Shoot me now.
One of our favorite things to do is to design and execute photo shoots. You may have seen the results of many of them – sometimes we do them by request from specific magazines, like when the Knot asked us to create a table for a blue, green & yellow wedding:
Or when we created tablescapes for the Bride & Bloom Magazine:
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we’ve been doing something new. Every three months, we put together a team of the best professionals in Philadelphia to help us execute our designs of three fantasy celebrations we call “Monthly Color Stories” that Marie Labbancz captures in a day-long (or night-long as the case may be) photo shoot. If you haven’t seen them already, you should check out November’s, December’s, and January’s Color Stories.
On Tuesday, January 13th, we shot three of these color stories at the Please Touch Museum. I thought you might like to see a little bit of what goes into setting up a photo shoot. And, as an added bonus, here are some of the people you’ve heard about in our blog. We thought you might want to see them at work (and play).
Here’s our gorgeous friend Claudia Seyler (of Claudia Seyler Beauty) preparing our perfect model, Oksana, for the next several hours. Just wait ’til you see the amazing dresses and gowns Mary Helen Ranieri of Suky Occasions provided for this shoot (and styled). STUNNING!!!
Meet Vic and his guys (Bill and Eric) from VU Events. There’s Bill on the ladder (as usual). Donna (from Beautiful Blooms) and I are sitting at the table folding napkins or something. Maybe fixing the super-skinny candles that would simply NOT cooperate!
We couldn’t resist playing around with the toys all over Please Touch Museum. The beauty of this place is that there’s nothing there you can’t play with! All the fairy tales and fantasies of youth are right there.
That’s me and Scott Swiger of Max & Me Catering on the left, and Donna O’Brien and Bill Schaeffer of Beautiful Blooms on the right.
Eric (who took all these pictures) of VU Events had the most fun of all, I think!
And Vic, in a rather typical posture.
The Max & Me chefs were AMAZING…David Robison, Max & Me’s Executive Chef and Theresa Linskey, Max & Me’s Sous Chef were total perfectionists and took every detail to heart. I was blown away by these guys!
And here is Vic again (and yes, that’s a bus in the middle of the museum). You really should visit the Please Touch Museum — it’s a magical experience (at any age)!
And now for my favorite picture — here’s Marie Labbancz (of Marie Labbancz Photography). You can see she was not thrilled with being on the other end of the camera! In fact, this picture was actually the inspiration for the title of this blog entry (which I thought was a little better than “I’m going to kill Kendall,” which very well may have been the perfect caption for this picture).
Stay tuned for the real results. Marie’s photos of the February Color Story are coming soon! Rumor has it they are absolutely amazing. Personally, I can hardly wait to see them!