About ENV Photography
Banff wedding photographer elizabeth vanderbij (yup, me) simply adores photographing weddings, whether they are in Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Banff, Canmore, or Jasper or anywhere else in Canada or the USA!
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If you have purple in mind for your wedding colours this year, this is the bouquet for you! It has thistles too, which are my favourite!! Actually, I guess this is purple, pink and a hint of blue. Either way, it’s gorgeous and I love it!
Bouquet designed by The Wild Orchid Flower Shop in downtown Edmonton, AB. Featured at the Wild Orchid’s booth at Bridal Fantasy 2013.
This is a bouquet after my own heart – it’s bold and glamorous and just a little bit dark with the dark red roses and swishy black ostrich feathers. It’s darn near perfect. Maybe it’s the crystals wrapping the handle that make it perfect. It’s the sort of bouquet that is guaranteed to grab attention on your wedding day!
Bouquet designed by The Wild Orchid Flower Shop in downtown Edmonton, AB. Featured at the Wild Orchid’s booth at Bridal Fantasy 2013.
This past summer we were inspired by a shallow lake in Jasper National Park and decided to make it the location for an edgy wedding shoot featuring an awesome black wedding dress and amazing floral jewellery. Edmonton wedding planner Julia Pringle from Once Upon Your Day put together a spectacular tablescape in the middle of the shallow lake with beautiful chairs, plates and linens from Special Event Rentals combined with stunning florals from faBLOOMosity to make this one of my favourite stylized shoots I’d done to date. You just can’t go wring with the stunning natural beauty in Jasper National Park and with the romantic table for two set in the middle of the lake, we sure garnered a lot attention from park visitors travelling by. This shoot wouldn’t have been complete without the amazing florals… let me gush about them for a moment! The floral jewellery was spectacular and so intricate… amazing! I loved the living ring! The centrepiece and the bouquet were just fabulous too. Krystal and Mike made great models and didn’t mind getting soaked and rolling around in the semi-chilly lake to get some great photos. Krystal’s hair and make-up by Erin Regis was beautiful and didn’t budget, even with all that splashing and rolling around in the water! So here’s some of my favourites from this awesome shoot! I can’t wait to go back to Jasper to photograph more weddings and portraits too, so if you’d like to photographed in Jasper, get in touch!
I was super excited to head to Banff for Mikaela & Bob’s wedding! We met up with them at Buffalo Mountain Lodge, which has become one of my favourite places in Banff for a wedding, to hang while everyone got ready. I loved Mikaela’s dress and the bridesmaids’ dresses as well (the blue was fabulous!). I also loved the girls’ cowboy boots… they looked awesome with their dresses! After getting ready, we headed into town to the ceremony at the gazebo. After doing family photos be the river, we headed out near Two-Jack Lake to take some photos near the water. We sent Mikaela & Bob out to a little island for some photos of the two of them before sending out the wedding party… I’m so happy they didn’t think I was toooo crazy for making them hike out through the water! We also managed to get the bride & groom into a canoe for a few shots as well before heading to the fields on the way to Bankhead where we also stopped for some champagne and a few photos at the ruin’s of the old church. We had a blast with Mikaela, Bob and the crew… such a good time with a super fun bridal party! We ended the night at Buffalo Mountain Lodge for the beautiful reception featuring sunflowers and amazing horseshoe table numbers that were made by the family. It really couldn’t have been any more perfect! Congratulations Mikaela & Bob!
It was another rainy July morning I headed out to meet up with Katrina and her ladies getting ready at her home. The skies were dark and I was a little worried that it would pour all day. Everyone was in a good mood when I joined them for hair and make-up and Katrina looked fabulous! We headed off to Robertson-Wesley United Church for the ceremony and just before the ceremony was set to start, the rain stopped the sun started to peek out… whew! After the ceremony we headed tot he High Level bridge for photos and then off to the Enjoy Centre where the reception would be taking place. It was a beautiful reception in the Park Room with lots of pink and damask details. We ended the night with a little wedding street hockey game and had such a fun time! Congratulations Nathan & Katrina!
This simple bouquet of yellow callas is sure to brighten your wedding day! You can’t help but look at this bouquet and feel cheerful! Add a little dusty Miller to this bouquet and it would be perfect for a yellow and grey wedding theme!
Bouquet designed by The Wild Orchid Flower Shop in downtown Edmonton, AB. Featured at the Wild Orchid’s booth at Bridal Fantasy 2013.
Here’s a bright and lively bouquet that is perfect for a funky wedding with lime green spider mums and blue orchids. The white mums balance all the bright colours in this bouquet. Definitely a bouquet that will garner attention!
Bouquet designed by The Wild Orchid Flower Shop in downtown Edmonton, AB. Featured at the Wild Orchid’s booth at Bridal Fantasy 2013.
Here’s a bouquet that will catch your attention! It’s bold with colour-popping red roses and fuchsia and purple orchids. This bouquet isn’t content to sit on the sidelines, it wants to take centre stage on your wedding day! Imagine the possibilities for your bridesmaids having complimentary bouquets in red, fuchsia and purple as well!
Bouquet designed by The Wild Orchid Flower Shop in downtown Edmonton, AB. Featured at the Wild Orchid’s booth at Bridal Fantasy 2013.
I just love being in the mountains. One of the first trips I made when I moved out West was to go to the mountains and I have fallen in love with them ever since. I was super excited to head to Jasper National Park for Ashley & Jody’s wedding, especially because it was in July and the wildflowers are in bloom and it’s just a perfect time to be there. We joined Ashley and her ladies at the Sawridge Inn & Conference Centre where everyone was getting ready before the ceremony. We decided to take Ashley’s dress outside to get an “in nature” shot with and totally lucked out getting some of the local wildlife in the photos. Once everyone was dressed, we headed off to Maligne Lookout for the ceremony. It’s such a beautiful location for a wedding ceremony overlooking the surrounding mountains. We did get rained out a little bit during the ceremony, but after a few umbrellas popped, we all forged on. The rain eventually did subside and we headed to Pyramid Lake for the wedding party photos and for a few shots of Ashley & Jody alone. The day turned out perfectly after the rain dried up and we headed back to the Sawridge for a beautiful reception featuring yellow and grey. The reception was a great time, especially when guests had to hula hoop for Ashley & Jody to kiss! Congratulations Ashley & Jody!
Where to start with Helan and Jamie’s wedding? It was a beautiful day but there was a little smoke blowing over town from some forest fires up North so we were a little concerned about the outdoor ceremony and air quality, but all worked out well! I started the day and Helan & Jamie’s home where I photographed all of Helan’s fantastic jewelry, her TWO wedding dresses (yup, two beautiful dresses, lucky girl!) and her perfect Jimmy Choo shoes. Excuse me while I swoon at the memory! After hair and make-up were done, we headed to the Oasis Centre to finish getting reading before the outdoor ceremony on the grounds. It really couldn’t have been more perfect and that little bit of smoky haze made some really pretty light. The ceremony was beautiful and afterwards we stayed in the gardens at the Oasis for wedding party photos before heading inside for the reception. The Oasis is such a fabulous venue and we had a great night of dancing and fun. I think I went a little overboard on the photos though… have fun looking through! Congratulations Helan & Jamie! It was an awesome day!!
