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Sarah & Austin ~ A Beautiful & Rustic Wedding in Balls Falls

Honestly I don’t even know where to start with this wedding – it makes my heart so happy to look at these photos all over again and re-live the memories we created with Sarah and Austin (who, incidentally, just welcomed an adorable little nugget into their lives! Congrats guys!) We originally bonded over craft beer, (Austin is a brewmaster at Leftfield Brewery – yeah I cannot think of a cooler gig than that), books (Sarah is a librarian – yeah these kids are awesome!) and of course Star Trek (I’m seeing a theme develop here LOL!) Honestly, words cannot express how cool we think these two humans are – I mean, we captured their engagement session at the brewery! Their wedding was equally as amazing, a small and intimate ceremony in a tiny chapel in Balls Falls Park – Austin cried when Sarah first walked in and it took all of our resolve not to start crying along with him, I’m not going to lie though, a few of our own tears were shed! Their reception, or more aptly, their party, which was in a small barn opposite the chapel, went into the wee hours of the morning and was filled with craft beer, dancing, more craft beer, shenanigans with old friends and family, and even more craft beer – it was magical to say the least! I can gab on about this one for hours, but instead I am going to let the photos do the talking! Enjoy, and I dare you not to smile…

An East Coast Maternity Session

When I got pregnant with little Ms. Vie I had no plans whatsoever to do a formal maternity session, definitely not one we would capture ourselves. But being out on the ocean in the East Coast of Canada, seeing the beautiful clouds rolling in we just couldn’t resist. So I quickly threw on my new Anthropologie dress (really the only one that fit me and looked good on camera), dragged my fingers through my hair, stripped my poor child down to his undies (that session will be blogged later!), and dragged Hugh out onto the rocks with my ever-expanding belly. We had a total of 20 minutes before our lovely moody sky turned down-right mean and was followed by a torrential downpour but it was totally worth it! I can’t get over how amazing the east coast of Canada is, the ocean, the rolling hills, the people, the food (the sea food), the everything – can’t wait to visit this summer again and hopefully take advantage of another beautifully moody day with my camera.

Jen & Dave ~ A Funky Urban Wedding at the Spoke Club in Toronto

Jen and Dave are not only a crazy artistic, unique, and quirky couple but they are also parents (to an adorable little 2.5 year old – Ronin) movie aficionados, adorably awkward dancers (please don’t tell them we said that!) and just overall amazing human beings. 

We met Jen before we met Dave and fell instantly in love with her energy and great sense of humour – we connected on everything from our love of all things nerdy (we’re talking Star Trek and comic books!) to our mutual experiences being parents to “spirited” little boys – it really was love at first chat (at least from our end!) When we finally met Dave, it only solidified our happiness at being able to capture such a wicked couple’s special day. Hugh and Dave bonded over pretty much everything including the “hardships” of fatherhood and their mutual love of horror flicks – it was a bromance from the get-go!

Jen met Dave on Valentine’s Day 2009 at an indie video store in Vancouver. Her friends had cancelled on their exciting VDay plans of eating copious amounts of peanut m&ms and watching old episodes of the Simpsons, so she decided to head to the local video store to rent some b-horror movies. When she got there, about 25 people were partying inside, celebrating the one year anniversary of the shop. Stoked to be drinking with a bunch of film geeks, Jen stayed, and started chatting to a handsome stranger. Dave and Jen hit it off instantly, bonding over their mutual love of b-horror films, music documentaries, riff rock, 70s funk, Alan Moore graphic novels, and sushi. Although they didn’t end up getting together until a few months down the line when they were both living in Toronto,  when they did things just felt right… Like they had been together for years! 

Their wedding at The Spoke Club reflected not only their mutual love for one another and their family and friends, but also their love of vintage media and horror films – it was a night filled with laughs, love, and oodles of dancing!

Venue: The Spoke Club, Wedding Planner: Events by Grace, Officiant: All Seasons Weddings, Invitations: Pam Sloan Designs, Flowers: Berries & Blooms,  Suit: TopMan, Makeup: Jessica Lyons Makeup, Hair: Bridal Hair Collective, Doughnut Tower: Glory Hole Doughnuts, Bride’s Shoes: Poetic Licence, Rings: Made You Look Designs, Bride’s Hair Accessories: Rightful Owner 

Niki & Kyle Post-Wedding Portrait

Niki and Kyle are not only adorable and crazy in-love they also happen to be two of our closest friends, so you can imagine our delight when they asked us to photograph their wedding (featured on the Desire Hartsock Blog here) in Mexico this past winter. As it sometimes goes, scheduling wasn’t exactly in our favour and we only had a small amount of time between the reception and ceremony to take photos, so to make up for the short amount of time on the day of, we convinced the duo to let us take some post-wedding photographs. We scheduled the session for the late afternoon, so not to disrupt their first day of newlywed bliss and we were lucky to have one of the loveliest dusks of the whole trip. The sky was beautifully lit and the beach virtually deserted – the perfect backdrop for an intimate early evening portrait session.

Cottage Dreaming

Summer is officially over (boo) but the memories of warm breezes, cool drinks, and balmy evenings still remain, especially if you are as big of a shutter bug as we are!  In order to give summer the send-off that it properly deserves, we are posting a little cottage-dreaming throwback from a place far away from our Toronto hometown. 

In a small country in the heart of Europe, exists an even smaller little village nestled in the midst of towering mountains. Here, many childhood summers were spent laughing, playing, eating, running, swimming and all the other lovely activities that make summers so special. Summer may be on its way out, but its captured memories remain…Happy Autumn everyone! Cheers, Hugh & Katarina

Christine & Ade

“At last, the skies above are blue. I was wrapped up in clover, the night I looked at you…”

Postcards from Istanbul…

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul…” Truer words could not have been spoken of this magical place. So vibrant in colour, texture, sights, smells and sounds – a photographer’s dream and a traveler’s delight. Where East and West meet and everything seems a little more brighter, more exciting and more extraordinary. This is Istanbul…

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