The life of a wedding photographer is (in one facet) a life surrounded by beauty.

It starts with an exchange of words, thoughts and questions. A couple send us an e-mail. They’re planning a wedding. They’re getting married. And we invite them to our home for wine & cheese or for brunch so we can get to know them. To us, they’re perfect strangers. We don’t know them yet. We know hints of them as they’ve told us where they’re getting married and written down a bit of their story in their first e-mail to us, but that’s it.

I meet them in the courtyard of our lovely little condo complex and those first few moments are a little strange, but I bring them up to our home and Graeme asks them what they’d like to drink and it begins.

One of my absolute favourite parts of being a wedding photographer is how it has taught me to see beauty in everyone. When we first meet our couples, it’s just that-a first meeting. But, in that meeting we start to get to know them and their story and we find out what they’re passionate about and what some of their dreams might be. And over time-through the engagement shoot and the many e-mails and all of our meetings-you see their beauty unfold before you. The beauty of each of them, individually. The beauty of their story. The beauty of their love.

Then, the wedding day comes and they’re all dressed up and they’re super excited and so, so happy when they see each other. And I just look at them and think Wow. They are two of the most beautiful people in the world!

Sarah is one of those beautiful people.

She is lovely.