We Bloom in Love: Flowers and Powers for An Easter Blessing

Bloom: blossoms, and buds.  The first bloom of love is in our heart with spring and the Easter Season.  Ferns, flowers and baby’s breath!

Flowers, their blooms, blossoms and buds are an important part of your wedding day.  This is true for every bride in any season.  But blooms are the essence of the Spring Bride.  We feel blessed by the blooms of the season,  And indeed, the folks at Sterling Photography International are blossoming with joy over the fine garden of beautiful wedding, engagement and anniversary couples we have been photographing.

A Spring 2018 Blooms in Featured Blogs Every Week this Month!

So, we begin this week’s blog with a bright spring greeting because spring blooms in human hearts this time of year, as well as in the gardens. And as weddings climb to priority activities, our business blooms with joy.

So today, our focus is on the blooms, buds and blossoms of the wedding as much as on the images.

Because flowers are so fragile, and because your day will have 1000 details, you want your photographer to pay close attention to the details of the floral choices you made.  Thus, as spring progresses, we are beginning a series of articles which celebrate each element of a wedding and how the true photographic artist preserves it all for your memories.  Brides, Sterling will be your eyes, capturing every detail you planned so meticulously.  Your sculpted cheek, your gentle tear, the shadow of your eyelash, the veins in the roses of your flower crown.

The Most Fragile Art:  Flower Arrangements, frozen in time By Sterling’s Camera

Because they are so fragile and so beautiful, spring flowers must be photographed with care.  And they must stay fresh and lovely for your whole wedded life, not just your single Wedding Day.  That is our responsibility at Sterling Photography.  We can make those delicate beauties bloom forever, as in the case of Madison’s gorgeous flower crown.

As we have noted in a previous blog, wreaths of flowers in the hair are a hallmark of many of the brides of this year.  Technology and close attention combine to capture the right shading and light as the sunlight drifts through Madison’s blooms and her tears.

With careful focus and perfect angles, Madison’s wreath reveals the tenderness of every petal texture.  But Sterling does not capture only the blooms, he also captures the story of the moment.

Four Tips About Your Flowers, Brides-to-Be:

As promised above, we hope this article showcases the Sterling floral images.  But it also shows rules that Sterling has discovered about brides and blooms.  They were discovered over the last quarter of a century, photographing both brides and blooms.  We propose four basic Sterling Laws concerning brides and blooms:

One:  Before the Bloom, Brides Should Pick A Bouquet of Ideas

From Martha Stewart Weddings, we learn that collecting concepts for your wedding flowers can be as important as learning the names of the flowers themselves.

 

Sometimes, it is the actual location that reveals the style of the blooms to the bride.  Garden arrangements with their informal tumble of buds and their soft structure were natural choices for Madison.  This is partly dictated by the enchanted garden effect of her setting.

Martha Stewart stated that clothing style could inspire the bride’s floral choices.  “Perhaps a decorative detail from your gown will give rise to a bouquet.  Stalks of ladylike pink astilbe, with its clusters of tiny beadlike blooms, could echo a beaded bodice, while the full and frilly look of cabbage roses might replicate the abundant ruffles of a skirt.” 

Two:  Match the Bridal Bouquet to the Bridal Gown

Sometimes brides get confused and hung up on the shape of a bouquet, crown, or arrangement. These artful shapes are very important to floral designers.  Sterling is fond of telling brides to keep the shape and general size of their gown in mind since dress and bouquet are together for many of the photographs.

Stewart writes there are many choices, and we think Sterling has had all of them in front of his lens.  They go “from a petite, compact nosegay to the popular domed bouquet to a cascade, in which flowers drape just over the wrist or spill gracefully down the gown’s skirt…”

As a rule of thumb, he agrees with the Stewart idea that “Elaborate bridal bouquets tend to work well with ornate wedding gowns that have full skirts and long trains, while simple ones pair best with sleek dresses.” 

Three:  In 2018, Bold Color Rules the Spring Styles, from the Runway to the Lapel

Right down to the boutonniere, Sterling and his fellow wedding photography artists are aware of the importance of color this spring. They may be bright, variegated, contrasting or complementary color.  

It was absolutely riotous in the wedding fairs and fashion shows, even on the men’s accessories.  So, in addition to the shape of the flowers, the bride-to-be must match colors she loves with the shape of the blooms.  The relationship of the colors will vibrate with the emotional ambiance of the wedding.

And the images from Sterling will reflect it back to you all your married life.  It is a poor photographer who does not “get” light or possesses inferior equipment.  It might make those burgundy roses look black or muddy.  The wrong angles can turn a delicate variety of tiny buds into a shapeless blur or blob of a bouquet.

Four:  Wedding Flowers Are A Treasured Symbol

To us at Sterling Photography International, flowers and couples have a lot in common with the gardens from which they often come.  The marriage must be tended with care.  It must be nourished and nurtured, like the plants that blossom each spring.

Creating the decorations that festoon the tables and aisles and bodies of the bridal couple requires delicate leaves for shade and strong roots for support.

At no time is this truer than in the spring.  This is a time that every venue bursts with blooms and every heart blossoms with a rich spirit of renewal.

We send our Sterling Couples a happy, happy spring wish, for a spirited and blessed Easter season.