Here are a few images from their wedding day:

With a bit of research and creativity, Amanda and her bridesmaids as well as her mom and aunt got together and designed their own bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, and center pieces. The flowers came from places like Trader Joe’s, and local grocery stores who can make special orders and get them at a less expensive price than florist shops. Some of the more specialty flowers came from http://fiftyflowers.com .

Amanda: “we had to do a lot of foot-work to find which stores carried what
kinds of flowers, but it was worth it!”

You know what’s great about mid-week weddings?

I have been getting a lot of inquiries from my brides about Tuesday weddings.

Week rates are much less expensive and you don’t have to worry about running into another bride or worry that the staff will be less attentive.

Since the wedding was during the week, Amanda had her pick of which section to be married in. We were able to take advantage of both the garden and the village for her bridal party pictures and made the most out of the space since we had it all to ourselves.

Amanda always loved the colors of the rainbow and decided to incorporate those colors into her wedding day. As bridesmaids gifts, she bought shawls for each of the girls and let them pick out their own black dresses that they can always wear again.

Her birdcage veil and clip came from Sally’s Fabric store. The design of feathers from an image she found in a magazine and recreated out of accessories she bought from Michaels.

“I saw feather “fascinators” in magazines, and I really wanted something big and ostentatious to put in my hair. The ones I saw in magazines were So Expensive (between 120-195 dollars for a little feather clip). I made mine for about 25 dollars.”

I just love the creativity that she put in to her wedding! Now that’s a DIY wedding.

Thank you Amanda & Shane. I wish you the best!!

One of the most meaningful gifts I’ve ever asked for is for a dad. Someone who was an admirable father figure in my life and one I could confide in when advice was needed. One I would be proud to bring in to class for father/daughter day. A father I could look up to with love and respect and receive the same in return.

I have one of the best mom’s anyone could ask for. She took on the role of both my mom and my dad. She did the best she knew how and I admire her for that and much more.

My mom’s best friend, Tony, sent both of us postcards from his travels, helped see me off to college, took my picture as a gift to my mom for her birthday and visited me when he was in the area on business and took me out for dinner and made sure I was eating well.

He has always been such a cool guy and someone I looked up to and felt comfortable talking to. Time went on and before I knew it, mom told me that she and Tony are getting married.

I had secretly never given up that one wish for Christmas. On my birthday, Tony asked me if I thought it would be alright for him to adopt me. “I’ve already checked into it and believe it’s still legal.” He said with a grin. I burst out laughing and crying at the same time because I had realized that it’s never too late for something, nor too old for a childhood dream to come true. I was, at last, getting my wish for a dad. It was probably one of the most emotional moments I had ever experienced.

Christmas Eve 2007, at 6:30 p.m. in the court room signing papers and standing before a judge. He granted my wish and I felt like a little girl, who, for the first time, knew how it felt to have my dad looking back at me with proud and loving eyes.

There’s always so much I am grateful for and this year I wanted to share with the world something that I’m especially grateful for this holiday season and will never forget.

I am so grateful to have such loving parents. I’ve always wanted to say that.

My parents; friends of 23 years, happily married for three. Their little goober in the middle; me. The family I’ve always wished for.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Here are some dresses from Destiny’s Bride for my Off Beat Brides. The choice of makeup and styling was certainly an interesting twist with the wedding gowns and definitely caught my eye.

Makeup by: Heather Wilson and Jill Fogel.

Along with this fantastic show of bridal gowns comes an awesome showing of bridesmaids dresses from Twirl Boutique located in Scottsdale.

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Today I was thinking about how cool it would be to visit Oregon and photograph a wedding out there. Oregon somehow manages to pop up in many of my conversations I have with people. I also managed to come across a website this evening promoting an eco-elegant wedding show happening right in Portland on November 21st at the Center for Architecture.

For the eco-conscious brides, this event will be hosting educational seminars regarding ideas for making “more sustainable choices for” your wedding day as well as a fashion show made up of re-claimed materials.

I won’t be able to attend this year as I just now found out about it but I thought I’d post it for those brides and grooms-to-be in case you’re able to visit Oregon this month. It’s a free event so if you do go, please let me know how it is by posting a comment here!

Hope to be there next year!

Andy and I are thrilled that our pictures from Melissa & Chris’s wedding have been published on Style Me Pretty!

I met this adorable couple back in August, up in Prescott, with Andy to do their engagement session.

I absolutely love this image of Melissa. She could be a model for Anthropologie! (one of my favorite stores)

I’ve always said I wanted pictures of me and my boyfriend together and never once did I jump on that opportunity. It’s funny that as a photographer I never thought to get out from behind the camera and have professional pictures taken of me and my significant other nor my family, for that matter.

So as a tribute to my own desire, I am offering Bf + i shoots for couples. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been together. It’s a way to celebrate the fun and excitement of your relationship with one another. Timing is everything, how about now?!

I am offering 10 Bf + i photo shoots for $149. Contact me today to book your fun and fabulous Bf+i session!

Includes pre-shoot consultation with photographer, 2 hour shoot, 2 looks, choice of 50 digital images from over 75 shots*. Photos will be provided on disc for personal use. There will be a $5 disc shipping fee applied.

* There is no extra cost for a sitting fee, location fee (unless you’re location is 50+ miles from Phoenix), or fee per photo. Angelina Rose Photography reserves the right to include photos in photographer’s portfolio, website, and marketing materials.

Look your best by getting a professional to take your pictures and have a variety of quality images to switch it up once in a while. I’m not talking glamour shots,  I am talking chic and personable photos that bring out your personality.

Image is everything. Personal or Professional ~

45 Minute photo shoot

location: Streets of Tempe

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$60 bucks will get you everywhere

Offer for Arizona residents and students only. Contact me today to set up your Social Media Pictures!

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Contact me today to set up a date and time!

You have a million choices available when planning your wedding. It’s easy to find yourself quickly overwhelmed and shopping around can be a chore. Where do you start?

For me, it’s like taking a cruise down the laundry detergent aisle and if it weren’t for your parents buying the same brand all these years you’d have no clue where to start looking. Unfortunately it’s easy to get lost when searching the shelves so much that the colors and containers start to merge into one giant blob. I’ve had this issue and thought “If I were a bride, where would I start looking to narrow down the million and one choices that are out there?” Of course, I just happened to be in the laundry aisle when that thought hit me.

Hold on! … this really does have a point.

I started to ask myself a bunch of questions to focus in on what I was looking for. Which brands don’t contain bleach and harmful toxins, what’s color safe, what are the chances I’ll have an allergic reaction to a detergent; which ones are considered safe for sensitive skin? Luckily there are only about ooohh…. 60 options to wash your clothes with?

Well, now I’ve focused in on a few (5) options and have something specific I am looking for.

This is the way I see it: Going green is a lot less daunting because it removes at least half a million options that make up the ordinary wedding and allows you to embrace your creative side to make your wedding day all the more unique.

Some places to start:

If you love antiques like I do, consider using something old for something new like “new uses for old things” always being referenced in Real Simple Magazine. I.E. mason jars used as vases for locally grown flowers.

Surf freecycle.org for things people are giving away. You never know what you’ll come across.

Start hitting up auctions and antique shops. I realize the shops could get on the expensive side but there are bargains every now and then and auctions are loads of fun and probably the most inexpensive way to go if you’ve got the time. Bring your girlfriends along for the ride!

I am starting a collection of green resources on my blog to help you along the way. Start thinking about what’s unique to you that you could incorporate into your wedding day. Check back often, as I’m always finding new and interesting articles and blogs to write about and share with you.

Til then, Enjoy!

Once a few of the girls were ready, I quickly got in some cool shots before the sun set.

We had such a blast and the show was a success with about 80 attendees sitting along the side lines!