ARTSY BRIDE

Hello ARTSY[bride]!

ARSTY[bride] where aesthetically driven weddings come priceless.
Based out of New Orleans.

About US
The Artistic Hats we have worn: wedding photographers for our company, Atelier NOLA, creative director & graphic designer for a NOLA wedding magazine, stylists for photo shoots, print campaigns & fashion shows, web design, contributing writer, fine art photographers & painters, department store visual director, interior decorators, and now... wedding bloggers for ARTSY[bride]

We know it sounds like a whole lot, but the one thing that connects our many accomplishments together is aesthetics. It's the essential underlying foundation of all creative and artistic professions. Aesthetics is one of those elusive terms that is hard to explain but you know it when you see it. We like to describe it as the "beauty in living." It's the study of beauty and art combined. One of the coolest thing about aesthetics is that comes with no price tag and in reference to weddings it does not necessarily mean it costs more. A $50,000 wedding may be less aesthetically pleasing than a $10,000. It's more about how and where you spend your money, than just spending it.

True story from Nonney:
I was the Visual Image Director for two major department stores in the New Orleans area. Both had display windows that I designed semi monthly. The first store - where I received all my training - had an insanely high monthly budget, sometimes ranging in the tens of thousands per window design. The second place I worked - which in the long run, I found much more exciting and rewarding - had an insanely low budget of $100 per window design, sometimes with a little begging, $250 for the Christmas window. I can remember a funny conversation that I had with my new boss about the budget. I thought we were speaking in "thousands," but much to my astonishment, he was speaking in "hundreds." I remember going to my new office thinking, "How am I going to pull this off?" Long story short: The store where I made the biggest difference was the latter. For my first job, it was easy to just buy expensive items to put in the windows, but that was all it was: just more expensive items. They did not necessarily make the windows look better or more aesthetically pleasing. The latter job, with my $100 window budget made me reach inside my creative spirit and pull out some really unique ideas. The trick was that the $100 windows designs had to looked equally as polished to any other window design . Much to my surprise and delight, my creative windows designs increased the store's profit margin and had me nationally recognized by the top people in the company.

The same thing repeated itself at a bridal magazine were Ole and I worked as the Creative Director and Graphic Designer team. Printing the magazine per page cost the same, no matter what you put on the page. So we made those pages sing.

We have that same philosophy for our photography clients too. We often joke with our couples when arranging their photo shoots/ wedding photography by asking them, "What do you want people to say about your photos? That's a pretty picture or do you want them to be envious?" Our services do not cost anymore to do "spectacular" then it is do "common." So why settle for common when spectacular is in your grasp?

We absolutely share this philosophy about weddings. We know that aesthetics is something that can be achieved on all budgets. It's just finding the right resources. That is what we will be exploring with ARTSY[bride]. So please, stick around and explore with us! It's going be fun!

Nonney & Ole