- Chrissy & Martin: our super fun married couple "re-enacting" their wedding day from 8 years ago
- Loni with 28 Star Studio (my beautiful sister): gorgeous hair designs, hair floral, helping organize the vendors and, of course, the hospitality at your salon!
- Danielle & Mindy with The Makeup Studio: amazing makeup and gorgeous eyelashes on Chrissy and for your assistance at the shoot
- Cathy & Akimee with Akimee Floral Designs: beautiful floral designs with gorgeous bouquets, boutineers, centerpiece and large floral urn and for all your help!
- Cassandra with The Wedding Studio: for Chrissy's beautiful wedding dress, belt, jacket and assessories. We appreciate all your time
- Bob with IndyVisual: for all the video footage, your guidance and help!
- Kati with Circle City Tuxedo: for Martin's tuxedo and your flexibility!
- Mike with AClassic Party Rental: for the gorgeous tablecloth, silver chiavari chairs, chair pads and sashes
- Jim and Staci with Ritz Charles: for the silverware, glassware, napkins and candles
- Julie Branch with J.A. Alexandra: for the menu cards and black and white sofa
- Benita (my wonderful mother-in-law: for watching Owen and Gracie so I could make it all happen that day!
A little of the Behind-The-Scenes-Info on our Photo Shoot:
Bride & Groom - Our "bride and groom" - Chrissy Zivitz's owns her lawfirm, Hollingsworth & Zivitz downtown
Indy, along with their partner Kena Hollingsworth with family law attorneys. The law firm was just voted the best place to work in Indiana
by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce (last year they placed 13th).
Chrissy has been Loni's hair client for many years and knew she wanted
Loni to do the hair for the wedding day photos. Martin said he was a
little nervous about the pictures, but loved how easy and relaxing
everything felt. Chrissy and Martin were such a gorgeous and loving
couple and enjoying just being themselves for the pictures. They loved
being able to enjoy the day and all the special moments.
Video - Bob Ridge with IndyVisual
Videography and owner of the We Do! Professional Centre did amazing
videography of our photo shoot. He is wonderful at capturing the
details and creating gorgeous wedding films. IndyVisual is a video
production studio specializing in candid, unobtrusive and elegant wedding videography.
Kristin recommends that you chose the photographer and videographer that can tell your wedding day love story.
Hair - Loni Wilson with 28 Star Studio is my sister, so it is
nice getting to work with her on a wedding day! I love being able to
"keep it in the family" and work with my sister. It is fun knowing and
having established relationships with the vendors you work with. So it
was very nice to get ready at Loni's salon, 28 Star Studio, in the heart
of Carmel's Arts and Design District and walk around for pictures.
Loni specializes in bridal and special occasion hair and updos. They
will typically travel to the bride's "getting ready" wedding location or
can also have the bride and bridesmaids come to the salon. Loni always
sets up the bridal trial run prior to the wedding day for the bride
that is included in her wedding day package. She wants to make sure the
bride ensures she gets the look she wants for her wedding day. Loni
recommends bringing any picture inspiration ideas of things you like to
the hair trial and also has her brides bring to the hair trial anything
that might be in the hair on the wedding day (the veil, floral, tiara,
facinators, etc) and she has a few in her salon if the bride is still
looking for something. That way everything can be figured out prior to
the wedding day. For this photo shoot, Chrissy's hair was a
elegant up-do with fullness and volume. When Loni saw the wedding dress, she knew
exactly the direction she was going. Chrissy wears hair extensions in her hair all
the time and they used additional extensions for the day of with the help
of sponge fillers to add volume. We used a flower in a champagne color
in her hair that Loni has at the salon. Loni loves to work with the bride
to make sure they have the overall balance and look they will love on
their special day!
Makeup - On the makeup, Danielle with The Makeup Studio strives
to make her clients feel comfortable, by listening to their concerns and
accentuating their best features to enhance their natural beauty.
Danielle has her studio in Avon, but also travels to the bride's
"getting ready" location. Danielle specializes in makeup services for
brides and fashion shoots. Along with her professional makeup services,
at her salon, Danielle is now offering custom airbrush tanning to add
to their professional beauty services. A great way for the busy bride
to get the sun-kissed tan they want for pictures without the UV rays and
time to get that tan.
Floral - Cathy & Akimee with Akimee Designs desire is to provide floral décor
that will enhance a bride and groom's special
day! They always look forward to working closely with the bride and
groom,
listening carefully to their requests, getting to know them, and
creating a personalized design that matches their wedding day vision.
Their unique designs and attention to detail will assure their couples'
wedding flowers will enrich every aspect of the wedding day. When Akimee and Cathy initially came up with the
design for this wedding, their inspiration really came from their love of
gardening. They knew then that the theme
would be a spring garden. They chose large
traditional urns as their vessels and dressed them up with different shades of pink
roses, green and white hydrangeas, curly willow, peonies, pink ranunculus and
more spring flowers. We had two boutineers and two
bouquets used in our shoot to give different looks and couldn't decide
on just one! One of their favorite
flowers is the peony and because the peony is such a feminine flower,
they thought it would be the perfect
choice for this wedding. That is why they chose to do an all pink
peony bouquet
adorned with a crystal brooch and pearl pins. Most of all what Akimee and Cathy enjoy about designing is meeting
with each bride and trying to reflect her personality in every
arrangement. It was really fun designing
this wedding, because they decided just to have as much fun with it as possible and they
think it showed in the design.
Wedding Dress - In the dress selection, we loved being at "The
Wedding Studio" with Cassandra. Cassandra Stevning and Leslie Jones
have a wonderful wedding dress studio space in the heart of Carmel's
Arts and Design District that makes the experience that typical
intimate, great, non-rushed and personal-attention experience that you
want when you are dress shopping. It is that dress-shopping experience
you have always dreamed of having. They work with the bride one-on-one
to help create the most important ensemble the bride will ever wear. It
was fun to have a bunch of dresses to try on, with veil choices,
belts/floral/garter belts/jewelry/facinators accessories to make the
wedding dress attire complete right in the studio! We all kept loving
the first dress Chrissy tried on and ended up using for the wedding
shoot by Martina Liana. We kept comparing each dress she tried on with
that first dress. We loved the uniqueness with the layers and loved
when the champagne beaded belt was added, because it was such an elegant
and fun "added-on" accessory to have. It actually looked great on most
of the wedding dresses Chrissy tried on and could be added on. We
really thought the jacket was fun as it was the same dress designer, but
went with a different dress. It blended well with the dress we
selected and thought it gave a different look for some of the reception
pictures and loved that you put arms in and the jacket buttons in the
back.
Tux - Proudly serving the Greater Indianapolis area, Circle City
Tuxedo is committed
to delivering a personalized experience for your wedding. Whether you
are in Carmel, Greenwood, or anywhere in
between, Circle City will help you find the perfect look for any
occasion. In the tux selection for Martin, when the color scheme was
decided, we had a few "champagne" colored vest and tie design options to
choose from. Kati with Circle City Tuxedo was very accommodating and
helpful, even on short notice.
Table - On the table, we did a "sweetheart" round table for two
for the bride and groom's special reception table. I wanted to
incorporate some pinks as an accent, but was inspired by the Champagne
colored tablecloth I ran across A Classic's champagne taffeta floor
length tablecloth. I thought it was a great fit with our elegant bride
and groom and thought it was great in color to go with Chrissy's wedding
dress belt and Martin's tux vest and tie. I think all of the colors
with the gold, mahogany, clear, white or silver chiavari chairs from A
Classic would have looked great with this venue, but we finally decided
on the silver chiavari chairs with ivory chair pads and ivory organza
sash from A Classic Party Rental to complete our great elegant look.
The "Mr. & Mrs." signs were a variation of signs found on
Pinterest. I created with a wood piece from Michael's and got the look
with stain and hand painted the Mr. & Mrs. on there. I loved those
signs on the back of the chairs with the ivory organza sashes tied to
the side of the chair to give the elegance without being too much with
the 'Mr & Mrs' signs. Menu cards for the plated sit-down meal are
always nice to give the guests a heads up and look elegant on the silver
charger plates. Pink heart hard candies in the clear glass vases were a
great wedding day favor to give us the pink accent. Loved the pink
lemonade with sugar rimmed glass and fun flower and heart
stir-stick/straw as great ways to incorporate our pink colored accents.
Thank you again, Chrissy & Martin, for taking time out of your busy schedules to let us take some wedding photos of your cute little selves! We all appreciate you. Thank you to everyone again for all of their help. If you would like to
view all of Chrissy and Martin's wedding photo shoot, please click on this link:
http://kristinhornberger.smugmug.com/event/Chrissy-MartinWeddingShootThank you! XXOO, Kristin
awesome photography ..
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