View the photos of Melissa & Dayton’s wedding.

The bride recently got a tattoo of a butterfly on her foot in memory of her brother. She wanted him to be a part of her day so there were little touches added throughout: butterfly headbands for the bridesmaids, butterfly name plates, and her shoes showed it off the tattoo beautifully.

After the ceremony we photographed the wedding party around the winery before heading inside to a luncheon Reception. The food was catered by Summerhill and was a really great all organic meal, especially the merlot infused caesar salad!

We headed out with just the bride and groom to do the couple portraits to a great location we had scouted out a few weeks before that gave an awesome view of the valley. Then we headed down to Waterfront Park for some more along the boardwalk.

After all the formal portraits were done we went straight into a trash the dress session. It deserves it’s very own blog post so stay tuned!

Vendors:

Location & Catering: Summerhill Pyramid Winery

Hair: Diana Kilthau from Anana’s Hair Salon

Makeup: Melissa Craven

Flowers & Decor: Impressions Wedding & Event Decor

Dress: The Bridal Gallery

Officiant: James Harnden

Vendors:

All the vendors are either close friends of the bride & groom or are places that they frequent regularly within walking distance of their house (just one block off Commercial Drive in Vancouver).

Rings: Shira Laye – The groom’s ring was custom made, and the bride’s antique ring was re-sized and ‘pretty-fied’.

Hair and Makeup: Ailsa Macmillan

Flowers: Flower Factory

Catering: Swallowtail Catering – Delicious, delicious cooking.

Italian Meat market: Moccia Urbani foods – Provided the local, free-range meat for both the ribs & the salami for the calzones.

Wedding cake: Fratelli’s

Cake toppers: Gup Gups – The couples friend Nick’s amazing & creative toy company.

Rehearsal treats: East Village Bakery – Artisan baked goodies for the family dinner.

Custom invitations: Rosanne Bennett

Location: Jacob & Lei – The bride and groom’s long-time friends.

Officiant: Ed Hensley – The bride and groom’s long-time friend.

The ceremony took place in a cleared patch of forest on the family’s land which was cute but we should have paid attention to the bride & bridesmaids bug bombing each other beforehand, as the mosquitoes were quite fierce! For formals we headed across the road to the family homestead and then onto the beach where Cam had proposed.

Here is a small selection of what we have captured so far:

Is it Photojournalism?

In the past we have referred our style as photo-journalistic, which is only partially true. Pure photojournalism has absolutely no interaction between the photographer and their subjects, nothing should be posed or scripted, and detail shots should be minimal (according to the Wedding Photojournalist Association).

This causes a few problems for us:

1. We adore artistic couple portraits that capture your joy and beauty.
2. We will provide direction when needed (not during the ceremony of course) to enhance the aesthetics of an image or to capture a specific element of the story of your day.
3. And we absolutely LOVE all the details shots that make your wedding special and unique!

Is it Traditional?

No, traditional is not really our thing. The Traditional approach is having the majority of the photography is specifically posed portraiture (or “classically posed images” according to Wikipedia). Everyone has probably experienced this before: everyone standing in a line with their bodies tilted towards the center of the frame and told to “smiiilllllle”. While it is true we do this for the family portraits, it is quite a small portion of our coverage. Our goal is to have these complete in 15 minutes flat. And trust us, if you don’t want traditional family portraits we are more than happy to oblige!

So what do we mean by editorial wedding photography?

What is editorial wedding photography? It is a blend of photojournalism and portrait photography that focuses on telling the story of your wedding day. We want to showcase what makes your day special to you, whether it is a more traditional wedding or is totally off-the-wall; we are always up to the challenge. It includes candids of all the in-between moments, posed portraiture of the wedding couple and bridal party, traditional family portraits (it’s all Grandma really wants!), and of course the detail shots. Our ultimate goal is to create artistic & timeless images, capturing the full story of one of the most meaningful days of your life.

What’s with all these words? Show me your photos already!

Honestly you don’t need to know all these terms to know if our style does it for you or not. The best way is to see for yourself, so head over to our Kelowna photographers wedding portfolio to view our work.

The next step was to do a ground up rework of our web site. A new cleaner design that focuses on making our work stand out and so that potential clients can easily understand who we are and how we work. We then enlisted the help of our friend Seth @ JetScream to polish all of our copy for us. We also added an honest to goodness blog where we will be able to keep everyone up to date.

And finally we revamped all of our galleries and changed the format of them. We now have three main featured weddings that give a more detailed look at our wedding coverage.  The Favorites gallery shows our favorites images from over the years while the Wedding Details galleries show more specific images.

We hope our new site & branding will better portray what we (and our work) are all about.