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Congrats to Samson and Donna who were married recently in Calgary! I photographed their engagement session last winter and had been looking forward to their wedding—I knew that it would be a fun day.

Their ceremony was held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church and after the family photos we took the wedding party to a couple of nearby parks for their wedding party and couple portraits. This was an action-packed wedding, yet Samson and Donna were relaxed and happy all day, which is a big testament to their easy-going personalities.

Donna and Samson both wore a variety of amazing outfits, from a beautiful white wedding gown—obviously, I’m just talking about Donna now—to traditional Indian and Vietnamese clothes, and then into a shorter white wedding dress for the dancing. Samson also wore traditional Indian clothes at their reception as well as a cool suit. There were so many personal touches during the day, but especially at their reception. For example, check out the cake! That’s so funny and so cool!

There were a lot of activities and events during the reception, including some very talented dancing by an Indian dancing team and then a couple who salsa danced. There were also some wedding reception games, such as the Shoe Game (photo below) and some wilder ones as well. I have some very incriminating photos from those other games.

Samson and Donna are great dancers and their first dance was a blur of twirls and dips around the dancefloor. Then the floor was opened up to everyone and it was packed with people of all ages out there having fun.

Here is a small sneak peek of the wedding photos.

We photographed Julie and Jake’s engagement at the start of this year and after meeting them I knew that their wedding was going to be a one-of-a-kind!

We started the day at Julie’s parent’s house, taking photos of the dress and other details, before Julie arrived from the hair salon to get into her wedding dress. Julie was an absolutely stunning bride and her dress had beautiful and ornate decorative stitching throughout, which looked really cool.

Jake and Julie’s wedding was at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in downtown Calgary in a ceremony with smiles and happy tears. After the ceremony and family photos, we went to the high school where Julie and Jake first met, on the south side of Calgary, to start their portrait time and then we drove up to Inglewood to finish the portraits there.

The reception was held at Commonwealth Hall in the north east of Calgary and the decor for the reception was amazing. There was a huge tent set up in the main hall area with bright-coloured up-lights along the floor and a chandelier hanging from the centre of the tent. And check out the cake! That is such an amazingly stylish cake!

Julie and Jake had a game of tossing a big dice to see if they would kiss or whether some other fun event would take place. Each side had a different outcome, but it seemed to land on the kissing side quite a lot.

The reception was a really cool party, with belly dancers who performed and kicked off the dancing. I love it when everyone gets out on the dance floor! Before we left we did some more portraits, because it makes for a great way to wrap up the story of their day together. Here are (quite) a few of my favourites: