Pursuing the Picture Perfect Wedding :: a blog about weddings and getting great wedding photographs by Gia Canali » capelet http://giacanali.com/blog pursuing the picture perfect wedding Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:34:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dress Shop Visit: Atelier Des Modistes http://giacanali.com/blog/2010/01/dress-shop-visit-atelier-des-modistes/ http://giacanali.com/blog/2010/01/dress-shop-visit-atelier-des-modistes/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:38:12 +0000 Gia http://giacanali.com/blog/?p=2550 atelierdesmodistes

Yesterday, I visited Atelier Des Modistes in San Francisco.   I wanted to meet Suzanne Hanley, the designer behind two of my favorite brides’s dresses and to see the beautiful shop where she and her crew design and make the gowns.  We had fun talking shop and while I sat there, chatting, I wondered yet again why, even though I had my dress made for me, I never went dress shopping when I was engaged.  Sigh.  Anyway.  Suzanne’s shop is certainly the best of both worlds (lots to try on and lots to dream up out of your own imagination).  I dearly hope there’s a big return to handmade in 2010.  What better than a one-of-a-kind dress designed and sewn just for you?

A girl can’t carry all her gear all the time, so I’m sharing photos from my iPhone.*  Below: store front sign, capelet (yes, please!), cards, behind the scenes with the best inspiration wall ever, super sewing machine, lace and ruffles galore, wedding gowns and polaroids (two of my favorite things, you know), and more images of the lovely dress-in-the-window (may some lucky bride swoon over it!).

sign capelet cutest business card holder. ever. inspiration wall inspiration wall THE sewing machine wedding gown lace lovely lavender dress wedding gowns and polaroids the dress in the window dress in the window

photos: Gia Canali, via her iPhone.

*Yes, indeed, we photographers have just as much fun as everybody else with our cell phone cameras.

Share/Save

]]> http://giacanali.com/blog/2010/01/dress-shop-visit-atelier-des-modistes/feed/ 6 Dreaming of a Trend … http://giacanali.com/blog/2009/01/dreaming-of-a-trend/ http://giacanali.com/blog/2009/01/dreaming-of-a-trend/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:51:05 +0000 Gia http://giacanali.com/blog/?p=96 If I could have one wish, it would be for capelets to catch on with brides … with my brides. (Secretly, I’d want to wear a non-white one, like this one from Holly Stalder, to weddings, but I think the poufy part would get all mashed by my four camera straps. Hmm …).

il_430xn47649256

photo credit: Pete Springer

Share/Save

]]> http://giacanali.com/blog/2009/01/dreaming-of-a-trend/feed/ 4