When we first met Jon and Tash about a year ago, Tash was… a little stressed about the wedding. I immediately loved and understood Tash (planning your own wedding compared to shooting other peoples? Not at ALL the same. Planning is the worst!). BUT you would never have known on the day that Tash had stressed for a second – it was perfect! Both the ceremony and reception were held at Brix Restaurant in Yaletown – the ceremony in the courtyard and the reception inside. Bea-utiful decor, awesome food, solid dance crowd. Nuff said. This wedding was FU-UN!

We love love loved this couple and had the most fun shooting their wedding day. These two have so much heart and are madly in love, as their film shows.

Thank you Jon and Tash so much – we had an amazing time and hope you find your wedding film captures just how beautiful and fun your wedding was.

P.S. thanks for the wine and cheese :)

We had the best time working with the lovely women of Sweet Heirloom Photography. Check out their site!
Also Fairy God Mother Weddings knows how to throw a party. They did an amazing job planning and coordinating the wedding. Loved working with Kate! Take a look at their site too!

This wedding was something else. Exactly what I imagine Beauty and the Beast’s future wedding to be (after the Beast changed back into a man of course). The ceremony and reception were both at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, and the reception was in the big ballroom, the one I already refer to as the Beauty-and-the-Beast room – and so it begins.

Everything about Rebecca was Belle-like to me: her hair, her face, her dress and her flowers (red roses). Also Belle and (Man)Beast-like was this couple’s ability to dance. Amazing! They made a new years resolution last year to learn to dance and man oh man did they do that. It was really beautiful. I would never have guessed they hadn’t been ballroom dancing their whole lives.

The ceremony was really personalized which I LOVE. They said their own vows and included a number of Jewish traditions (Rebecca is Jewish)- like the glass breaking! The best part was just watching these two, it was as if no one else was there but them. That’s the very best kind of ceremony.

The reception (besides being held in my favorite ballroom in all of Vancouver) was decorated beautifully! Red roses, candles, mirrors, open bar… Good wedding!

My favorite part of the whole day was 12:00am. At that time the couple was being lifted up on chairs, as per the Jewish wedding tradition, while everyone was dancing and wearing new years hats and crowns – HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m up here to visit my favorite (and only!) cousins on my moms side, but between visiting time they are graciously driving me all over town to see everything, and so far I’ve seen: the ice road (SO cool); a man dogsledding; a man kite skiing (FYI i saw all of that while driving on the ice road); a FOX and the highest point in the city (pretty but not overly impressive if you’re from Vancouver). They also took me on a snow mobile ride across a frozen lake where we tobogganed and made a fire (I contributed one piece of cardboard to that fire). I am having the best time! Last thing on my list is to see the northern lights but so far no dice…

I have learned a couple of very important things while up here in the north and I feel I should share them just in case any of you decide to visit one day:

1. You can’t just quickly run outside in your normal clothes- you might die.

2. Bring a real camera not an iPhone because if you leave your mittens off for more than a few seconds your hands will hurt like never before and will probably lose them.

3. Most of the time it looks like dusk or night. Enjoy day while you can.

4. Don’t try and be fashionable when you go outside- don’t leave your parka open a little so your scarf looks cooler or insist on not wearing a touque so you don’t mess up your hair. Trust me just DON’T.

5. Coke in a can outside turns to slush and then ice AND your tongue gets stuck to the can.

And finally:
6. Marshmallows taste different when roasted and eaten in the cold. They taste better!

Here are a few instagrams from the trip…

-Erin

We’ve finished up shoots until new years so we just wanted to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! If you don’t already know, Erin and I are complete Christmas nuts! We love every part of it. We love the crowds, the hot chocolate, the food, the lights, the movies, the time with family… but most of all, we love celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

We hope you have a very Merry Christmas! We’ll be back with some new posts and new films after the holidays.

Earlier this year we wanted to make the leap to a completely custom designed site so we asked the brilliant Heather Hastings – extreme graphic designer (I added the extreme) – to puh-lease help us! We were super vague with our instructions to Heather, but super specific with what we wanted in our heads so we said “Heather, please make our branding and website better reflect who we are and what we’re all about. Thank you.” and BAM! She did! And its PERFECT!

(Fun Fact: Heather Hastings also happens to be a super close friend of ours AND she recently got engaged to our other super close friend! YAAAY friend wedding!)

So click around! Explore this place! We’d love some feedback so feel free to give us a shout out in a comment, on Facebook or Twitter, OR shout it out in person if you see us! (please shout nicely though… don’t yell… )

Special shout out to the always incredible Jamie Delaine for her amazing photo skills. All the photos of us on the site are by her :)

Special thanks to the brilliant Mark Kimmel, for coding the site!

Two days before we left for California we shot a really cool wedding in Vancouver – Alice and Tristan’s.

My first time meeting Alice was on her wedding day during her hair and makeup and I learned a lot about her in that time:
1) She is super hilarious but you really have to listen because her tone NEVER changes (which makes it all ten times more funny);
2) She doesn’t like makeup; but
3) She LOVES pandas!
I laughed like crazy when she asked her make up artist to do a more dramatic smokey-eye so she could look like a panda! At first I thought I had misheard her cause she said it so matter-of-factly but I misheard nothing- that was her request! And it looked great!

Alice and Tristan got married in the Celebration Pavilion at Queen Elizabeth Park. It was perfectly clear but FREEZING! (Obviously you can’t see the temperature in the film so I thought I would fill you in on that little tidbit). About 50 guests and it was so sweet! Their reception followed at Season’s in the Park. The food was great, the speeches were funny and the couple gave their guests a giant bag of favours each! What more can you ask for? SOLID wedding. My favourite part was the chalk speech bubbles the couple had for guests to take photo’s with – so creative!

Congratulations Tristan and Alice – your wedding was so beautiful and we had such a fun time! We wish you the best as you begin your new life together back up in the interior!

So this past summer, Mikaela and Shane contacted us about making a ‘love story’ type film to tell the story of how they got engaged. We were thrilled to shoot one and were very excited to hear how Shane popped the question. Mikaela then sent me a link to a post on her blog and my jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe it… Shane recreated their first date at a starbucks… in the woods! SO cool! We were amazed how he thought of every little detail! Naturally we met up with them at a Starbucks to talk more about their relationship and how they got together. There is so much more behind the elaborate setup and we couldn’t wait to tell their story in this engagement film.

For more check out Mikaela’s blog post. and Their new site www.starbucksproposal.com

PS: Mikaela and Shane recently tied the knot! Check out the beautiful photos by Jasmine Star!

There were two things Kaelin was set on for her day – 1. They were going to have a first look at Crescent Beach and 2. It was GOING to be sunny for that first look. She got both! When the boys came to pick up the girls in the limo, Erick wore a blindfold so they could wait to have their first look at the beach. My favourite part about this was that Kaelin did NOT have to wear a blindfold and she reminded Erick of this saying “You can’t see me!” (in that singsongy way a kid would taunt another kid on the playground) as she stood right in front of his face hahaha!

Kaelin and Erick were married at Minoru Chapel in Richmond. Not only is this church the cutest little church you’ve ever seen, but Kaelin’s parents were also married in it! So special! The reception followed at Mayfair Lakes Golf and Country Club and it was gorgeous! Kaelin planned her pants off and it paid off! My favourite part of the reception was their cake – I LOVED this cake. I did not eat any of this cake, but it looked so pretty! I did however eat my favour which was sugar cookies in the shape of a wedding cake – oh man. I get sad when I remember I can never eat one again… so good.

Kaelin and Erick you day was SO beautiful and SO much fun! Thank you so much for including us – we had so much fun with you both and wish you the very best in your lives together! Congratulations!

We had the pleasure of working with the lovely Larissa of Luxe Photography… check out her site!

While dating is usually a really light and fun time, the majority of this couple’s dating life was spent in hospitals. BoBo’s father had been diagnosed with cancer and actually passed away 2 months before the wedding. BoBo’s mother was in the hospital so sick with cancer that she was unable to make the trip to Canada for the wedding. (She also just recently passed away as well…)

BoBo is very sweet and soft spoken. She is absolutely beautiful.
WoWo (or Tin as I know him) is also very sweet and always looks out for others. He takes wonderful care of BoBo.

Their wedding was incredible. They both love nature and so decided to get married outside of an old mansion on a golf course on the water in Harrison Mills, BC. It drizzled right until the ceremony began and then stopped just until it ended. Not one word of english was spoken during the ceremony but it still took everything in me not to cry. Just watching this couple was enough to know that they have a different kind of love. Like a different level of love that you can’t reach until you’ve been though something tragic together.

The best and most difficult part of the wedding was just before the reception. WoWo had arranged for one of his friends to play a song for BoBo on the piano. This song meant a lot to the couple because it helped them get though all of their hard times. It was the one song that they would put on repeat and listen to until they fell asleep when they were just too tired to try anymore. If that wasn’t hard enough, when it came time for the vocals in the song (which was mostly “oooh’s”), their friends, scattered all over the room, joined in and started singing. I lost it. You could not NOT feel. Everyone was crying. I’m crying writing this. The song was beautiful.

I’ve never been so happy for a couple before. This couple deserves each other. This couple deserves happiness.

BoBo and WoWo – we feel so honoured that we got to be a part of your wedding day. We are so blessed to have met you and to have heard your story. We hope that your wedding film was able to capture the love, sorrow and joy that we experienced on your day. Congratulations and may your future be filled with nothing but joy.

PS: We loved being able to work with the awesome Bartek & Magda. So much fun laughing about them about certain bags… it’s an inside thing. Check out their site!

Rebecca sings opera. Rebecca LOVES opera. Rebecca’s wedding HAD opera singers for entertainment! The theme of the wedding was Venice and it was GORGEOUS! The greenhouse was tented top to bottom in fabric, there were trees and gardens, a fountain, wine tasting and all italian food! I’m doing my best to explain exactly what it was like – but you have to SEE it to understand!

Rebecca and Evan – we are so excited for you both and had so much fun being a part of your day. We wish you the best! Congratulations!

PS We were so glad to be able to work with the fantastic Ashley and Dayne of Dragonflight Photography. Check out here teaser photos!