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Brand Identity – Your Mission Terra is a skincare brand that helps intentional women simplify their skincare without sacrificing quality to live a full life. That’s a heck of a sentence. It’s one piece of Terra’s brand identity that we uncovered during our One Week Fully Aligned Branding Intensive with them. Inside this sentence lies […]

New Fully Aligned Branding: Terra Skincare

This nostalgia loving couple wanted their engagement photos to be captured in a place that’s very meaningful to them, so we shot an in-home engagement session.

In-Home Engagement Session In Their 70’s Home

Couple in front of their old home in rural Ontario, in-home engagement photos by Sonia V Photography

These two lovebirds had gotten married just a month earlier when I asked them to model for me right after moving to Ottawa. I had lived in Ottawa once before for about a year, but people didn’t know me as a photographer “from Ottawa,” they knew me as a photographer… from somewhere in SW Ontario. So I figured I should find myself some beautiful models eager to show their love in front of the camera and take them for a stroll through some of my favourite spots in downtown.

Ombre Bouquet Stole the Show of This Downtown Ottawa Elopement

Downtown Ottawa elopement photo shoot ombre bouquet, Major's Hill Park Sonia V Photo -Documentary Style Candid Photographer - Ottawa Ontario Kemptville Destination Photographer - Authentic Colour Photography - Wedding Photographer - Branding Photographer - Small Business Headshots - Engagement Photos - Family Portraits - Lifestyleraphy

This elopement is one for the books. The colour palette, the faux fur shawls, the sweet candid looks exchanged by family members. Believe me when I say this was a cold, winter day (technically fall, but who’s tracking?) and everyone was freezing, but dare I say, the love of these two really heated things up.

Gatsby-esque Modern Elopement in Kanata, Ontario

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Kaishia and Jonathan didn’t let covid’s striking take down their plan to get married to each other. While they did have to change their plans by moving the venue from a sprawling vineyard to their uncle’s backyard and significantly decrease their guest list to something more intimate, they had one goal — to get married. […]

K + J | Tiny backyard covid wedding in Ottawa, ON

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