Two-Mann Tent Photography Blog

We are so excited to share the wedding of Sabrina & Stefan with you. Sabrina and Stefan were married on a wintery March day at the iconic Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. Sabrina has been a huge supporter of our work for many years, so when she contacted us to tell us of her engagement we were beyond excited. This is truly one awesome couple. Not only are they super talented athletes, and unbelievably generous, they are HOT. Most importantly, they brought us homemade chocolate expresso cake, when we had them over to view their images for the first time. For this alone, we will be forever indebted. Sabrina and Stefan naively gave Lanny and I full creative license when photographing their wedding. As always, we jumped at the opportunity to get the most creative and fearless images possible. At one point, this even involved discretely taking a few pictures of Stefan in the shower (I would have gladly traded places with Lanny for this;). As Lanny was capturing the peaceful bliss of Stefan taking his last shower as a bachelor, I was trying to keep my head above water in the room Sabrina was getting ready in. At one point, I counted 17 girls in the room! Yes…. 17 girls in one hotel room. You don’t have to know Sabrina for very long, to understand why she has so many wonderful girlfriends. It was fun capturing the chaos of girls practicing their dance moves, mothers doing last minute alterations to the dress, and Sabrina getting hair and make-up done, all at the same time!  At the peak of the chaos and confusion, when Sabrina was getting her dress on, her very sweet parents passed her a note that read, “Enjoy the moments and the memories.” I am so grateful that I was in position to capture this 1/4 second interaction. The remainder of the day was just pure magic with wonderfully infused elements of music and dancing. A flashmob of Sabrina and her girlfriends started the reception, which set the tone for the remainder of the evening. Sabrina and Stefan, Lanny and I are so grateful that we were given the privilege to photograph your wedding. You two are such great people and we look forward to sharing many more chocolate expresso cakes. Almost forgot…. Huge thank you to our buddy Joel, for helping us out for the day!

It is an understatement to say that Lanny and I are incredibly excited in the days leading up to a wedding. Our excitement leading up to Cathryn and Cliff’s wedding was especially exciting, as it was our first of 2012. We were so fortunate to have had such a gorgeous couple to debut our 2012 season. Cathryn and Cliff got married at one of our favourite venues, The Post Hotel, in spectacular Lake Louise. One of my favourite parts of photographing a wedding is being in the bride’s room, as she’s getting ready. The energy in the room is always so exciting and, inevitably interspersed with a little drama. The drama in this particular wedding had to do with a faulty steamer, which after a very long struggle, eventually started to work. Cathryn looked absolutely radiant. Their small and intimate ceremony was held in the up-stairs library of The Post. You can tell a lot about the bride and groom, as a couple, by looking at the wedding guests during the ceremony. I couldn’t take my eyes off Cliff’s three brothers; all sitting in the front row beaming, with the biggest and proudest smiles. I get emotional just thinking about it. It was more than obvious how happy everyone was for Cathryn and Cliff. After the ceremony, as we were capturing some bridal party images, Lanny upheld his reputation of doing absolutely anything to get “the shot”. At one point, I looked over to find him lying on his stomach, in his nicely pressed dress shirt, in the middle of a wet slushy puddle. The post-reception party was absolutely “epic”, and I don’t use that word lightly. We have really, really enjoyed getting to know Cathryn and Cliff. They gave us full creative license, were super down to earth and a complete joy to photograph.

Here are a few sneak peeks from our latest wedding. Full blog post coming soon!