This post is just for all you lovers-of-minutia. Some of the details will be repeated in the main post about Eunice and Daniel’s wedding (coming later today!), but it’s fun to see them bigger and in context. We especially like the non-numerical table numbers. Had I been a guest, I’d have hoped to be seated at the dragonfly or goldfish tables. The tissue paper pom-poms, Eunice made by hand, are so pretty, too. And, I imagine, were a lot of work!! Click any image to enlarge the gallery.
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photos: Gia Canali; floral design, Sharla Flock; cake topper; PubliQue Living; paper goods, Hello!Lucky and Joel Dewberry; table “numbers,” Because We Can with Hello!Lucky; lighting, Jimmy Duhig, Creative Lighting Design.
Some of you might wonder where I’ve been, and the answer—at least in part—is that I’ve been locked up in my studio cooking up new things. (I’ve also been fixing my computer, hence the blog-neglect, but that is another story altogether). Anyway, I have been drunkenly in love with encaustic painting (and the idea of encaustic painting over photographs) since I first heard the word “encaustic” two years ago in an oil painting class, and even more so since I’ve seen them in real life. Then I saw some pieces by the ever-innovative Starn twins, I knew I had to figure out how to incorporate encaustic into my commissioned work. Over the summer I finally got a chance to take a workshop in encaustic painting and planned to get working on a series of encaustic photographs right away. But summer and wedding season are what they are, so refining the process and presentation has taken longer than I’d hoped. Encaustic paint is made from beeswax and resin, and because it can be both clear and cloudy in places, it’s very dreamy. I am not the only wedding photographer experimenting in this medium; both Elizabeth Messina and One Love Photo are also working in wax. I think these luminous little paintings are going to be one of the next big trends in handmade photographic prints. The tactile quality of the prints shows best in person, but I couldn’t resist sharing a few images anyway. And I promise to share more soon, as I complete new pieces.
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photographs by Gia Canali
I think … we should rethink our eschewal of baby’s breath. In lavish quantities, all-by-itself, it’s so pretty and so soft. Like lace.
photos: Gia Canali
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As a photographer who enjoys photographing weddings, I’m all for real real weddings. But it’s so much fun to make editorial photographs of all those hypothetical (and totally attainable) picture perfect details. On newsstands now is the 2010 issue of Ceremony Magazine with a few of my photographs from a shoot I did over the summer with Michael Mantalos, the floral designer behind Louloudi Designs. The color palette was so lovely that I left the shoot wanting to do a painting in those colors. I promise to share a few more images soon.
photos, except magazine cover: Gia Canali; florals and design, Michael Mantalos; linens, LaTavola
We all know it’s important to dance with your beloved. But don’t forget your friends! Not only does it make for good photos, it makes for good memories.
photo: Gia Canali
Merry Christmas, friends. I hope the holidays are dazzling and warm for you this year.
photo: Gia Canali
