It’s super easy when couples choose to get ready in the same venue, either together or in different suites.

It’s easy for me, I guess, because I can run between the two places and take photographs without hiring a second shooter. Though having a second shooter is super fun, because we have so much fun on the wedding day. So… I guess what I’m saying is - don’t worry about what the photographer needs, and just schedule your wedding day the way it makes sense for you.

Anyway, Maire and Wendi were in different suites at Pangea house, but because this is an old converted and renovated Inn, there are charming passages you need to traverse to get from one suite to another.

And then the question is: which suite to go to first?

Danielle and Zach’s was a beautiful elopement right in the heart of downtown Kingston.

It was during the last post-winter restrictions in 2021, so we moved the date a couple of times. Luckily, the venue (the beautiful Rosemount Inn in Kingston) were super accommodating.

And Danielle and Zach themselves were the most wonderful, friendly, and easy-going couple. They had to deal with a lot, because of the shifting rules… but they didn’t bat an eyelid, and ended up having a simply fantastic sunny day in June for their wedding, instead of the originally scheduled date in mid-May.

The bonus was that there was so much colour & greenery.

Now let’s get to the photos!

An “Engagement Session” can be anything you want it to be.

Well… this season was certainly one for the books!

I don't even know where to begin, so I'm just going to do it in sequence, to be fair to all the beautiful couples I met and photographed this year…

…and so that I don't miss anything that was super important.

Here we go! 🤩

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.

You can find a lot of blog posts about the best wedding movies. I know, I googled it for this blog post. BUT this blog post is all about the movies that influenced me before I ever became a professional wedding photographer, not the best wedding movies made.

My aim is always for the photograph to feel as though I wasn’t even there. A true wedding photojournalist wants to celebrate the reality created by those they photograph; not create their own reality.

I don’t like to start with a brag, but this styled wedding shoot was recently featured in Today’s Bride!

That feels pretty epic.

I cannot take most of the credit though, because that goes to the amazingly talented wedding planner Heather McArthur of Bowtie Services.

She planned the theme (FIRE & ICE!), the colours, and scouted the models & vendors. All I had to do show up and shoot. And that’s what I did.

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.

The most magical winter elopement you've ever seen. I was immediately blown away. The setting was gorgeous and cosy, intimate and warm, inviting, and filled with rich textures and colours.

If you’re asking yourself whether a second photographer is necessary for your wedding…

Or you’re wondering how I got my start as a wedding photographer…

Read this blog with photos from one of my first weddings, back in 2016, shooting for the talented Tim Forbes.

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).

It’s the most unique wedding we’ve photographed, and we want you to see it & wish this couple well in their life together <3

When I got married, we didn’t tell my aunt’s family (who are very close to us), OR my husband’s family.

It wasn’t a malicious or intentional omission; it was simply that we eloped with like two days “planning”, and we were travelling abroad for it (to my home-country, Bulgaria), so most of those two days were spent on an airplane, at the airport, or jetlagged. The thought of calling family to explain was an afterthought. I was 23 years old and in love, and marriage or wedding traditions weren’t a huge deal to me at the time. Don’t hate me!

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.

They just can’t keep their hands off each other.

They had these big plans, you know? Big venue downtown, a large guest list, family coming in from other provinces - the whole deal. This is how weddings go and we all know how wonderful those celebrations can be.

I’ve been photographing weddings for just under a decade (lots of them have been under the banner of Quirky Love, so you might be familiar with them:) ) and when JM and I decided to get married, we wanted to go a different route from a lot of the weddings I’d photographed.

After this, we headed to the gazebo, which was a super important place for both of them. They’d shared their first kiss there and later they got engaged there exactly a year ago! It was all too serendipitous. Their engagement story is so sweet and hilarious; but it’s theirs to tell. I’ll just say that Rochelle literally didn’t get it was all for her - despite the romantic lighting and engagement vibes - until the VERY end…

How many engagement photos have you seen in a PARKING LOT? Zero? Well, make that one.