You will see in a moment or so, but these two are just so flipping adorable together.  They cuddled together perfectly in front of me and my camera and despite it being a rather busy day at Hatley Castle, they didn’t even seem to notice.

Erik even brought along his ‘other woman’ for the session.  You’ll spot her.  She is also wearing blue, and has two wheels.  I completely understand the ‘other woman’ concept.  Darren has one.  She doesn’t have a name, but she does have four wheels and for periods of time in our relationship I am pretty sure he spent more time with her than me.  Building, fixing, maintaining, polishing and just generally loving her.  It’s a good thing I have come to love her too.

Erik and Jen, I am so excited about your wedding!  Looking forward to creating some beautiful images on your day.

I couldn’t pick a fave between the above or below shot, so I added both.  What one do you like best?

Jen you look fierce!

Jen is a serious salsa dancer, so a dip shot was a must!

The below shot was a special request.  Think it turned out pretty darn cute!

One of my favourite clients, Jenny is a personal trainer (click here for her website that is coming soon).  She saw me post about my new found hot water and lemon addiction on my Facebook Page and with her nutritional knowledge let me in on a little secret.  Ok it might not be a secret, but I wasn’t aware of it.  Drinking hot water and lemon in the morning can actually help you lose weight.  The lemon acts as a mini cleanse and the hot water jump starts your metabolism for the day.  Annnnd I heard it is really good for your liver as well.  Sorry tea, but it looks like hot water and lemon is in the lead for now.

I sipped my lovely drink this morning while browsing through my wedding images of 2009.  I was wanting to freshen up my website a bit with a few new photos on my website .  While searching through my folders I stumbled across this gem from Haley and Jordan’s wedding at the stunning Starling Lane Winery.  I can’t believe I never posted it before!  Isn’t is just adorable ?!  Haley’s expression is just priceless.  Talk about an entrance!  Needless to say this image is now apart of my wedding portfolio on my website.  I just love it.

Oh what’s that Lucy ??  Lucy says that I should tell you guys how much fun I had with Steph and Josh on the weekend shooting their e-session at Saxe Pointe.  Well she is right !!  So here it goes.

Steph and Josh have been together FOREVER now.  Their one year wedding anniversary will be their eleventh year together.  How cool is that ?!  My first year wedding anniversary with Darren will be our tenth year together, so I may be a bit biased, but I am giving these guys extra cool points just for that fact alone!  I have known both Steph and Josh since high school, so getting to work with them for this special time in their lives is so incredibly meaningful to me.  With their wedding just one month away it was a great time to do their engagement session.  I often think of engagement photos like a rehearsal session for the formal portrait time on the day of the wedding.  So now that Josh and Steph know how I work behind the camera it will be that much easier to “bring it” for me and rock their wedding images in a big way.  Judging by their images below, I think we are off to a great start !!

Here is just a taste of what we came up with on this gloomy grey day.  To my friends on the East Coast, I would like you to note the blossoms and daffodils.  Just sayin

I am just feeling so lucky and blessed.  Don’t you just love it when things feel like they are falling into place.  Sort of like there is this calm and peace that things are right where they are supposed to be and everything is in balance.

Well before I get too gushy on you I guess I should get on to the pics.  Speaking of gushy though … am I the only one who cannot watch the Olympics without bawling their eyes out ?!  Seriously, Darren is beginning to think that I have some emotional hypersensitivity disorder these days.  The commercials, medal ceremonies, victories, defeats … everything is making me cry !  In a good way though  I feel incredibly proud to be Canadian right now.

Those are all individual tea bags !

Yesterday I had a blast with Gemma and Steve out at the railyards in Esquimalt.  We wandered around dodging big drops of rain and puddles and chatted about their wedding coming up this August.  You should have seen how excited I was when Gemma said she was having 2 dresses for the wedding !!  Photographing dresses and details are one of my favourite things at a wedding and now I get to photograph not just one stunning dress, but TWO !!  And I know she has a pair of killer wedding shoes to boot  Oooohhhhh I can’t wait !!

As Gemma and Steve have not had professional photos taken together before I was honoured to be the lucky photographer to capture these special images.  Steve and Gemma are just adorable and were so easy going that this shoot was a breeze.  There wedding will be extra special for me as their reception is at the Fireside Grill where Darren and I had our reception.  It is such a romantic venue!

Gemma and Steve, it was such a pleasure seeing you two again and spending some fun photo time together.  I hope you like these first few ‘teaser’ images and I can’t wait to show you the rest.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and all the other lovebirds out there!

xxoo Kim

Now I just hope that Lia and Bry just love them as much as I do

Darren and I like to pride ourselves on being relatively ‘green’.  I am a recycling guru and am always getting after him for putting anything that could be recycled into the garbage.  We use energy efficient lighting.  Un-plug any appliances when not in use (with the exception of our computers).  We keep our heat around 15 degrees and rarely use our electric fireplace.  All of our big appliances (stove, fridge, washer dryer etc) are all energy star rated.  I even compost for crying out loud !!  Sooooo I am baffled.  Unless Darren has a secret ‘grow-op’ that I am unaware of I am not sure what the heck is going on.  By the amount of type real estate and capital letters I have given to this topic I am sure you can tell I am a bit worked up about this.  So thank you for letting me vent

Now on to something much more exciting than my energy woes – more images from Lia and Bryan’s destination wedding in Mexico!!  I posted some teaser images for them a little while back, HERE.  But because I have fallen insanely in love with their wedding images, I decided to post some more.  In two parts as a matter of fact, as there is just that many images that I heart big time.

As you could probably tell from their teaser pictures that Lia and Bryan are not the most attractive people, in fact the camera really hated them.  Eeeeeeew – look at their perfect teeth, hair, complexions, smiles … YUCK!  Heee heee heeee  !!  I am being completely sarcastic !!  Lia and Bryan are a GORGEOUS couple, inside and out.  Anyone can tell from looking at these photos that I couldn’t have taken a bad picture of these two if I tried

Lia & Bryan decided to see each other before the wedding and do a “first look” which I am a HUGE fan of !! You can read more about ‘first looks’, HERE.  I will post images from their “first look” in Part 2 of this post.  Soooo cute !!  In this post I am just sticking to the getting ready shots as well as a few of the wedding party shots.

I’d love to know which shots are your favourites.  So feel free to leave me some comment love below.  Enjoy!

Lia you are the cutest !!!