The Original Wedding Soiree Bridal Show in Toronto - April 15, 2012

I hope that all of you have been taking time out from your busy lives to enjoy the (somewhat freaky) mid-March summer weather :) We have been keeping really busy lately with some awesome commercial jobs, and are now starting to get really excited for our next wedding show - The Original Wedding Soiree - coming up on April 15th at the gorgeous 1 King Street West in Toronto.

Always a fan of a good theme party, I'm so thrilled that the lovely Renee of Weddings For Her has planned this event with a 1920's Parisian theme! It's going to be such an amazing event, and there are so many fantastic boutique wedding vendors who will be there, including Blair Nadeau Millinery, CurlyGirl Flowers, Love, Paper & Ink, Sara Baig Designs, and many more. We're talking about some serious beauty here - so if you're planning a wedding or know someone who is, be sure to mark April 15th on your calendar and come down to say hi and check it out!

In celebration of spring and all things beautiful, we'll even be extending our amazing offer of a FREE 16x20 custom piece of wall art while we're at this event - come see us for details and be sure to have a look at this post to see what the heck I'm talking about ;)

Looking forward to seeing you there :)

xo Jessica + Norman

Beautiful Wall Art Canvas by Jessica Lin Photography

A couple of weeks ago, I gave you a little teaser of a creative project I'd been working on.. well - here's the finished result:

I combined a couple of images of us from our wedding trip with some collage-style detail shots from places we stayed and from our wedding party, and I'm totally in love with the final result :) It's 36"x48" and the impact in real life is incredible.. it's hard to show on a blog, so you'll just have to drop by to check it out!

Here are some of the details included:

These birds (which is actually just one bird, included twice to make a little pair) are part of an origami mobile that I made for our internationally-themed wedding party for the family and friends back in Toronto. The purple flower petals are from a shot I took under a tree while we were in Spain - there were these tiny little purple flowers all over the ground and I love how they look scattered across the image :)

One of my favourite parts - Norman wrote our initials in the condensation of the window in our room where we stayed in Cork while driving around the south of Ireland

I made this little postcard out of one of our shots from Spain (believe it or not, we had not only a camera on a tripod on self-timer, but also a light on a stand with an umbrella for this one..) and "tucked" it into the corner of the big frame

We took about five different pictures of our rings in various places on our trip - this was on some rocks on a beach in Clonakilty at the southern tip of Ireland in County Cork (that's a little barnacle in the front).

The orange fan was an awesome find for 2 euros just down the street from where we stayed in Alicante, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

This is my lovely husband's handiwork again - this time on a beach in Sligo on the western coast of Ireland (just down the road a bit from where they filmed the Point Break surfing scenes!)

The rose-coloured wallpaper and the gold frame were from our bedroom wall at the B&B we stayed in while in Sligo, and the little vine grows across our tool shed in our backyard in Toronto (it was photographed at the party as well)

Ta-Da! This is the finished file, before I sent it off to be printed on canvas. I love the way this allowed me to include all sorts of pretty and sentimental details, and I really love the whimsical feeling of the end result :) I can't wait to start creating these for the couples we work with, so that they have a totally unique and stunning piece of art that they will love from the images we have created for them! 

Email us today for details and to order!

xo Jessica 

Jessica Lin Photography at the Dash Weddings Bridal Show November 13th!

After many years of relying heavily on word-of-mouth referals (which are fantastic), I have finally decided to add bridal shows to my list of ways to meet newly engaged (and looking-for-wedding-photographer) couples. My main reason for avoiding such shows in the past is those huge overwhelming shows where hundreds of vendors and thousands of brides share the same physical space for a weekend, but don't actually leave that space with anything but sore feet and bags full of price lists. Luckily, someone came up with the great idea of fewer vendors in a more intimate space - the "boutique" bridal show concept - which is right up my alley.

So this fall we will be taking part in the Dash Weddings Bridal Show at the Park Hyatt in Toronto. I've been to many shows (wedding and otherwise) as a browser, and even a dozen or so non-wedding shows as a vendor - so it's not a completely foreign concept to me. What sort of caught me off guard is the amount of time it's taken me to assemble all the pieces.. new album supplier = new sample albums need to be made. And since it's a booth at a show, there are things I don't normally have for consultations (such as a big banner and 1.000 postcards) that need to be designed and sent off to various printers. I am actually currently working with 4 different printers (this week) for all the different elements, and trying to keep track of turnaround times and what's already been sent has been exciting to say the least. It's a lot like being a kid at Christmas waiting for all my printed pieces to be finished - except that I already know what I'm getting!

Anyways, we are so excited for our first wedding show :) and would love to see you there if you are planning your wedding or have a sister/friend/cousin/daughter who is planning her wedding - please spread the word! Hope to see you there :)