in waiting many  summer weddings to share with you  but for now… these: a small collection of  the portraits from my final wedding in 2011. i could not have enjoyed creating these more… a lovely lovely crisp winter afternoon complete with sunshine, bare trees and bushes, my wonderful assistant corie, and of course, the beautiful bride & groom. xs

saying their i dos on a stormy winter day was exactly how they wanted to bind their love by ritual. it was beautiful… complete with an amazing bagpiper. the level of emotion soaring high as he played the ceremony in and out… i loved it~ xos

merridale… such a beautiful place to say i do. i will. forever and always…   i have handpicked some of my favourite portraits and a few candids from this lovely day last summer… xos

here a look at some of my favourite portraits of the stunning natural beauty christine and her handsome husband damon. being part of this wedding felt right… arriving into a warm calm and easy going day at one of the best island locals (craidelonna)made for a  memorable day. in fact,  it could not have been more  perfect.  the joy in their faces and emanating from those you were there to surround them with support and love was evident and filling. xos

this was such a happy day. a sweet elopement tucked in the middle of summer. we went on a mini hike to find some locations to create these images after a beautiful touching ceremony at the sooke harbour house.  there is a lot of love between these two and i was blessed to meet them and share this afternoon. xs

the confessions of a pregnant blogger…  after spending the summer in the depths of morning sickness i almost entirely gave up blogging. it seemed it was the one thing i could let go of in order to keep my business commitments to the highest of my abilities and grow this baby i have been working on for over 30 weeks now! as the new year arrives and january brings slower times with less on my editing plate, and as i await the arrival of baby hull nankivell i am going to blog all the weddings and portrait sessions i was so lucky to be part of  in 2011 that never made it here. today i start with the lovely and beautiful laura and jacob. we spend an evening playing in my neighbourhood before they left for the ferry~ what a beautiful couple and what a taste of summer.. sun kissed skin and late day sunshine. two things that are rare to eye in the depths of winter. heres to a new year and a serious effort to blog my way caught up in the weeks to come. xos