The journal
Writing on destination wedding photography, the cities worth getting married in, and what separates images that last from images that fade.
The couples who look most natural in wedding photos are almost never naturally comfortable in front of cameras — they have simply had photographers who knew how to make them forget the lens was there. Here is what actually works.
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The complete guide to Whistler wedding photography — Fairmont Chateau Whistler and Nita Lake Lodge, alpine wildflower meadows in June, golden hour reflections on mountain lakes, and what a Whistler wedding costs from elopement to 100-guest celebration.
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A shot list with fifteen family groupings and no pose instructions gives your photographer everything they need. A shot list with thirty items and lighting directions turns a professional into a technician — and the images look like it.
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The complete guide to Niagara-on-the-Lake wedding photography — Prince of Wales Hotel, winery ceremony venues, September vineyard harvest season, golden hour on the Niagara River, and what a NOTL wedding costs at every budget level.
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The complete guide to Chile destination wedding photography — Torres del Paine National Park and Patagonia, Atacama Desert and Valle de la Luna, Valparaíso cerros, Santiago Andes skyline, Explora and Tierra lodge venues, October-March Patagonia season, extended golden-hour Patagonian light, and what a Chile wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Muskoka wedding photography — JW Marriott Rosseau and Sherwood Inn, dock and boathouse portraits, October foliage season, golden hour reflections on Shield lakes, and what a Muskoka wedding costs from cottage elopement to resort celebration.
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The complete guide to Peru destination wedding photography — Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Cusco colonial architecture, Rainbow Mountain Vinicunca, Belmond Sanctuary Lodge and Hotel Monasterio venues, May-September dry season, golden-hour Inca stonework light, and what a Peru wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Cambridge Ontario wedding photography — Langdon Hall Country House Hotel, Cambridge Mill on the Grand River, the Westmontrose Covered Bridge, seasonal Carolinian forest light, and what a Cambridge wedding costs from mill reception to Forbes Five Star estate.
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The aisle walk gives you a collective, unrepeatable emotional experience witnessed by everyone you love. The first look gives you better photographs, a calmer day, and forty-five minutes back from your reception. Both are the right answer for different couples.
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The complete guide to Prince Edward Island wedding photography — Inn at Bay Fortune on Fortune Bay, lighthouse ceremony venues at Point Prim and Panmure Island, September harvest light, golden hour on red sand beaches, and what a PEI wedding costs from farmhouse elopement to full island estate.
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The complete guide to Bahamas destination wedding photography — Nassau and Atlantis, Harbour Island pink sand, Exuma Cays, Out Island wilderness venues, December-May season, shallow-bank golden-hour colour, and what a Bahamas wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Turks and Caicos destination wedding photography — Grace Bay Beach, Caicos Bank turquoise, COMO Parrot Cay, Amanyara, November-June season, shallow-water golden-hour colour, and what a Turks and Caicos wedding costs.
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The quality of a photographer's answers to these ten questions tells you more about whether they are right for your wedding than any portfolio. Ask them directly — and listen for specificity rather than reassurance.
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The complete guide to Panama City destination wedding photography — Casco Viejo colonial quarter, Panama Canal venues, modern skyline positions, American Trade Hotel, January-April dry season, Pacific golden hour, and what a Panama City wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Vancouver wedding photography — the venues that use the mountains and ocean as backdrops, when cherry blossoms peak in Stanley Park, what golden hour looks like in July versus September, and what a Vancouver wedding costs from elopement to 100-guest celebration.
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Building two hours of buffer into your wedding morning is not pessimism. It is the single planning decision that determines whether your getting-ready photographs look beautiful or look like everyone is checking their phones.
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The complete guide to Toronto wedding photography — Casa Loma and the Distillery District, golden hour over Lake Ontario, cherry blossoms at High Park, multicultural wedding expertise, and what it costs to marry in Canada's largest city.
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The complete guide to Puerto Rico destination wedding photography — Old San Juan and El Morro, Casco Antiguo colonial streets, Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton, Harbour Island pink sand, November-May dry season, Rincon sunset coast, and what a Puerto Rico wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Montreal wedding photography — Notre-Dame Basilica ceremonies, Old Montreal cobblestones, Hotel Nelligan and Auberge du Vieux-Port, golden hour over the St. Lawrence, the bilingual vendor ecosystem, and what a Montreal wedding costs at every budget level.
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Nobody warns you about the hands. You are standing in a field and a photographer says just relax and your arms hang from your shoulders with nowhere to go. Here is how to fix that.
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The complete guide to Thousand Islands wedding photography — Boldt Castle logistics, the Gananoque Inn and Singer Castle, how boat access shapes every timeline, fall foliage in October, golden hour on the St. Lawrence, and what it costs to marry in a river archipelago that straddles two countries.
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The complete guide to Dominican Republic destination wedding photography — Bavaro and Punta Cana, Saona Island, Cap Cana and Samana Peninsula venues, all-inclusive resort infrastructure, November-June dry season, palm-and-beach golden hour, and what a Dominican Republic wedding costs.
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The complete guide to San Miguel de Allende wedding photography — hacienda venues in the Bajío highlands, La Parroquia golden hour, prime dry season October through May, and what a San Miguel wedding costs from intimate elopement to 100-guest hacienda celebration.
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The complete guide to Amalfi Coast wedding photography — Ravello’s Villa Cimbrone and Villa Rufolo, the Positano boat ceremony, shoulder-season May and September, golden-hour cliffside raking light, and what an Amalfi wedding costs from intimate 40-guest terrace ceremony to 120-guest villa event.
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The difference between a £1,500 package and a £4,000 one is not mystery. It is experience, editing time, equipment investment, and the years of work required to produce a consistently strong gallery. Here is what you are actually comparing.
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Everything you need to know before you book your Medellín wedding — the venues worth the flight, the light that makes photographers return, the weather to plan around, and what a destination wedding here actually costs.
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The complete guide to Oaxaca wedding photography — hacienda and ex-convento venues, Mitla and Monte Albán archaeological ceremony backdrops, the dry season November through May, and what an Oaxaca wedding costs with mezcal, mole, and local florals.
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The complete guide to Havana destination wedding photography — Old Havana colonial streets and vintage cars, Hotel Nacional gardens, Malecon sea wall portraits, paladar venues, November-April dry season, golden-hour colonial street light, and what a Havana wedding costs.
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Everything you need to plan a Tofino wedding or elopement — the venues worth the drive, the light that comes in off the Pacific, the fog that makes better photographs than clear skies do, and what a destination wedding at the end of the road actually costs.
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The complete guide to Cartagena wedding photography — colonial mansion venues in the Walled City, Café del Mar sunset over the Caribbean, the December–April dry season, and what a Cartagena wedding costs from intimate Old City celebration to 120-guest mansion event.
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A wedding photography contract that does not address cancellation terms, delivery timelines, image rights, and contingency arrangements is not a professional contract. Here is what to look for before you sign.
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The Okanagan wine country guide for couples planning a destination wedding — the winery venues worth the drive from Vancouver, what the lake does to golden hour, which seasons give photographers the most to work with, and what a Kelowna wedding actually costs.
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The complete guide to Bogotá wedding photography — hacienda venues on the Sabana, the Monserrate sanctuary portrait session, dry seasons December–February and June–August, and what a Bogotá wedding costs with Andean trout, Sabana roses, and Colombian florals.
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The complete guide to Medellín wedding photography — finca and hacienda venues in the Antioquia highlands, the Guatapé reservoir session, the Feria de las Flores in August, and what a Medellín finca wedding costs from intimate elopement to 120-guest estate celebration.
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The complete guide to Yukon destination wedding photography — Kluane and Tombstone wilderness, aurora borealis and midnight-sun photography, wilderness lodge venues, summer midnight-sun and autumn aurora seasons, glacial-lake golden hour, and what a Yukon wilderness wedding costs.
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Everything you need to plan a Banff or Lake Louise wedding — the venues, the permits, how to work around the crowds at Moraine Lake, when the larch trees turn gold, what alpenglow does at 8:30pm in September, and what it all actually costs.
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The complete guide to Los Cabos wedding photography — One&Only Palmilla and Esperanza resort venues, El Arco water-taxi sessions at golden hour, the Baja desert palette, prime season October through May, and what a Los Cabos wedding costs from elopement to 80-guest resort celebration.
Read the piece →The complete guide to Niagara Falls destination wedding photography — Horseshoe Falls and Maid of the Mist, Fallsview hotel venues, Skylon Tower ceremonies, Niagara wine region, summer and winter photography windows, golden-hour mist light, and what a Niagara Falls wedding costs.
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The honest guide to Jasper weddings in 2026 — what the fire destroyed, what survived untouched, which venues are open, which are still closed, what Pyramid Lake and Spirit Island look like now, and what it costs to marry in a national park that is actively rebuilding.
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A second shooter is not a backup — they are a second perspective. Whether that second perspective adds value to your specific day depends on your guest count, your venue, and what you actually want your gallery to contain.
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The complete guide to Costa Rica destination wedding photography — Arenal Volcano and Tabacon, jungle waterfall venues, Nosara Pacific sunset coast, Nayara Springs and eco-lodge resorts, dry-season and green-season timing, equatorial golden-hour light, and what a Costa Rica wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Tulum wedding photography — Azulik and Nomade venue aesthetics, sunrise sessions at the Mayan ruins, cave cenote portrait sessions, jungle light, and what a Tulum wedding costs from beachfront elopement to full ecochic celebration.
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The complete guide to Istanbul destination wedding photography — Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, Bosphorus yali venues, Ciragan Palace, May-June and September-October seasons, golden-hour dome and minaret light, and what an Istanbul wedding costs.
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Most photographers work across all three modes simultaneously. The labels describe tendencies, not exclusive approaches. The question worth asking is not which label a photographer uses — it is what a full gallery from a single wedding actually looks like.
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The complete guide to Riviera Maya wedding photography — Banyan Tree Mayakoba and Grand Hyatt venues, cenote portrait sessions, Chichén Itzá day trips, sargassum logistics, Caribbean golden hour, and what a Riviera Maya wedding costs from all-inclusive to boutique.
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The complete guide to Buenos Aires destination wedding photography — La Boca Caminito, San Telmo tango milongas, Recoleta architecture, estancia pampas venues, October-December jacaranda season, golden-hour Beaux-Arts light, and what a Buenos Aires wedding costs.
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Classic Vacations' 2026 destination wedding trend report notes that privacy is becoming a luxury marker, with couples pursuing exclusive-use properties, buyouts, and protected celebrations. For photography, privacy changes everything about what is possible.
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The complete guide to Rio de Janeiro destination wedding photography — Sugarloaf and Corcovado, Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Santa Teresa villas, Copacabana Palace venue, May-September dry season, golden-hour granite light, and what a Rio wedding costs.
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The complete guide to Dubai destination wedding photography — Burj Khalifa and Downtown, Palm Jumeirah and Burj Al Arab, desert dunes, Atlantis venues, October-to-April dry season, golden-hour glass-tower light, and what a Dubai wedding costs from intimate ceremony to grand resort event.
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The complete guide to Puglia destination wedding photography — trulli of the Itria Valley, Alberobello and Locorotondo, masseria venues, Ostuni the White City, the Adriatic coast, May and September shoulder seasons, olive-grove golden hour, and what a Puglia masseria wedding costs.
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The Knot lists true-to-life color as one of the defining 2026 wedding photography trends. This means moving away from washed-out, overexposed, and preset-saturated looks toward color that accurately represents what was actually there. I have been arguing for this for years.
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The complete guide to Sicily destination wedding photography — Taormina Greek Theatre, Val di Noto Baroque, Ragusa and Modica UNESCO architecture, Scopello and the Egadian Islands, masseria venues, May and September shoulder seasons, golden-hour stone-town light, and what a Sicilian wedding costs.
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Editorial and documentary are the two styles couples cite most often in 2026 wedding photography inquiries. They are almost opposites. Understanding which one you are actually drawn to — and which fits your wedding — will change how you choose your photographer.
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Blurred-action wedding photos are one of the most searched wedding photography styles in 2026. But not all motion blur is created equal. Here is when it works, when it does not, and what to ask your photographer before assuming they can deliver it well.
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Vogue covered the camcorder revival. Couples want candid, immediate, behind-the-scenes documentation alongside their formal coverage. A content creator and a photographer serve genuinely different purposes. Here is how to think about both.
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After years of over-warm, faded, and heavily processed wedding photos flooding Instagram, couples in 2026 are making a clear turn toward natural, accurate color. Here is what true-to-life editing means, why it matters, and what to look for when choosing a photographer.
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Documentary wedding photography in 2026 is not a trend. It is the direction the industry has been moving toward for a decade, and now it is the default expectation of most couples. Here is what it actually means — and how to know if your photographer genuinely does it.
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44% of American international destination weddings in 2024 took place in Mexico. The other 56% went somewhere more interesting. Here is a photographer's guide to the destinations worth the extra mile — and a few you may not have considered.
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2026 couples are done with the overly curated, preset-heavy look that dominated the last decade. Here is what they are asking for instead — and what that means for how your wedding day gets photographed.
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Couples today receive professional galleries, guest iPhone uploads, QR-code sharing, content creator reels, and sometimes a videographer's B-roll. The problem is no longer lack of documentation — it is visual overload. The photographer's value, in 2026, is curation.
Read the piece →Kelowna sits in one of the most visually extraordinary valleys in Canada, surrounded by over 200 wineries and the 135-kilometre Okanagan Lake — and it still gets half the attention of Banff or Whistler as a wedding destination. Here is why that is changing, and why I think the Okanagan is the most compelling domestic destination in BC for couples who want something genuinely distinctive.
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Couples do not want a destination wedding that feels imported and generic. They want local food, local music, architecture, natural light, and a sense that this weekend could only have happened here. For photography, this changes everything.
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Canadian couples have remarkable options for destination weddings in 2026 — the question is knowing which ones actually deliver on the photographs. Here is where I have shot, what the light does, and what you need to know before you book.
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For destination weddings, the rehearsal and pre-wedding day is not just a warm-up. It is often where the most authentic, most relaxed, and most visually interesting portraits happen. Here is why — and how I plan for it.
Read the piece →A destination elopement is not a small wedding held in a beautiful place. It is an entirely different kind of experience — a journey that happens to include vows, a photographer who happens to also be a travel companion, and a gallery that looks like a film rather than an event. Here is everything you need to know.
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A wedding in Cartagena should not look like a wedding in Toronto with a warmer wall behind it. A Buenos Aires wedding should feel like Buenos Aires. The location needs to earn its place in every frame — not just appear in the background of the couple portraits.
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MedellÃn is no longer Colombia's secret. But it remains one of the most genuinely extraordinary wedding destinations in the world — for the light, the fincas, the flowers, and the particular quality of warmth that the city and its people carry. A working photographer's guide to getting married here.
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South America's 2026 travel appeal is being strengthened by new hotel development, infrastructure improvements, culinary recognition, cultural depth, and natural wonders. For wedding photography, each city offers something distinct. Here is the guide.
Read the piece →I have photographed over 240 weddings. The ones that produced the most emotionally powerful images were, consistently, the smallest. Here is why elopement photography is different — and why I believe the couple who chooses to elope makes one of the bravest photographic decisions available to them.
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Business Insider's 2026 wedding trend coverage points toward intimacy, smaller guest lists, curated experiences, and more personal expression. The financial logic supports this too. Here is why small destination weddings often look and feel more expensive than their larger local counterparts.
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Colombia offers three completely distinct visual worlds within a few hours of each other: the eternal spring of MedellÃn, the colonial gold of Cartagena, and the highland drama of Bogotá. Here is what no one tells you about getting married here.
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Vogue's 2026 trend report says couples are prioritizing how the wedding feels on the day — food, interactive moments, immersive entertainment, after-party energy. For a photographer, this means the most important images are often of the guests, not the couple.
Read the piece →I am not selling coverage. I am selling interpretation, memory, and permanence. Understanding the difference is the whole job.
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Golden hour — the forty-five to sixty minutes after sunset — is the single most valuable window in a wedding day for photography. Most couples lose it to cocktail hour without realizing. Here is how to protect it.
Read the piece →The Knot lists 'tangible visual keepsakes' as one of the defining 2026 wedding photography trends. After years of couples receiving thousands of digital files they rarely look at, the album is reasserting itself as the final curated object — the thing that survives after the content cycle dies.
Read the piece →Vogue recently covered the wedding camcorder revival. Gen Z and younger millennials are drawn to candid, lo-fi, behind-the-scenes documentation because it feels human in a way that hyper-produced imagery does not. The same logic applies to photography, and I think it goes deeper than a trend.
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Most couples spend more time choosing a caterer than a photographer, then spend the rest of their lives wishing they had reversed those priorities. Here is how to find a wedding photographer who will create images you actually love — not just images that looked good on Instagram.
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Modern couples come to their wedding with a more sophisticated and layered set of photographic expectations than any previous generation. Understanding what those expectations actually are — not just what couples say they want, but what they actually need from the gallery — changes how I approach every wedding day.
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Vogue's 2026 trend coverage notes that couples are moving away from one-size-fits-all wedding frameworks toward celebrations that feel truly personal. The dominant European destination wedding aesthetic has become, to a meaningful degree, one-size-fits-all. Here is what that means for couples who want something different.
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There is a counterintuitive truth about destination weddings that most photographers know but rarely say out loud: being somewhere unfamiliar makes people more present. And presence is everything in wedding photography.
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Most couples think 'destination wedding' and picture Italy, Greece, Mexico, or the Caribbean. South America is still underused in the luxury wedding conversation — which makes it visually powerful. I have shot extensively across the continent. Here is what the camera actually finds there.
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I have photographed weddings in both hemispheres. I am based in South America by choice. And I want to make an honest case that for couples who want something genuinely distinctive — something with mood and surprise rather than predictable luxury — South America is worth a serious look.
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Film wedding photography is having a genuine resurgence — not as nostalgia, but because couples are increasingly asking for images that feel less processed and more true. Here is what shooting on film actually means for your wedding photographs.
Read the piece →Fora's 2026 wedding and honeymoon report confirms what I have been seeing in my own bookings: destination wedding inquiries are up, and the events themselves are getting longer, more immersive, and more experience-driven. The single ceremony is becoming the anchor point of a full travel story.
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From the colonial warmth of Cartagena to the golden light of Tuscany, these are the cities where light, architecture, and culture align to make every photograph feel like it was composed by the city itself.
Read the piece →The Knot identifies it as one of the defining wedding photography trends of 2026: couples who want fashion-editorial framing and documentary emotional honesty simultaneously. As someone who has always worked both modes, I find this moment genuinely exciting.
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Something shifted in what couples are asking for, and it happened gradually enough that I almost missed it. The requests for 'clean and polished' have been quietly replaced by requests for 'real and alive.' Here is what that means for how I approach a wedding day.
Read the piece →Every major market disruption reshuffles the deck, and the pandemic did this to the destination wedding market as completely as anything in recent memory. The established locations — Italy, Mexico's coasts, the Caribbean — came back. But so did something else: a group of cities that had been peripheral to the destination wedding world suddenly became legitimate options. Here are the three that surprised me most.
Read the piece →Italy's destination wedding market lost 2020 and 2021 almost entirely — the country had some of the strictest pandemic restrictions in Europe. When it reopened fully in 2022, the demand that poured back in was not the same demand that had left. The couples were different, the aesthetics were different, and the regions they were choosing within Italy had shifted in ways I found genuinely surprising.
Read the piece →I relocated to MedellÃn during the pandemic. What I found was a destination wedding market that was being rediscovered in real-time — by couples whose European and North American plans had collapsed, by photographers looking for locations that had not yet been photographed to exhaustion, and by a generation of Colombian couples whose expectations of what a wedding could look like had shifted dramatically.
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Mexico never actually closed to international weddings. During much of 2020 and 2021, when Europe was fully shut and Canada was managing strict entry restrictions, Mexico kept its borders open and became the relief valve for an entire industry. What that did to the market — the prices, the aesthetic, the types of couples booking — is still playing out in 2022.
Read the piece →I have been photographing destination weddings across Canada for nearly a decade. The Canada I am photographing in 2022 is genuinely different from the Canada of 2019. Smaller lists. More intentional choices. Less pressure to perform a wedding for others, and more clarity about what the couple actually wants. Here is what changed — location by location.
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Arman