Goodfellas Inspired Micro Wedding Styled Shoot

Oh expensive readers this shoot!!!!!!!! I’m fully and totally in love with it! From the theme impressed by Martin Scorsese’s iconic movie Goodfellas, to the 60s and 70s vibe to the bridal and groom social gathering styling, the decor, the colors used, the pictures edit, the situation and the movie. The bride’s Daughters of Simone quick marriage ceremony costume coupled with that stunning lengthy embroidered cathedral veil is solely a dream and we’re additionally HUGE followers of the bouquets too. The white of the bride’s contrasted with the pinky hues of the bridesmaids is so beautiful.

‘I Like This One’ (a quote from the movie – google it!) was the brainchild of Bianca Bertoli, proprietor of Lock and Shade Salon situated in Asbury Park, New Jersey. After I requested Bianca about her inspiration behind this shoot, she stated

“I’ve all the time been impressed by retro and classic styling, significantly from the 60s and 70s. It’s why I’m so drawn to traditional and iconic movies. Whenever you consider Goodfellas, Casino and that area of interest of films, not solely are the ladies glamorous and completely styled however they’re sturdy feminine characters. They aren’t sidekicks, they make the entire movie. Their roles and the imagery of these films are all the time on the forefront of my mind.”

Bianca Bertoli

Sturdy ladies will not be the one factor this shoot is selling both. It additionally has an enormous emphasis on encouraging {couples} to not conform to the most recent web marriage ceremony traits and as an alternative put their very own private distinctive stamp on their marriage ceremony from drawing on the issues they love – whether or not that be gangster movies, music festivals, your favorite music or poem or perhaps a particular location that holds which means to you each. That is your marriage ceremony pretty folks so that you do YOU.

Bianca, together with the staff that helped flip this shoot right into a actuality, talks us via the shoot and the crucial message behind it. Look out for the epic daisies in one of many bridesmaid’s hair!

Take pleasure in pretty folks.

The Movie…

Phrases by Dom of Easy Love Movies

I drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s movie Goodfellas for this shoot. That’s the place I acquired the concept to usher in the purple lighting you’ll see within the restaurant. I needed to copy the identical temper because the Goodfellas scene on the Copacabana. I hope my movie evokes each {couples} and distributors to look outdoors of the marriage trade for inspiration. Search for inspiration in films, artwork, music movies, and even advert campaigns.

The Images…

I Like This One…

Phrases by Bianca of Lock & Shade Salon

I made a decision to place collectively my very own private dream marriage ceremony vibe, with the aim for this shoot being to do one thing very totally different within the bridal realm and in addition to hopefully encourage brides to suppose outdoors the field and do one thing uniquely their very own. This was additionally a possibility to deliver all of my favourite distributors collectively. I totally trusted them with my imaginative and prescient. All I requested of them was to re-watch Goodfellas and On line casino, and produce no matter that meant to them to this shoot and so they all fully blew me away. We shot in my favourite native Italian restaurant, Nettie’s House Of Spaghetti, which completely set the tone.

My hope is that when folks see this shoot, not solely do they really feel excited and nostalgic in regards to the type and imagery, however they keep in mind that their marriage ceremony doesn’t should be primarily based on web traits. They will make their marriage ceremony something they need it to be.

Classic Marriage ceremony Portraits…

Phrases by Cassie Castellaw Pictures

I drew inspiration from classic marriage ceremony portraits for this shoot. I needed the pictures to have this sort of grainy, sort of fuzzy high quality to them so if somebody was seeing the pictures out of context, they wouldn’t know in the event that they have been taken just lately or 50+ years in the past. I hope the shoot evokes {couples} to suppose outdoors the field. Get married at your favourite restaurant, put on a brief costume and enjoyable eye liner, do one thing totally different and simply have enjoyable together with your marriage ceremony. I hope this shoot additionally evokes distributors to give you their very own “dream marriage ceremony” shoot as Bianca known as it. This shoot was a day of simply taking part in and creating with buddies and it was a lot enjoyable.

The Flowers…

Phrases by Chelsie, Flower Baby Floral

For this shoot, I gravitated in direction of enjoyable issues I don’t usually get to make use of on a marriage day. Yellow basically is such an underutilized color! However in my view, yellow is THE comfortable color, particularly for Spring.