This morning on the blog we have a simple yet striking styled shoot that goes against the belief that ‘red and green should never be seen’.
Noticing how well the two colours complement each other in nature, Yorkshire based photographer Meagan Sarah, decided to set up a shoot that would showcase how the bold hues can actually work together well for brides in terms of their flower choices. In doing so Meagan also initiated somewhat of a friends reunion as she called upon pals of hers from when she was a teen (who also happened to have paved careers in the wedding industry) to help pull her vivid vision together.
The result is a beautiful natural shoot with a
breezy boho
edge captured in the hills of New Herrington and Penshaw in Sunderland.To give you more of the details we will hand over to the lady herself, take it away Meagan…
With images by Meagan Sarah Photography.
meagan says:
My inspiration for the photoshoot came entirely through friendship. Really, I should probably have named the shoot just that, ‘Friendship’. Liz Rose Ridley (makeup artist), Nicola Bone (hair stylist) and Nicola Tatters (our model) are all my close friends from back where I grew up in Washington, Tyne & Wear. Never once did I imagine we would all head in a similar direction of the wedding industry as we all went our separate ways as teens.Truth be told, I have wanted to do a styled shoot with Nicola Tatters since she got married as she looked so beautiful on her wedding day (she isn’t nor has ever been a professional model, hard to believe right!?). So I suppose I just bought some flowers, arranged a long overdue meeting with old friends, snapped away and these photos are the result.
I chose to work with reds and greens as the idea of ‘red and green should never been seen’ is one that has always baffled me when it works so well in nature.
We had a fabulous backdrop of the fields of Penshaw and kept the shoot very light and basic, with one reflector in a field behind Nicola’s house. The weather was perfect, the location was ideal and the photos came out far better than any of us expected!
In terms of styling Nicola wore her own wedding dress, which was an Essence design that she originally purchased from Just Perfect in Durham. I then ordered a beautiful floral headdress and bouquet from The Great British Florist, to complete the red and green look we were going for. I chose to use this florist because they offer bridal bouquets to order directly online. You can give them your favourite and least favourite colours and from that they will select suitable flowers that are in season. They did a spot on job!
I left the hair and makeup in the capable (and talented) hands of Liz Rose Ridley and Nicola Bone. After many years in the fashion industry working as a photographer, stylist and makeupartist, Liz has recently expanded her talents to bridal make-up, meanwhile Nicola is an award-winning stylist and salon owner specialising in wedding, prom and special occasion hair, so I knew the pair of them would be up for the challenge of a shoot.
Overall my aim was simply to reunite talented friends, have a good laugh and see how we would work together. We were all over the moon with the results as nature blessed us that day with beautiful fields.
