There’s something in us that wants to create and we’re not fully satisfied until we create, a friend once told me! This shoot was just that. Creating! And the best part about it, was creating something together with many other artists! The team that came together for this shoot was incredible and I couldn’t have asked to work with more giving and amazing people.

The concept behind the shoot was to bring Romantic Era elements to a wedding and to create Pride and Prejudice type of atmosphere for the wedding day. I loved how everyone interpreted the inspiration in their own way and how seamlessly it all came together. Thank you to everyone for your time, generosity and amazing work!

Credits:
Makeup + Hair: Gala Rusakov
Florist: Kristin Elliott
Paper Goods: Aerialist Press
Dress: La Soie Bridal
Cake: Ettore’s Bakery
Models: Willie + Tim Ingrum
Photography: Yuliya M.

Oh Willie, you’re so gorgeous!

These people laugh at my jokes, I love them even more now! ;)

I still can’t get over Willie’s hair, Gala, you are amazing!

Last one for the day with the last rays of sun!

To all those who worked behind the scenes, thank you! Vitaliy Zavorotny for coming up with the color palette. Dina Molitvenik for listening to my ideas, teaching the groom how to play the cello, being there for me, Anna Galbina for helping narrow down ideas, providing details, Julia Blinov for being bride’s stylist, ;) Dima Tomashevkiy for making a video, and many others who contributed their time and belongings to this shoot, thank you! Yours truly, Yuliya.

We stood around in a circle, with some of us still holding our instruments, and simply laughed. How could we after all that practice, mess up badly in all the unexpected places? Someone started in the wrong key, the drummer tried to rescue the situation by a loud beat at an inopportune time, the singers didn’t step in on time, and to highlight our band mishaps last night, the main vocalist disappeared on the last song and I ended up singing a duet with the bass player!!! I’m laughing writing about this, but at the end of the day we concluded that it would be boring if we were professional and would never mess up! And chances are we’ll have lots more of these nights, because it takes more than one round to learn something in life!

I woke up with mixed feelings about everything this morning. It might have been the consequence of a sleepless night, or the overflow of emotions and feelings from too many things happening at the same time, or maybe the deep sense of need to change the areas of my life where I need help. Perhaps it was a combination of all those things, but one thing I could pinpoint, is my need to work a little harder on my gratitude muscle. I thought I’ve learned my lesson, in fact, it’s only been two months since I blogged about being grateful, but life would be extremely boring if we would need only one round to learn something.

Lately I’ve been shown so much grace by people generously and willingly sacrificing their time and their means to help me. They took time to listen to my unending ideas, to help me implement some of them, to help me process the state of my business and to guide me in the right direction. I’m surrounded by people who set aside time to meet with me, people who miss concerts to be there for me, people who lend me and freely give me things, people who take time to say hi to me and be excited for the things I’m excited. And of course, how could I miss the people who offer chocolate croissants and coffee on the house for me and my friends, and people who are simply always willing to help without asking questions and all with a smile! I wouldn’t be far in life without these people by my side and for that I am so thankful and still need to keep on thanking! If you’re one of those people and are reading this at the moment, I’m blown away by your kindness and thank you for all that you do for me! Yours truly, Yuliya.