Bridal Finds: Twigs and Honey Love

I am very honored to have collaborated to do some product photography with Myra of Twigs and Honey (her blog is http://twigsandhoney.blogspot.com/ ) who has an amazing store filled with handmade vintage style hairpieces, necklaces, boutonnieres. I first found out about her lovely designs from Brooklyn Bride Blog.
I think these designs are wonderful and compliment any wedding to give a "vintage look, " or the handmade route . I just love how they are so beautiful and refreshing to look at.
I would love for one of my 2008 or 2009 brides to go for this look!!
Here are some pieces from her store:




I am so happy for her that she was featured in Etsy Storque today.
I recently had the honor of taking two of her pieces to Vegas and doing a shoot with some of my wedding photographer friends, yes we did stop traffic with these hairpieces:
Photos are a collaboration of Myself, Monica Z Photography and Chriselda Photography.
Monica and I played model on and off, but we had such a great time and Chriselda had a blast photographing us when we weren't embarassing her in Vegas, anyway look at these hothairpieces, these are some of the photos from the shoot:




Monica rockin



a fun outtake of me and the fire hydrant



and from a seperate shoot a couple of weeks ago:

WPPI Conference - Las Vegas, NV

Wow, thats all I can say write now about WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers Conference). I stayed 5 days in Vegas to listen to some of the top wedding and portrait photographers in the world. ( Such as Jerry Ghionis, a personal favorite) As we sat in on these classes we learned new techniques, ways of thinking and approaching the art of wedding photography.
On top of that I roomed with some great people Monica, Chriselda and Stacey at Bally's in Vegas, please checkout their blog for more pics. I also met some great wedding photographers who extremely friendly and open to talking some in particular : Anne Ruthmann, Scarlett Lillian, Gary Fong, Jillian Kay and plenty more.
We attended the Pay it Forward / Photo Love Cat party and had the times of our lives, we all acutually ended up helping out Anne Ruthmann throw out alot of the prizes. ( as you can see from some of the pics)
In addition to all that we did some fun photoshoots with Myra of Twigs and Honey
faboulous teardrop/ hairpieces for her website. However I think some of these photos that we took of each other are going to be used for a new blog header, hmm not sure yet.
Anyway WPPI was an amazing, amazing experience, I can not wait to go next year!
Please enjoy the pics from the shoot-
Some of Monica's and Chriseldas photos are mixed in with mine, its all good we are all talented :) Right Monica and Chriselda?

Paris Hotel

Mucho Dinero

Taking photos of a duplicate of a Roman Bath



In the Bellagio

Diamonds

Chiptole, Big DEAL when we found it !!! So good




View from our hotel :

then when Chriselda showed up on Monday we had a fun photoshoot with Twigs and Honey Hair Pieces:


WE like reflections:





With our shootsacs


How the photo came out

In the convention:

Monica meets Gary Fong

10,000+ photographers = Chaos
slice of heaven in the Paris Hotel:


Chriselda loves Crepes

& Finally
the amazing Pay it Forward / Photo Love Cat party at the Rio
So yeah we all sort of became prize giveaway people.. lets just say we had a great time helping out the hosts:

Chriselda shooting me, I am shooting her





More to come ....

Twigs and Honey

So while reading Brooklyn Bride's Wedding blog a couple of days ago, I came across this unique seller on Etsy named Myra of Twigs & Honey.
Myra makes these unique Victorian vintage style hairpieces, they were written about in Brooklyn Bride's blog because of the fact they would make really amazing hairpieces for brides to be.. ( Hint Hint future brides I am photographing )
Each piece has lace, a flower, pearls, beads attached to a gold comb.. What I like about her pieces is that she puts and pulls together really interesting color combinations out of assorted feathers that she pairs up with these hairpieces.

I can not tell you how thrilled I was when I came across her store on Etsy, to find pieces that each have unique personalities. I have taken some pictures of the piece I bought ( and plan on wearing out) happily sent them to her and in addition to this she posted a great blog piece about the photographs I took
Here is a snippet if we she said "

"Laura Ryan Photography

I, like so many out there, am a self described pack rat. Every snippet of ribbon, length of thread, button, and broken sand dollar, I hoard because someday, I'll need it (right?). Well, as for my hair pieces, I develop these little attachments to each one and always wonder, "Did they arrive to the customer okay?" OR "I wonder what adventure it will be taken on?" Recently, I was fortunate to have a wonderfully talented photographer purchase a piece from my Etsy shop. This particular piece happened to be a personal favorite of mine and I was so tickled to see photos of its arrival to Laura Ryan Photography. Laura just so happens to be this amazing photographer (any interested brides - check her out!) and was so kind to snap a handful of photos and send them my way. I am so happy that this piece found its way into the talented hands of Laura! I know she'll take care of my hearted piece and did I mention, Laura is super sweet to boot?! Well, after seeing the twigs & honey piece so nicely cared for already, I feel the grip on my trinkets and odds and ends slightly loosening. Perhaps I shouldn't be so attached after all? I do believe that all the pieces are going to develop wonderful stories with each person who takes one home! Memories, really, to last a lifetime. Thank you Laura Ryan Photography!I am thrilled to say she will be making a piece for a future photoshoot for me!
The full written page can be seen here:
Check it out here
: Twigs and Honey
& Myra's Etsy shop
Thanks Myra.. I can't wait to wear your pieces out and I look forward to your new creations.