Valerie + Witek {Montreal, Canada}

A couple weeks ago my pregnant wife and I were flown across the country to what is known as ‘French Canada’! The people don’t say ‘Eh’ -they say all sorts of things I can’t understand in one of the most romantic sounding languages in the world. It was an amazing experience to say the least. It felt the most like Europe I’ve without crossing the Atlantic.

How did Valerie and Witek find me all the way in California you ask… Well, I would love to tell you. It’s a cool story with a bit of Ingalls trivia mixed in!

My child-hood friend, Seth Roberts, played music in an awesome band called Watashi-Wa about 7 years ago when I was starting my business. Seth made me a rockin’ first website and I shot band photos for him regularly. (He is the guy who actually came up with my catch-phrase ‘fall in love with a moment…’ and who also designed my current website.) Valerie was a Watashi-Wa fan in her teenage years and somehow tracked me through some band photos I did of the boys and has been a Cameron Ingalls fan ever since. It was part of her wedding day dream to have me take her photographs. When her mom surprised her for her birthday saying she would hire me for her wedding she cried tears of joy!

I was honored and humbled to be valued and loved so much by someone so far away. Valerie and Witek are from very different backgrounds to me, but the day I met them to shoot their engagement pictures I quickly realized how we weren’t all that different. I could see us all 7 years ago wearing cons and big smiles dancing together at a Watashi-Wa show if we happened to grow up in the same city. It’s glorious how art and music bring different people together. My friend Seth has a severe talent for just that and I guess I get to be a part of that cycle with my photography. For that I am privileged and filled with emotion!

Wedding pictures to follow…