I don’t typically do as many bridal portraits as other types of photography. Many people prefer to do engagement pictures with me and do some bridal style pictures at the wedding. But it’s always a lot of fun when I get to. This is one of the best kinds of photography you can do, a bride all dressed up for a wedding, without the stress and limited time of the wedding itself. It’s pretty hard to go wrong as long as you have a pretty location to work with.
I thought I would post just a few pictures from recent bridal portraits at the Pawleys Plantation area and the Conway River Walk. Pawleys Plantation is a private area, so you would probably have to be doing a wedding there to get to do this, but the Conway River Walk is freely open to everyone. It’s one of my favorite spots.
![Bride walking toward to clubhouse - Pawley's Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3294-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-jpg.jpg)
![Bridal portrait in the flowers behind the clubhouse - Pawley's Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3296-bridal-portrait-in-the-flowers-behind-the-clubhouse-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-jpg.jpg)
![Bride sitting on the clubhouse steps -Pawley's Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3298-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-2-jpg.jpg)
![Bride backlit by sunlight coming through the trees -Pawley's Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3300-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-3-jpg.jpg)
![Bridal portrait in the sunlight in front of the clubhouse - Pawley's Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3302-bridal-portrait-in-the-sunlight-in-front-of-the-clubhouse-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-jpg.jpg)
![This is the one the bride picked for display at her wedding - Pawleys Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3304-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-4-jpg.jpg)
![Pretty sky - Pawleys Plantation](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3306-pawleys-plantation-may-25-2012-5-jpg.jpg)
![Bride on the train tracks - Conway River Walk](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3308-bride-on-the-train-tracks-conway-river-walk-may-29-2012-jpg.jpg)
![Trying to find some good light at a bad time of the day, letting the sun be my hairlight. - Conway River Walk](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3310-trying-to-find-some-good-light-at-a-bad-time-of-the-day-letting-the-sun-be-my-hairlight-conway-river-walk-may-29-2012-jpg.jpg)
![Bride under the old bridge into Conway, high structure black and white -](https://www.ryansmithphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wpid3312-bride-under-the-old-bridge-into-conway-high-structure-black-and-white-may-29-2012-jpg.jpg)