Posts Tagged: bridal traditions
the girl is the thing……
At weddings, the couple is the star, …. but that’s kind of “the party line.” Honestly, the bride – the girl/woman/goddess/angel really does soak up a whole lotta limelight and that’s a good thing. As we gear up for months of bridal portraits and weddings, we wanna celebrate brides. Happy faces, gorgeous gowns, smiles, tears, tiaras, veils, friends, sisters, moms and details. It’s all good, but the girl is the thing.
We love veils and breezes. Stairs and light. And freedom to capture those great little moments that would be gone, girl, if we weren’t there.
We’re booking bridal portraits, engagement sessions – at our studio or on location – and weddings for 2017 and 2018. We’d love to meet with you and chat about your day. Feel free to contact us.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
pixels vendor spotlight: Bridal Traditions Wedding and Prom Attire
Somehow, after all of these years and too many collaborations to count, we’ve never blogged about Bridal Traditions as a beloved and favorite vendor and partner of ours. Kelly Shumate, the owner of BT, is a dear friend and not only have we worked with her, but for her, creating her custom logo and branding.
We also took her wedding renewal portraits in one of the more unique and beautiful sessions we’ve had with a bride and groom. Honestly, that’s the word for Kelly and the options and perspective she provides to her customers at Bridal Traditions and beYOUtiful Proms – unique. Kelly built her business from the ground up starting with a vision but only working at it part-time. She found gowns for weddings, provided dresses and accessories for proms, and later participated in prom campaigns like All About Prom where she could supply the right attire to each lady. By 2008, with no debt (NO. DEBT.) and a storefront, Kelly left her other job and became fulltime owner, operator and visionary for BT.
Kelly is fun to collaborate with because she brings so many creative and clever options to the table when we’re the photographers for a particular promotion or event. You can have the word “Traditions” in your business name and still be modern, fun and completely distinct. 
Every bride, every prom attendee wants to be and look remarkable. You like Scarlett O’Hara? Kelly and her team have got ya. Love The Great Gatsby? Done. Bohemian Chic? She can make you into that perfect gypsy. We look forward to many more years of working with Kelly and her amazing retail operations at Bridal Traditions and beYOUtiful Prom Attire.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs babies and kids, engagements and weddings, brides and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
traditional studio bridal portraits ~ a mom’s wish come true
For generations, a formal, in-studio bridal portrait was the only game in town and there is a reason for that: they were classic and beautiful and often placed in gilded frames and given a place of prominence in the formal living rooms of people’s homes. In this post-modern age of outdoor portraits, studio bridals are a dying breed. Couples now have a specific vision that begins with quirky (often funny) and inventive ways to announce their engagement, then create their save the date cards, launch a website and finally produce a narrative that is singular to them. The genie is out of the bottle, folks and at Pixels, we embrace this and love the opportunity to create unique portraits that tell a story in an unexpected backdrop. I have to say though that I still love and appreciate tradition and the experience that it takes to create a formal portrait with studio lighting. We had this opportunity with Elisabeth, the beauty you see below.
Elisabeth is an only child and her Mom always envisioned having a traditional, formal, studio bridal portrait of her daughter to hang in their home. Of course we were eager not only to honor this request, but to exceed expectations. I spoke to her mom and got a sense of what she had in mind. This mother-of-the-bride wanted a hand-painted muslin backdrop for some photos and mentioned that she loved images of brides on staircases. Fortunately our studio has both!
While the studio bridal portraits feel more like they’re from a by-gone era, they are a perfect foil for the outdoor engagement portraits we took of Elisabeth Isaac…
… and their glorious wedding photos. If you haven’t read their story of doing pretty much everything in reverse, launch the links. It’s worth the read. These two are an inspiration.
Pixels on Paper is now booking sessions (both traditional and crazy creative) for proposals, bridal, engagements, and weddings for 2016 and 2017 and we’d love to help create memories and heirlooms of your journey from “yes” to “I do.” Call 336.990.0080 and let’s discuss this adventure you’ve begun.
bridal traditions logo design | graphic design by pixels on paper
Another aspect of Pixels on Paper that we don’t often post about here, is our award-winning graphic design services. Before branching out into photography we both worked in the corporate world in marketing fields as graphic designers and have college degrees in graphic design. We absolutely love the opportunity to create new image branding or help to rebrand an existing company or even create the entire branding package for a start up company large or small.
Bridal Traditions Wedding and Prom Attire is not a new business and is not new to working with Pixels On Paper. We have worked with Bridal Traditions in terms of photography during the All About Prom promotion, the Wilkes Wedding Expo, through the Wilkes Bridal Association, as well as photographing weddings for many of Bridal Traditions clients but never with graphic design. When boutique owner, Kelly, asked us to come up with a logo to replace her existing mark, our creative energy began to flow and we drew upon our previous experience in working together.
We pride ourselves in truly listening to what it is that our graphic design clients need and grasp a complete understanding of their business so that we can present the best possible options. Kelly was ready for Bridal Traditions’s to have a complete logo overhaul. She wanted not only a new logo but also an image that would convey to her clients the type of service she provides and the atmosphere they can expect to find when visiting her store. The new logo will eventually encompass her entire branding image including all printed materials, website, advertisements, Social Media, and even serve as the color inspiration inside the boutique. We presented her with several options and then honed in on the final creative design. We are proud to show you the final result which included three different versions of the same logo that can be used in many different formats.
Thanks to Kelly at Bridal Traditions Wedding and Prom Attire for allowing us to push ourselves creatively on a new branding challenge. If you, or someone you know, needs help with image branding or has graphic design needs please let us know how we can help! We specialize in not only logo design but also the layout and design of various printed marketing material and promotional needs. Visit our graphic design website at www.graphics.pixelsonpaper.biz to see samples of our work.
Visit Bridal Traditions Wedding & Prom Attire website at http://www.bridaltraditionsnc.com.