If you want explosive smoke bomb photos on your wedding day, here are lots of inspiration, facts and myths answered so you can nail your shot!

While helping plan my mom's wedding, I've learned that there is a wedding photo style for a 20-ish bride and a wedding photo style for a 50-ish bride. Check out this awesome infographic to figure out which wedding photo style is right for your personality!

Photography Tips: How to pose in a wheelchair 19 comments blogging, body, disability, fashion, lifestyle, photo, photography One of the trickiest parts of taking a good ootd photo is posing. Add being plus size (ish) & in a wheelchair to that & it becomes a fine art. It's also something I have searched for advice on & have found absolutely nothing....so I thought I should probably share what little I've managed to work out ^^ Hopefully it'll be helpful to a few of you ^^ Okay so the basic premise of posing is to make your body look as good as possible, a.k.a. well proportioned, slim & without too many chins ^^ The best post I read on 'normal' posing is this one from wear & where &, honestly, it's where I learnt all the theory behind my tips. Wheelchair Positioning As far as posing in a wheelchair goes, getting the wheelchair looking right is pretty essential. There are an awful lot of angles from which wheelchairs look BAD! And when I'm saying bad I mean really bad. Trial & error has taught me that the best angle to take photos from is 45 degrees; the wheelchair is still visible so you don't look shrunken but the wheelchair is not so visible that it makes you look weird. Head on is a pretty good as an angle too but be careful because unless the wheelchair is at least a little bit visible you'll end up just looking really short & kind of wide which is not flattering believe you me ^^ Posing The most important part of posing is good posture: straight back, pulled back shoulders & an elongated neck. In the wheelchair it is also good to sit at an angle because otherwise you can look kind of L-shaped or....like a staircase you know? If you sit at an angle you elongate & look almost as tall as you would stood up ^^ One of the least flattering things about the way a person sits in a wheelchair is the way you look with your feet, one on each footplate. I wear a lot of skirts so it's extra unflattering...so I started putting both feet on one footplate & now I do it even when I'm not wearing a skirt. I just find that it looks a lot better in photos & full stop looks more feminine ^^ The final posing tip is this: keep space between your arms & your body otherwise it all merges & you end up looking double the width which does not look pretty. It doesn't have to be as much space as in the above picture, a little goes a long way, but any space help ^^ Extras I'll go over camera angles another time so the last things I have to talk about are how to position your hands & how to arrange a skirt. If you don't have anything to do with your hands they can end up looking marginally claw like so until you've gotten used to making your hands actually look casual you might want to use a prop or do something in the pictures like apply lipstick or sort your hair. Skirts can be tricky, particularly if they are long or a soft fabric... Most clothes rely on gravity to hang right & on movement to look pretty but in a wheelchair neither is working to your advantage so positioning is how you level the playing field. The aim is to create movement like folds in the skirt & to stop the skirt from getting between your legs, emphasising your stomach or puffing up around the side of your body....it's easier said than done & like most of these things it's a matter of trial & error & finding a style that works for you. blogging, body, disability, fashion, lifestyle, photo, photography 19 comments Share it:

Some of these may be old abbeys, restored warehouses, fragments of castles left behind, there's even an abandoned train station, too! If you're a lover of old buildings and those that don't necessarily have major curb appeal, but rather delight with their worn stones and overgrown greenery, get ready! You're going to fall head over heels for these historical beauties.

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We get it. You want a wedding that wows. And bold statements call for even bolder moves, like taking your big day abroad for a dream destination wedding. On our list of must-haves? Historic castles, Italian villas, elegant estates, ancient ruins—places that can bring your fairytale wedding to life with history, style and unbeatable views. For that order, we turn to Europe. Filled with ancient hideaways and coastal retreats, the EU is full of hidden gems ideal for saying “I do,” and we’ve found the creme de la creme of wedding venues all across Europe. Reporter: Erica Nichols

Archetype Studio has swept us off our feet with this styled shoot at Kellie Castle that features gorgeous gowns and picture-perfect wildflowers gardens.

According to bride Claire De Lozier-Hill, her decision to leave her wedding entirely in the hands of her planner meant she and groom Chase Hill “were able to enjoy not only our wedding day fully but the one-and-a-half years we spent engaged.”

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Love knows no bounds, and for Lisa and Ethan, their journey led them to the breathtaking landscapes of the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. More specifically, one of my favorite venues, The Griffin House .

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Breann and Ronnie's Corcomroe Abbey wedding in Ireland was one of the most intimate celebrations we've ever seen! Their ceremony took place in a This Corcomroe Abbey wedding in Ireland was one of the most intimate celebrations we've ever seen and included the sweetest Irish traditions.

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In the chaos of wedding season madness it's taken us a while to find the time to actually organize ourselves enough to create new blogposts... BUT we're finally getting this surreal experience up and out there so all of you can ooh and ahh over Jes and Kael as much as we have. Looking through these

Some of these may be old abbeys, restored warehouses, fragments of castles left behind, there's even an abandoned train station, too! If you're a lover of old buildings and those that don't necessarily have major curb appeal, but rather delight with their worn stones and overgrown greenery, get ready! You're going to fall head over heels for these historical beauties.

“I love my now wife so much that all of my childhood dreams of what a wedding should be went out the window,” Alexus says. “I just wanted to be with her and a few people that meant something to her and myself.”

Alexandra Daddario and her now-husband, producer Andrew Form, chose Preservation Hall to be their venue. “We wanted it to be about music, drinking, and authentic New Orleans,” the bride says.

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Right after Vilde and Eirik got engaged, they already knew that they wanted a small and intimate wedding with only their immediate family and friends. "When we started to talk about a location, we thought that doing the wedding somewhere abroad would be cool. We looked at each other and said Italy at the same time, so that was it! "

The Big Bang Theory star tied the knot with professional equestrian Karl Cook at an intimate wedding near San Diego, California, on June 30

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The Artists Muse Broadfield Court weddings, Herefordshire. Creative editorial with dusky pinks and mustards. Ethereal fine art story telling imagery

A seaside National Park wedding in Maine. Join Kira and Nicky as they celebrate their love in the historical Eliot Cottage on Mount Desert Island.

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New Zealand Wedding Photographer Dawn Thomson photographed this editorial shoot as part of Forage and Fern workshop hosted by Magnolia Rouge in beautiful Queenstown New Zealand.

Melissa and Bill decided to hire one of the world's best wedding photographers, Ed Peers, for their destination elopement to Playa de las Catedrales