Elopement, microwedding, minimony: what is the actual difference?
Let’s talk about microweddings! It’s been a long year but if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the couples we’ve photographed, it’s that humans have an incredible gift for resilience and being creative during times of limitation.
Microweddings could be the way people choose to get married this year, and maybe for a little while longer this decade, just until things calm down a bit and people feel safe. Or it’ll be like the roaring 1920s and all the weddings are going to turn into 90’s style raves complete with glow sticks and love bombs.
Weddings on the silver screen
You can find a lot of blog posts about the best wedding movies. I know, I googled it for this blog post. BUT this blog post is all about the movies that influenced me before I ever became a professional wedding photographer, not the best wedding movies made.
Breezy backyard Ottawa wedding: Lindsay + Jon
For Jon and Lindsay, it was just about this deep love that they have for each other. Somehow that was felt during the entire day. I don’t know how to put it in words… I don’t even know when I felt it. I think it’s in the extremely easy way in which they connect with each other, how they talk to each other - not really needing to explain the whole story, but implicitly understanding each other.
An elegant rural elopement 🎉 Hidden Meadows, Tamworth Ontario 🎉 Kelly and Ben
Kelly was walked down the aisle by her son, and all the flowers in the bouquets were handpicked onsite. After the ceremony, Kelly and Ben shared their first dance under the maple, and everyone celebrated with glasses of bubbly (non-alcoholic, but still delicious… well, unless you ask the kids who pulled grossed out faces).
The most unique wedding we've seen 🦄 Viking ceremony @ the Hidden Meadows, Tamworth Ontario 🦄 Laurel + Brandon
It’s the most unique wedding we’ve photographed, and we want you to see it & wish this couple well in their life together <3
A natural haven for nature elopements🦋 Styled Shoot, Hidden Meadows, Tamworth, Ontario 🦋 Tammy + Dion
Many couples yearn for a quiet and magical elopement, full of nature’s wonder. And this is exactly what you’ll find at the Hidden Meadows, any week between June and October.
When your big-venue wedding gets cancelled🙈 A gorgeous backyard wedding (Kathleen & JP)
They just can’t keep their hands off each other.
They had these big plans, you know? Big venue downtown, a large guest list, family coming in from other provinces - the whole deal. This is how weddings go and we all know how wonderful those celebrations can be.