Maternity Shoot Italian Style

Brittany & Marcus Murillo

                                                                    Maternity Shoot
                                                                               by 
                                                                                                 Stacey Jern-Lee

With the upcoming arrival of their first child in April, Brittany and Marcus Murillo made the decision to team up with, Simply Dorine, to take photographs to celebrate this miraculous time in their lives. As this is Marcus and Brittany’s first child, they have found out it is a sweet baby girl that they are going to name Maliyah Ashlyn Murillo… Mommy’s favorite name, but with Daddy’s same initials.

            Although Daddy is of Italian descent, the abandoned Spanish villa that was chosen fit well with the last name of Murillo. Brittany looked stunningly beautiful that day, and she really did glow with the joy of motherhood. She was just about 7 months along in her pregnancy the day of the photo shoot, and you can see from her photos, she is a very beautiful soon-to-be Mommy.

            Showered in the morning sunshine, sprinkled with pink rose petals, and laughing in her pretty pink veiled hat, Brittany had a wonderful day! This young couple have such high hopes and dreams for the birth of their daughter, and they are both on pins and needles waiting on her arrival. April seems to be a forever away!

            Brittany and Marcus are a heart warming example of a loving young couple. They are so much in love, and it shows! Maliyah is going to be a very celebrated baby, and her arrival will be one this young couple will live to remember their whole lives. With the addition of the photographs, her pregnancy and the beautiful glow she had will be marked in time forever.

Our theme took on a variety of props, but it begins in front of an abandoned Spanish Villa, long ago own by the adjacent church, Temple Baptist Church, in Titusville, FL. It served as a rectory for the head pastor in an earlier time of the churches history. But today it serves us and provides a wonderful background for our maternity shoot.

 We discovered the back premises had a couple of old metal barns, over grown with weeds, unscrupulously vandalized by people and severely beaten by the  Florida weather.   What a contrast is drew to the usual sentiments and emotions normally associated with motherhood; thoughts of little babies and booties, and soft baby coos.

We wrapped Brittany up in black tulle and yards of black flowing material. I found a delicately designed Spanish fan for added interest. I wanted something elaborate on her head so the black tulle became a formless balled up hat that balanced unsteadily with constant adjustments from every breeze that blew by. 

We wrapped up our shoot on location at the villa, took time for lunch for a very hungry 'mommy to be' before moving into the studio for the finale.

Here we changed outfits again, into something very feminine; now we were adding a more traditional glamorous feel to the shoot.
Brittany dressed up in the most beautiful lace top that just screamed, 'French Lace'.  Ah, the French know how to dress up. The lace was the finishing touch to our maternity shoot. In the end, we had one very tired 'mother to be'.  But we had fun and made great memories!

If you would like to book a theme shoot for maternity or engagement, to contact me call: 321 749 9152 or email: simplydorine@gmail.com. I'm as close as a phone call away. Ciao!