Engaged: Brian & Melanie

When Allen and Alanna suggested Silverdale Wetlands Engagement Photos because of its sentimental significance in the history of their relationship (they’d walk the Mission, BC park regularly for date night during the early days of their relationship!), the choice was easy: duh, let’s pick the nostalgic spot!  But then when I showed up at the…

A weekend adventure in Vancouver to celebrate her birthday, he said.  Let’s bring our best friends along, he said.  I’m taking you for dinner on Grouse Mountain, he said. Let’s go ice skating, he said.  Let me hold your hand, he said. All the plans, all the words actually said (in between the lines, unspoken for…

“You aren’t allowed to die. If you die before our wedding, we’ll have to kill you.” Somehow, the prospect of their Cape Cod wedding is ample reason to keep me alive (no matter how many late nights and early mornings and massive todo lists I’m facing), so the threat didn’t really matter. Besides, its an…

When Julianna and Matthew planned their Crescent Beach Engagement session, we dreamed of a glowing sunset (kind of like this one) on the ocean; sunflare and dramatic skies were high hopes but despite all my attempts at manipulating the weather, the clouds settled in.  While I always love a good golden glow, there’s something very…

Fact: when most people think “engagement pictures,” they do NOT think the basement of a parking garage, wedged between a black SUV with heavily tinted windows and a very thick concrete wall, including obligatory graffiti. And, for honesty’s sake, Nick and Abby probably didn’t envision that either. Or maybe they did. But the point is:…

Morning took a long time to arrive.  The clouds hung low, blocking out the early rays.  Google was, for once, proven wrong. It had told us that sunrise would be early. Bold. Dramatic. It failed. It grew lighter, less dark. She could now count her fingers — her cold fingers — by sight instead of…