Posted by eaphoto on July 24, 2010 – 11:16 pm
I don’t even know where to begin with this wedding! We are being seriously spoiled with fantastic weddings this summer, such a treat! (get ready there are a lot of exclamation marks coming up 
) We knew that these two were our kind of people from the very first email. Jess wrote that she and Rob were getting married “under a LONE TREE IN A FIELD!!!” If any of you have read the E/A Who? page on our main site you will know that I, Emmy, have a thing for making photographs of lone trees in fields, bit of an obession really. Anyway Jess and Rob really do live a dream life. Jess is a lover of horses and what better life than to run Foxstone Stables at Glenora Farm and also live right above the stable with 300 acres of Cowichan Valley paradise including your own natural spring swimming pond, meadows with lone trees, and gorgeousness everywhere you look! There is so much beauty here that we are going to head back up there in the fall for a day of photo making because we felt like kids in a candy store with not quite enough time to fill our pockets. This dreamy day was a hip-nouveau-country-handle-bar-moustache-ray-ban-sunglasses-with-a-dash-of-vintage perfection! There were so many personal touches and such wonderful details that the result is that I have a lot of images to share!! To start with Jess’ dress is stunning and so perfect for a vintage country wedding. Her rings, carried in little leather pouches, were Rob’s Grandmother’s and her vintage bracelet has been worn by the other women in Rob’s family on their wedding day. All through their home are old family photos and antique treasures that I couldn’t help but photograph. These old photos were inspiring so the tintype looking shot at the end is a shout out to American Gothic and old family images. The ceremony seats were bales of hay with Jess’ baby quilts made by her mom, the bridal party entered through the field with Jess’ first man in her life, her old pup Jackson, looking so so proud in his bow-tie, the flowers with daisies and sunflowers and red gingham table clothes were so perfect and the weather was hot and sunny! Many of the guests set up camp in a nearby field with vans and tents to make a weekend of the event. In honour of Rob’s ‘stache many of his friends grew their own and the groomsmen bought stick ons that you could shape in different styles. The sun set really low on the horizon leaving the reception drenched in buttery late daylight. Instead of a wedding cake these two ordered a table full of pies!!!!!! Best idea ever! It was really hard to photograph them and not sneak a taste. After the ceremony we headed up the hill to the old red barn for some shelter from the heat. You have heard the famous saying don’t work with kids or animals – well we usually love working with both and the kids were fantastic it was the darn goats that couldn’t take the hint that it wasn’t their day! One really wanted his picture taken, after he tasted a bridesmaid’s bouquet of course. At first it was funny until I had to push him out of the way by his bottom, goats are stubborn. We left the barn via tractor and at dusk the music started, the lanterns came on and man could these folks dance! I have never seen grannies with such moves, so so much fun. Jess and Rob are so in love and their wedding day was perfect from beginning to end. We know we will see them and Jackson, and probably the goat many more times in the future. At the end of the day we were still hot, a little sweaty, and so so grateful to our new friends Jess and Rob for sharing their sweet day with us!
Location: Glenora Farm, Duncan BC. Dress: Priscilla of Boston. Flowers: Leaf and Petal
Posted by eaphoto on July 22, 2010 – 11:25 am
I LOVE Rock ‘n Roll Bride! If you guys haven’t heard of it before click the icon and run run over there for some seriously creative wedding inspiration. We have been featured a few times on this blog and since our first feature of Pam and Dave’s vibrant day this blog has become super super popular with its creator, the fabulous Kat,winning a best of blogs award, regular features in Pro Photo magazine, and the latest is her win for Best Wedding Style Blog from the Wedding Channel (go over there and vote for her to win best overall blog!). Kat started out as a bride looking for something different and became really interested in wedding style and photography. Now she shares the most unique and inspiring artists from around the world. We are really excited to not only be featured but to also be named as an Approved Rockstar Vendor! Remember Sarah and Travis’ sweet elopement - well it has been featured on Rock ‘n Roll Bride and you can see the full feature by clicking here or on the image below!!
Posted by eaphoto on July 19, 2010 – 11:51 am
The old song “At Last” comes to mind with these two and their families. Dani and Kevin have been in love with each other for a long time and now they are finally Mr. and Mrs. The past few years have seen them travelling around the world for Kevin’s job and not too long ago they were able to slow the world down, gather on a beach on a beautiful sunny day with all of their friends and family, and promise their future to each other. We had a lot of fun with these two. Dani and her girls got ready for the I Do’s at the beautiful Villa Marco Polo in Rockland (We love gorgeous prep locations!), the ceremony was held at Saxe Point Park with sail boats floating by behind them, and Kevin kept us entertained on our location shoots by acting out movie scenes. I think our favourites were Steve Irwin in the brush and Russel Crow running his hands through the grass from Gladiator – are you sure you didn’t miss your calling Kevin ! It was a really hot day and you guys were so great with just the right amount of silliness (see below when we asked them to pick a spot to fix their gaze). Congrats on your beautiful new family!
Posted by eaphoto on July 14, 2010 – 10:26 am
A little while ago on one of our first warm summer evenings we met up with James and his Grandma Helga in the park for a mini session. Helga also brought her very sweet pup named Sophie to join in with us. Knowing that we would be shooting a Grandma and Grandson it got us thinking about grandparents. My Grandpa was a pilot when he was young and is in love with airplanes. There are photographs of him as a child with his balsa gliders and when I was a child there are photographs of him and I, at the little airstrip near their summer home in Beachburg Ont., with his remote control airplanes and balsa gliders. Aaron has taken to these little gliders and at one point I had to reclaim the china cabinet, to make room for actual china, as he had turned it into a hanger for balsa gliders, bi-planes, elastic wind-up prop planes and more. Sitting to have your photograph taken may not be the thrill of a second grader’s evening so we thought we would make it more fun by bringing along a little memory of mine and a new hobby of Aaron’s. Helga and James have a special little bond that you can just feel when you are around them. Helga moved out here when James was wee to be able to be a bigger part of his life. Along with her came James’ little sidekick Sophie. We followed them around the grassy oak meadow as they tossed the glider, played in the grass, and laughed with each other. Their little ways of being together were so sweet to watch and we had such a great time chasing around behind them with our cameras. Thank you so much James and Helga for sharing your sunny afternoon of new memories with us.
Posted by eaphoto on July 12, 2010 – 2:56 pm
It all started this first day of kindergarten. My mom will tell you that until I was older I really could have cared less whether my clothes were clean, let alone matching, my hair was done, or if I had peanut butter on my face. Up until the first day I kindergarten I hadn’t really thought much about what I put on my feet and then everything changed when I met a pair of little red canvas slip-ons and their lucky owner Natasha. I come from a really small town and I grew up a good distance from that town, one could say it was in the bush. Those shoes did not come from town where all we had was a Fields and a Sears catalogue delivery office. My sinlge most vivid memory of that first year of school is those little red shoes. Natasha topped off my shoe envy by moving to a town named Summerland – seriously!!! She had perfect shoes and she got to live in place that was always summer – not fair! Well I survived that first experience of shoe envy only to become plagued by it. I have bad, narrow, flat, skinny, boney, hurt-in-anything-cute feet. To my dismay, sturdy, practical, stiff soled mary jane’s with orthodics are was make my feet happiest. But in my heart when I close my eyes I am really wearing a pair of super-cute-stop-you-in-your-tracks works of art. Soooo when I decided to start highlighting local style hot spots for brides and grooms it was a no brainer that I would start with shoes. I love it when brides and grooms really strut their style with a hot pair of shoes and I love photographing them! In some dresses you can’t always see the hot shoes – but you know they are there when they peek out while you are walking, sitting, or showing them off. In shorter dresses the shoes complete the look. On our wedding day I wore a pair of cherry red patent leather Steve Madden heels with an ivory strap – they are the only comfy heels I have ever found and I adore them! Why have plain white when really you can do whatever you want and have a fantastic pair of shoes to show off later. In Victoria’s Trounce Alley their is a little piece of shoe lover heaven found at Shelagh Macartney’s shop She She Shoes. A couple of weeks ago I headed down to She She with an old luggage trunk – that I have been waiting for years to use in just the right shoot, and our old milk crate to spend some time with the other love of my life – beautiful shoes. There are so many gorgeous pairs of shoes in this shop it was hard to pick which ones to photograph!! The shop manager Agnes was so helpful and is a sweetheart – if you don’t have a girlfriend to help you pick out the perfect pair Agnes is your gal! There were a few brides in there while I was shooting trying on Nina’s Elga (see below). And for all you gals having outdoor weddings and afraid you’ll sink in the grass with those stilettos – check out Clean Heels. Jen had them at her wedding and they were fantastic. I hope you enjoy these lovelies as much as I do and thank you so much to the ladies of She She shoes for letting me indulge my fantasy of having all these fabulous shoes to myself – if only for a couple of hours. We will have more of these style segments in the future so if you know of an amazing accessory, location, or decor theme let us know so we can share it!
xo ~ Em
Poetic Licence ~ Hello Lovely
Friis & Company ~ Karlina
Poetic Licence ~ Forever Mine
Nina ~ Critia
Shelly's ~ Bellini
Badgely Mischka ~ Raudale
Nina ~ Erna
Nina ~ Elga
Posted by eaphoto on July 9, 2010 – 10:35 am
Here is post number three on Raj and Pia’s epic wedding {if you are just coming into these posts check out the first two here and here and their engagement session here}. They are so gorgeous we know that you want to see more so here is the portrait session held the day after the ceremonies and right before their reception (which was soooo much fun and warrants its own post soon to come!). We had these grand visions of sunlit soaked afternoon light as the day before was one of the few really sunny days in our cold overcast spring. However, nature had other plans and we woke up to a chilly drizzle. Which meant that they looked super hot while I (Em) was stylin in my MEC rain pants and purple Hunter wellies! The four of us were quite the combo and definitely got noticed but more so for Pia’s gorgeous dress – seriously have you ever seen anything or anyone so beautiful! Sometimes the rain is a good thing as it makes us consider locations we may have overlooked on sunnier days. A Market Square empty storefront and entrance gave us the perfect cover from rain and in between sets of drizzle we made it out onto the old Blue Bridge at the bottom of Johnson St. and to the pier in Sidney. Amidst all the business of this event it was really great to get out with just Raj and Pia. We had such a great time with these two that we know we will be seeing more of them in the future. Now I will let you get to the images of these two beautiful people.
Posted by eaphoto on June 30, 2010 – 1:49 pm
This is our second instalment from our amazing time spent with Raj and Pia. The day started really early, earlier than imaginable for these two and a wee bit earlier than normal for us. With our tea and coffee in tow we headed out the parents homes for the bride and groom preparations. Getting ready for this wedding is no small task. At one point I looked at Pia and she was doing the triathlon of wedding prep – Sharon Rai, her makeup and wardrobe assistant, was sorting out her many layers, her sister Nidhi was adding some bling to her Mehndi, and her Auntie was feeding her cereal – all at the same time!! Aaron was impressed with the skill of Raj’s cousin as he wrapped his turban and excited by the horse, which until this season we have not seen in a wedding. As Rajan is Sikh and Pia is Hindu they decided to have both ceremonies which made for a very full day with lots of activities and much fun for us! The Sikh ceremony was held first at the Sikh Temple, Gurdwara in Victoria and the Hindu ceremony was held outside at the Bear Mountain Westin Resort just outside of town. For the Hindu ceremony Pia included her school friends and cousin as Bridesmaids and Rajan’s brother and cousins stood as his groomsmen. It was a gorgeous, colourful, love filled day and we were so amazed at everything we were able to be a part of and witness. After the ceremony we hopped on a bus sized van and headed out to the 18th hole. There is a great view there but of course in typical Emmy and Aaron style the following happened on the drive: Emmy from the back of the bus: Hey Aaron see that on the right? Aaron from front of bus: Yup let’s do it! - Stop the bus! There it was – a beautiful shaded rock wall. We have been eyeing up quarries for a while and this was exactly what we were wanting. We had a few minutes so we hopped out and grabbed a few shots before having to head back. So we leave this post with a few images from that wall. It was very hard to pick images for this post as there are so many that we love but here are a few to give you a peak into Raj and Pia’s incredible two ceremony day. The more we work on their images the more we are missing all of the great people that we met and became friends with, we hope we get to see many of them again soon. If you can believe it there are more images to come as the “just us and them” shoot and the reception was held the following day! Bye for now – E&A
Posted by eaphoto on June 25, 2010 – 1:36 pm
I am not sure of where to begin with this post. To say that we were excited for Raj and Pia’s wedding is an understatement – I think the feeling was more like ecstatic and giddy!! Aaron went to highschool with Rajan and before he and Pia ever contacted us about shooting their wedding his name would come up Aaron and anyone else who knew him would always say what an incredibly nice person he is – they are so right!! And lucky for him he has married a beautiful person inside and out in Pia. You might remember these two from the engagement session we did with them back in March. We had a great time with them on their engagement shoot but we could not have anticipated the amazing experience of spending three days with them and their families. We are still savouring every memory as it was an event that we will forever cherish and remember. We really can’t thank the Nagpal and Dhariwal families and Raj and Pia’s friends enough for welcoming us so warmly, feeding us at every turn, and for leaving us blessed with lasting memories and friendships. Rajan is Sikh and Pia is Hindu so their wedding combined traditions from both by having two ceremonies on one day and their reception the following day. Before the wedding ceremonies, family and friends gathered at each of the parents homes to celebrate the ladies Sanjeet and the Maiyaan. I also went earlier in the day to cover Pia having her Mendhi {henna} applied to her hands and feet. Pia’s sister Nidhi, her mom, aunties and cousins came in and out watching, chatting as she sat patiently still while the intricate work was completed. Behind her on the mantle I noticed a beautiful old photo of past generations of her family, watching over the room and all the preparations. In the evening I returned to the Nagpal home and Aaron went to the Dhariwal home to cover the Sanjeet and Maiyaan. At both Raj and Pia were greeted by friends and family who rubbed their skin with spice paste and Pia was given her wedding bangles by her Uncle and Aunt. The evening at both homes ended in food and dancing which for us was only a glimpse of what was to come in the following days. We were both struck by how close all of the extended family members are and how so many friends and family came to this evening to celebrate Raj and Pia. Because there was so much more going on in this wedding than in others we have covered, and because we took more photos than we ever thought possible for one couple! – we are splitting our usual blog post into three separate posts to show the three main days that we spent with Raj and Pia. This post focuses on the Sangeet and Maiyaan for both Raj and Pia. We will have a post on the Hindu and Sikh ceremonies soon with more stories of our adventures with Raj and Pia so check back soon as there are more amazing images to come!!
Pia’s Ladies Sanjeet and Maiyaan
Rajan’s Maiyaan
Posted by eaphoto on June 8, 2010 – 4:27 pm
One week a go a handful of people got together in a beautiful back yard on the Gorge waterway for Brenna and Matt’s wedding. With just their closest family and friends around them these two said their “I Do’s” under a grey sky with a little bit of rain and a lot of love. After the ceremony we headed right across the water for a little session among the wild roses, historic buildings, and a field of buttercups at Craigflower Manor. Once they were Mr and Mrs the rain didn’t seem to matter anymore. In our experience rainy wedding days are good luck so they are off to a good start!
Posted by eaphoto on June 4, 2010 – 1:54 pm
Jennifer and Aiden were born on The Rock of the east coast, met on a sunny vacation, and got married on The Rock of the west coast last Saturday! We have been looking forward to this Metchosin wedding ever since we spent a fun afternoon with Jennifer and Aiden last fall on their engagement shoot. The ceremony and reception were held at The Lodge at Weir’s Beach and ended with a surprise for Aiden from Jennifer when a jazz band appeared playing The Beatles’ All You Need is Love. They had their first dance on the lawn overlooking the water to my new favourite song “Nothing Like You and I” by The Perishers. There were a few tears on many faces, even Jennifers’ Dad which was very sweet. The chilly weather was a good intro to the west coast for all of the out of town guests but no one seemed to mind. We had such a great time getting to know their families from Newfoundland and hanging out with Jennifer and Aiden as they laughed and cried their way through the day. Thanks to Jennifer and Aiden for including us in your day!!
