With Sadness the doors of Adorn Bridal will be closing soon.  After the first of  April we will no longer be meeting clients at this beautiful location.  But if your looking for fantastic deals there will be some great closing sales.  I will continue to meet with clients and to refer the wonderful people who were part of the vendor team down there.  I’ll just have to keep you updated on our new meeting location.

San Jose, CA Febrruary 09, 2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Jill Johnson Photography has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Wedding Photography.

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Jill Johnson Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Jill Johnson is among the very best Wedding Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.

We had such a great time doing Lindsays session. This session is known as so many things at the gallery, the girlie session, the boudoir, the booty-wah,  the pin up I”m sure there is more that I”m forgetting.  But what is great about these sessions is they are custom built to who were photographing and the feel and image they want to create.  So whether your looking for nostaligic, sexy, funny, dramatic, hot, steamy, innoncent, etc. or all the above we set out to create the fantasy.

Creating the timeless images of  old pinup with a modern twist was really inspiring and fun.  Lindsay was awesome and gave us everything she had. I love how she has an Elizabeth Taylor quality in some of the photos. Especially the first one of her on the bed.  This is one of my favorties.  It is just reminenescent of hollywood glamour of the 40’s and 50’s.  I can almost see Marilyn in the same pose.

On the last shoot of the day it happened to be in the elevator.  We loved the red velvet walls inside.  ( I know we find some of the craziest locations).  Best part was of course people had to get to their rooms, so in between letting people on and off we would do the shots. Well what made the ride so interesting and funny  was there was a rugby team from England in town.  There was two elevators but I swear as they rode up they called their buddies and told them to get on the second one.  We would laugh so hard at these guys.  They wanted to know if she was famous, or an upcoming model, or was it for a band cover.  They got even more excited when we told them it was a boudoir shoot.  I love where the guy on the right is looking.  Lindsay was so fun she just hammed it up for them.  In fact, they wanted us to go meet them at the bar to celebrate their victory.  If they only knew how exhausted we from the entire shoot.

Thanks so much to the Cypress Hotel who allowed us to use your their beautiful hotel for our backdrop. Thanks to Tia Reagan my partner in crime who waved her magic wand and transformed Lindsay back in time with her make-up, hair, and wardrobe skills.  And to Lindsay who worked it all day for us.  You were perfect for what we had envisioned.

Would you like to do this for someone special? Or maybe it is something you always wanted to do. Please contact us at the gallery and find about the session.  These make a great gift for your someone special.  Ask us about the little black book.

At the end of March and beginning of April we had so much rain that I thought I would try and just do something fun in it.  Angie was a trooper and was all for it.  It was a pretty cold shoot but I believe we got some really fun stuff.  I just love the colors from this session.  These boots were the inspiration for the whole thing.