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Gretchen’s Trash the Dress | Little 5 Points and Centennial Olympic Park | July 27, 2011

mprosser — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:14:42 +0000

You may remember Gretchen from her wedding earlier this year. She is a dear friend of mine, and is a makeup artist (who has assisted me several times as well. This girl knows how to style and help out!) She really wanted to do something fun and different for her trash the dress. Since we are kind of far away from swimming in the ocean, I suggested we do some fun stuff in Little 5 Points, then go really trash the dress at the fountains in Centennial Olympic Park. WOW. We had SO MUCH FUN! And, to prove Gretchen’s makeup skills, it was still flawless even after getting soaked! Contact Gretchen Zarett for all your wedding day needs!

Victoria’s Secret new Angel is in…You can’t make a shot like this up! Love this dude’s expression, and how they are almost holding hands as she walks by.
A hamburger and beer? Yes please!GORGEOUS! This little cutie wanted to see her wedding ring. How precious!Still looking hot!The dress definitely got trashed. It was soaked, and tattered. Luckily Gretchen had three slips on underneath!

August 6, 2009 | Carmen’s Bridal Shoot at Vines Mansion

mprosser — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:53:29 +0000

This photo shoot was so much fun! You may remember my recent blog post for Carmen’s wedding just a few weeks ago. We didn’t have much time on her wedding day to take photos of just her, so the next week we did a bridal shoot at the FABULOUS Vines Mansionin Loganville. Below are a few of my favorites, but as always, please check out the SLIDESHOW for more images!

I love the moody contrast of this photo.

Carmen must have been a model at some point...

Thanks for climbing the tree Carmen!

Vines Mansion is FULL of places to photograph! Add a hot model, and BAM!

I love these grecian statues!

Carmen became part of the fountian

Thanks for being such an awesome model, again Carmen! Many best wishes to you and your new hubby!

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July 2, 2009 | Sacheen’s Trash the Dress

mprosser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:00:08 +0000

I can’t even tell you how excited I am to share these photos with you. I have always been a fan of the Trash the Dress movement (just google it if you’ve never heard) but it is RARE that I get requests to do just that. Well, Sacheen was ECTATIC to trash her dress! I think we did almost everything we could do the gown except set it on fire (John Michael Cooper I am not)

Here are a few of my favorites. Please check out the SLIDESHOW to see more! Thanks Sacheen for being such an awesome model and doing all these crazy things! Especially sitting in that mucky nasty water!

I have so many bug bites from this blasted grass! I'm sure she does too!

I love this one. She reminds me of a Spanish Senorita.

This water was utterly disgusting. I'm so glad she was up for sitting in it!

My favorite

Even her son got in on the fun!

A very messy bride

I love her expression here

Dirty Reuben!

So when I say "trash the dress", we really did mean it!

Trash can closed, photoshoot finished!

What fun this was! BIG thanks goes to my FATHER for helping with the lighting on this shoot. I couldn’t have done it without you!

May 7, 2009 | Kristi’s Bridal Session

mprosser — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:48:05 +0000

Kristi is a great friend of mine. I was unable to photograph her wedding, but I really wanted to take some sort of photos of this beautiful woman! We had such a great time with this bridal session. This was my first session at my home, and I think it made for a nice backdrop! You can see more photos at the SLIDESHOW!!!

Kristi & My Libby Lou!

Can we say GORGOUS? I dragged my leopard print chair outside just for this shot!

Kristi calls this one her new "album cover"

The parlor shot

An angel

Kristi, I am so happy for you and Josh! You were a beautiful bride, and I feel honored to have done your bridal session. Thank you to Christin for helping me light these beautiful photos! You both are awesome friends and I feel so lucky to have both of you in my life!