Free "Trash the Dress" Session (4)

Win a 1 hour TTD session in July (date to be determined) with NightinGail Photography. Session includes 1 hour of photography at Heritage Park, Barrie, on-line web gallery with 40 images, CD with 20 fully-retouched images in colour and B&W. Little Black Book with your choice of 10 images. Regular session value - $350. (sorry .. no cash value)

Rules:

1. You must be married.
2. You cannot worry about getting your dress dirty.
3. You like to have fun.
4. You want to have something different than those standard bridal portraits.
5. You don't care about getting wet!
6. You may bring your husband along (but only if he wants to take part).
7. Tell us why you'd be the one of the best candidates and e-mail me a photo of you in your gown (if I did not photograph your wedding.)
   

Winners will be chosen by voting here on the blog. Entries close on June 7th at midnight. Winners will be notified by June 10th.

Quick Update

Well, as you can see, NightinGail has been really busy.. and we owe our clients a big apology! Our on-line viewing and ordering gallery have been off-line for a couple of weeks due to problems at our hosting company. We have been unable to resolve the issues so we are currently in the process of a complete website redesign and a move to a new hosting company. The new on-line proofing/ordering galleries will be easier to use and add additional security features. We expect to have the new site on-line for June 1st.

Our wedding season is almost full with June and August being completely booked. There are still dates in July, September and October. As always our November 2008 - April 2009 receive a bonus offer for booking during the "off-season". Due to the number of inquiries and booking requests, we have added another primary photographer who will be available for you, should I be personally booked. She will be photographing the event; but all post-processing and final product are fully completed by me.

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Yervant-Bussick Times Two Tour last week. What an awesome experience to meet two of my wedding photography idols and see how they capture the image right through the post-processing. I absolutely cannot wait to implement some of their ideas into our work for this year.

We also want to congratulation Barb Kucher and Elizabeth Ashwood who were the certificate purchasers at the Wings Annual Dinner in March. We have already photographed the Kucher family (a fabulous group of five) at Sunnydale Park on Mother's Day. That's a great idea .. having family portraits taken for those special occassions. Call us to book your session today.

Please stay tuned for the latest updates and as always, please e-mail us or give us a call for all of your photography needs!

International Women's Day Dinner

We were thrilled to be able to donate three certificates for a one hour environmental portrait session with an 11x14 wall portrait for the sponsored organization "Grandmothers to Grandmothers" which provides assistance to the grandmothers in Africa who are raising their grandchildren due to the AIDS epidemic held at the Barrie Country Club on March 7, 2008 hosted by WINGS (Women In Networking Growing Strong) and BBWN (Barrie Business Women's Network)

Congratulations to Barb Kucher who purchased two of our certificates for this excellent cause. We are looking forward to photography the Kucher family shortly at Sunnydale Park in Barrie.

Thanks again, Barb, for supporting the Grandmothers to Grandmothers organization.

Fun with the Kids!

The kids are having a ball! NightinGail tried something new just for fun (for me actually). These are just a couple of my favourite shots that we got during an all-day session my friend's studio space. Well, as you can see, we had a great time this past weekend. I coerced some of my friends to bring their kids down to a studio where we played with the props and got everyone dressed up for an impromptu photo session.

The boys were having great fun playing around with the motorcycle among other great items in the studio while the girls were just doing what girls do -- Dress up and play!!. Thanks to Heather, Sherry and Daniella for letting Auntie Gail torture your kids once again as a learning experience.












We had such fun doing along with my friend, Diane, who really went above and beyond in helping me out with the use of her studio. All the costumes and props belong to Until Dawn Studio. If you are interested in this type of studio photographic art, please contact Diane directly.

We may do some more sessions later in the fall after our very fully wedding season winds down.

April Showers Special

Aren't we delighted to be slowly have the snow disappear from our yards! And so what if the April showers are on the way. After all, April showers bring May flowers and other exciting new things for spring.

We are offering to all new wedding clients our "April Showers" special. This is a booking special of a pre-tax savings of 20% for any new clients who book a wedding package with us before April 30th, 2008. This applies to any weddings which will be taking place during the remainder of 2008 and up to April 30, 2009. Please quote Coupon Code "April20080407 in any e-mail requests or when you call us at either 416-721-0541 or 705-792-5105. Please feel free to use our toll-free number at 1-866-488-2241.

NightinGail Photography is now specializing in weddings which includes engagements, Trash The Dress, and bridal boudoir portraits. We have now limited the number of weddings to three per month in order to provide our clients with the utmost attention to every detail of their wedding day.

Our 2008 schedule is currently filling up quickly under our new system:

April - 2 openings (April 26 gone)
May - 2 openings left (May 31st unavailable)
June - 1 opening (June 14 and 29th booked)
July - 2 openings (July 19 gone)
August - SOLD OUT
September -2 openings (September 6th taken)
October - 2 openings (Thanksgiving weekend booked)
November - 3 available dates
December - 2 available dates (December 6th unavailable)

Engagement, TTD and bridal boudoir sessions run periodically throughout the week. These sessions cannot be booked on Saturdays between May 24 and October 10th except by last minute scheduling.

We look forward to welcoming our new friends and clients. Remember that any wedding referrals from our current family of clients qualify you for a "special offer".