Stumble It!
Contest: KOLO
As a proud scrapbooking nerd, I'm always looking for new ways of displaying my images and memories in fresh modern ways.... which is why I'm so excited about this week's contest! {KOLO} creates photo presentation and storage products that are modern, colorful, beautiful, high-quality and archival, so you can showcase your images in a form that will maintain quality for years. You can choose from a wide variety of colors and high-quality materials such as premium archival paper, tightly woven book linen, and soft and luxurious leather. Each can be applied to several different album sizes. There are so many options! On top of this, customers can create thier own digital Kolo albums online and have their gorgeous albums mailed to them just days later. Such a great gift idea!
Win: The elegant cloth-covered {Kolo Newport album}. One lucky reader will be able to choose the color and album size, and will also receive extra album pages and archival-quality album-making accessories. On top of this, our winner will receive a copy of the beautiful and informative new book, {“Photo Album, The Essential Guide for Storing, Sharing + Keeping Photos”} by Vanessa Holden and Susie Cushner. This book, full of stunning photographs and tons of how-to information, is co-authored by a world-renowned photographer and designer team, who offer inside tricks of the trade for creating truly beautiful and personal photo albums. What a perfect way to learn about showcasing your gorgeous wedding images!
To Win: Leave a comment here telling us about your favorite wedding image of all time and why you love it! It can be from your wedding or one you've seen on our blog or elsewhere. (Leave a comment with a link to it here if possible) We will chose a winner at random.
Contest ends Tuesday, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo!!) at midnight. Good luck, everyone!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 01:30PM
Reader Comments (63)
I love one of my own wedding pictures... It's a photo of me and my father before we walk down the aisle. He's smiling at the camera and I'm looking at him. I can remember the moment the photo was taken and I had that feeling that he was having as much fun as I was!
My future sister-in-law and brother-in-law have this silhouette photo of them kissing at sunset on a cliff over the ocean in her hometown. The colors are beautiful, the silhouette is romantic, and the location is very meaningful. For our wedding, I am trying to mimic the silhouette at sunset but want it at my favorite mountain in Phoenix (our hometown) overlooking the city with a cactus in the picture (it's just so Phoenix).
I love, love, love KOLO...what an awesome giveaway. My favorite shot has been by our very own photographer shooting our wedding this August, Travis Hoehne: http://travishoehne.blogspot.com/2008/06/clean-white-wedding-dress-dirty-old-gas.html. So grungy, but utterly chic. I love it!
My all-time favorite wedding image is from my sister's wedding, as my dad is walking her down the aisle. The way they are looking at each other - both grinning, and my sister so excited - is so classic and so THEM. It still makes me tear up like no other photo, five years later. Even though I've decided to have both of my parents walk me down the aisle next month instead of just my dad, that photo stands up for me as what having your parents - one or both - beside you in that moment is all about.
I love the picture of my grandparents on their wedding day. They look so happy and knowing how their love lasted makes me excited for my own marriage!
i can't link to my favorite picture because it hasn't been taken yet! my fiance and i will be married on june 20, 2009, at the same cathedral where my parents were married 35 years ago, almost to the day (june 22, 1974). we plan to recreate some of their wedding shots at our wedding. however, i'm sure my favorite shot will be something candid, captured by my photographer - josh malahy (www.jmalahy.com) - who is amazing. i would use the kolo album for our photobooth guestbook. our photographer is using us as the guinea pigs for this popular new offering, which i asked him to do for us. we plan to hang some festive fabric in a corner at the reception and let our guests ham it up all night!
My favorite image of all time...it is one I've seen of an engagement shoot. This is a time apart from the wedding (the guests, the activities, the dinner, family, etc.). The couple is a week away from their "big day" and taking time to spend with one another. They are in a secluded hill-y and woodsy area. Their expressions show peace, contentment, love, and utter anticipation of spending the rest of their lives with their best friend. I hope to have that same heart and expression before my wedding day. I do not want to forget the special meaning of the day. Thank you!
What a great contest! The best image I saw was when my 90 year old grandparents got up on the dance floor and danced to some 80s music. It was classic!
I don't know if this counts as a wedding image, because it's an engagement picture, but I really love this Max Wanger photo of a couple and a red balloon. I hope to find some sort of cool prop for my engagement photos as well. Thanks for offering the opportunity to win this Kolo album and the book - I've been drooling over the Newport Album for months now, and have so many great ideas for how I'd arrange wedding photos once I get them!
"all-time favorite" is tough ... but I do love the image of JFK Jr. & Carolyn leaving the chapel. Such simple elegance.
I have so many favorite images from our wedding day, but one that I always come back to and sigh with delight is this shot: http://shorl.com/tohusebralamu This photo was taken just a few minutes after we saw each other for the first time on our wedding day and the contentment on our faces is just so clear. A little earlier I was nervous about the day and a tad perturbed that my husband's boutonniere wasn't delivered to the right place (hence why he is not wearing it in this photo), but once we saw each other, all was right with the world and nothing could go wrong at that point -- we were just plain THRILLED to be marrying one another that day. Fortunately the day only got better and it was spectacular.
I love images that capture the groom, just as the bride starts down the aisle. It's so much fun to see the big grins on their faces. :)
My favorite wedding photo is from my parent's wedding. They have an amazing marriage and that has added to the sentiment behind this photo. The photo is of my parents' hands, one on top of the other, on top of a family Bible. The Bible belonged to my great grandparents, who also had an amazing marriage. When both of my grandparents passed my parents inherited the Family Bible. Today it sits in the entry of my parents' house, I hope to incorporate the Bible in my wedding this fall.
I love pretty much anything shot by Our Labor of Love -- I'm SO EXCITED they're shooting my wedding! (I looked and tried to pick a standout, but it's all incredible. www.ourblogoflove.com.)
My favorite wedding image is a photo of my parents dancing at their backyard wedding in 1976. It is a very sweet moment between them. My father passed away almost 10 years ago and I am now planning my own wedding in a few months, and that photo just brings tears to my eyes on so many levels. I would love to win this book and use it to feature family photos and wedding photos to display at my own wedding!
I'm traveling now, so I don't have access to this photo I wish to describe: It's one of those pictures that becomes even more meaningful over time. It was taken at my parents' wedding reception in 1962 on a beautiful sunny day, in the backyard of the home where my mother grew up. The photo is black-and-white and shows my two great grandmothers, then in their 70s, in their cocktail-length dresses and lace-up black shoes, one wearing a flower-adorned hat and the other a little purse in her lap, and they are both laughing and swinging on a swing set.
It's priceless and is now framed and on display in my dining room. It elicits smiles from everyone who sees it.
I don't think I can win this contest because I'm related to a Kolo employee, but I couldn't resist sharing -- your contests are so much fun!
Wow, this question is nearly impossible to answer - you're really making us work for this prize! I'm not sure if I could ever pick just one favorite, but this one ranks pretty high up on my list (http://peach-pearl.blogspot.com/2008/11/dreamy-99-cents.html). Lily and John's wedding is perhaps my most favorite of all, and the photo of them dancing together gets me every time.
The photo was taken by the talented Kristin Spencer: http://www.kristinspencer.com/images/content/AVA179.jpg. When I read "favorite wedding image," I first tried to think of a favorite image of a bride and groom. But I realized no image really stuck to me. So I ventured to a different type of image - ones not of the bride and groom. And there it was. Flower girls are adorable and the flower girl in the photo holding the bridesmaids' train is just one of a kind. It's just the cutest thing.
My favorite photo is a picture of this bride staring adoringly at her husband as he says his vows. I just love it because her eyes sparkle from tears welling up, and you can only imagine the loving things he is saying to her.
Link: http://kelliekanophotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/img_9379s.jpg
Simple. Sweet. Full of Love.
My favorite wedding picture right now is not of my wedding (Since I am in the planning stages) It is from my photographer's blog (Todd Pellowe). It is of a groom that gets pooped on by a bird. He is laughing and takes it all so well. It reminds me that the wedding is just a day and the marriage will last the rest of our lives. This picture helps me to de-stress. enjoy!
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/babynursemerideth/6a00d8341c7f5053ef00e554cfd5fb8834-.jpg
here is Todd's blog for more great inspiration.
http://toddpelloweblog.com/louisville-wedding-photographer/
I love a black & white photograph of our wedding. The groom (my husband!) is the only one looking at the camera, and everyone else is looking a different direction (I am looking at him!) He just stands out so much & looks amazing! :)
I don't have one favorite photo but I do love all of Jose Villa's wedding photos. (www.josevilla.com) All his photos are romantic and innocent. I absolutely love all his work!
We just celebrated our 2nd anniversary- so this is an appropriate time to be discussing my favourite photo. Our photographer, Todd Pellowe, caught this amazing shot in the elevator at our hotel in Louisville. The lighting is amazing and I treasure it because it is so unique.
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I love the 'first look' photos where the couple sees each other before the ceremony- but has an intimate potrait session at the same time.
Since my own wedding hasn't happened yet (and I'm sure my favorite will be one of our own), I love this image found over at Rock N Roll Bride (http://www.rocknrollbride.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/he7.jpg). It's so peaceful and beautiful and just the two of them alone in the night! Lovely! This is a great giveaway, I would use the album for our wedding album because we're on a TIGHT budget and in order to keep photography costs down we will only be getting our images on CD and not an album - so this would be a great opportunity for us!