Once in a while, a bride’s mother calls you up out of the blue, and asks if you’re free for wedding photography at a rural Ontario Bed & Breakfast. Then, once you find out all the details, it’s even more magical than you ever could have imagined it to be!

Not a wedding, but a wedding dinner celebration! When you live in Australia, but you also have lots of Canadian family, it’s a great idea to celebrate in both places - in different ways! that’s exactly what Simone and Victor did.

Let’s talk about microweddings! It’s been a long year but if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the couples we’ve photographed, it’s that humans have an incredible gift for resilience and being creative during times of limitation.

Microweddings could be the way people choose to get married this year, and maybe for a little while longer this decade, just until things calm down a bit and people feel safe. Or it’ll be like the roaring 1920s and all the weddings are going to turn into 90’s style raves complete with glow sticks and love bombs.

For Jon and Lindsay, it was just about this deep love that they have for each other. Somehow that was felt during the entire day. I don’t know how to put it in words… I don’t even know when I felt it. I think it’s in the extremely easy way in which they connect with each other, how they talk to each other - not really needing to explain the whole story, but implicitly understanding each other.

Kelly was walked down the aisle by her son, and all the flowers in the bouquets were handpicked onsite. After the ceremony, Kelly and Ben shared their first dance under the maple, and everyone celebrated with glasses of bubbly (non-alcoholic, but still delicious… well, unless you ask the kids who pulled grossed out faces).

Many couples yearn for a quiet and magical elopement, full of nature’s wonder. And this is exactly what you’ll find at the Hidden Meadows, any week between June and October.

So much fun can happen as a second shooter to a wedding - here’s one of those stories!

One of my favourite images is the first dance photo, where I used a technique called shutter drag to make the tealights in the background into little squiggly lines of light.