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Rockin’ the Dress for Breast Cancer with Colleen!

Elizabeth van der Bij — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:35:26 +0000

Colleen is another one of the awesome ladies who decided to wear her wedding dress again (just 2.5 years after her own wedding) for the Rock the Dress for Breast Cancer fundraiser. We shot near 124 St and at an awesome parkade downtown Edmonton. I have to admit, I love the parkade shots best, and they are a sneak peek to where we will be shooting formals for a fabulous wedding coming up this weekend.

Rockin’ the Dress for Breast Cancer with Shauna

Elizabeth van der Bij — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:08:03 +0000

A while back I signed on to do a fundraiser for Breast Cancer with Rock the Dress Sessions. I met up with Shauna around the 104 St/104 Ave area of downtown Edmonton for hers. Shauna’s husband came along to watch, and she told me that their 29th wedding anniversary is in July! That’s pretty darn cool! It also shows it’s never too late to Rock your Dress again!

Rockin’ the Dress with Molly Minx of the Hook ‘Em Revue in Edmonton, AB

Elizabeth van der Bij — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:22:53 +0000

Yesterday found me shooting a super sassy burlesque dancer named Molly Minx. She was amazing in front of camera and just knew what to do! I think the dancing and performing burlesque really helped! We shot just down the road from the Matrix Hotel where a building was torn down and there was a great pile of bricks and a big hole in the ground. We then went West and took advantage of an awesome truck that was shot up and grafitti-ized (I know that’s not a real word) to awesomeness! It got super cold so we came back to the studio and shot a little in the alley before calling it quits. I’m still in love with the gorgeous flowers from The Wild Orchid! It’s fantastic when you can tell your florist your budget, the colours, and let them run wild with it… and it turns in to pure gorgeousness!

Anyway, here’s some shots from yesterday… I know it’s going to make you want to wear your wedding dress again for your own Rock the Dress shoot, and I will be more than happy to make you look just as awesome!

ENV everywhere! It’s a wedding blog takeover!

Elizabeth van der Bij — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:22:55 +0000

This has been a great week! Met with my contractor today to get the work on the studio started. Well, showed them around they are gonna give me the estimate, but I know they will be he ones doing the work. The stairs at the space are under construction too, so I should be able to plan the open house to happen in a month or so! Also finally got a paycheque from my new job that I can now spend on cool stuff for the studio!

The other awesome news is that 2 of my weddings/bridal shoots have made appearances on some pretty big wedding websites! The Rock the Dress session with Amanda debuted on OneWed.com, check it out here: http://www.onewed.com/blog/savvy-scoop/2010/03/26/retro-rock-dress-bridal-shoot-pretty-meets-gritty

Also super exciting, and we’ve been waiting a while for this one to show up, but Erin & Tyler’s gorgeous wedding is now featured on Wedding Bells in the Real Weddings section! Check out their story here: http://www.weddingbells.ca/articles/slideshow/cut-above/

That’s right, I am slowly taking over the wedding world! Yup, am sighing contentedly…

Rockin’ the Dress with Amanda – Downtown Edmonton Bridal Shoot

Elizabeth van der Bij — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:59:39 +0000

I was pretty excited for today! My lovely model Amanda is actually a photographer as well (www.lightsidephoto.com) and she was a joy to photograph! I think she does as well in front of the camera as she does behind it! Me, on the other hand, I definitely belong behind the camera and nowhere near the front of it, and I’m ok with that! We were also joined today by Harvey of Love Bucket Photography and his brother Steven. They were awesome on helping out with some of the lighting and they were shooting too. The other exciting part of today is that I went and signed the lease for my new studio space downtown! I’m super excited for it! It’s on 105 St and Jasper Ave, coincidentilly, that’s where we also went to get Amanda’s hair done by my good friend Patricia who is a goddess of hair and she works at Celebrity Hair, which is my new upstairs neighbour! I stopped next door to arrange for flowers the shoot and procured the most amazing bouquet from The Wild Orchid! I think I love my new neighbours already!

So anyway, back to the awesome photos! We shot in the alley behind the salon, then just down the street in front of an empty building, then went back to the salon to warm up and then went down to the basement by my favourite elevator ever (yes, I think we will see lots more of it!) before heading off to an old garage at 118 Ave and 97 St to finish up the day. I’m super happy about the images, and I’m looking forward to wedding season starting to shoot even more fabulous brides and grooms!