…just in case you were wondering, this is the recommended method for properly washing your dress after your wedding:

Who is this rad bride? We’ll see her wedding on the blog in a couple weeks!

We photographed Beth and Andy’s engagement session on a beautiful evening at Stanley Park- they brought along their pooch too! He gave us attitude just like a kid would– too cool to have his photo taken : ) but we tricked him and got some cute ones. As for Beth and Andy, they looked cute too!!

Beth, Andy- thanks for a fun evening! See you in November!

Not one detail was overlooked at Kristy and Scott’s wedding- it was everything I dreamed of in a wedding for decor! Their ceremony was held at the peaceful Dr. Sun Yat Sen gardens, and the reception was at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver.

The Japanese/zen theme started off at the chinese gardens with paper fans and amazing flowers from Granville Island Florist, and continued throughout the evening with bamboo and lantern centrepieces, many games of rock, paper, scissors, Asahi beer, sushi, and Japanese treats. Harumi Suzuki did an amazing job pulling everything together with her wedding coordination!

Without further ado, here are a few images from throughout their amazing day!!

Some details of their wedding ceremony:

The ringbearers and flower girl were awesome– the younger, the better, as unpredictable processionals rock!!

We all piled into the limo and headed to Granville Island for some fun.

I *heart* corrugation!

Kristy was being nosy and checking out how reception decorations were coming along inside the Roundhouse (decorations by Studio 96)

Forget about the glass clanking! Kristy and Scott challenged guests to a rock, paper, scissors battle in order to kiss. Awesome idea!

First dance, beautifully done! (another one of our couples who checked out Candy for some dance lessons)

Congratulations Kristy and Scott! You two are a perfect couple, and we wish you the best!!!

ps- I’m wondering how many paper cranes were harmed in the making of this wedding?? : )

Florist: Granville Island Florist

DJ: Hot Hit Productions

Decor: Studio 96

Chair Covers: Coveted Covers

Catering: Butler Did it

Commissioner: Karen Ell (karen.ell [at] telus [dot] net)

The guests at Angela and Ross’ wedding rocked the house!!! We were even dragged into a few of the photos. They took almost 700 photos at our photobooth! I don’t know if we’ll ever beat that record again, but here’s hoping!

You can also see this photobooth collage on our facebook fan page, so if you were a guest at Angela and Ross’ wedding, go ahead and tag yourself!

Have a safe and awesome long weekend!  Mark and I will be on the Sunshine Coast for an exciting wedding, and will return emails and messages on Tuesday.

Have lots and lots of fun!

I saw Rebecca’s Facebook status saying that she was celebrating her second anniversary with Jason today! Wow the time flies!!

I will never tire of these two photos from their Vernon wedding two years ago- they shall remain in the permanent collection : ) Congratulations Rebecca and Jason!

Monica and Jordan were married at Richmond’s oh-so-cute Minoru Chapel, and their reception was held at the Stanley Park Chapel. It was a beautiful day for a wonderful couple!

Rev. Allan Burnett put on a beautiful ceremony, keeping everyone- no matter how nervous- in high spirits.

Yes!! Just married! : ) Guests did an amazing job blowing bubbles for their exit out of the Minoru Chapel.

For some quick photos, we went to a location between Minoru Chapel and Stanley Park chapel that had a very special meaning to Monica and Jordan and took some bride and groom lovin’ portraits there- luckily Fifth Avenue Cinemas has such an awesome box office to photograph!

And this spot had a very special meaning to the couple as well, so the love didn’t need any coaxing for this shot : )

Then we headed back to our cars to get to Stanley Park Chapel just in time for the beautiful and intimate reception.

Monica changed into a beeeeeeaUtiful qipao just before entering.

Congratulations Monica and Jordan! Thank you for including us in your day!

We hit up the Pemberton Festival for Sunday’s lineup of Vampire Weekend, N.E.R.D., Deathcab for Cutie, Jay-Z, and Coldplay. It was a great experience, and we were very lucky that we didn’t have to deal with the same problems that Friday’s crowd had to deal with (several hours to park and check in). We left Vancouver at 8:30 am and had no problems at all- it was my first time to Pemberton (and actually my first time driving past Whistler, oddly enough). It did take us almost 2 hours to drive 20m out of the parking lot at the end of the night, but that wasn’t a surprise. : )

In case you missed it, we are putting our diamonds in the sky for Jay Z, though it appears we missed the boat for this photo because no one else was doing it anymore. We are nerds, in case you missed that too.

Some highlights of the festival were the Kelly O’Brien’s Pacho truck, managing to avoid the outhouses the entire time (!), seeing Vampire Weekend, sweet weather, and napping in the crowds during N.E.R.D.

After traveling for so long a few years ago and taking our token photos in front of important things, Mark and I have gotten used to and grown quite fond of bad photos of ourselves like this:

The flip-flop purgatory:

yay! i quite like Vampire Weekend, and quite liked their performance too! : )

I am totally posting random pictures out of order– what has gotten into me?? This was taken in the morning when we arrived:

I know this is Pemberton’s first year and all, so some things were overlooked and they will learn from those mistakes for next year, but how could Dr Waffle run out of waffles for the whole day??!

Until next year!

We got the call early this morning… and we didn’t answer it due to our unconscious state. We woke up a few hours later and checked our phone message, and then ran out the door when we found out that our close friend Keri (as seen a couple of months ago in her maternity session) had gone into labor down in Seattle!  So exciting!  She gave birth shortly after noon to a beautiful baby girl! Congratulations Keri, Tai, and Tenzin on your newest family member! It was exciting and fun photographing a 5-hour old in their hotel room : ) We kept the session short, but will be back for more in the coming months when we visit them again.

Welcome to cute-ville!!!:

And a very proud big brother, Tenzin!

Mark took this photo of me photographing Simone and Wes down at Jericho Beach on their wedding day.  He had the air-conditioned car waiting for us : )   Thanks Mark!