STYLED SHOOT: Oddities

We are SO SO EXCITED to finally share this shoot with everyone! We shot this back in January, and it was epic, and was even featured on Halloween on Ruffled!! We called in one of our favorite Savannah photographers Rach Lea to shoot it, and we knew our friend Rachel would be perfect, with her awesome tattoo's and overall bad-ass-ness. (Best part is that she is now engaged, and got the most amazing Rebecca Schoneveld gown from us!!) She wore an asymetrical gown by Faith Thornburg, with a funky tulle and fishnet veil by Twigs and Honey. Milan Day Spa did her faux hawk, and Lindsey Wirht did her dramatic makeup. 

The shoot took place at an old dairy farm, which has an almost haunted feel to it. Savannah is known for being a haunted city so it fit really well but in a completely different way than vendors normally portray Savannah. For an added treat, our guy model brought his 2 pets: a boa constrictor and a pitbull, which were perfect touches for the theme, except for when the boa constrictor decided to slither on the table...  If you think the shoot is spooky, wait until you see the incredible video by CINEMoBIUS! 

{Vendor Credits} Faith Thornburg wedding dress and Twigs and Honey veil available at Ivory and Beau // Photographer: Rach Lea Photography // Event Stylist and Bridal Dress: Ivory and Beau // Venue: Old Dairy Farm // Hair: Milan Day Spa // Makeup: Lindsey Wirht // Mugs, Flatware and Other Table Props: The Paris Market // Taxidermy Props: Graveface Records & Curiosities // Videographer: CINEMoBIUS // Wedding Invitations: Shelby Bittinger // Boa Constrictor and Pitbull: Male model’s pet

SIMPLY PUBLISHED: {Ruffled} Double the Ruffle, Double the Fun --> Bohemian Botany + Happy Halloween!

Ruffled is one of my favorite of the favorites wedding blogs and so we are so excited that we were featured twice this week on this blog with 2 of our favorite shoots!!! The first was our Bohemian Botanical styled shoot with Izzy Hudgins at Coastal Botanical Bamboo Gardens. For this shoot we randomly one day decided Botany + Tree huggers. And then we went from there incorporating hundreds of vintage antique botany illustrations with a science hipster theme. We DIYed a living Palette wall for a tutorial featured here. For the centerpiece we wanted to do something hanging and so we had Grace Graffiti make us a custom test tube chandelier. Colonial House of Flowers went above and beyond on styling the florals for this shoot. When we saw the final outcome we were blown away literally with the massive size of the chandelier with the hanging moss and greenery. It was just wow. Leslie Miller of Leslie Miller Design was our bride model who also is an amazing bead artist who provided the groom's bow tie, bridal sash and necklace. For the shoot she rocked 2 looks: the first an Alvina Valenta gown and the second a Rebecca Schoneveld blue top with a high-low Love Found True skirt. Last but not least we madeover our Ikea table into a chalkboard and also made a ceremony backdrop as a chalkboard. This was a fun shoot. So so fun. Thank you for the feature Ashley!!!!!

The second shoot featured was our Oddities + Skulls styled shoot with Rach Lea at the Old Dairy Farm, which is the perfect shoot to celebrate the Halloween holiday. We started with my best friend, Rachel, who wanted to model for us. We were inspired by her tattoos to do something weird, funky and animal related. We incorporated taxidermy props from Graveface Records & Curiosities and funky mugs, flatware and other table props from The Paris Market for a darker look. For the flowers we used Savannah moss and dark weird floral elements. Rachel was given a faux hawk by Milan Day Spa and dark makeup by Lindsey Wirht and wore an asymmetrical dress from our designer, Faith Thornburg. The stationary and fox masks were by Shelby Bittinger. The best part about this shoot other than the boa constrictor and the pitbull, which were our guy model's pets is most definitely the spooky video by videographer CINEMoBIUS... head on over to Ruffled to check out the entire feature plus the spooky video... you may be frightened, consider this your warning.

Anyway, hope you all have a fabulous Halloween!!!! I myself am dressing up as a gold dinosaur of course and Adrienna will be a cat dressed up as a unicorn. 

{Vendor Credits} [Botanical Bohemian] Photography: Izzy Hudgins // Venue: Coastal Botanical Bamboo Gardens // Stylist, Stationary + Dresses: Ivory + Beau // Wedding Dress: Alvina Valenta // Bridal Top: Rebecca Schoneveld // High-low Skirt: Love Found True // Flowers: Colonial House of Flowers // Groom's Bow Tie, Bridal Sash and Necklace: Leslie Miller Design // Test Tube Chandelier: Grace Graffiti // Tableware and Cake Stands: World Market // Hair + Makeup: Marie Bramlett of Wicked Lulu [Oddities + Skulls] Photography: Rach Lea // Venue: Old Dairy Farm // Stylist + Dresses: Ivory + Beau // Wedding Dress: Faith Thornburg // Veil: Twigs & Honey // Hair: Milan Day Spa // Makeup: Lindsey Wirht // Mugs, Flatware and Other Table Props: The Paris Market // Taxidermy Props: Graveface Records & Curiosities // Videographer: CINEMoBIUS // Invitations + Fox Masks: Shelby Bittinger // Boa Constrictor & Pitbull: Guy Model's Pets

{STYLED SHOOT} Unholy Matrimony

I must say this is by far I think the most badass shoot we have ever designed + styled. I cannot in the least take credit for all of this because this was an amazing collaboration between Adrienna, myself + our freaking awesome and super creative interns, Alison Uzmann + Shelby Bittinger!!!! This shoot honestly started as a rockabilly shoot that my friend Rachel Thomas was to be modeling in + one day while crafting in the boutique we were talking about wanting to not do rockabilly but something dark and different. And with that a shoot with a theme loosely described as "weird animals, dead skulls, badass, rock and roll, and funky" was born + seriously huge thank you to Rach Lea for being down to photograph this without having even a clue what we were up to and also to Sean McNally at Cinemobius for capturing this shoot on video!!!

And with that we scrounged around town for the coolest skulls + decor pieces and were super pumped when Graveface Records + Curiosities and Paris Market were willing to lend us some awesome nick nacks, such as a taxidermy fox, lots of skulls, cool animal coffee mugs... And Alison even searched her parent's house for some funky elements and brought us awesome small glass vases in deep shades of purples + reds and some more skulls. Alison + Adrienna put together the florals using lots of funky floral pieces such as purple leaves and twigs. All these weird funky pieces sat atop a table linen made out of spanish moss. Each place setting included DIY plates by us with silverware from Paris Market. For our bride, Rachel, we knew we wanted her in something funky and the asymmetrical hem dress by Faith Thornburg was perfect with one of our Twigs & Honey veils. Her faux hawk with brides was done by Milan Day Spa and her makeup by Lindsey Wirht-Jones. Simon's Formal Wear dressed up our groom, Alex, in suspenders, a top hat + bow tie... his dog even got a bow tie too. Snake did not get any attire though... we figured it was cool err scary enough by itself? Hmm... anyways. Lulu's Chocolate Bar made an AMAZING naked chocolate cake that was so ridiculously delicious I can't even describe this cake in words. Think chocolate + blackberries + goodness + heaven + oh my gosh can I eat cake from Lulu's Chocolate Bar every single day? But seriously. Our intern, Shelby, designed the awesome invitations with the fox + fox butt... and my favorite, those fox masks. And to answer the question I know you are dying to ask... yes, we listened to What Does the Fox Say during this photo shoot. Thanks again everyone!!!!!!


{Vendor Credits} Videography: Cinemobius // Photography: Rach Lea // Styling, Concept, Florals, Bridal Gown + Veil: Ivory + Beau // Gown: Faith Thornburg // Veil: Twigs & Honey // Groom's Accessories: Simon's Formal Wear // Skulls + Fox: Graveface Records + Curiosities // Other Skulls, Apothecary Jars, Silverware + Coffee Mugs: Paris Market // Cake: Lulu's Chocolate Bar // Hair: Milan Day Spa // Makeup: Lindsey Wirht-Jones