Yesterday, we travelled to the village of Cobden in the Ottawa Valley for the wedding of Penny and Aaron. Well, to be more exact, the wedding was at Penny’s family farm on the outskirts of

Cobden and the with the weather cooperating beautifully, we witnessed (and captured) one of the most heartfelt weddings…you see, Penny and Aaron sort of go against the grain. Upon meeting them, you’re struck that Aaron is very tall and Penny, well Penny is petite in stature-after seeing them together though, I can only say that the size of their love for each other is only amplified by the difference in height! These two absolutely adore each other; it was obvious in their pre ceremony nerves, the bashful glances at each other while Penny was walking towards her soon to be husband, and most of all by the way they gazed at each other throughout their ceremony.

Last Saturday we got together with Sylvain and Caroline of Reno Video Productions to put together a little clip to show how we work. We love Sylvain’s style and creativity. Most of all, we love how in 2 minutes you get the chance to get to know us before visiting our studio.

We had the opportunity to meet Pamela and Grinton last year when they commissioned us to do some portrait work for them. In doing their session, we were really impressed with how genuine and nice these two were, and that the quintessential boy meets girl love story does still exist. They shared with us that they were making plans for their wedding in 2010, and as unusual as it was for us, we asked them if we could shoot their wedding! We truly wanted the opportunity to document their love, as it is inspiring to meet people who care so deeply for one another, as well as the people who come into their lives. Last weekend, we photographed their engagement session in their beautiful Sandy Hill neighborhood, and had a blast watching these guys have so much fun together…

Last Wednesday we had the pleasure of sharing the role of Official Photographers with Barb Cameron at Ottawa’s first Wedding Professionals Networking and Sangria Tasting Event. We would like to thank Wendy of Beyond Events & Jen of Trixie Tulip for taking the time to organize this event, which was a great success! The event gave many of us wedding vendors the opportunity to hang out and chat with others that we knew and had relationships with, as well as those who we would like to work with. The event was held at Lago, in the lake view room which has a gorgeous view perfect for weddings and get togethers. Michelle VandenBosch created amazing exotic floral art that was just too easy to photograph! She proudly told me that she had some of the flowers brought in from Thailand for the event, and the effect was a stunning tropical oasis! Wendy and Jen even arranged a candy buffet for us, beautifully (and deliciously) provided by Wedecor!

As a wedding photographer I like to keep up to date on wedding trends and ideas that other professionals are doing from all over the world. One great blog to follow is Junebug Weddings, which is exactly where I found this video, which is the most unique and creative save the date reminder I’ve ever seen.

Among the many sessions we attended at the DWF Convention this month, one of our favorites was the Dynamic Location Lighting seminar taught by Cliff Mautner. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Cliff has been a professional photographer for over 25 years, has photographed over 750 weddings, and is known as being able to create amazing images regardless of the lighting conditions.
He has been named one of the world’s top photographers, and prides himself on being able to produce photographs that are technically strong and has no need to edit them afterward to produce a beautiful product. We had the pleasure of learning from him, up close and personally…if you notice, we’re so excited about being small town Ottawa wedding photographers on stage with a big city photographer of his caliber, I’m staring at Cliff with a big goofy grin on my face!

With January off to a great start, I figured it was a good time to sit down and thank all of the amazing people who have helped to make this last year so successful.

To our wonderful wedding clients, a warm thank you for choosing us to capture the most important day of your lives. Being recently married, we know that making choices during wedding planning is not always easy and we are so incredibly thankful to have had such fantastic folks to work with. It is always fun for us to be integrally involved in each wedding, and we’ve had the pleasure of photographing some amazing weddings in 2009.

We will be participating in Help Portrait 2009. The reason I have joined the countless other photographers who have posted this to their sites is that I want more photographers to join. This is such a worthwhile cause and will make thousands, if not millions of people feel special this year. What is Help Portrait? It’s a movement that was started this year in the states, that encourages every photographer to go out, and take somebody’s portrait, for free. No hidden costs, just set up and take photos of people who otherwise couldn’t afford a professional photo.

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Found this through flickr this evening. I’m posting this for all you photographers! I do give back to the community as much as I can, so naturally I will be supporting this movement.

If you know of somebody deserving, forward their name!

Earlier this week Danielle and Mike came by with their newborn infant Emily for her first official photos. Danielle used to work with Ivanette, so this was a special treat. Mike has a very busy schedule, so finding the time when he was available was a little tricky, but we made it work! Hope you like them. P.S. Danielle and Mike, you guys are great!