Hey everyone! So this week I’m out of the country… hanging out in Peru with Compassion International! Compassion is a non-profit organization that has asked me to travel with them as their photographer. I got to travel with them in August to Burkina Faso, Africa, and I am absolutely thrilled & honored that they’ve invited me to travel again as their photographer for this Peru trip! I’ll be posting a few photos from Peru over on my personal blog, so feel free to check it out over there. Also, here’s a short video to give you a little glimpse of my trip to Burkina Faso…
I can’t tell you just how much we loooove these Pin-Up Parties™! We have been doing them for about three years now and I really feel like we just barely perfected them. So much detail goes into executing these bad boys, but I just adore that we get to come together as a team, with all of us working hard and tag teaming shooting, processing and viewing all in one day.
What is a Pin-Up Party™ you might ask? Well, a Pin-Up Party™ is the perfect bachelorette party or birthday party. It allows girlfriends to get together and totally pamper themselves for a day with a unique experience. We take turns photographing each girl in a “mini” boudoir session, then process their photos and give them each viewing on the same day! Not only are sales stellar because the girls are pushing each other to get more photos, but as a studio we can accomplish up to ten shoots in one day, making the same profit that Marissa used to on a wedding on Saturday, except that the parties are still during the week and Marissa now enjoys weekends off. Yay!
At our boudoir workshops we will be giving the full scoop on how we make a Pin-Up Party™ run smoothly while keeping profits high. We love to see other boudoir photographers also doing parties in the future! Email us at [email protected] if you are considering joining us for a workshop. We would love to have you! We still have a few spots available for $1100 so act fast!
I just posted this on twitter – Do you want to see my 1992 Glamour Shots photo? I’m willing to share it here on the blog, if enough people respond and say that you’d like to see it. Let me warn you: it’s pretty amazing. Gold jewelry and all. M & I are planning for our next fun photo shoot so that we can have some new photos on our NEW WEBSITE!!! We have some ridiculous style ideas about what we want to wear – so I brought in this photo today to possibly gain some inspiration from the fabulous gold-studded jacket I was wearing. Respond here on the blog – or over on Twitter – if you want to see the photo. 🙂
PS- our new website for the San Diego boudoir studio is going to be launched so soon! Marissa has been working like CRAAAAAAZY to get this website up & running. We’re using the amazing SHOWIT for our new website, and we are so excited to launch this baby! We just need some new shots of the 2 of us… and then we need to add a few more finishing touches to the site… and then it will be launched! Be sure to check in with the blog for the announcement of the new site launch. If you’re interested in standing apart from the crowd – and creating a unique website that you have complete control over, we recommend getting a Showit Site ASAP! They are amazing.
The Boudoir Divas are excited to introduce our newest addition to the Diva family! Ashley, the “Go-to-Girl” aka Diva Assistant will be doing everything from keeping up the blogs and webisodes, to marketing, to traveling with the Divas for workshops. The company is doing so well (thanks to all of you!) that we just had to bring another fabulous diva on to keep everything organized and help us continue to grow and reach all of our goals. We all look forward to having you meet her at the upcoming workshops!
Sorry it took us a while to get these up and running folks. It seemed that the download was just too huge for our boudoirshop.com. So from now on, even though you will buy them from the shop, we will be emailing you the templates via a program called “You Send It” which is well equipped to handle gargantuan downloads. You can still buy the templates on www.boudoirshop.com or call our studio to pay over the phone, 858-485-0443, and within 2-3 business days we will email you the templates. I know some of you who purchased the templates in the past had some funky errors so please email us your reciept and we will shoot you a fresh batch. [email protected]
The Tres Tres Chic Templates are boudoir photography templates for boudoir albums. They are perfect for KISS Books or other 8×8 photography albums. The Boudoir Divas use these templates to create the 25+ 8×8 boudoir albums that they sell every month. Enjoy!
The San Diego boudoir studio staff! From left to right… YULIANA (client concierge) | CRYSTAL (photographer & studio manager) | DEENA (photographer & in-house designer) | KIMBERLEE (photographer & co-owner) | MARISSA (photographer, co-owner, founder) | WESTON (Supreme Czar… photographer for Boucher Photography, founder of the SD studio, Marissa’s hubby). CLICK ON OUR NAMES TO FOLLOW EACH OF US ON TWITTER! [Coming soon: the newest addition to the Diva Family, Miss Ashley! Check back later today to meet her!]
Check out this video for a preview of our evening @ the SDSW party!
We have been advertising in San Diego Style Weddings Magazine for quite a few years now, and it has done really great things for us and our business! We were the first boudoir photography advertisers in the magazine, and a few years ago, we also prompted them to write their first article about Boudoir Photography. Now that boudoir is becoming more and more popular, SDSW is continuing to write new articles about the growing trend. (And – we have to mention – the author of this year’s boudoir article LOVED our tagline “Feel like a supermodel for a day”™… because that’s what he used for the introduction and conclusion of the article! Woo-hoo! 🙂 Ok, back to the party. Last week, we all got to head down to Loews Coronado Resort for the annual SDSW industry party! And let me just say – Dena & her team certainly do know how to throw a good party. Thanks, San DIego Style, for a wonderful evening! And thanks again, as always, for featuring us in the magazine. We are super excited about the editorial spread in this year’s mag, because it features photos from our San Diego staff photographers, Crystal & Deena! Congrats, gals! 🙂
Only 1 shoot still available for this Saturday – with ALL PROCEEDS going to support Breast Cancer Research! Call to book your shoot with Kimberlee or Marissa – here at the San Diego boudoir studio! [858.485.0443]
