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It is always such a privilege to capture milestones in a couple’s life.  I first had the honour of being Meagan and Jonathan’s Calgary wedding photographer just under two years ago and I was thrilled when they contacted me to capture some special images of their new family of three!

Thank-you again for letting me come in to your lives and photograph a very special time for you.  If only for a brief moment.  I hope you enjoy all of these images, and that you proudly display them around your home like you have with the wedding photos I created for you.  It’s always so incredibly amazing when I get to watch families grow over the years.

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The Mikolajow Family is adding another sweet addition to the growing family.  Thank-you for continuously trusting me with your family memories.  I can’t tell you how excited I am to meet the little girl that will soon add so much love to your family tree.  I hope you love the maternity photos as much as I enjoyed photographing them.

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By now you’ve all seen the feature on Wedding Obsession (Whaaattt?? You haven’t???!!!).  And if you’ve seen it then you know how stoked Terra and I are that it’s been featured there.  It was definitely one of the 2011 season favourites for us!  We created some beautiful, stunning and unique wedding photos just for them that will tell their love story for generations to come.

So here now, is the gorgeous album that we designed for them (Remember, we always include an album in our wedding collections…you can read why we do that over thissa way).

Thank you again Lisa and Phil – you two are beautiful people inside and out and we truly believe that you’ll make each other incredibly happy for the rest of your lives.

Wedding Planning & Design: Inspired Occasions
Photographer: TLAW Photography*
Transportation: Highland Executive Limousine
DJ: Quests End
Make-Up: Trenalaine
Hair: Bella Bridal Hair
Dress: Lazaro
Linens & Chairs: Special Event Rentals
Flowers: Sarah Mayerson Design
Ceremony Venue: Ralph Connor Memorial United Church
Reception Venue: Stewart Creek Golf & Country Club

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Lisa and Phil’s beeeeautiful wedding at Stewart Creek was recently featured on the premiere wedding inspiration blog Wedding Obsession.  Click on the image below to check out the gorgeous details (and photography of course…lol).  Wedding Obsession has  a TON of fantastic and inspiring ideas to help you plan your wedding the way it was mean to be; a unique, genuine, personality filled affair.  You should go there and load up your Pinterest boards!

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Recently, I’ve been receiving a number of inquiries from both brides & grooms as well as other photographers (presumably those who are new to the wedding photography industry) regarding the weddings albums that I create for my couples. Questions ranging from “do I design my own albums? (yes). To “what does the finished product look like?” (see below, but only after reading this please and thank-you!). Because of this, I thought that I would share one of my favourite weddings from this past year in Calgary featuring Shevaun and Derek, and which I created my own sample album to show off to my prospective clients in my studio.

In all of my wedding collections, I include a wedding album for all my couple’s. Does this cost me a bit more? Yes. Do I make less as a result? Probably. Then why do it? Simple. When it comes down to the digital era of photography, it’s far far too easy to simply say “I’ll just take the disc of images and make prints and albums myself”.

“Hey TLAW, prove it!” Ok I will…just let me find my own wedding album. Err. Where did I put it…shoot, I know it was…oh right. I didn’t get one! Terra and I have been married for almost 5 years now and we have no album of our wedding day. Everything is still on disc. And here’s the really scary part…I have no idea where the disc is! I know it’s in the house somewhere…but where?! We haven’t even looked at our wedding photos for almost 4 years because of this. And let’s face it, digital storage media like DVDs aren’t made to last an eternity. They get scratched, bent, mistakenly used as a drink coaster, or simply lost. To be fair to the disc, I do have the images backed up on to my mirrored server so I do know where I can find them once I decide to build an album for us, but how many of you have RAIDed servers to rely on? And in case you’re curious, I back up all of my sessions on this same server as well as to multiple off-site top-secret locations – I make sure I never lose anything so you know I’ll always have a copy of your images when I photograph you.

Anyways, I digress. I include an album in every single wedding collection, unless I’ve been asked explicitly to remove it (I do customize my wedding collections – but I shed a tear when that happens *sniff sniff*). Having an album in your hand is a beautiful thing to see. It gives you something to hold on to, to hug, to touch, something tangible to caress. Imagine if the picture of your beloved grandparents was only available in digital format? You wouldn’t be able to hold, hug and caress that image. I suppose you could hug your computer monitor…but you’re not weird…are you?

As much as you think you might not want that album, I promise you, when you look at your album 40 years from today, with the beautiful wedding moments that I have captured for you (shameless plug), you’ll be incredibly happy you did. Future generations will look at that album as the beginning of your legacy. I speak from unfortunate personal experience.

Please enjoy the sample album I created featuring the beautiful Calgary wedding of my now good friends Shevaun & Derek. I invite you into my studio to come and see the real thing in person. Just send me an email, or give me a call. I’d love to have a coffee and homemade cupcake with you.

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More baby photos to come soon…

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Our good friends the Manning’s gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy 7 months ago.  We took baby photos.  Cute baby photos.  If you’re offended by cute baby photos then you should not go any further because you might get upset by the cuteness.

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Rebecca & Colin had a beautifully intimate ceremony at the charmingly rustic Buffalo Mountain Lodge.  The overcast day made for some very beautiful, moody images.  Despite the cold winter wedding, the wedding party managed to keep their wits about them and keep their body temperatures at a normal level.  Looking at these wedding photos you’d never be able to tell they were frozen thru to their bones!

Thank-you Rebecca and Colin for being so amazing and kind and patient as we worked our way through a chilly chilly day.  I wish you all the best in your beautiful life together!

Wedding Transportation: Highland Executive Chauffeur
Wedding Venue: Buffalo Mountain Lodge
Wedding Video: http://mountainweddingvideos.com/ – Check out the video of their wedding here: http://mountainweddingvideos.com/blog

Real Aussie girls need their Uggs :)
The bride and bridesmaids were all from Australia and wanted to prove that they could brave a cold Canadian winter…off with the shawls!

The only sun we got for the entire day! Warmed us up for about 30 seconds…such a tease.

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A couple of images from Rebecca and Colin’s beautiful leap year wedding (insert “lucky guy only has to remember his anniversary once every four years” joke here)