Our trash the dress session with Meghann has been published in the Northern Virginia Bridal Guide!
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You can pick up a FREE copy at various Northern Virginia locations!
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Published!
November 5, 2007 – 11:55 am
Meghann - Trash the Dress (Part 3)
August 13, 2007 – 10:06 am
Part 3 of 3 - Meghann and I went to the IWLA in Leesburg, VA and did a trash the dress session with guns and bows. As you can see below, Butch and Ben were very nice and lent us some (not loaded) large guns to use. Meghann was a great sport and although they were extremely heavy, she looked terrific and was incredibly patient.
If you have an idea for a trash the dress session, please contact me! I’m looking forward to doing many more, in creative and unique ways! Also see the other two parts of this shoot, here and here.
Meghann - Trash the Dress (Part 2)
August 9, 2007 – 9:17 am
There were three areas that we spent time in at the IWLA - the skeet range (part 1), the archery range, and the rifle range. I think that the archery range was the most fun for me, as that was the only weapon I’d ever picked up before! At this point the rain started to come down more, but Meghann was awesome and up for it all.
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And this was at the rifle range, but I really wanted to post it so you can see the smiling beauty Meghann is WITHOUT guns:
Meghann - Trash the Dress (Part 1)
August 7, 2007 – 10:02 am
When Meghann first contacted me about trashing her wedding dress, I was elated. I could tell immediately that she was up for anything - and she was the best sport, ever. She spent nearly two hours holding enormous, heavy weapons in the rain. Butch Thompson and Ben and Francine Apple from the IWLA in Leesburg, VA were kind enough to show us how to do things right and helped in every way possible.
This is the first part of the shoot (both in the photography sense and the gun sense!). Click on the photo to be taken to a larger version (they’re a lot more powerful). More to come.
Meghann will also be donating her dress to a group in NE (the Mary Madeline Project) that takes old wedding dresses apart and makes burial gowns for infants that pass away. Then they donate them to families who are too poor to buy a gown, or too distressed to shop for one.
You can see the other parts of this session here and here.
Also, I need to give a major shout out to Brad, who held an umbrella over me the whole time and was also willing to lie on the ground for a photo op. I’ve never had a better assistant-slash-fiancé. :)
Suzanne & Mark - Trash the Dress
July 23, 2007 – 9:27 am
So this wasn’t intended to be a trash the dress session, but Suzanne and Mark’s wedding photos turned into one of the most fun portrait sessions I’ve ever had. We opted to take their formal portraits in the gardens behind the Smithsonian Castle, a.k.a. the Smithsonian Information Center. But of COURSE we had to take some on the mall, and then Suzanne suggested the carousel!
Photos of their formal portraits to come.