Digital Retouching for Bridal Glamour/Photography

They say some kids are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. For me, I'm convinced it was a lollipop. For as long as I can remember, I have craved sugar.

When you are a coltish teenager and burn through calories like a formula one driver does high-octane fuel, a sweet tooth isn't really a problem. But then along come our twenties and our dormant metabolism awakes with a bang and stretches and spreads its creeping mass all over the places we'd least like. It is a fairly significant design flaw that just as our metabolism is making itself known, many of us are thinking about tying the knot.

Getting the perfect wedding body can happen in several ways...we can do without all those delicious sweets (unlikely), we can get up at 5am five days a week (unimaginable), OR we can do it in Photoshop.

Images left: Bridal Glamour shoots are all about the bride but with the groom in mind >>

Wind - Eva Bradley

When God invented lip gloss, it wasn't a windy day.

All of us have been there - that moment when we've just blow-dried our hair perfectly, we've just squeezed out half a tube of gloss onto our lips and we step out of the car or the front door only to be assaulted by gale force winds and find half our hair glued to our face.

There are two things that are essential on your wedding day: great hair, and glossy lips. I suppose a gorgeous groom could probably be added to the list. 

Rowan McLennan Design

It's great to have more fabulous Hawke's Bay businesses join the us. Rowan, of Rowan McLennan Design will be providing excellent advice on the latest designs and fabric.....

Welcome to my first chat for Hawkes Bay Weddings, writing this is going to be an absolute pleasure as I get to share with you my absolute addiction.....fashion!!!! In particular Bridal Fashion Design, a topic that has taken up an enormous amount of my life in the last 25 Years. Yes girls, I lead a somewhat different life to the average normal person.

I don't suffer Mondayitis(weird), I have more Bridal/Fashion magazines than the local library and I never get even the slightest tan in summer as I am in my cave........my workroom! So why design Wedding Gowns? Why not mass market fashion, a shop with my name in flashing lights in every city? Cost; too much with the power bill. Seriously, bridal design has always been were I belong. Meeting a prospective bride to be, drawing designs and then cutting into some of this worlds most beautiful fabrics to sew and shape a gown that then gives the wearer that wonderful WOW feeling is the essence of my craft.