Today we’re going to have a look at Heather and Jeremy’s beautiful autumn affair.  They had picked one of those super-sought after wedding dates – to be specific, 9/10/11 – so, she was smart in booking me many many months in advance.  That turned out to be a super popular date to get married!  I mean, it makes sense.  It would be reeeealy hard to forget your anniversary when you pick a day like that.

I digress.

Heather is the cutest thing.  Her energy is fantastic.  She’s like a blonde dynamo of fun energy and we had an absolute blast working together.  She is fun fun fun from head to toe.  So I prepped her and her bridal party at the Nu Hotel in Brooklyn, which is a great space to get ready in.  They had a super cool sunken-in bed situation that just looked amazingly modern and cozy.

For her makeup, I airbrushed her for super perfect skin, and then on her eyes we did a lovely gold shimmery palette to really pop her eyes.  I used a lot of brown liner to really make them stand out.

Check me out, all focused and hard at work….

Don’t those lashes look real!?!?  Amazing and gorgeous, right?

There’s me applying the finishing touches….

And voila!  Doesn’t she look like a life-sized Barbie?  I mean that in the nicest possible way!!!  Just adorable.

Right before the first look…I love the look on her face here!

Then everyone piled into cars and whatnot and traveled out to Long Island to the venue, Milleridge Cottage, which I’ve never been to, but it looks lovely.  I had done 7 ladies’ makeup in total, all by my lonesome – a conflict came up last minute with my assistant.  So that was a bit rough, but 7 was perfectly workable.

 

 

Obligatory cake shot because I LOVE cake!!!!  Pretty!!!!

Looks like you guys had an amazing, wonderful time!  Thanks so much for having me on board that day, and a huge congrats to you both!!!

Special thanks to the amazing Daniel Kreiger for such fantastic images!

Prep location: Nu Hotel, Brooklyn

Venue: Milleridge Cottage, Long Island

Photography: Daniel Kreiger
Makeup: Anni Bruno with NYC Faces

Hair:  Faces Salon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is one of the loveliest ladies around – Melissa.  Melissa and her friend Jackie came to me to do their trials together, as they were only getting married a few months apart – and we all had a blast working together.  I’m really looking forward to seeing both Jackie and Melissa again in a few months, when it’s Jackie’s turn!  So fun.

Here she is with her mom.  She seems calm, right?  Well – I was amazed, because she really was….despite the fact that a full-on hurricane was heading it’s way up to NYC, right in time for her ceremony.  I would have been freaking out, but Melissa just kept smiling and rolling with it.  From what I understand, there were some major last-minute changes made, due to the weather, but based on how much fun it looks like they had, I don’t think they minded!

How gorgeous is she?  What is her secret to that perfect skin!?!?!  I didn’t have to use much foundation on her at all, and mainly focused on bringing out her eyes with warm, shimmery, coppery/gold tones.  Absolutely stunning on her.  Because her skin is so pretty, any color I put on her just looked amazing – and ladies, that is the ultimate secret to makeup.  The more perfect the canvas is that you start with, the prettier the overall look will be.  That’s why good skincare is sooo important.

Every photo is just gorgeous, pure joy and love emanating from everyone.  Really lovely emotions captured by Zlatko Batistich – he’s so good!  The facial expressions he captures are really remarkable.

It really looks like she had an amazing, fairytale, hurricane-fabulous wedding.  And she deserves it, she is a TOTAL sweetheart.

And there were bubbles.  SO FUN!  Congrats you guys!

I love love love this wedding!  Katerina and Drew had a gorgeous and chic Brooklyn wedding earlier this year.  Their style super sharp!  And I love all of their photos – editorial quality for sure.

I loved working with her because she’s a huge fan of blush, a cosmetic product many women fear or don’t use at all.  Blush is super important – especially in photos, otherwise you can look super washed out.  Katerina is actually wearing a pretty deep red cream blush, with a hot pink powder blush on top.  In person, she had gorgeous, flushed cheeks – but if you’ll notice, in the photos they don’t look super rosy.  Something to always remember is that the makeup will always look like it’s a lot less heavy in photos then it does in real life.  The trick is finding the perfect balance.

Katerina has a really unique, fierce beauty, and I love that.  Her skin is super freckly and beautiful.  I hardly used any foundation on her at all because her skin is already super nice.  Some girls like to cover their freckles but I hate doing that…it’s part of your uniqueness, so embrace it!  Also if you try to cover all your freckles you’re going to look like you’re wearing a mask.  There’s really no point.

Check out all the personalization they did.  All the paper art was really lovely.

A big shout out to The Green Building – one of the coolest, prettiest venues in Brooklyn.  A great space.

And who doesn’t love a candy station?  Adorable.

Coolest rings!

And for your viewing pleasure, more of their fabulous day….

Congrats you two!!!

Makeup: Anni Bruno with NYC Faces
Hair: The Parlour Brooklyn
Photography: Brookelyn Photography
Flowers: Verde Flowers
Venue: The Green Building
DJ: 74 Events