The Vancouver Club Wedding : Lesley and Adam
Lesley took the mic after her husband Adam to say a few words. Looking out into over a hundred faces of beloved guests she began, “Adam and I want to thank you all for coming to celebrate with us.” Lesley stood oh-so-close to her new husband Adam, not wanting to be even two steps away from him. “To Adam’s parents, I thank you for raising this boy into the man he is today.” She smiled, “I am crazy-in-love (said quickly, with a humourous shake of her head from side to side) with this incredible man. My husband Adam.”
There’s moments in my life when I meet people that I just get. Lesley and Adam are those kind of people. From my first meeting with these two in Starbucks in the Spring of 2008, we chatted our faces off. We talked about everything under the sun and probably even talked about the sun (or lack of it in Vancouver Aprils) as well. I shot their engagement session nearly a full year ago (mid-July 2008) and also had it filmed for a promo video. Lesley has a natural entrepreneurship/business brain, as does Adam. I LOVE hanging out with people who think like me! Over the past few months I’ve enjoyed getting to know them even more before their wedding day. After coffee dates and dinner at their apartment, I can confidently say I arrived on June 20th as a friend of these two. What’s better than seeing a friend married to the man she adores? Nothing! What a great day.
Lesley is a woman of style and details and her day made me squeal with delight. First of all, she had three pairs of shoes: purple for portraits, white for the ceremony, brown dancing shoes for the reception. Yes please. All of the reception details and flowers for the day were organized by the super sweet Jeanette from Delovely Creative. (Love her!) The ceremony venue was the crazy-amazing Holy Rosary Cathedral in downtown Vancouver and the swanky reception was at The Vancouver Club.
The bride and groom are currently enjoying Greece and I couldn’t be more jealous. Ohh Adam and Lesley, can’t you get married every weekend so I could be a part of this day over and over? :)
Love,
J.
Lesley and her ladies got ready in a penthouse suite at Pacific Palisades hotel.
I was kind of in love with the hotel room. And Lesley’s shoes.
Fun colour everywhere in this room!
One of my favourite getting ready shots ever.
I definitely wanted to shoot in this room all day.
Lesley designed every aspect of this day around great photos, so of COURSE she chose to do a First Look! LOVE IT. Look at their reactions!
You certainly can’t fake moments like this. Pure emotion.
Adam and his men looking handsome. Recognize the guy on the very left? Adam’s brother Mike was married in October 2008 and I photgraphed Sarah & Mike’s wedding.
Oh this church blew my mind.
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Married!!
After the ceremony and a receiving line, Adam and Lesley set aside 45 minutes for portraits of just them. Perfect.
Love the dramatic-ness of this.
Lesley made a quick change to her look: took off her cathedral veil, put on red lipstick and a flower hairpiece, funky silver earrings and a thick bangle bracelet. Very fitting to the formal lobby of the Vancouver Club.
Gosh. One of the top 5 shots of the day.
These two just ooze elegance. (Oozing elegance doesn’t sound so elegant hey?)
I think I almost gasped along with Lesley when we both saw the reception ballroom for the first time. WOW.
Detail heaven.
Lesley especially did an impeccable job on her stationary. I was so excited to receive her Save the Date in the mail, and then her invitation. Classyyyy!
There were a few tears!
Okay a lot of tears. :)
And laughs.
And pointing of the fingers and laughter.
Lesley and Adam had been taking dance lessons for the past four months to learn a choreographed Waltz for their first dance. They surprised all their guests as they hadn’t told anybody about their lessons! Such a fun idea.
Eeek, this image makes me squeal with delight. So romantic.
Okay, so, blog readers I know I already blogged 40 photos. Sue me. I couldn’t choose. To see about 60 more, check out the slideshow of Lesley and Adam’s day by CLICKING HERE.
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So jaw-dropping gorgeous Jamie! Love love love them all and especially the last one! Whoo hoo!! It was such an awesome wedding. :) Thanks for having me along.
Beautiful photos Jamie. The bride is going to love them :)
These are fantastic Jamie! Love everything about this! Those getting ready shots are fantastic… and the portraits are just stunning. :)
Jamie… absolutely stunning photography. I’m a fan….
yay! I was wondering when they were getting married! Absolutely gorgeous work Jamie!
awesome wedding Jamie! love that room that they are getting ready in! is that the Shangri-la deck that you did the first look at? what a great place for it – so private and beautiful.
OK, first of all I am jealous because you got to shoot in such a fabulously unique hotel room – the colors and patterns are friggin’ awesome! Second of all, 45 minutes set aside for portraits of the bride and groom! Isn’t that every photographer’s dream? Great pictures, Jamie!
These are gorgeous! I love her shoe and look changes! So, so classy!
Jamie! What a fabulous job you did! I am so impressed! Keep up the great work!
You truly did a fantastic job, Jamie. Wonderful!
These are amazing! Great work:) What awesome details they put together!
When you said you posted 40 photos I was like, “No! That’s too many, she didn’t post that many!” Then I went back and counted and there were closer to 50! I never got tired of looking! Like when you watch a really long movie, and you never get tired, and want more! Great job!
OH WOW. Gorgeous!
Soooo pretty! LOVE them all! :)
Oooh Jamie, fabulous! I love the one of her playing with her veil in front of the gray wall.
Jamie, absolutely gorgeous! I love every single one of them. As the time nears, I’m just sick that I’m not going to meet you for the internship program! You are inspiring!
WOW Jamie these are super stunning!!! beautiful work! Love the colors!!!
Wow, these are to die for! Great photos! I love everything about your work! :)
I adore her cathedral veil! I am so glad you blogged the 40 pictures and the slideshow!! I loved every image! They had great wedding details too. Like you said, Very Classy!
Wow!! After seeing photos from their engagement session I have been so excited about this wedding! These are absolutely stunning Jamie, amazing job :)
Great photos. Just found your blog.
What an AMAZING wedding !Oh, can i be a part of thair wedding also? Wonderful photographs!
This wedding looks like it was perfect!! And you rocked the photos of course. I love, love, love the black and white of them sitting in front of the dramatic door. Wow!
Gorgeous Jamie, just gorgeous! And I LOVE that last dancing photo, SO Dancing With the Stars material!
Seriously! I’m picking my jaw up off the floor! She is a photographer’s dream! The centerpieces are so fabulous! You have an amazing way of using the open space in your images. Can I come have starbucks and become friends too? Pretty pretty please!
Today your words made me cry. Beautiful shots, as always.
such amazing images Jamie!!! and btw, I think 40 is a perfect number for a post… that’s my top top limit for myself at least;) and you have such great variety!
Jamie Delaine, I have officially been blog-stalking you for a few months now, and after seeing this particular set of images, I couldn’t keep my silence anymore. You are INCREDIBLY gifted… at photography, at business, at writing, and at just being a super sweet and fun person. I am so awed at the success you’ve made for yourself in such a short time and at such a young age, and you inspire me every single day to not let inexperience, youth, or anything else intimidate me out of thi
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Jamie, your pictures are stunning. I can look at them over and over again. Even if you would post 150 pictures I would keep looking thorugh them. This wedding must have been very special. The couple is gorgeous.
This wedding looks like a photographer’s dream – from start to finish! These are drop dead gorgeous, Jamie!
Wow, Jamie! These are fantastic! Great job! What an awesome wedding!
These are amazing!! I love the glow that your photos always have — awesome work!!
Jamie!!!! The photos you took are SO AMAZING! I totally wish I could have been there for the whole thing but seeing your photos makes me feel like I was there experiencing all those special moments.
Thank you for capturing the special day of my two awesome friends!
PS I can’t believe how bright your cathedral photos look! So awesome!
Wow. What a lovely wedding captured by such a lovely photographer. It’s a favorite, if not THE favorite of your work!!
So hard to choose! don’t blame you for posting that many! actually gotta thank you cause color, color, color, hope to shoot like you someday….
stunning
Wow, gorgeous pictures! I read “40 photos” and was surprised that I’d already looked through that many! They’re all beautiful and I love the promo video too!
Jamie- You have been off the hook! I love love love this wedding! … and we need to get coffee already! I also would LOVE to shoot with you… keep rocking out!!!
The shots in the hotel room with all of the colors(especially the orange) are awesome!!!!! Love the colors! Amazing job as usual :)
Jamie! Your work is breathtaking and so inspiring! So lighthearted yet so much emotion! You are amazing!
INCREDIBLE!!! Absolutely STUNNING post!!
GORGEOUS set, babe! You nailed it!!
Ok… just WOW!!!
Oh my gawwwwd. {yes I had to say it like that because it is that amazing!} You blow me away. Watch out world.