Well hello there lovelies!! I have a real treat in store for you today and I can’t wait to share… Keep on scrolling down and you’ll find the completely awesome styled wedding shoot ~ Vintage Coastal Life. It’s so quirky and cute. I LOVE IT!!!

Lissa {Lissa Alexandra Photography} knew she wanted to create a styled shoot that was a little bit different, off beat even, but still totally gorgeous. Mission accomplished Lissa! A fisherman bride, who knew…?‘For ages I’ve wanted to do a bridal shoot, but with a twist. It’s very popular for photographers just to plonk a model in a field and shoot but I wanted more depth to mine’‘As a Yorkshire lass with a love of the sea, the north east coast seemed a perfect location. My style of photography is slightly vintagey and I love rural/ traditional locations, Staithes and Robin Hood’s Bay fitted this perfectly’‘Rather than just have the girls walking round the villages I wanted to quirk it up a bit’‘For some reason the idea of a bride dressed as a fisherman made me smile and if I could re-create I hoped it would make the viewer smile too! So the theme for the shoot was born: Vintage Coastal Life‘

Fantastic work guys, I am LOVING this shoot, you should all be so proud of yourselves. Lovely brides-to-be, I do hope you feel inspired? And as usual I can’t wait to hear your comments.

{Credits}

Lissa Anderson Photography ~ The shots in all are a mixture of quirky, romantic and creative photos which is generally how I cover my weddings. I like to capture natural moments sharing the subject’s personalities. I also love to use props which I carry to all shoots with me. They’re a great way of helping people relax in front of the camera. By giving them something to do it really helps them with their confidence and have a laugh with things, leading to more natural results, which I love!

My first task was to find the models. My fellow photographer buddy Ella jumped at the chance and her best friend Pam. Once I’d had their dress sizes I was lucky enough to get some stunning dresses from Sharon at Eternity Bride http://www.eternitybridal.co.uk/  I wanted one with a really long train as I had visions of it bellowing in the wind on the beach. This was the champagne coloured strapless dress. The other dress was white and stunningly simple with just two string of pearls across the back. The final dress used in the shoot is from one of my client’s business http://www.heirloomcouture.com/ It was a genuine vintage dress in champagne with a sage green coral style embroidery pattern. It was perfect for the shoot! All dresses are available for purchase, contact Lissa Alexandra.

With my shots in mind, my next mission was to source the props. The lovely Rachel, from http://www.simplyvintageevents.co.uk/ was fantastic! After a random list of weird and wonderful things from me she came up with everything I wanted including anchors, fisherman hats, starfish, parasols, horseshoe, smoking pipe, bucket of flowers and much more!

Whilst at wedding Fayre I met the very talented Katy from http://www.what-katy-did-next.co.uk/ I was in awe of her stunning headpieces. I new I definitely wanted to use her pieces for my shoot, and I think you’ll agree, they look amazing plus the models wanted to keep them all!

Katy then suggested I take a look at the button bouquets made by Emma at http://www.beaubuttons.co.uk/ Again, wow, I fell in love! What fabulous bouquets and such a great alternative to flowers. I love the fact that they can be kept for life for passed down through generations.

One of the models had worked with the make up artist Natalie from http://www.nataliegreenwell.com/ Nat was a complete godsend. Not only was she brilliant at makeup and did exactly what I asked for but she was so jolly and upbeat. She even stayed the whole day and helped out as my assistant, superstar!!!!

Finally the last piece of the puzzle was to find somewhere to stay. After doing a reccy of the villages I came across http://www.staithescottages.com/ Maureen sorted me out the perfect cottage dead in the centre of Staithes so we could walk about easily, which to the local and tourists caused much humour and intrigue!

Lots of Love

XxX Sonia

and remember… keep wanting!!