Manchester Bride

If you've been following this blog you should be used to these Bridal updates by now.  This is the penultimate one in the series, in which we took our latest model to Manchester to look for some interesting street locations to use as a build up for final 'Trash The Dress' extravaganza.

The dress you saw previously in the Crewe Hall shots and Alderley Edge gymnastics images is back.  This time though, Deb has been hard at work creating a new look, adding the black floral patterning and cummerbund/belt along with a few other adjustments.  The piece that she has created is a dress that is uniquely beautiful and I'm sure many many brides would like to have themselves.

We managed to find some brilliant locations on the day and get some great colour into the pictures.  I couldn't believe it when we drove past Granada Studios, I had completely forgotten about the old frontage they have there, and hence I had to spin the car around a grab a few shots, despite the fact it is actually bucketing down with rain and Abi is actually hiding under that small canopy!

Photography © Christopher Perkins

Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson

Model: Abi Lutwyche

Assistant and Location Scout: Matt 'Darkscore'

Woodland Bride

"If you go down to the woods today..."

...you might just see a beautiful girl jumping around in a big white wedding dress!!!

Part 4 of mine and Deborah's exploration into the world of the adventurous bride found us in Alderley Edge woods in Cheshire.

This is somewhere I have been visiting (and photographing) for many years, as its a great place to walk and relax, but I've never approached it quite like this...

Photography © Christopher Perkins

Model: Amanda Dabrowski

Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson

Crewe Hall Bridal Shoot

Its time for some more pictures...these posts are getting quite regular now!

In a continuation of our Wedding Dress theme, we descended on the very accommodating Crewe Hall.  This beautiful old hall provided an incredible backdrop for our images.

There is so much history here, from the moment you approach the hall along the long long tree lined driveway, you know you have arrived somewhere special.  The Hall even has it's own small chapel, which we were able to use for some of the shots, and there are gothic looking candles to be found dotted all over the place.

Photography © Christopher Perkins

Model: Amanda Dabrowski

Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson

Behind the scenes - Christopher at work:

Urban Bride

Taking forward the Bridal Fashion theme, we wanted to push the idea away from the fairytale and into something a little more dark and sinister, whilst still retaining the high fashion look and feel...

I give you 'Urban Bride'!

Photography: © Christopher Perkins 2008

Model: Marina Fallahi

Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson

Location: Macclesfield

Bridal Fashion @ Rookery Hall

Its time to get all romantic... Its wedding season!

The team has decided to get out to some beautiful locations this summer and create some new bridal fashion work.

For the first shoot, we visited Rookery Hall, near Nantwich, Cheshire.

My sincere thanks to Stephen Fearnley and his team for allowing us to use this beautiful venue for the backdrop to our photos.

Photography: © Christopher Perkins

Model: Marina Fallahi

Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson