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Fattoria La Tagliata Wedding in Positano, Italy

When I booked Laurie & Anthony’s wedding in Santorini, Greece — I started thinking about trying to get some more work while I was overseas and so I published a landing page on my website just advertising that I would be in the vicinity should anyone want to hire me….

Casey & Justin, from North Carolina, found me - the magic of the internet! - then hired me to photograph their intimate wedding in Positano, Italy. It was a classic pinch-me moment.

One of the biggest surprises I had on the Amalfi Coast was just how mountainous it is…. I know that sounds silly but it’s true. The iconic photos that we all see don’t spell out just how many steps up a mountain you’re walking when your airbnb is more north of town.

This summer, I learned a lot about prepping for destination weddings and just how important it is to build in a few days leading up to the Rehearsal Dinner & Wedding Day. There are so many moving parts to any wedding (and the subsequent backup plans I need to put in place), adding a layer of different country, different language, different infrastructure, etc is something you can only experience once you are in place (instead of planning beforehand). But that’s for a travel post that I am thinking about writing…

Casey & Justin & their loved ones proved that guest count does not matter when it comes to having a really great party and big props to Fattoria La Tagliata and the WedPlace Wedding Planning team for creating an ambience and live music that got the party started. Just take a look at the photos and you’ll see what I mean.

When I left their party (still very much in full swing) I took a long beautiful walk down the mountain grateful for the opportunities my job provides me.

A big huge thank you to Casey, Justin and their families for entrusting me with their memories. <3

PS. This year I started shooting with some film, you’ll catch a couple of photos that I shot with my Holga here in this gallery.

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Cavo Ventus Wedding in Santorini, Greece

Well, it’s been a real while since I posted anything on my website and that’s because 2022 has been an incredible year - record breaking - in terms of travel and quantity of weddings. In fact, 2022 hit all wedding vendors hard! I am still playing catch up, but there is so so so much I want to share from this year. Hopefully, I can do so before my 2023 season really begins in May (ps. 2023 is sold out, too). All this to say, stay tuned!

I’m kicking off my new set of blog posts from my 2022 weddings with my first official destination wedding in Santorini, Greece.

Words can not express how thrilled I was to be a part of Laurie & Anthony’s wedding (Montrealers) and to work alongside Jennifer from Events by Cece (you can see another wedding we worked on together here).

There are too many moments for me to articulate here, and there’s no point in me even trying to use words to describe how beautiful the island(s) are, how good the food was, and how the light never ceased to inspire me.

Some highlights for me personally were scouting the island with Jennifer; getting to swim in the Aegean sea with my 16yo daughter; the dancing at Laurie & Anthony’s wedding (and the views) and the moment when Laurie fainted from the heat… and looked so beautiful when she did it, I told her that I was sad I hadn’t taken a photo. See if you can find her laughing at my joke in this gallery.

Thank you Laurie, Anthony & Jennifer (and my daughter) for such a memorable week in Santorini.

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Lighthouse Weekend Wedding on L'Ile Verte

This wedding was published in Together Journal a while back ago :)

When I met Rosalie and Connor in a park last summer, they shared with me their vision of having their wedding on Ile Verte - a beautiful rugged little island on the St Lawrence in Quebec - where they felt the island itself could speak to their shared values and connect their family & friends to the parallels they shared in their Quebec and Irish roots.

It’s no secret that I love water and that I love venues that are close to water. I love how the colors and light change from one day to the next, it’s so inspiring. But I also want to speak to being present for the whole weekend — it allows me to really consider and observe moments like these without the stress of a packed timeline.

I was able to float around the island and pick strands of grass, rocks, flora and incorporate those elements into the detail shots. I went on long walks all over the coastline to see how the light fell and how the Charlevoix horizon changed across the St.Lawrence. I was able to have idle chit chat with every person at the wedding and get to know the bonds that united them all to this one moment. This is how I would ideally connect to every wedding. It can’t always happen that way, but when it does, it feels like a gift.

The evening of the Rehearsal Dinner, we had a sunset that had me glowing from the inside out. I couldn’t capture the way the light fell fast enough. So let’s start with that gallery:

On their wedding day, the weather had subdued itself with overcast blues and it could not have been more fitting with the slightly warm suiting; while Rosalie’s elegant Pronovias gown stunned against the rugged backdrop.

This was a wedding weekend that hit all the right notes - so much fun, so much beauty, so much love — all celebrated with laughter, tears, lobster and a grand finale of pushing all the tables to the edges of the room to have a big ol’ dance party. Huge shout out to the Maison du Phare kitchen for over-delivering in the food joy.

Finally, I can not thank Rosalie & Connor’s family & friends for making me feel like I was a part of the party, not just a witness. I ate, I toasted, I sang, I danced, I learned about their stories, I cried along with them. It’s a weekend we’re all lucky to have shared.

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