raised in the woods. Hopefully, we succeeded. Another important part of the idea behind this shoot is also the theme of fairytale. This is really the underlying theme of our whole series, but, I’ll get to that later one. For now, let’s just see those images!

Since my handiwork is in the details, I’ll start this baby off with the main detail shots. I am SO SO pleased with the way they turned out, both Kristen and Celeste brought their A-games as usual. No matter what I make or pull together, if the photography and hair and makeup styling don’t work, then really, nothing else works. These two are a pleasure to work with, and I hope the images are as pleasing to you all as they are to us.

Loves!

This amazing box and the next couple of items actually belonged to Kristen, and partially helped inspire this shoot. They fit SO well with our theme that we HAD to include them!

This is the first of the two headpieces i made for the shoot. I love the lacquered look the leaves have to them!

For the second half of the shoot, I made a flower crown for Gabi. To make it a little more natural and, of course, ethereal, I wanted to mostly use wildflowers from our location. They were gorgeous and it was so fun to make.

This last shot is my absolute favorite! She looks just like a nymph surrounded by fireflies. Love love love!

I hope everyone loves this as much as we do! We had so much fun doing it, and everything came together so amazingly.

Photography by: Kristen Booth Photography

Hair and makeup by: Celeste Styling and Artistry

Props, design, and floral by yours truly!

Until next time, folks! ❤