Backyard Wedding | Taylor + Josh

All day long at this backyard wedding it was laughter, tears, cracking up, smiling, tears, more laughter and more tears. An emotional day to say the very least! I normally start my blog posts off with some epic portrait we captured during golden hour, of which there were many at this wedding, but this wedding in particular was SO defined by the 100%, all in, teeth showing, scrunchy nose, genuine, contagious laughter. And so, I thought it wise to set the tone right from the get go. This was a wedding with a congregation full of people who were not afraid to let their emotion flags fly. It was a very fun bunch of people around and as a result, it was a pretty good “day at the office” for me!

So that’s my take on the people, not bad right? OK, so now let me talk about the venue, my said “office” for the day. Well, that wasn’t too bad either! All of the prep, ceremony and reception took place at Taylor’s parents home on a lovely piece of land on the shore of our coveted lake Ontario. It was one of those typical, hot and humid days of summer 2018, but what else would you want for your lakeside summer wedding? Oh, and speaking of lakeside, Josh and his groomsmen arrived to the house by boat…how cool is that? His hungover brother may beg to differ, but their approach to the house looked so epic! I didn’t manage to get them out on the water for portraits, but we did get some dock pics and no one fell in. Winning.

I had the pleasure of working with some of my favourite vendors at this one as well. There was the Humanist officiant Brenda Hamilton who once again reminded me that I still haven’t printed new business cards (I really should get on that!). My pals Cyndi and Coady of Teesha Media doing their thang with cinematography and also helped me out with lighting (props!). Lovebird Bridal coming through as usual with an amazing dress, likewise LSP Designs with the flowers. Hairs did by FAB, Make-UP did from Kalon by Kristin (sorry for the Drake slang there). Yummy cake from Safari and music from Limestone Trio during the ceremony and cocktail reception, Chico and the Machine for the party. WOAH, long list of shout outs for this one! It takes a village to pull an epic wedding like this together! Enjoy…