As far as everyone knew, they were getting dressed up for a night at the Citadel to celebrate Christina and Anthony’s graduations. I’m telling you, there is nothing more exciting than being able to photograph gigantic surprises and joyous ambushes on people. Wendy + Anthony, we’ve said it a million time, Thank You. “Fun” does…
Sometimes we shoot a 16 hour wedding day and sometimes we shoot a 3 hour wedding day. Melinda and Ryan (and Henry, of course) came back to Nova Scotia for a visit and decided to get married right in the living room, with family and friends right there with them. I love shooting these small,…
We were supposed to go skiing. Just Marse and I. A little ski weekend getaway that we’ve been trying to plan for three years now and everything was booked…until the kids got sick. Kids being kids, they lick everything in sight which meant we all got sick. Ski trip cancelled. The next thing I know…
There’s got to be some secret society of grandparents, an elite club you join when you become a grandparent. I’ve never seen it happen but, from what I can tell, it gives you license to stock your cupboards with cookies and calm the craziest chaos with a warm and simple hug. It’s a superpower I…
I’ve been spending a lot of time in my furnace room lately, thanks to a faulty and discontinued electric boiler. As much of a pain in the ass is it is, good fortune sometimes favours the bored. While I stand there, waiting for the temperature needle to drop below 170 degrees, I find myself rummaging…
Devon + Darcy were married in Scotland and then came home to celebrate in style. With the help of Chez, the Halifax Wedding Planner, and some amazingly talented and creative friends and family, they held one hell of a party at their Benjamin Bridge vineyard in Wolfville. The Mellotones set the stage and the cracking…
I get an email from a friend of a client who’s a friend of a guy who’s about to propose to his girlfriend and then pull the whole wedding planning this off on his own…two days later. Its the kind of email where you think, “This is a scam…or…this guys is CRAZY!” Fortunately for us…
Three things happened all around the same time over the last week that had me inspired to both write this post and try new things. It’s mid wedding season and we’ve been pushing ourselves to try really hard not to just ‘dial it in’. There’s a formula that you can easily slip into when shooting…
This is, without a doubt, the biggest, hottest wedding we’ve ever shot. Elegant, classy and sophisticated with an unmatched love and respect for family and friends. We even got them back to the reception right on time!
When I was working for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the first time, we used to go on quarterly trips to Toronto, Vegas, Montreal etc for meetings. Planning these meetings was a faceless office employee by the name of Natalie. Her email always had a skip and a quirk to them that made me laugh and while I…
Dear all Newfoundlanders, You are, without a doubt, the craziest bunch of people I’ve ever met. I love you all.
Bands are a common theme for us at weddings this year. We’ve seen a lot of them and it always brings a different dynamic to a wedding party than a DJ does. It can also be lots of fun to shoot when there’s a collective of musicians. Saturday nights wedding was no exception. Grant +…
Grant + Nicole got married at Muir Murray on Saturday and it was the first time we had shot there. It was also the first time we had met Grant + Nicole. We had just come off a Friday wedding in Cape Breton. We left Sydney at 1am, drove to Windsor and slept for 4…
I had lost sleep over how we were going to shoot ‘the Fiddle’. I mean, it’s a 50 friggin foot fiddle thats been shot a million times. We wanted to approach it from a different perspective and the shot had eluded us until about midnight when everyone was outside for some ‘fresh air’. Steph wanders…
I don’t know what it is about Pictou Lodge weddings but here I am again posting a story about a turning point in a wedding. The last time something like this happened it was Emily and Chris and some torrential rain that caused a ceremony to happen inside instead of outside. Emily put that minor…
