11.29.13

Nicole + Nate // Married // Edmonton

Oh my goodness. Where to start. Looking at these photos is really bringing me back to this exceptional day…

Nicole and Nate planned such a detail rich and intimate wedding filled with personal touches that my job became quite easy! Almost everything was made by hand (including the glass terrarium centre pieces made by Nicole’s mother!) and bursting with personality. It all started with an engagement session and ended with a harmonious coming together of friend and family to celebrate the love these two beautiful people share. They were such a joy to photograph and I am so honoured that they asked me to document their special day.

A special shoutout to my friend Maggie from mb&company who helped Nicole and Nate every step of the way in making their big day become everything they could have ever dreamed of. This girl’s good. Get at her for all of your wedding planning needs!

In closing, thank you Nate and Nicole for your love. For without it, this day and these photos could never exist.

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November 29, 2013 - 5:55 pm

carmyn - you’re killing this business, mat. so impressed.

November 30, 2013 - 10:41 am

Mat Simpson - Thank you so much, Carmyn! That means a lot coming from you. I couldn’t be where I am today without the help from you :)

11.3.13

Dorothy + Levi//Engaged

When I first met Dorothy and Levi over a fine cup of Transcend coffee I knew we were going to hit it off. They have such a full and excited energy that I love.

For their engagement session I told them to plan the perfect date. Something meaningful to them. Something that has history within their relationship. Then. I would photograph it.

So they did.

We started the day off with coffee, of course, accompanied with some reading at the Whyte Ave Chapters (something they love to do together) then moved on to try a new restaurant (another thing they are partial to) and finished the day off with a walk through the ravine (something EVERYONE loves. Unless you’re cray cray.)

I’m always playing around with how I do my engagement sessions. The engagement session is for us to get to know each other better. It’s so that we can build a relationship. So that on the day of your wedding, we’re already functioning at 100% and can dominate the day with efficiency and fun.

So if you have a fun, crazy, alternative idea that you want to do for your engagement session, shoot it at me! I’m sure I’m game.

Let’s make something.

Together.

 

Thank you Levi and Dorothy, for letting me make something with you…

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10.10.13

Jackie + Steph // Married // Edmonton

This.

This right here.

This is why I shoot weddings.

Two families coming together and opening up. In huge ways. To pour their love onto an exceptional couple. Marking the milestone on the highway of their life.

That’s what Jackie and Steph’s wedding was.

It was a true celebration. Filled with heart wrenching speeches given by friends and family who have watched them grow and couldn’t be happier with where they have come.

You could see it. The joy. The true joy.

This loving family welcomed me into their celebration to the point where I felt like I was more a part of the wedding party than I was an onlooker. I was documenting the day, but in a wonderful way, I was also a part of it. And I couldn’t be more thankful for that.

I drove away from this weeding with cheeks sore from smiling, legs tired from dancing and a heart full of love.

And that’s exactly how it should be.

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10.4.13

Krista Paton // Headshots // Vancouver

Sometimes you move to a foreign land for a bit.

Throw yourself in the deep end.

See what happens.

And sometimes, when you are in that foreign land, someone familiar comes to visit.

At least that’s what happened to me. I was living in Vancouver this summer when Krista popped in to run a half marathon (that’s 21km… crazy, right?) and asked me to take some headshots for her while she was in town. It had been far too long since Krista and I’s last encounter so needless to say, we had a blast. We walked along the ocean chatting, laughing and of course, taking photos, starting at Science World and finishing up at Granville Island where we grabbed a couple beers from the Granville Island Brewery.

It was perfection.

And it’s these moments that I love the most. The ones when work and play collide. Because it’s in these moments that true magic happens…

 

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