Engagement photos basics
January 13, 2016
Congratulations if you’ve just gotten engaged! Such an exciting time! For the next few weeks, I’ll be featuring some of my kick ass fellow wedding vendors talking about tips and trends and possibly a few love stories that is worth sharing.
For this first post, one of my favourite Toronto wedding photographer, Michelle from Magnolia Studios chatted with me on her photography style and a few commonly asked questions on engagement photos.
- Do you encourage couples to have engagement pics and why?
- What are some of the places you recommend for engagement shoots?
- Why style would you say your photography is?
- Is there anything the couple should prepare before the engagement shoot?
Airship37 Wedding | Lillian & Peter
January 4, 2016
I love getting enquiries from clients from everywhere! I love that they trust me when they are not even in the same country. The moment I chatted with Lillian and Peter, I knew they were a fun loving couple, looking to celebrate their love and wedding with the closest friends and family in the most stylish way – partying! I didn’t meet them until a week before their wedding, as they both live and work in New York City. Their love story was hillarious, and just proves that you never know where and when you will meet THE one. Getting to know them and discussing the final details to coordination the day of wedding was awesome. They wanted a cocktail reception style wedding. The wedding ceremony was held at one of Toronto’s coolest wedding venue – Airship37. The reception was a standing reception, decorated with blue paper lanterns. I got the opportunity to also dressed up the room with simple baby breaths flowers in silver tins as per bride’s request. There were lots of time for bride and groom to mingle with their guests, which is what they envision it to be. They do not want a traditional sit down wedding. In their words, it’s just not them. Their wedding ceremony was super fun, and as non traditional as they are, they had a string quartet playing pop music for them to walk down to! I mean seriously – string quartet playing Kanye West Good Life as the groom walked in? It’s the best! Check out Lenny Soloman! Amazing!
This wedding was the last wedding of my 2015 season before I took a bit of a break enjoying the rest of my pregnancy and it was truly a memorable one. Everyone partied and danced the night away…continuing their after party at Distillery District. The best man’s (groom’s brother) speech was the best speech I’ve ever heard! Mom and son’s dance was epic. Even I had an awesome time mingling with their guests! Who says you can enjoy while you work? This is the best kind of work for me!
To this wonderful good looking couple, your wedding was pretty awesome, one to always remember in my books! Thank you LG weddings for these pictures!