My honest take on planning, after photographing more than a hundred weddings around Toronto and the GTA: where to start, the right order to book vendors, realistic timelines, and what it all actually costs.
My hour by hour sample wedding day timeline: how much coverage you actually need, the extra moments worth making time for, and how to build your own around your ceremony.
Your venue is the first big domino. Book it and everything else starts falling into place around it. Here's how to choose one you'll love, from a photographer who has shot in a lot of them.
Photo used to be the default and video an afterthought. That's flipped. Here's the easiest way to get both without hiring two separate teams.
The 8 things that actually tell you whether a wedding photographer is the real deal, from style and full galleries to reviews, contracts, and how they back up your photos.
They're the first thing to get cut when the timeline gets tight, and almost always the ones couples wish they'd kept. Here's how much time to give them and why.
It sounds like one more task. But the hour you spend on it up front saves you a shocking amount of back-and-forth later.
You just got engaged, and right behind the joy comes the quiet "okay, what now?" Here are 15 things to do after getting engaged, in the order I'd actually tackle them.
They almost never make the planning checklist, yet they're the shots couples point to later as their favourites from the whole day.
One of the questions I get asked most. A Toronto wedding photographer's take on the pros and cons, how long it takes, and whether it really ruins the aisle moment.
"What do we even wear?" is the first thing almost every couple asks me. Good news, it is simpler than it feels, and a few small choices make the whole shoot come together.
Not every wedding needs a hundred guests and a giant hall. Here is how to plan a micro wedding in Toronto, from guest count to real GTA costs, without losing an ounce of the good stuff.
One of the most meaningful parts of a Chinese wedding. If it's new to you, here's how the tea ceremony works, start to finish, from a Toronto photographer who shoots them often.
Every photographer shoots a little differently. Knowing the main styles of wedding photography makes it so much easier to find someone whose work matches what you're picturing.
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