Last month I [the wife part of Jillian McGrath Photography] made my way up to Scranton to the amazing show room of Maggpie Vintage Rentals for a fun evening of boudoir photography. I have been wanting to build our business to include boudoir but it never really took off. So I jumped at the chance to photograph the beautiful Danielle and Maggie [her blog post is coming later] on Maggie’s amazing vintage furniture. Classic beauties on classic furniture, what could be better???

Boudoir in my mind should embody whatever it is that makes the woman in front of the camera feel beautiful. Whether that is wearing her significant other’s button up shirt or wearing little at all, it really is all about her! For my venture into boudoir photography I also decided that I want to stay away from the hotel room feeling photography, though it is really beautiful and is a perfect location for some, I prefer looking for interesting locations with a little less static feeling. Or even traveling outside for a boudoir session, hey nature can be sexy too! So Maggie’s current show room was a perfect start towards building our boudoir portfolio. The amazing windows full of light, the old molding around the doors, and a gorgeous stair case, if I could live there I would in a heartbeat. My heart will forever be with older homes with all of their character and high ceilings.

Danielle was so easy to work with, she’s naturally beautiful, easy to talk to and a lot of fun to spend an evening with. With the intentions of giving these images to her man for Valentine’s day we started with one of his favorite shirts, then moved to his favorite team’s jersey [and Danielle rocked both!]. Then onto something more feminine and beautiful, Danielle’s white outfit had a little more of an angelic feeling which went well with the beautiful back lighting coming in through the windows and we ended with something still classy and beautiful but a little more risky I had such a blast and am so thrilled to share these images with you. I couldn’t be more proud of them and happy that Danielle agreed to let me share them!

Danielle, I really hope that these helped to make your Valentine’s Day a little extra special and that your guy enjoyed them! You were a blast to work with and if you ever want to do it again give me a call!!! Thank you again for allowing me to photograph you and making my passion for photography so easy Enjoy <3

We over here at Jillian McGrath Photography are super excited to announce that we will be giving one lucky bride and groom FREE wedding day coverage. It doesn’t stop there, we’ve teamed up with Birdhouse Productions to offer free photo + cinema coverage for one lucky 2013 wedding couple. There is no catch, you don’t need to jump through a crazy amount of hoops to get this amazing gift all you have to do is visit the giveaway section on the Borrowed Event website for details on how to enter. The winner will be announced at the Borrowed Event on April 1, 2012. So be sure to check out the giveaway page for all of the details on how to enter

2 Birds, 1 Day – Bluebird Package

Photo

– Complete Wedding Day Photographic Coverage by Jillian + Ryan McGrath
– High Resolution Digital Images of Wedding Day
– Two Month Online Ordering Gallery

Cinema

– 8-9 hours of Wedding Day Coverage with Natalie & Mark
– 5-7 minute Cinematic Wedding Film
– Full Toasts Film, edited between 2 cameras
– 3 custom designed WHCC DVDs

**Not Included/Items sold separately:**

– Engagement session
– Photographic prints or albums
– Cinema add-ons
– Travel Costs (beyond 100 miles one way)

Go on over and check out borrowed – and be sure to enter the contest on our giveaway page! We can’t wait to read your entries! And of course, to promote our giveaway, we had a fun shoot with Natalie & Little Miss Lovely, our beautiful, vintage blogger friend. Enjoy the photos + film! (And just THINK: This could be YOU!)

Video: Created by the amazing Birdhouse Productions

Model: the always Beautiful Little Miss Lovely

Photos: The Husband + Wife behind Jillian McGrath Photography

We love sharing sneak peeks of sessions we do with couples, and this one is no different! Here is a little peek at the engagement session we did today with the lovely Katie + Byron. An adorable couple, who weren’t expecting to have a snowy engagement session, but ended up with one Hey we love shooting in the snow Enjoy <3

Here is our shoot with the most fabulous couple Tracy and Brian. These two hail from Virginia, and were a short drive away from the most amazing of locations, Georgetown (underneath Georgetown University). This was the coolest historic/ quaint/ hip college towns we have ever been in…yes we have been in a few. These two were simply amazing to work with. They had such a passion for each other, and an appreciation of awesome things, including Harry Potter! What an easy couple to photograph, honestly they may have done more work than us! The high point of the shoot was stopping in at Baked and Wired coffee shop, absolutely fabulous food and coffee! These two were more than a joy to work with and talk to during our shoot. They just had so much fun and showed some much love that we were absolutely blown away.

We want to thank Tracy and Brain so much for showing us around Georgetown and having awesome conversations. We had an absolute blast, thank you again!

We are so excited here to have been featured on the amazing blog Heart Love Weddings. This is such a great and humbling honor and the perfect blog for one of our favorite engagement sessions to go up on in this month of love. This beautifully designed blog features love stories and happy endings, seriously what blog could be better and more appropriate for our work seeing that is what we are all about Not to mention is features the love birds from the o so talented Birdhouse Productions, you can read all about their love story and even take a peek at their awesome engagement video! So be sure to check out our feature and get a little wedding inspiration while you are there: Be My Valentine Winter Engagement Session Inspiration Board

To end with a quote from Heart Love Weddings that I adore: “Don’t just live in the moment. Love in it.” Enjoy <3

Flowers By: Sullivan Owen Floral & Event Designs

Hair By: Brianna Adams

Makeup By: April Chatman-Royce