Welcome! // Rob & Lauren Photographers

May 26, 2010 // Posted by lauren in

Hi there and welcome to our blog! We are portrait photographers from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We love shooting engagements, newborns, families, couples, individuals, travel and lifestyle. This is where you’ll find all the cool new stuff we’ve been up to lately. We put new images up here on a weekly basis, so if you haven’t yet, make sure to bookmark this site or add it to your RSS reader!

Also, feel free to check out some of our work. Here are links to our portfolios!

Wedding portfolio // Film portfolio // Couples portfolio // Moving Portraits // Travel Photography


We really hope you enjoy our art, and feel free to leave a comment! We’d love to hear from you!

Tons o’ love,

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*Scroll past this post to see all the new awesomeness!*

Married on a Volcano

September 24, 2009 // Posted by lauren in

Photos first.

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 Wedding day lunch.

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 The story:

Well, in case you are new to this blog, or didn’t notice the header photos, the two stunning folks in these wedding photos are indeed us. Yes. We just got married.

After spending the last three years of our almost five year relationship being completely consumed with wedding photography, we decided that we would need a wedding a bit out of the ordinary. So we flew to Santorini, Greece, one of the most beautiful places we’ve ever been. It was just to the two of us, doing it exactly how we wanted it. And it was amazing.

We woke up late, shared a nice little breakfast together, complete with a delicious mimosa :) Then I did my own hair and makeup (what a challenge!! I’m not a hair and makeup girl at all, so I was sitting there in the morning watching YouTube videos on how to do a chignon! True story :)), we got ready, and headed off to take our own wedding photos.

Yep, as I’m sure you’ve gathered, we took all of these photos of ourselves. It was such a crazy fun and challenging experience, we had a blast!! There are tons more to share, especially when we get all of our film back from the lab. But for now I hope you enjoyed finally finding out where we would run off to in the middle of the season :)

I want to share a few links with you. You see, I did all our wedding shopping on Etsy.com, pretty much the best website in the whole wide world. And the people that I worked with were so incredibly sweet, it was the best experience. So I really want to make sure to give them some props!

My dress was handmade by the amazing Nancy Wilder. She was the sweetest ever, always sending me little updates on the progress. And then, in a totally tear inducing act of kindness, she included a small piece of cobalt blue shore glass, as my “something blue”. Yes. People that nice really do exist!! Thank you so so so much Nancy, the dress was more than perfect :)

You might have noticed that our rings are pretty frickin’ sweet. Well, you’d be right. We are actually completely obsessed with them. They arrived a couple weeks before we left for Greece, but we were so smitten that we actually wore them in secret as much as we could :) They are rose gold bands, and the edges are left somewhat irregular making each one unique. They are absolutely and completely perfect. They were handmade by the amazing Jenn from Red Cat Run Studio.

And finally, you might have noticed that Rob’s belt and my necklace were a matching pair, as well as being just absolutely gorgeous. They were made by the extremely talented Naomi from Flight Path Designs. We’re both completely obsessed with her work, and will be getting a whole lot more of her amazing pieces. Seriously check them out and I challenge you not to fall completely in love with her art.

 

Well, I have about a bazillion emails to start working on, and we have a stellar wedding to prep for this weekend!! But we’ll be sharing some more photos in the next little while. Hope you all had an awesome two weeks, and we’re excited to be back and shooting!!

Tons of love,

Rob and Lauren Lim!!!!! :)

Vini & Money // Wedding

September 7, 2009 // Posted by lauren in

Wow, what a wedding. Two cities and hundreds of loved ones celebrating together for these amazing people. The venues were stunning, the ceremonies powerful, the dancing insane, we got to see a ton of “flients” and catch up…But the best part of all was being lucky enough to get to hang out with Vini and Money. You guys are amazing. Thanks again for sharing your time with us. We’re really really honored.

We started last weekend in Calgary for the Shagan ceremony, where the families celebrated the engagement.

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 We snuck them outside for some quick portraits. Loves it.

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 Ok, straight up. Punjabis know how to party. If you ever get invited to one of their dances, you’d be a fool not to go. But bring earplugs :)

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 Then a week later, we were back in Calgary for the wedding. It was one of those extremely rare times when we were up early enough to see the sun rise. Worth it.

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 Money’s nephew about to have his pagh (turban) tied.

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 Vini’s mother put handprints on the wall of their home after the maya ceremony.

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 One of my favourite ceremonies: the baraat. Money rides in on a white horse, his face covered by the sehra.

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 The ceremony was held at the gorgeous Sikh Society of Calgary gurdwara.

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Money just about to enter.

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Reading from the holy scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib.

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Money enters Vini’s parents house to take her with him. He has to pay off her sisters to be allowed entry.

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And then, tied together with a scarf, he leads her away in the highly emotional doli ceremony.

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Vini and her father, after hugging goodbye.

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Her mother and uncles console her.

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And Money’s father and uncle throw coins behind the car.

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And then some portraits around Calgary. Nice.

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We love the silliness.

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I think this one is my fav :)

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And then we all drove back to Edmonton, for a ceremony welcoming Vini into Money’s parents home. Money’s mother feeds them both sweets.

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And then the final day! The reception in Edmonton. I think this is both to most trippy and most awesome ring shot Rob has ever done.

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Epic first dance.

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Hope you all enjoyed those images! As always, we love comments!!

Tomorrow Rob and I take off. Hopefully I’ll have time to set up a few blog posts that will publish while we’re gone, but who knows :) If not, you’ll have these gorgeous kids to look at while we’re away! And remember, check back in a couple weeks to see what we’re up to. It’s gonna be mind blasting!!

Lauren :)

 

The News

September 3, 2009 // Posted by lauren in

Hey friends!!

Man, it seems like Rob and I haven’t even had a chance to breathe in the last few months, let alone update all our awesome blog readers about what’s going on with us! We’ve obviously been shooting a ton of awesome weddings, but as usual, there is always a lot more going on.
A few little news tidbits for ya today:

If you don’t have us on Facebook or Twitter, you’re totally missing out! I had posted a pretty awesome little piece of news a little while ago! Rob and I were very honored to be featured as the DWF members of the week! The DWF is a forum that we’ve been members of for a couple years now, and has been an awesome resource for all things wedding photography. It was really cool to get to answer the questions, and stop and think about our careers thus far. If you’re bored, definitely check it out here :) Props to our amazing friend, James Day, for the epic shot of us being huge goofballs, as usual!


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Secondly, the October Chill Session is starting to fill up! If you’re interested, drop us a line. We had a blast at the last Chill Session, and are crazy excited about the next one! Rob and I tend to come up with new concepts, theories and ideas on a weekly basis, and so each and every Chill Session ends up being different, with all the things we’ve been thinking about lately! Good times.

 

Thirdly, we’re going to be heading out of the country for a couple weeks, shooting what will prove to be a crazy awesome wedding. Details are on the down low for now, but make sure to check back in a couple weeks for something that will literally blow your mind. If you’re emailing us, it will be a while till we can get back to you, so we really appreciate your patience!

And finally, we’ve been having a blast this summer shooting a ton of portraits with some of the city’s coolest people. I haven’t had a chance to blog them all yet, but here are a few samples of recent stuff :)

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Have an awesome weekend everyone!! Oh, and tomorrow happens to be Rob’s 26th birthday. I still dig him, even though he’s getting old :) Feel free to leave him some b-day love in the comments!! He’ll really really enjoy it :)

Lauren :)

 

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