Surprise Engagement Proposal, Miami Beach, FL

Each time when someone asks me what do I like to photograph the most, my answer is everything from the Love Department. Those types of photo sessions bring happy tears to my Couple and my own vision is often blurry as well… haha do you know where can I make a complaint? 😉 More seriously, those are real and breathtaking emotions that’s why I am truly blessed and honored to capture it all.

This Surprisal Engagement Proposal took place in Miami Beach, FL. It was a unique session for me too, because the first time in my photography career I took with me to the beach my Mom and a friend of mine. They stayed away keeping a safe distance and recorded a backstage video.

Photo sessions like that require a lot of planning, where do I start?! But the funniest thing about it is the fact I have to become a quite convincing actress and lie at the beginning to the future Fiancée (sorry!)…

Are you planning to propose to your Girlfriend in front of a camera and have this awesome souvenir for many years to come? Let me know and we will plan it together, to the point she will need to say YES!

Congratulations to wonderful people Kasie (sorry for lying) and Caleb (thank you for the trust!)

I am so happy for both of you!

 

Happy #WorldOceansDay Miami!

 

Location: Miami Beach, FL.

Photography: Miami, FL, Houston TX, and Poland.

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Street Style Photo Session in the heart of Miami Beach

Did you ever wonder how Street Style Family Photo Session may look like in the heart of Miami Beach, during busy Sunday afternoon on Lincoln Road?⁣
Be my guest and catch a glimpse ;)⁣
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This Couple proves that simply walking around with cute Baby Boy or pushing the stroller may be so natural and the most stylish thing ever. Big shout out to this gorgeous Family for bringing positive energy to our shoot, for dressing up and finally last but not least important for being a great walking example of the coolest and loving Parents!⁣
You can follow the whole Family on Instagram Anderson and their Son

Family Street Style Photo Session with⁣⁣
Liliya and Tony
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Location: Miami Beach, FL.⁣⁣

Photography: Miami, FL, Houston TX, and Poland.

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The Bridal Glam

We planned a glam bridal photo session, then the snowstorm hit. I reveal even more this was the only day when it snowed during the whole winter in Poland. Can you imagine? Only for one day!? The next morning everything was melted. Most importantly snowstorm did not ruin our spirits. I was extremely happy for such rough weather conditions… but hey, I guess it wasn’t about me, fully dressed up in a long winter jacket and boots I got from Canada.

Shout out to our fearless Bride, dressed in a beautiful vintage wedding dress with transparent sleeves, what gave the feeling ‘without sleeves; and bare feet wearing high heels. On top of everything you could hear me saying during the shoot ‘Can you pretend like it is freezing cold?’ 😉

We took pictures in front of an abandoned house, luckily the door entrance was under a small roof which gave kind of a safe place to hide from the snow.

Model: Yuliia Rudenko juliiarudenko

Makeup: Dorota Olkowska  BellbeMakeup

Hairstyle: Dorota Olkowska BellbeMakeup

Vintage Wedding Dress & Veil & Shoes:  comes from my private collection, all for sale 😉

Location: Warsaw, Poland

 

Wedding Photography: Miami, FL, Houston TX, Poland, and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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40th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OF MY PARENTS

I am proud to show you some part of a very personal photoshoot,

the 40th Wedding Anniversary of my Parents.

I had the honor to photograph many Couples on their Wedding Anniversaries, from the very 1st all the way to the 50th. Each time it was different, sometimes it was a photo session of the Two of Them, sometimes it was a Surprise Wedding Anniversary for Her (yeah, all prepared by Him) or as a Surprise to all attending Guests (yeah, they were told it is a Birthday Party), but quite often it looked like a second Wedding, with a Wedding Dress, flowers, guests, venue rental with dinner, music, and an Official in order to renew the vowes. Therefore this contagious happiness, tears of joy and celebration of LOVE brought me finally into an idea of doing it for my own Parents!

It was the longest planned photoshoot in my life! Why? Because I know what kind of props my Parents still own from their Wedding and I wanted to use it all in order to bring back some memories but also to recreate a Wedding photograph they took in a studio (but this will be in another post).  So don’t ask how many dusty boxes we had to open to find it all. I also created some props myself.

Real props used (for a photo session part two) from a Wedding Day:

Wedding Rings, an Engagement Ring, a Wedding Invitation, a crystal carafe (wedding gift), and a few Wedding pictures from a studio.

Props made or founded by me:

The gold champagne bottle, flowers (I recreated Wedding Bouquet), the suitcase with pictures, books and a wall calendar from the year they said ‘I do!’, a basket with fruits and strawberries, big ball, little fireworks and smoke flares.

What went wrong?

In a field, we were surrounded by hundreds of mosquitos. That is why we did not take many planned pictures… so we had to finish the photo session in the garden. It was chaotic, you can’t imagine! Dad wasn’t thrilled 😉 Haha!

Facts:

This is a second part of the photo session, the first part was taken in By Niki Photography Studio, where I recreated Wedding photographs taken 40 years earlier.

We did it a few months after the actual Wedding Anniversary day.

 

I encourage you to gift your Parents / Grandparents with such a priceless photo session. Already married? Great, plan it to yourself!

Trust me this is worth the effort and so much fun, look at my Dad with smoke flare! Ha ha! 😉

 

This is absolutely the best Family Souvenir we have.

 

Here you can see a First Wedding Anniversary of one lovely Couple, it is always such a LOVE Celebration and it doesn’t matter if this is a First or a 40th.

First Wedding Anniversary

And They Lived Happily Ever After… Paper Wedding Anniversary

 

Stylization: By Niki

Makeup:  BellbeMakeup

Hairstyle: BellbeMakeup

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Location: Mazovian, Poland

 

Wedding Photography: Miami, FL, Houston TX, Poland and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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Wedding Preparations

Oh, Preparations… I guess the very first time I decided to dedicate the whole post only for Wedding Preparations. But seriously, can you blame me? Honestly, I have a few types that I wish to print out in a big size.

Wedding Dress: Viola Piekut

Wedding Rings: W.Kruk

Wedding Jewelry: Swarovski

   Wedding Shoes: Kazar

Congratulation to the Newlyweds!

Wedding Location: Warsaw, Poland

 

Wedding Photographer: Miami, FL, Houston TX, Poland and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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And They Lived Happily Ever After… Paper Wedding Anniversary

Above photographs were taken for the 1st Paper Wedding Anniversary with stunning couple Dana and Taylor.

It was actually a great idea for the photo session and an amazing occasion to wear a Wedding Dress again. However selected pictures don’t show it all, you just have to believe me.

Location: Hermann Park, Houston, TX.

Oh, and THEY Lived Happily Ever After!

 

Wedding Photographer: Miami, FL, Houston TX, Poland and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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Maternity Milk Bath

New Year New Beginnings for many of us out there… Some people are expecting a Baby Boy to come to this World, others are opening an online company, in a meantime somewhere in the North Pole one man is starting a new job in a high voltage sector, some of you are making plans for a Wedding with By Niki Photography or By Niki Photography Team, myself with a New Year I got my wings back and planning to expand with photography on a new markets however the dominant target is Florida.

But let’s come back to the main subject on this post! As you probably realized, I mostly post Weddings on my website. Meaning those photographs are somehow magical to me!

I had a great honor to photograph my Dear Friend Magda and I am beyond thankful for trusting me on this one! During first phone conversation we had, I was told I can decide on what kind of maternity session it will be… it took me a while and I almost shouted out to the phone “we have to do Milk Bath!” and you know what? She looks more beautiful than ever!

Milk Bath photo shoots are my real obsession recently… one thing is sure I won’t do the same session again! Each time it must be different, different colors, flowers or whatever I decide to soak in (top secret for the moment).

Winter is a great moment to do that! It is indoors, warm, relaxing and not many people I personally know took part in such a photo adventure. And if you happen to think about unique photo session, shoot me an email to by.niki@yahoo.com

No, you don’t need a bathtub at home!

Milk bath recommendations:

Maternity,

Glamour,

Trash the Dress,

Portraits.

Location: By Niki Photography Studio

Future Mother to Be: Magda

Milk bath stylization: By Niki

Makeup:  BellbeMakeup

Hairstyle: BellbeMakeup

Huge THANK YOU to BellbeMakeup!

For your great job but at the same time for your precious help as an Assistant!

Happy New Everything Dears!

From Polish Wedding with LOVE

They say LOVE is a Trip.

They say True LOVE is the Trip of a lifetime!

I have the great honor to present you such a beautiful couple Milena & Mikołaj and photographs from a Polish Wedding. Here you only have a chance to see my favorite selection of outdoor shoot we took after the Ceremony. I recommend to check out as well portrait pictures of Bride Milena in a separate post here Bridal Portraits. I can not be happier about all those cool spots we found! Wedding Location: Warsaw, Poland.

Wedding Photographer: Miami, FL, Houston TX, Poland and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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Drown in LOVE

‘Drown in LOVE’ is one of my recent photography projects that was in my mind for some time and finally, it became alive. Milk Baths are my recent photography obsessions. Great for Bridal Portraits or rather Trash the Dress, Maternity, Fashion and much more! I could not help myself when I saw how it looked through the viewfinder…. and the effect of that you can see on my Instagram! Shout out to Model Monsieur Jacob! Great job! Location: By Niki Photography Studio.

Wedding Photographer: Miami, FL, Houston TX and anywhere where you say “I do!”.

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