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Photobooth | Tara & Mike

TheViolets — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:07:30 +0000

We did our first photobooth at Mike & Tara’s wedding and it was a great success! I had loads of fun with the guests: the line-ups were busy, the faces were funny, and we got some terrific stuff. To view and retrieve your photobooth photos double click on the word “photobooth” anywhere in this post.

You can also copy and paste this link: http://windingviolets.instaproofs.com/category.php?event=253300&id=438451

Bon Appétit

Runway Bridal Boutique

TheViolets — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:34:48 +0000

Stephanie Sokolowski’s is most defiantly one of my favourite wedding vendors, a girl after my own heart. Her boutique, Runway Bridal, in downtown Belleville, is drop dead gorgeous. Every detail is attended to: from plush rugs, full length mirrors, elegant fixtures, to the startlingly stylized restroom. Stephanie gives her brides-to-be the couture experience, treating each to private appointments – you get the run of the place, and boy is it fun!

Best of all, Stephanie carries unique gowns from many different designers. The dress is really the centre piece of the wedding; the gown transcends the category of garment and can be considered the physical manifestation of the brides femininity. Finding a gown that resonates with your unique vision and expression of femininity can be incredible difficult and frustrating. Thank goodness for Stephanie and her boutique!

Needless to say we had a great afternoon in the shop. Ashley, our model, anxiously exclaimed as she left for her volley ball game, “let’s do this again!” We look forward to it.

-The Violets

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Runway Bridal

397 Front Street

Belleville, ON K8N 2Z9

(613) 966-0122

L.S.P. Designs | Florist

TheViolets — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:47:34 +0000

Leanne & Marty, owners and operators of L.S.P. Designs, are definitely the people you want delivering your bouquet on the wedding day. Always brimming with smiles and exuding an aroma of positivity when they enter a room, their joviality is simply infectious!

Not only are these two terrific people to work with, but Leanne’s arrangements are by far the most creative, classic, and elegant around. L.S.P. Designs was published in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of the prestigious Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine: The Vogue of Wedding Magazines!

She was the florist at our wedding, a task not for the faint of heart : ) You see, Melissa and I were married in an extremely, almost meticulously, well manicured garden estate: Spindle Tree Gardens. The Estate features: a pavilion replete with a bowling green (and hand made croquet gates), extensive walking paths straddled by beautiful shrubs and floral growth, and a traditional English walled garden (red brick exterior walls). So making the bouquet and arrangements “pop” in this context was far from simple. Thanks Leanne and Marty for your excellence and friendship : )

Without further ado, here is a glimpse of Leanne and Marty’s shop,

– The Violets

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LSP Designs: 676 King Street West, Kingston Ontario, 613.545.0962

Grace Ormonde Wedding Style

Lauren Bartoli | Freelance Make-Up Artist

TheViolets — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:22:35 +0000

Make-up, and make-up done well, should be considered a top priority for any bride who is investing in professional photography. Camera lenses see differently than the human eye, high quality cosmetics and professional application really are a significant contribting factor in making you look your best in front of the camera.

Our new friend and colleague Lauren Bartoli is both extremely talented and incredibley kind. We have worked with her on a coulple of projects, weddings and boudoir, and now want to take her with us wherever we go.

She has worked for MAC, one of the most popular cosmetics lines available, for four years. During this time Lauren has been professionally trained by MAC and has absorbed a plethorah of information and techniques that relate to her profession through her 10 years of experience and freelance work.

Lucky for all of us, Lauren was asked to come from Ottawa to manage Kingston’s one and only MAC counter (The Bay). We strongly recommend commissioning Lauren, who is available as a freelance make-up artist here in the city, the next time you are in front of the camera.

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You can contact Lauren at 613 532 4280