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dave & camille: engaged

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

i love shooting in vancouver.  can i shout it from the rooftops?? I LOVE SHOOTING IN VANCOUVER.  i love my home in the valley with the quiet neighbourhood and the natural beauty and the huge yard, but dude…there’s nothing like being in a place that has endless backdrop options, interesting light and rain?…not an issue as there are a million awnings and creative spaces to tuck a couple undercover.

now that i got that out of my system, i introduce you to dave and camille.  they are fun and beautiful and quirky and wonderiful.

i feel like this next one is a shot out of a movie.  kissing in the rain?  like, come on.  movie material fo shizz.

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mallory & chris: engaged

Monday, September 17th, 2012

if there is one thing these two are going to do a lot of, it’s laughing.  they laughed because they were uncomfortable having their picture taken.  they laughed at chris’s awkward jokes.  they laughed even as we were getting kicked out of a corn field.  carry the laughter with you into marriage, chris and mallory.  as friends of mine just said after being surprised that they were not only having a fourth child, but a fifth as well (twins!!), “sometimes all you can do is just laugh”.  true dat.

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erik & caitlin: a sweet story

Friday, August 31st, 2012

i had the pleasure of being invited into erik & caitlin’s home to discuss their upcoming wedding and got to snap a few pictures in the process.  pretty sure they speak for themselves about who these two are!

erik & caitlin’s engagement from Sharalee Prang on Vimeo.

 

 

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brandon & emma: engaged

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

back in december, emma contacted me to let me know that she was engaged and would like to book me for the wedding.  a couple weeks later, i received an e-mail from a girl named joanne.  coincidentally, she had the same last name as emma.  she was planning to be engaged and was getting married a week before emma.  curious? or maybe not so curious.  they’re sisters, of course!  and i am so excited that i get to shoot both of their weddings.  they have similar personalities, but they continue to tell me that their weddings are going to be completely different…i can’t wait to see what they’ve dreamed up!

i met brandon & emma on the beach and though it had threatened rain, it turned out to be a lovely evening.

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dennis & kelsea: engaged

Monday, June 18th, 2012

i had the pleasure of meeting these two at a wedding this march and was delighted when kelsea called me after she and dennis got engaged. they both live on farms so it seemed only fitting that we would stick close to home for the pictures.

i’m so excited about their fraser river lodge wedding in november!

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derek & melissa: engaged

Monday, May 28th, 2012

melissa & derek: from dead serious to hysterical giggles in mere moments.  when these two go to fort langley, they skip the shopping and head straight for the woods.  with melissa leading the way.  no shortage of adventure!

as i’m sure you guessed, they will be having an outdoor wedding up the mountainside this summer.  looking forward to it!

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mark & beth: engaged part two

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

so here we are again with mark and beth.  weather/schedules prevented us from doing a full shoot the first time around, but we were stressed that the giant peach was going to deflate, so we crammed in a quick session with him, even though it was raining.  oh ye of little faith!  peachy survived a whole other week and from what i’m told, is still hovering until this day.

let me just tell you that these people are amazing.  i started to get to know beth a couple years ago and my life has been blessed by her ever since.  you know those super awesome drawings my website is littered with?  you know that person who took my dream brand and made it a reality?  the one who pretty much crawled into my brain, dragged out my ideas and put them on paper more beautifully than i could have imagined?  oh yeah. that’s her.  plus she’s so fun to hang out with and my kids love her.  if you ever come over to my house, you’ll know why simon refers to her as “beff.  elephant”.

and mark…talk about one of the sweetest most genuine guys. ever.  i was suspicious of him at first, when beth told me about this mysterious fellow who lived across the country who would just fly in and out on a whim to see her. what if he has a whole other family in another city that you don’t know about?  and why does he just disappear every time i think i’m going to meet him?  ok, so he works for westjet.  and he doesn’t have a whole other family.  and he ended up moving to abbotsford and i got to know him and he’s actually really nice.

i’m glad you found one another.  you two are so. so. good together.  i am over the moon, as your friend AND your photographer, to walk this walk with you.

i love you guys!!

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kenton & rose: engaged

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

“we have like, two pictures of us together.  and we’ve been dating for three years.”  my favorite way to start a conversation!  i’m not even joking.  because 3 minutes into the session we had already increased that number by 500%.

one thing i loved about these two is they are super well rounded!  they met in university and are both incredibly “book smart”, but then they would turn around and be like “do you mind if we climb that tree?” um, no. no i don’t.

the day before we were to meet, i got an e-mail from rose that said: ” So we had a bit of a contact lense solution disaster. Long story short is that Kenton has a really swollen eye and it is very red. This would not make for good photos. I am not sure how long it is going to take to heal.”  close to the end of the session, kenton made reference to the time rose “sprayed poison in his eye” and i had to know the rest of the story.  turns out kenton was trying a new contact solution.  when he first put the contact in, his eye stung and assuming it was something on the contact, they removed it and rose (who is a chemistry teacher) proceeded to spray more of the solution into his eye to clean it out at which point kenton starts screaming.  little did they know, this particular solution needs to be mixed and react BEFORE applying it to your contact.  thankfully by the next morning, it was looking way better and we were still able to do photos.  oh yeah, and he didn’t go blind.  the two photos below are from while they were telling the story.  rose looks sheepish and kenton…a little smug, i think!

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dillon & joanne: engaged

Friday, April 27th, 2012

i love their story.  joanne relayed it to me when we first met and it involves a “hidden” one on one friendship and a series of funny (maybe not so funny at the time) mis-communications.  jo left him hanging and poor dillon assumed he was getting rejected.  thankfully, they were able to get it sorted and the rest is history!

august is going to be a good month…i get to shoot this wedding as well as joanne’s sister’s.  they’re getting married a week apart!

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