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  • From capturing the important details to the unexpected moments our photojournalistic approach means we are unobtrusive while documenting and recording the special memories of your day. We combine our candid coverage of the wedding events with fashionable portraits of the bride and groom for a complete and contemporary record of your wedding.

    We work throughout Canada, primarily in Calgary, Vancouver, the Kootenays & Okanagan, and in the United States in the greater Washington DC area. We are available for travel to destinations worldwide.

    Worldwide: (800) 213-0874
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Calgary Zoo Wedding

Tatiana & Aaron had a wonderful fall wedding that took place at the Calgary Zoo, which is a very beautiful location for wedding photography!

Our day began with getting ready photos taken at the Delta Bow Valley hotel in downtown Calgary. The groom was wearing a stylish three-piece suit, and he and his groomsmen had boutineers made with fall themed arrangements of a white flower, autumn leaves, and red berries. Tatiana’s bridesmaids helped her into her gorgeous wedding dress. The bride looked spectacular and so elegant, along with her lovely arrangement of autumn coloured flowers in her wedding bouquet.

Their wedding ceremony itself occurred in the gardens surrounding the Calgary Zoo Conservatory. With family and friends surrounding them, they performed a touching wedding ceremony. The Calgary Zoo is a great location for weddings photos, and after the ceremony we were able to go to several locations around the Zoo. The bride and groom are both runners, so we captured a few photos of the two in action running through the lawns and open spaces. The Zoo also offered some nice locations with beautiful flower gardens, rockery landscapes, and forested areas. We visited the tiger cubs, who were incredibly fascinated with Tatiana and her beautiful white wedding dress. One of the tiger cubs in particular was following Tatiana all along the glass window and kept trying to paw at her dress.

During the wedding reception inside the Calgary Zoo ENMAX Conservatory, the venue served a wonderful multi-course meal and there were many speeches, toasts, and reception games, like the shoe game. The bride’s parents presented bread and salt to the couple in the Ukrainian wedding tradition. There was a breaking of the bread, and they said the tradition was that whomever gets the largest piece when the bread breaks “wears the pants in the family”. When they broke the bread, it was into two pieces of the same size! The great food was enjoyed by everyone and especially all of the homemade pies from their family. Rather than a cake cutting, there was a wedding pie cutting to end the meal.

We want to thank Tatiana and Aaron for allowing us to photograph their beautiful wedding and for having us be a part of their special day!

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Victoria - October 22, 2012 - 2:31 pm

These are beautiful! Best wishes to Tatiana and Aaron! :)

Julia Knyahnytska - October 22, 2012 - 5:02 pm

I love how naturally beautiful you are!!! Full of love and FUN! Gorgeous pictures!

Nancy Nichols - October 24, 2012 - 8:24 am

Tanya, I remember you as just a little girl and knew then you would be a beautiful woman. Your groom is hadsome and very lucky to have you. I hope your life together is long and full of rainbows! Love Nancy

Q Haute Cuisine Wedding in Calgary

Wenlei & Richard were surrounded by many friends and family for their wonderful wedding on a perfect autumn day in Calgary. The day started off bright and early with two traditional Chinese tea ceremonies at each family’s residences. Wenlei’s parents had come over from China to visit Calgary for the wedding of their daughter, who was hidden safely in the bedroom when Richard and his entourage arrived at their house. Richard knocked on the front door with many friends, brothers, and other family in tow. But before he was permitted to enter the house, he first had to get passed Wenlei’s maid of honour and friends. Richard had to pass a series of tests, the Chinese door games, in order to be able to retrieve his bride-to-be.

The games started off with a challenge to eat a little bit of everything that represents marriage – something sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy. Then it was on to a set of trivia questions about the bride, and their lives together. Richard answered everything flawlessly, and never needed to use any of his red envelopes. After several other tests, including searching the house for Wenlei’s shoe, and a serenade to the bride sung by the groom and his groomsmen, Richard was finally able to enter the bride’s room. It was a lot of fun to witness all of the door game challenges and to capture everything in the photos.

Next, Wenlei and Richard served tea to their family members during the first Chinese tea ceremony with the bride’s family and then at Richard’s parents’ home with his family. After the traditional Chinese ceremonies had taken place, the bride changed from her Chinese red dress into her white wedding dress, and we went around the city to a few locations for wedding photos.

We were able to take photographs inside the old mattress warehouse in the East Village, with its beautiful brick walls, and then onto Rundle Ruins for more wedding photographs and eventually to the new Peace Bridge, in all its brilliant red glory spanning the Bow River at Eau Claire Park Calgary.

The day continued with a wedding ceremony at the exquisite Q Haute Cuisine, a French restaurant in downtown Calgary, which has a great indoor wedding ceremony location with quite a lot of natural light and a warm fireplace to set the ambiance. The ceremony was followed by a fun reception, with many beautiful details and decorations, touching speeches, fun reception games, wedding cake cutting, first dance, and more dancing throughout the night.

Thank you to Wenlei & Richard for having us as a part of your special wedding day, and we wish you a beautiful life together.

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Leslie - October 11, 2012 - 7:16 am

Awesome pictures!!

Sherry Luong - October 11, 2012 - 7:30 am

Congrats Richard and Wenlei! Beautiful pictures!!

Mary - October 11, 2012 - 7:41 am

Awesome pics!! Congrats again!

Kelly - October 11, 2012 - 8:08 am

Awesome photos!!

Maria - October 11, 2012 - 10:40 am

Congrats Wenlei and Richard! :)

RICKY - October 11, 2012 - 10:42 am

Beautiful pictures!! So happy for both of you!

Randy - October 11, 2012 - 10:46 am

Brilliant photos!! I can’t believe how fast that day went by! Can’t wait to see the rest =)

Alym - October 11, 2012 - 10:53 am

You guys look amazing. Congratulations to you both! :D

Anna - October 11, 2012 - 10:58 am

Really beautiful photos. Wenlei, you look absolutely gorgeous. Congrats to the happy couple!!

ANJU - October 11, 2012 - 12:00 pm

It looks like it was such a fun time – the pictures are so vivid and alive, just like your personalities :) Congrats you two and welcome to the married club – it’s a blast!

Luc Hoang - October 11, 2012 - 3:08 pm

Love those black and white pictures – They captured lots of good moments. Congrats Richard and Wenlei!!

David - October 11, 2012 - 3:18 pm

Wenlei & Richard, again congratulations. It was a very fun day, a reflection of the many more fun days you will share and enjoy together. You two looked brilliant together on your wedding day and your photographers did an excellent job capturing those very moments. I love the pink accents from your tie, to the flowers, and all the signs. They just complement the pictures so well. A product of a beautiful couple, talented photograhper, and well executed plan. Awesome!

Puwei - October 11, 2012 - 6:05 pm

Great pictures! Congratulations again!

Mel - October 11, 2012 - 6:46 pm

It was a beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple…and now with beautiful pictures to prove it! Thanks for letting us share your day =)

sheng - October 12, 2012 - 6:08 am

Congratulations! 我好想来,可惜,希望明年有空来看望你们! I would like to come for your wedding, but I were in China. I hope to see you soon. I like France, good place for your travel! J’adore!

Christina - October 15, 2012 - 10:46 pm

Congratulations! It was a fun day and both of you looked very beautiful and handsome. To a long life together.

Calgary Ranche Restaurant Wedding

Tess & Jeff were married in a beautiful wedding ceremony on a gorgeous September day at The Ranche Restaurant in Fish Creek Park Calgary. Tess and Jeff make a perfect match and are both such wonderful and kind people. We had a lot of fun working with them and it was a great pleasure to photograph their wedding! The venue at The Ranche in Fish Creek Park is an incredible location to get married. The outdoor ceremony site is perfect and beautifully set up with classic white chairs and the 19th century mansion as a backdrop. The Ranche staff are always so kind and that makes a huge difference to the flow of a wedding reception. The food is amazing, and the reception venue is superb for both small and medium sized weddings. The mansion even has a cute “green room” upstairs for the bride to get ready and prepare for the big day. Of course one of the best features is the surrounding Fish Creek park, which is an amazing location for wedding photos. For Tess & Jeff, we set up a first sighting in the gardens next to the Ranche and then took wedding photographs in the fields at Fish Creek Park. The guests were also treated to the sweet sounds of music by Amy Thiessen during the wedding ceremony and cocktail hour.

It was a beautiful wedding and we wish Tess & Jeff all the best for happy lives together.

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The Wedding Yacht in Vancouver BC

A beautiful bride and handsome groom make for a gorgeous wedding, and it was our privilege to be able to capture the amazing wedding of Clare & Brian. The wedding took place in Vancouver on board The Wedding Yacht. Vancouver is a spectacular city and what better place to experience the sights than on a boat cruising through Vancouver Harbour. The Wedding Yacht is a very neat way to plan a wonderful wedding experience. The yacht was docked near the Westin Bayshore Vancouver hotel where the couple and their huge wedding party of bridesmaids and groomsmen got ready. Clare & Brian are both from the US but fell in love with Vancouver during a visit here and decided it was the perfect place to get married. On their first visit to the city, they had their first meal at Cardero’s and so we took a few photos outside the restaurant. Their friends and family all got to experience Vancouver and Canada for the first time and hopefully many of them will come back in the future! Clare had planned a beautiful wedding, complete with lots of cool details like customized purses from Etsy with individual messages stitched inside for all of her bridesmaids. Brian had one of the most awesome groom’s cakes we’ve ever seen (check it out below). We had set up a first sighting for the couple, and then took some photographs with the wedding party. Next, it was time to board the yacht and float out for the wedding ceremony with Stanley Park as the backdrop. Once the ceremony was over, the party began, and the yacht cruised out into Vancouver Harbour and up through the Lower Mainland. After some fabulous food and touching speeches, the dancing began on the top deck of the boat and the DJ played into the night. The evening was completed with a sparkler exit for the newlyweds. It was an incredible wedding and one that we’ll never forget. Thanks to Clare & Brian, and we wish you a fun and adventurous happily ever after.

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This family heirloom Bible was used to present the rings during the ceremony:
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Each purse had a customized message written to the bridesmaid that carried it:
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These bouquet charms contain the images of each of the couple’s grandparents:
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The groom is waiting to see his bride for the first time:
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A cute moment after the first sighting:
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The bride’s mother happily looks on has the bride and her father walk down the aisle:

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We love this series of beautiful candid images taken just after the ceremony concluded:

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Canadian Maple Syrup bottles were the favors and placecards:
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A beautiful sunset over Vancouver Harbour:
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The Wedding Yacht on the Sunset Bay II, wedding cruise with Sunset Bay Yacht Charters & Event Planning:
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Becky Atkinson - October 1, 2012 - 5:27 am

I cried, they are absolutely beautiful.
Your creativity and talent are evident , can’t wait to see the rest. If it were up to me, Clare and Brian will have the fattest wedding album ever because I would not know what to leave out.
Good Job!!!!

Sharon O'Quinn - October 1, 2012 - 8:13 am

These pictures are absolutely amazing and perfectly capture the beauty of the city, the stunning bride and her groom, and shows all of the fun that we all had. It was such a unique wedding and we all had such a wonderful time. I can’t wait to see even more photos. Great job!!

Anne Samol - October 3, 2012 - 10:12 pm

The wedding was absolutely beautiful!! Your fabulous pictures captured all the emotions and beauty of Clare and Brian’s wedding. Loved every one of the them. Can’t wait to see the rest.

Tom Samol - October 10, 2012 - 3:32 pm

Love the pictures. It was a great time and you captured the mood and fun that everyone experienced.

Ranche Restaurant Wedding in Fish Creek Park

We had the great pleasure of photographing the beautiful wedding of Karina and Mark at one of our favourite Calgary wedding venues, The Ranche Restaurant in Fish Creek Park. We set up a first sighting for the couple, just outside of the historic Ranche. Mark and his 2 children awaited Karina’s emergence from the doors of the Ranche to see each other for the first time. Their first moments together on that day were exciting and it was the beginning of a fabulous wedding day. Karina and Mark are lovely people and the entire wedding was so much fun. Karina did an amazing job with all of the gorgeous details and final touches, in fact she created a lot of it herself! The day was made complete with a sparkler exit for the couple. We wish Karina and Mark all the best for a wonderful life together.

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The bride’s Mother escorted by her two sons (the bride’s brothers):
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The bride is about to walk down the aisle for the ceremony at Fish Creek Park:
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Beautiful wedding details inside the Ranche Restaurant:
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The Ranche Restaurant in Calgary

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“The Perfect Match” wedding favors | Sparklers for the wedding exit
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Their “Love Story” timeline on a chalkboard | Suitcase used as a box to receive cards
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Guests wrote messages on these river rocks for the bride & groom:
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The Ranche Restaurant in Calgary

The Ranche Restaurant in Calgary

The Ranche Restaurant in Calgary

The Ranche Restaurant in Calgary

IAN MCGREGOR - September 29, 2012 - 8:58 am

Congrats to you both, you’re definitely made for each other. great photos!