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Well here we are in the midst of another very fulfilling, albeit busy, wedding season. Charlotte and I photographed 8 weddings in July and August is very similar… Over the past few years we’ve both been amazed at how kind, generous, compassionate and in love the couples are who’ve been choosing us to photograph their weddings. It’s hard to convey what an honour we find it to be so involved in their day. Today I’m excited to share some highlights from a recent engagement session we photographed of just such a couple.

Alison & Jason are getting marred less than two weeks from today at Graydon Hall Manor – a favourite venue of ours. Chatting about their lives at the moment it’s nice to hear we’re not the only couple feeling a little swamped with all that goes into planning a wedding!

Jason and Alison are a relaxed, easy going pair. They live in the Liberty Village, so we decided to do the shoot right there in their local neighbourhood. We started and ended their shoot at The Brazen Head, a pub that I hadn’t actually been to yet, but I’m pleased to have been introduced to it!

Right from the beginning of the photo session I could tell we were going to have a lot of fun. We wandered through the shops and found some cool little areas for Jay & Alison to hang out – allowing them to slow down and soak in a few moments together.

Jason spotted a grass feature in front of a condo building and with some shuffling we got some very sexy, romantic images.

About an hour into the session we chatted about where to continue the session – The Ex, Centennial Park or elsewhere… and we quickly settled on The Harbourfront Centre & Music Gardens – both favourites of mine. As we were driving there we spotted this vibrant red wall and stopped for a couple of quick photos – and I’m so glad we did!

We arrived at the Music Gardens just in time for twilight… a favourite time for doing some sexier shots…. Check them out below.

A tall ship was cruising by, and we managed to snag this beautiful photo – just look at the connection between these guys!

As the shoot was wrapping up we decided to cruise by The Harbourfront Centre and we were all so glad we did… check out the beautiful lighting they have set up!

Alison & Jay – we can’t wait to photograph your wedding next weekend!!! You guys are the best.

So, we’re a bit behind on the blogging. We even have a couple of more destination weddings and destination engagement’s we’ve been dying to post, we promise we’ll get around to it very soon! We usually get those up right away but we’ve been shooting almost daily since the warm weather has hit. It’s been so nice to spend so much time with our amazing couples at this very special time in their lives, we’re having so much fun! We really wanted to share with you this gorgeous couple’s engagement session from the spring. We had the pleasure of photographing their engagement portraits in and around their beautiful Ancaster home. Meet Karen and John!

Look at all the fun these two have together. John loves to ham it up for the camera and make Karen laugh. No wonder Karen’s head over heels for him!

Aren’t they such a cute couple!! We were so excited to do their engagement session in the Ancaster area, it was a bit of fun to get outside the Toronto city limits and do a session somewhere exciting and new!

We loved the fact that even though we were booked for their wedding date, they wanted to do their engagement session with us. It really means a lot to us when our clients love us that much that they at least book us for their engagement shoot

Check out this shot, super cute!

Thanks Karen and John for choosing us to photograph your special connection with each other. We would have loved to have been there for your special day. Congratulations on your new life together!!

When Allison first contacted us about photographing her wedding it was obvious that she’s a girl passionate about life… about photography and of course most passionate about her fiance, Phil. Phil has just arrived home from a stint serving in Afghanistan and it’s clear to see how much these guys missed one another.

As we were planning their engagement pictures, Allison mentioned that they loved to spend time in nature together, both had a passion for the outdoors. She also mentioned in passing that her car had suicide doors.. right away Charlotte and I were picturing the cool images we could create with that!

Because Allison and Phil live in Oakville we thought we’d head out that way for the shoot and showcase their hood. We met up at a barn that I’ve visited many time over the years to explore. It’s an amazing building, full of cool little areas with incredible light coming in. The basement is very cool as well, full of nicknacks from the 50s.

Isn’t this window light just beautiful!? What a gorgeous couple!

We always love creating dramatic silhouettes, and this hallway provided the perfect opportunity for that. This is the kind of image you can easily print to hang and your walls.

As sunset neared the four of us headed over to The 5 Drive In – such and awesome location… Check out these next for photos… Such beautiful light this time of year.

How cool is the entrance to the Diner?? Sweet eh.

And to finish up, since posting the multi image yesterday we got some great feedback, including graces question about how the result was acheived… so we wanted to post the 4 images in their raw versions. As you can see, the light was falling off from shot to shot, with only minutes between the whole set.

Thanks guys for an amazing shoot! We’re very excited for your wedding in 2011!!

Wow. Charlotte and I just arrived home from an amazing engagement photo shoot with our newest couple… by newest, I mean they just signed on the dotted line to have us photograph their wedding! Allison & Phil are very much in love and it’s so obvious you’d be blind to miss it.

We did a really fun shoot around Oakville… in an old barn, at the 5 Drive In and wrapped up at Sheridan College. At the end of the shoot we created this multi-image that we’d love to share with you.

It’d be great to hear you feedback… like the idea? Want to see more of these type shot?

We love it when there is a knock at the door and the FedEx guy hands us a box. It feels like we’re little kids at Christmas with such a feeling of excitement and mystery, what could it be this time… a wedding album… an engagement album? We get to see our amazing clients dream albums become a reality and all of our hard work and design come to life. We feel so incredibly lucky that we have the ability to supply our couples with some of the most gorgeous wedding and engagement albums in the world! We absolutely LOVE our album company – The Amazing Finao – and so do our clients. We were on the look out while at WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) in Vegas last year, for a company to provide the high level of quality we dream about. It was sooo amazing that we actually found an album maker that has everything we were hoping for and a great turn around time to boot!

While looking for an album supplier there were a few must have things on our check list… 1) Our albums had to be unlike anything else that was on the market 2) The quality had to be second to none 3) The print quality had to be stunningly gorgeous 4) They had to be durable. Will it last the test of time? Last but not least 5) Are they ‘GREEN’ and socially responsible like us? Do they care about the Earth??

Another thing we love are the colours, textures, patterns, various wedding and engagement album sizes and designs we can select from to really add that personal touch for our clients. This pressed leather (also available in faux leathers) pattern below is so stunning and feels soooo luxurious in your hands… We love it!! It’s buttery soft!

We have so many options for cover designs and we encourage our clients to get creative and have fun with their album covers. Sara and Hami (below) have the same cover design for their wedding album but the red and black are reversed so there is a red cover with a black stripe! Pretty cool eh? It will look great in their home on a book shelf or coffee table.

We love the fact that our albums have smooth rounded corners! This is something that is really unique and adds that extra little bit of quality and care you don’t commonly see everyday!

The wedding and engagement album bindings are so well made, you can see that these books truly are priceless heirlooms that can be passed along to generations. That really makes us have a lot of confidence in the products we are providing to our couples.

Our gorgeous professionally retouched prints are bound to our flush mount albums flawlessly, so the image is never compromised or interrupted. Because our albums are made of a high quality card stock the pages don’t bend, tear or warp. They’ll look as beautiful today as they will in years to come!! If you’d like to check out some more samples of our designs check out our sister company Rainbow Eleven as well!!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog to take a peek at what we’re doing around here… We’ve been shooting some gorgeous weddings lately and have lots great stuff still to blog! Thank goodness we leave tomorrow for a week on a fabulous Caribbean cruise. It’s freezing here in Toronto and we need a bit of time in the sun to re-charge, get inspired and scare away the winter blahhhs! See you all next week with hopefully a tan (not a burn)!

Hey crew. Exciting news… Charlotte and I were photographed by the very talented Wei Quek last year while he was having a promo video made by the one of the most awesome wedding cinematography teams out there… Casey and Danielle of MindCastle. Check it out and let us know what you think!!