Engagement Photography: The Best of 2019

The best way to think of an engagement sessions & couples sessions is as a unique date between you and your partner. If you think about it: how many photographs do you have with each other that are not directly taken with your iPhone? Printed and framed?

One of my own regrets is that I don’t have more photographs with Dave, with me in them. Here’s why: before I turned 35 I completely took my looks for granted and was hypercritical of them. I don’t know if I thought I would never age, but now I look back at younger versions of myself and want to jump inside that photograph and give myself a swift kick in the kindest way haha!

It’s important to have these photographs with each other so that you can appreciate your beautiful selves and all that that encompasses with aspirations, romance, joie de vivre. Not that I am saying that I don’t feel those things now! But I don’t take them for granted anymore.

Engagement photography sessions are an opportunity to tell a more intimate story, to get yourselves photographed in a more elevated and artistic way. Engaged or not engaged, if you’re a couple that’s looking to have your photograph taken: go on over this page to find out more about what these sessions entail and take a moment to fill out the questionnaire!

Here is a selection of my favorite engagement photographs that I took in 2019 in various locations in Montreal and Ottawa.

Carbide Willson Ruins Engagement Session in one photo

There are time when life aligns me with people who feel meant to be in my life. Everything from the initial inquiry, first phone call, contract negotiations and actual photo session planning has a thread of magic that sews it’s way through the entire experience.

This couple found me on the tenth page of Wedding Wire (because I don’t pay for my listing) and we soon discovered a variety of crazy connections between us.

When we planned the engagement shoot — after sending a few suggestions that had a nice interplay between architecture and nature - the couple sent back the suggestion of the Carbide Willson Ruins.

Well.

My heart skipped a beat for a few reasons: I went to day camp for my entire childhood that spent the first half of the day at a Ski Lodge and then the other half of the day at Meech Lake. We would OFTEN hike to these ruins except because I was a kid at the time, didn’t realize there was a name attached to them.

So needless to say I was all in.

We had a wonderful hike getting to know each other, revisiting my own childhood memories, and experiencing the wet grounds of this Spring together.

I have many beautiful photos from this experience, however for the sake of their desire for privacy I am leaving you with one we have agreed is just too beautiful to keep under wraps. The sun.. for a very brief moment chose to find it’s way through the windows of these ruins and we were so lucky to be there for it.

Magic. Really looking forward to shooting their wedding later this summer xo