I have attended a boudior party and it was wonderful and I’m actually planning one for my birthday. At first i was really unsure about that kind of party because I had no one who would appreciate the photos but I loved seeing myself in a new light…a sexy light. The whole experience was the best it was bounding time with my girlfriends and a time for unleash are inner divas! I would recommend a attending and doing boudior party!!!

Oh I would SO DO THIS. I’m not even thinking about getting married, but it still induces confidence seeing yourself all dolled up, even if you feel silly in sexy underthings. I have a friend who frequently reminds me that being bigger is a classic type of beauty, and being stick skinny has only become “normal” in the past 60 years or so.

I’m a plus size woman, and a professional photographer. I have done boudoir sessions with women of all sizes. I personally think that there are two keys to doing this: 1) A photographer that understands your concerns about your body, and can help you feel comfortable, 2) appropriate poses. I concentrate on tasteful, pin-up style photos. I’ve learned in all my photography that the wrong pose can make a woman who is 98 lbs look like she has a double-chin, and the right pose can make make any woman look her best. Find a good photographer who is willing to work with you, and your body, just as it is!

I do most of my boudoir sessions in January for Valentine’s day gifts from married women to their husbands . . . but I have done one pre-wedding boudoir session. She used her lingerie that she was taking on her honeymoon. She told me that she knew that after kids her body may not look as good as it did right then, and she always wanted her husband to have something to remember her that way. It was a fun session - her mom was there, as well, and we laughed and had a great time.

I am planning a saucy vid of myself for a guy who is currently very far away… I sent him photos awhile ago when I was styling a boudoir shoot and the makeup artist, photographer and myself got all goofy after drinking too much wine and decided to do small shoots for each other. It was a couple days before Vday and we kind of just thought, we do this all the time for other people, why not ourselves? I LOVED how each of the sets turned out, the trick is to take TONS of photos so you can choose the five you like best. Also, I have to say, as the stylist, I wish that somebody had made sure my hair was falling correctly and details like that… but it WAS super fun, and gave me really good pointers for next time.

Anyhow, these photos I sent started this back and forth, and when he has been here they were brought up repeatedly, so now I am upping the bar a bit. Sort of like the way those short wedding videos are just a moving wedding photo album, I am going to take short vids and edit them together. Classy white dress shirt style. SO this is how I found this blog, doing research to see if anyone has done something like this. I just found a great article over on Wedding Bee that shows some great images as examples, and of course I promptly used them to explain what NOT to do in a shoot… but the third photo is just stunning and the PERFECT example of a plus sized shoot. IMO. I also commented over there with the longest most detailed comment possible, so I won’t reiterate here… but I TOTALLY love the positivity here from people who have done their own session. There are tricks to bring out your best (it IS all in the fake eyelashes) but also, the important part is that it is meant to be FUN and can give you a super brilliant experience FOR YOURSELF! Remember how amazing you looked when you were seventeen? Twenty three? Well at thirty, forty and fifty you will look back at your photos and remember how amazing you look now. Doing it for him is great… but for yourself is even better IMO. I don’t even know what size I am, probably a 14? 16? I’ve had two kids and it’s taken me awhile to figure out that I’m gorgeous the way I am now… things I’d like to change obviously… but that’s what life is about… always changing and so it should be! It’s all in how your photographer SEES you, so make sure you pick one who has not only worked with bigger girls, but also you can see examples of a style you really love. Not all of them know what to do with somebody that didn’t just walk out of a gym. Professional, years of experience, even female… these don’t NECESSARILY mean they know what they are doing in this case. But it’s worth finding the one who does

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