Is Your wedding just around the corner? Surely everything from planning to finding the best vendors, venue and wedding dress is an emotional roller coaster. You’re feeling all possible emotions and are excited, frustrated, panicky, scared and in-love all at the same time.
Treating yourself to a boudoir session might just be the perfect breather you need before the final jump to much married life!
You might have heard the words “Boudoir Shoot”, but what exactly is a boudoir photography session? Should you go for it? A boudoir session is a photography session where you wear sexy outfits, lingerie, dresses, or even go scantily clad and get your photographs taken by a professional, in a bedroom setting like a hotel suite. It can be your perfect respite from the wedding preparations that eventually even contribute TO the wedding preparations.
Here are our top 10 reasons why you should do a boudoir photo shoot BEFORE Your Wedding
1. IT MAKES A GREAT GIFT FOR YOUR FIANCE
Imagine the look on the face of your better half when you surprise him with a sexy little album full of hot photos of his fiancee!
Even if you’re not planning this shoot as a gift, you owe it to yourself to play glamour girl for a day, getting pampered by professionals doing make up and hair while you try on some of the sexy lingerie you are keeping aside for the honeymoon!
A boudoir shoot offers the perfect opportunity to indulge.
2. IT MAKES A GREAT GIFT FOR YOU – YOU WILL LOOK AMAZING!
Show off your beauty, your bridal glow and give yourself an esteem boost with photographs that you can treasure on your 50th anniversary! Do it for yourself. Get pampered. Indulge. Have a gala time! Fall in love with yourself!
Professional hair and makeup, a professional photographer, and professional retouching makes for some of the best portraits of yourself that you will ever see.
A boudoir photo shoot may show you how to celebrate what makes you uniquely beautiful. So if anything, you should book a shoot for the sake of your own self-confidence.
3. YOU’RE ALREADY LOOKING YOUR BEST FOR THE WEDDING
You’ve already been working on your fitness and are on a regimen and avoiding your favourite foods to look the best for your wedding day. You have already been taking skin care and hair care sessions to look your very finest. You already have the full body spa and massage appointments.
Show off all that hard work and document such a momentous time in your life.
4. YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE THE SHOPPING!
You must have sought out lingerie that’s tailored to your body, enhancing every curve and accentuating all the parts to wear at your honeymoon. Why not have some everlasting pictures of that preparation to last you a lifetime!
And booking a boudoir shoot gives you an excuse to document that look for all times to come. And even if you haven’t purchased it yet, buy it for the shoot and wear it on the honeymoon! Two birds, one stone and all that!
5. IT WILL PAMPER YOU
Getting treated like a celebrity for a few hours is great therapy for anyone! Book a shoot and the resultant images will put a little pep in your step! We play your choice of relaxing music to put you in the mood for posing. Just before the shoot we encourage our “models” to sip champagne or wine to help you loosen up just a tad and to enjoy your shoot all the more!
6. IT WILL EMPOWER YOU
We all have insecurities. The dissatisfaction can get the better of us when we unknowingly start to obsess over them.
And a boudoir photo shoot can be just the thing to remind you: you are beautiful just as you are. Like Nicole kidman says, you don’t need to get naked to look sexy. It’s all in the mind! A shoot like this encourages body positivity.
7. IT’S A GREAT WAY TO CELEBRATE YOUR NUPTIALS
Not only will you have gorgeous portraits of yourself, but when you look at them you’ll remember how amazing this time in your life was! Celebrate it!
When choosing a photographer, look for photographers that specialize in boudoir for the ultimate experience. Anyone can take photographs. But only Boutique photographers will provide a full experience with you at the center of it.
8. IT CAN BE GREAT FUN WITH YOUR GAL PALS
Apart from being a day of self indulgence, why not get your maids of honor or your besties to join you in the shoot as well? Make it a girls day out. It could be a unique Bridal shower party with all the gals getting their solo boudoir sessions done! And in the end we can have a few pics of all the gals together too to make a day of it.
Or Invite a couple of your best gal pals along to sip some bubbly and cheer you on from the sidelines.
9. IT’S THE PERFECT ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Getting a Boudoir shoot done can be a great means of artistic expression. It can reflect your personality and help Make a statement. Challenging societal norms and taboos around intimacy can be a liberating experience that allow you to form your OWN narrative. And it can be a perfect wedded bliss start to your relationship with your man.
10. IT’S THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO SEE IF YOU AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER ARE A GOOD FIT
