Wedding Whispers, Made Personal
A bridal boudoir shoot can be an unforgettable wedding gift for your partner, but there is another reason to do it that is entirely your own. You spend months preparing for your wedding day, choosing the dress, the shoes, the lingerie and every last detail. This is a chance to photograph the woman underneath all of it.
Whether you imagine something elegant in white lace, beautifully sensual, nude or a little more daring, your bridal boudoir photography session is created privately around you. And if those photographs happen to leave your future husband wondering exactly what is underneath the wedding dress, all the better.
Something for Him. Something Rather Wonderful for You
Most wedding photographs are there to remember the day. The dress, the flowers, the people you love and all those moments that seem to disappear rather too quickly.
Bridal boudoir photographs remember something different. You.
They capture how you looked at this particular moment in your life, before the dress goes on and before the wedding day begins. Bring your bridal lingerie, veil, garter, wedding shoes, jewellery or anything else that belongs to the story. We can keep the photographs soft and romantic, make them more sensual, or take them considerably further. That part is entirely yours to decide.
And then there is the question of what you do with them.
A private bridal album or PhotoBox can become a wedding gift he genuinely isn’t expecting. Give it to him before the ceremony, hide a photograph somewhere for him to discover, or keep the entire collection until the two of you are finally alone.
There are far more interesting possibilities than simply handing him a box.
Two Brides. Two Secrets. Two Rather Memorable Grooms.
I have photographed two brides who decided that simply giving their groom their photographs wasn’t quite enough. They wanted to make the surprise part of the wedding itself.
One bride had a beautiful coffee table book made from her bridal boudoir shoot. On the morning of the wedding, while her groom was getting ready, her maid of honour quietly delivered it to him and arranged for the wedding photographer to be there when he opened it.
His expression as he started turning the pages was priceless.
She had photographed herself in the lingerie she would later be wearing beneath her wedding dress. He admitted afterwards that, alongside all the usual wedding day nerves, he now had another rather distracting thought occupying his mind: what exactly was waiting underneath the dress?
The maid of honour was also under strict instructions to retrieve the book afterwards. Leaving it unattended in a room full of groomsmen seemed an unnecessarily optimistic test of human nature.
The second bride took a completely different approach. She chose a PhotoBox and selected just a handful of photographs from her shoot. Her bridesmaids secretly delivered them to the groom at different moments throughout the reception, beginning with a photograph showing the lingerie she was wearing beneath her dress.
Every so often, another photograph arrived.
He apparently spent a considerable portion of the reception returning to the photographs already tucked safely inside his jacket. Later, when the moment was right, she personally gave him the more intimate images she had chosen especially for him.
They told me afterwards that the whole secret became one of the highlights of their wedding day.