GALVESTON BOUDOIR SESSION

GALVESTON BOUDOIR SESSION

film photographer Christine Gosch

You’ve seen this lovely lady, Carolyn, before. Twice, in fact. I just can’t stay away from her! She radiates beauty and has the best smile.

As I mentioned in the blog post from her Moody Gardens bridal session, she didn’t have any availability to come to her Galveston, Texas wedding venue before her wedding as she lives a couple of hours away and has a very busy schedule. We also didn’t have any time to photograph her bridal session on the day of her Austin engagement session, so the day before the wedding it is!

She utilized the day before her wedding for her hair + makeup trial so she was able to have the same look for her boudoir and bridal session that we shot immediately after her boudoir session. When I arrived to her hotel suite at Moody Gardens, she was wrapping up with Makeup and Hair by Heather, a Houston area HMU team. The look was classic and sweet, so we went that route for her boudoir session. She wore a lace bridal robe for most of it, her wedding day jewelry, and we also used her veil as an accessory. Veils are an excellent detail to incorporate int your bridal session because it's sultry and mysterious. It just depends on how much you gather the material. It can leave room for the imagination, or the exact opposite, if you catch my drift. ;)

As always, I recommend shooting in a light-filled space, as the film stock I use is super light-hungry. The more light the better, and the entire wall was essentially a window. Clearly this room fit the bill. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a hotel room with more light. So we vacated the room of hair + makeup folks, the groom, and the maid of honor and had about 30 minutes to squeeze in a mini boudoir session. Magic with this queen!

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Photographer: Christine Gosch | HMU: Hair and Makeup by Heather | Film lab: The FIND Lab

CAROLYN'S MOODY GARDENS BRIDAL SESSION

MOODY GARDENS BRIDAL SESSION

Galveston wedding photographer

This girl is AMAZING. She’s so funny, smart, punctual, caring, quick, and invested- every photographer’s dream bride. And I’m lucky enough to say that Carolyn is a part of my family! She is the beautiful bride of my husband’s cousin, and they got married in December at Moody Gardens in Galveston. They were engaged for 3 years before getting married because they wanted to finish school (they met at UT in Austin). So for 3 years now, we’ve been talking about how I’d be photographing their engagement session, Carolyn’s bridal session, and her boudoir session (both of which are going to make an appearance on the blog in the coming months).

Since she doesn’t live in the Houston area, the only time available for her to photograph her bridal session was the day before the wedding. I headed down to Galveston (one of my favorite places to photograph), so excited to shoot in the rainforest pyramid at Moody Gardens. It had been years since I’d been there, so I was very excited to look at everything through the eyes of an adult! When I arrived, Carolyn was finishing up her hair and makeup with Makeup and Hair by Heather. Her look was very classic/ winter bride. Her dress was from LuLu’s Bridal Boutique. I loved the sheer long sleeves so much! Sleeves on gowns are not something I often get to work with in Houston, where our winters are usually pretty warm. Imagine the summers!

When hair and makeup was complete, we headed from Moody Gardens Hotel, where the whole bridal party was staying, over to the rainforest pyramid. I was a tad worried that the humidity inside of the pyramid would cause my camera lenses to fog up, but it wasn’t terrible. We just had to wait a couple of minutes before starting to shoot so the fog could clear up. Then the sky was the limit. We walked around the entire pyramid filled with lush, exotic plants, different (and amazing) lighting situations, sloths, bats, monkeys, fountains and rivers, and everything tropical. It was so cool to shoot a bridal session in a setting like this. Carolyn’s was a prime example of utilizing her bridal session to get some images that would vary from her wedding day images. I always love when brides choose to do this to add some variety in the settings they’re in while wearing their dress.

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Photographer: Christine Gosch | Gown: Maggie Sottero | Hair & makeup:  Makeup & Hair by Heather | Boutique : Lulu’s Bridal Boutique | Location: Moody Gardens Rainforest Pyramid | Film lab: The FIND Lab