Update: Focused on a Cure

We've added a few more exhibits to our list! We wanted to update you on all of our locations that our Focused on a Cure gallery will be held.

September 30th - Achieve Fitness Membership Appreciation Night, 4:30-9pm, Concord

September 30th - October 10th - Concord Library

October 13th - October 17th - Bates Center at CMC Northeast

October 20th - October 24th - Breast Health Center at Copperfield

October 20th and 21st (evening only) - "2008 Healing Thread Fashion Benefit for the Northeast Foundation", Both nights at 7pm. (For more info, visit http://www.givenortheastfoundation.org/.)

October 27th - 31st - Cabarrus Family Medicine, Concord office

November 3rd - 9th - Carolina Mall, center court

November 10th - 14th - Wachovia, Church Street, Concord

November 17th-21st - Sportcenter Athletic Club, Concord

We have more locations that we will announce after the dates are finalized. But if you have a business of your own or an idea of a location that might be interested in hosting a gallery showing for us, please contact Renda at 704.933.5600 or renda@irresistibleportraits. Remember, the more shows we hold, the more awareness there will be!

Frick-Foster Wedding

Remember Aubrey and Jeremy from our summer vacation blog post. Well, they're now Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Foster!

We photographed their wedding last weekend at Ocean Isle Beach, NC.


On Friday, they held a luau rehearsal dinner with island music. We had a blast!!





Then, Saturday was the big day! Isn't she beautiful???





Even her flower girls were gorgeous!



We had a good time with the guys. We know who the crazy ones are in this group!





They said their vows on the sand.



And then we had our fun! This is only the beginning of their amazing images!






Anyone who's been to our weddings knows... we like to join in the fun! Here's Renda stealing the show!

Congratulations Aubrey & Jeremy! Thanks for letting us be a part of your special day! We wish you a lifetime of happiness!

Try It On for the Cure Update

Our Focused on a Cure exhibit debuted at the Coldwater Creek "Try It On for the Cure" last Sunday. They had a great turn out and our exhibit was a hit!



Incase you didn't know, for every customer that tried on an item in their store, Coldwater Creek donated $1 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Here's some images of our exhibit set out around the store.





With every purchase, customers received a raffle ticket towards some great door prizes. On the right is Carol. She won our IP gift card door prize!



Congratulations Carol! We'll see you soon!



Above is Laura and her sister. Laura is a 10 year breast cancer survivor! She was participating in the event with Arbonne make up. They were giving samples and mini makeovers throughout the day.



And here's the survivor models (Rhonda on the right). They modeled Coldwater Creek clothing throughout the event and talked to the customers. They are posed above with Tory from the Susan G. Komen Foundation! She was a model last year.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this great event. Every dollar counts towards a cure! If you weren't able to make it to Northlake Sunday, keep an eye on the other locations where our exhibit will be displayed!

Gold Hill Update

Last week, we photographed in the historic town of Gold Hill. We enjoy photographing there becuase there's so many photographic opportunities: the General Store, beautiful stone walls, old fences, open land, etc.

Here's a sneak peek at some images from our sessions there:










Thank you to the families that participated in our Gold Hill special. We hope you enjoyed a sneak peek at your images and we know you'll love the remainder of them!

To everyone else, if you're interested in being photographed in Gold Hill, let us know! We'd love to photograph your family there!

Stop by!

Good news! We've set up our Focused on a Cure gallery here! It's on our front porch, so feel free to stop by ANYTIME to read the stories of these strong survivors.

Dont forget to mark your calendars for the different locations our gallery will be held. You can get that information on our "Update: Focused on a Cure" post from September 10th.

We hope you are as inspired as we are!

Gold Hill

Here's another location session from Gold Hill, NC! This historic town has so many great photographic opportunities. It's not too late for you to reserve your Gold Hill session. We have a few sessions left for next week on Wednesday, September 17th and Thursday, September 18th. And the best part is... our regular session fee applies for this location session!



These are great examples of different clothing options! But check with us. We might have your size too!



This is a great opportunity for beautiful images in a different setting! And it's fun!

Update: Focused on a Cure

We wanted to update you on all of our locations that our Focused on a Cure gallery will be held.

September 21st - Coldwater Creek, Northlake Mall, "Try It On for the Cure", 12 noon to 6pm. (More info below!)

September 30th - October 10th - Concord Library

October 13th - October 17th - Bates Center at CMC Northeast

October 20th - October 24th - Breast Health Center at Copperfield

October 20th and 21st (evening only) - "2008 Healing Thread Fashion Benefit for the Northeast Foundation", Both nights at 7pm. (For more info, visit http://www.givenortheastfoundation.org/.)

October 27th - 31st - Cabarrus Family Medicine, Concord office

November 3rd - 9th - Carolina Mall, center court

November 10th - 14th - Wachovia, Church Street, Concord

We have more locations that we will announce after the dates are finalized. But if you have a business of your own or an idea of a location that might be interested in hosting a gallery showing for us, please contact Renda at 704.933.5600 or renda@irresistibleportraits. Remember, the more shows we hold, the more awareness there will be!

Try It On for the Cure

We're are so excited to announce that our Focused on a Cure gallery will be present at the "Try It On for the Cure" event at Coldwater Creek in Northlake Mall. This event will be held on Sunday, September 21st from 12 noon to 6 pm.

Coldwater Creek, the national leading retailer of quality fashion for women, encourages all women to stop in to the Charlotte Coldwater Creek store located in Northlake Mall and try on clothes as a fun and easy way to join the fight against breast cancer. For every woman who enters a dressing room and tries on any apparel from Coldwater Creek's extensive collection, Coldwater Creek will donate $1 to the Charlotte affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For those women who choose to make an in-store purchase during the fundraiser, the retailer will also donate 10 percent of the day's sales to the same cause.

But that's not all! Coldwater Creek has asked certain survivors to model their clothes throughout the store on that day and Rhonda, Renda's sister, will be one of the models!

This is the "debut" of our Focused on a Cure gallery and we hope that you will be as inspired by the stories as we have been.


Mark your calendar:
September 21st
12 noon to 6pm
Coldwater Creek
Northlake Mall

We'll see you there!

Casting Call

We wanted to update you about our casting call that we held in August. Karen was out of the studio, so Renda and Tara wanted to practice their photography in the studio!




We had a great response! As you can see, they're talented photographers!




They got lots of practice with kids, families, ...




and even four-legged children!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the casting call!

Tara's Award

In August, Tara attended the East Coast Summer School, through PPNC (Professional Photographers of North Carolina). She took a photoshop class while she was there and used the skills she learned in the class to create the image below. She titled it "Tourist in the City of Fallen Heros." After entering it in the Electronic Imaging Competition, she won 3rd Place!




Congratulations Tara!