Love of UT football leads to Bridal Portraits — 3
A lot of brides these days are looking for something a bit different for their bridal portraits. Megan Rogers happened to be marrying a former University of Tennessee football player, Matt McGlothlin. So Barry Seaton and Megan came up with something extra special… “Not many brides would climb a 10-foot ladder in their 15-pound, strapless wedding dress to try to get on a goal post in the end zone. Nor run up and down stairs at Neyland Stadium in the dress and then hang it in the locker room in exchange for shoulder pads. But bride Megan McGlothlin did in the spirit of capturing perfect bridal portraits. That’s what the love of all things Orange and White can make someone do. As it turned out, her attempt to pose on the goal post was a bust. Though she climbed the ladder, she and photographer Barry Seaton realized the shot wouldn’t work. She ended up in the stands behind the post, and Seaton shot from an angle that makes her appear perched atop it. ”I was more afraid of ruining my dress before the wedding than I was of falling off the goal post,” Megan McGlothlin, 24, said. “It was much higher than I expected.”McGlothlin took her bridal portraits in and around the stadium as a surprise for her husband Matt McGlothlin, 27, a walk-on defensive tackle who started as a red-shirt freshman…. For the whole story check out Knoxnews.com! Special thanks to Allison Rupp freelance contributor to the News Sentinel. Love comments and thoughts on the post.
3 responses so far ↓
1 nancy // Oct 9, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Just checking in to see what you’re up to. Fun pictures! I think the shoulder pads shot is my favorite. I’d photoshop the bottom of the dress on the goalpost shot so that you can’t tell that she isn’t really standing on it and then blow it up really large. Very cool.
2 baz // Oct 14, 2010 at 1:45 pm
oh hey, thanks! it was the perfect culmination of a gorgeous bride with a great story, all excited and willing to have some fun with the concept. The goalposts were the initial spark, but quickly became secondary to what we were seeing. Perfect for her 8×10’s, but she cared much more about several of the others. Otherwise I might have put a lot more time into blending the bleechers, correcting the perspective and all the other details to get to the point of trying to pass it for “real” in a larger display. What’s funny is I came up with the idea over ten years ago, and yet when the right opportunity came along, several other stronger ideas for images presented themselves. Love it.
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