For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Luke chapter two verse eleven.

For anyone who might be alone today or simply feeling lonely there is joy, peace and love for you in this baby.  He will never leave you nor forsake you, He loves you and He is waiting for you.

I’m rerunning this post from last (2008) season! Merry Christmas everyone!

Everything is more exciting before it happens. It took me many years to realize that Christmas Eve was much more exciting than Christmas day. By saying this I don’t mean to take any importance away from Christmas Day. The 25th of December is a beautiful, warm and fulfilling day for me. But Christmas Eve is full of anticipation. As children it’s obvious that this anticipation is for the gifts but as I grew the anticipation matured into something else. It was the joy of being with family and remembering our Savior’s birth.

This is the second year that I get to celebrate the season at home in Newfoundland with my family.  I hope your Christmas is filled with love, tradition and at least one really good present!!  Merry Christmas!

To me, Derek was like a child on Christmas.  With a huge smile he was counting down the minutes until the ceremony was to start.  He recounted later that it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen when Bethany came to him down the isle of the church. And I don’t doubt him for a moment as he mentioned time and again throughout the day how beautiful she was and often looked at his wedding band while saying the word husband… just to hear it the words come out of his mouth.

Bethany was calm and cool throughout every part of the day.  She was also as beautiful as Derek perceived her to be.  I can only imagine that marrying a military man is more than taking on the normal married life, especially since Derek begins training right away and will be heading to Afghanistan in 2010.  If the way Bethany handled her wedding day is the way she lives her life  she will make a great companion to Derek as he begins the next big steps in his life. Now Derek just has to decide what photo he will carry in his pocket!

This girl likes her heels! Aren’t they beautiful! She later donned her winter boots for the snow, which were also six inch heels!

This is Bethany’s grandfather before the wedding reading the morning paper.

This next photo is by Lori Moss. She came along and helped me out throughout the day.



A man and his best friend. The portrait of Missy is mine and the portrait of Derek is by Lori.


This Portrait of Bethany is by Lori Moss.
If you saw my previous post with me and my winter boots this next image is the one I was taking at the time.
Two minutes on the Signal Hill was just enough time to capture this image of ‘home’ without getting frostbite.  Bethany again was brave, calm and very collected!



Derek intently watches his bride as she gives her thank yous. Thanks Lori for this photo.

I can’t decide on a favorite of the day. But I do love this next one of Derek dancing with his mom.

Congrats Bethany and Derek! I know your New Year is going to be full of excitement and new things. Thanks for having me photograph your amazing winter wonderland wedding day!

Merry Christmas!

Our three winners of our FREE Photography Workshop hosted in January by Lori and I are now posted on Lori’s blog! Go check them out and give them a congrats.  We are so excited and can’t wait to hear the winners top questions!

Congrats to Jana, Annette and Tasha.  We’re going to have a great day together!

My Winter Wedding Photography tip of the day: Wear appropriate boots for getting to great winter photography spots. That said the bride wore her winter boots as well…six inch heeled boots that is. More photos of this beautiful wedding to come.  Thanks to Lori for being a great ‘assistant’ (It feels very wrong to call her that .

Winter Wedding at Bowring Park, NL

Go on over to Lori’s blog and start the voting. There are some great people on the list…actually I think all of them are great even though I haven’t met them! So vote for your best friend, the cutest girl or the best portrait! Just go and vote!  Thanks and Merry Christmas.

VOTE NOW!

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about read the original FREE Photography Workshop Post.

Check out my on getting his first hug from a Santa at St. Bon’s school breakfast with Santa. Though I thought it ’slightly’ overwhelming, Liam said it was the best breakfast ever.