Wedding: Pre-wedding

I haven’t written in a while on this blog mainly because I have been sick twice in only a month and also so so busy at work and with all the wedding preparations… I am busy right now also, but I managed to take a small break. Finally!
So, this post is about the photos from our pre-wedding photo session by Marius Barbulescu. The pictures are also on his blog with a full story of our photo session - in Romanian though…
He is a Romanian wedding photographer and when I told him about my idea for the session – fashion oriented – he seemed really excited about trying out this new thing although it wasn’t really his expertise – fashion photography I mean… I am so happy we did the photo session because it really came out great, perfect, just as I would have imagined it and we have now some really great pictures with us for years to come.
I wasn’t too much into the love showing pictures, I wanted them to be more edgy and fashion and he really understood what I wanted. Maybe better than me :) His pictures have a common vision, you can really see it even if if they are taken in 3 different places. I had only some vision for the winter forest photos, but from the ones he uploaded to the blog, I liked most the parking lot ones (the blue tones). That was his vision completely. It’s nice to see such talented Romanian photographers.
The fashion in this photo shoot was around rock which is pretty much my style. I like wearing and designing rock inspired clothes.
The whole outfit it my creation from skirt, corset, headpiece to belt. I used small Swarovski crystals for the flowers on the headpiece and belt. The corset is made of ivory silk voile and has duchess lining. The skirt is made of bridal ivory tulle and the outer one is made of the same voile used on the corset. Out of all the work, I think I liked the most working on the details like the flower accents, the details on the edges of the corset and belt (I also made a matching necklace but decided in the end not too use it).
Another very fun part of the whole outfit was the makeup which was rock-chick with MAC products and also made by myself. It persisted so good with all the snow and water from the photo shoot into the woods. My hair was done by Angelica and my shoes are from Replay (cool rock brand that I love).
I wanted to dress my boyfriend in a more daring outfit, but he had a cold so T-shirts and ripped jeans were out of discussion, plus it isn’t really his style. In the end we decided for something less daring, but still on the rock side – because of the dark colors…
In the end I was very happy with the outcome!
The photos were taken in a forest around Bucharest, Romania, in a parking lot and coffee place (Hobby Cafe) in Bucharest.

 
 


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Wedding: Photo Session pictures

We had a small pre-wedding photo shoot after the City Hall Ceremony.
I wanted the theme to be Winter Fashion. We have a small preview of our photo session from Mihai Iovanov (he came with our photographer to provide lightning and to get more experience).
I am embedding the links from his blog with the pictures that I liked best. More pictures on his blog: http://www.iovanov.eu/ I think he did a great job.

 





 
 
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Makeup: I like Raul Flores

LiveJournal Tags: makeup,photos

I discovered him by navigating through fashion pictures on Flickr yesterday evening and I completely adore his fashion makeup.

Checkout his photostream @:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/biteandscratch/

Photo: I like

I like her photos. Very nice portraits although they are all black and white. I guess it works for portraits. I like more color though.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalina_filip/

And while I’m it here’s the results of the AAFR (Romanian Photographers Associations) 2009 competition: http://www.aafr.ro/noutati-131.htm

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Travelling: Cinque Terre

In the summer of 2009 we had one of our best vacations – Italy. We booked through Expedia our hotels in Rome for 5 days, then La Spezia (close to Cinque Terre) for another 5 days and finally Florence for the last 4 days. They were all 4 star hotels for which we got a pretty good deal, nice breakfast and very nice and comfortable rooms. We took into account staying in hostels and other hotels (less stars), but coming to just doing the calculations at the end of the day we were only spending about 10 eur additionally if we were to stay at the 4-star hotels for which we got the deals rather than the hostels. So, normally we went for the first choice.

It was wonderful. We had our already usual rendez-vous on the Rome airport (as I am flying from Copenhagen and he was flying from Bucharest) and then our different direction departure in Florence (me flying back to Cph and him flying back to Bucharest). Fortunately (or unfortunately?) all these rendez-vous will end this summer with our wedding when one of us will have to move.

Back to the post: Cinque Terre is so amazing. It’s a UNESCO world heritage and comprised in the Cinque Terre National Park. Everything there is untouched, unmodernized and the 5 villages are so colorful and bright. They are all on the coastline of the Italian Riviera on hills overseeing directly the Mediterranean sea. The 5 villages are: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernassa and Monte Rosso. All of them are interconnected through walking trails (which of course we walked through our stay there) and a regional train which mostly runs through tunnels. We ate at some very nice and cozy restaurants which serve very good and fresh seafood. We love their anchovies. Wine is also very good as there are plenty of vineyards on the hills surrounding the villages.

Here are some of our pictures.

 

Us on the trails walks between the villages.

Riomaggiore

 

 

 

 

  

 

Via del Amore which connects Riomaggiore and Manarola.

Us replicating the Via del amore lovers.

I am halting here this post and I will continue the story in a next one.

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