Amanda writes a note to the love of her life while her bridesmaids put the finishing touches on the flowers while her mom snaps a sneaky pic of her getting her makeup done.

There’s always a bit of risk when planning an alfresco wedding, dinner, or event. Will it rain? Will there be too many bugs? Will the uneven ground bother people? Throw those worries away because the end result is second to none. Imagine sun set light streaming through the trees while your guests enjoy dinner and stars rising overhead as the dessert course is brought out. Lights strung in the branches of trees and people mingling in fresh air. There’s nothing better.

We were honoured when Farmacie recruited us to photograph their most recent long-table dinner at Southlands Heritage Farm in Vancouver. Beautiful people, food, space, and evening.

I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. -Pablo Neruda

We love creating these special bokeh-panorama photos for our couples when we’ve got time and a space that demands it (like this magical cherry tree grove). Forty-seven images were combined to create this one crazy beautiful photograph.

In the end we’ll all become stories. -Margaret Atwood

Every year is filled with ups and downs. Joys and struggles. My hope is for growth amidst it all. For moments of joy with the people I love. To live a story characterized by adventure, by generosity and kindness, by making beautiful things. Meeting Graeme has made my story all the more wonderful; walking though life together these past six years, marrying each other, creating this business-we’re so thankful.

A huge thanks goes out to all of our couples who trust us to photograph one of the best days of their lives and welcome us to those days as friends-you make our story a beautiful one.

Every year, there are days you never want to see the end of: days where you want to drink in every drop of sunshine until it fades slowly below the horizon. Days that you hold in your heart forever.

These are some of those days. A collection of moments that made twenty-fourteen the beautiful/magical/adventurous/inspiring/marvelous year that it was for us. A bit of our story.

This, my friends, is one for the history books.

A wedding that was every bit them. Food trucks, Lego boutineers, vintage shoes and jewellery, a dress that had the perfect amount of crinkles, live musical performances (flash mob style, of course), the wedding cake all a-flame, a living room furniture lounge, and tons of other quirky, whimsical fun.

When you photograph a couple who is in the theatre community you know it’s going to be hella good.

Jessie & Steven, you throw a great party.

You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signaled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)

And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.

PS: You have to be brave. -Jeanette Winterson

We were honoured to have Green Wedding Shoes publish Jessie & Steven’s wedding. Go HERE to see more detail-goodness and read Jessie’s thoughts on the day.

Venue // Performance Works on Granville Island in Vancouver
Planner // Radiant Events
Pies // Pie Hole
Cupcakes+ Cake //Love Your Cake