Lethbridge Weddings & Portrait Photography by Tanya Plonka

After photographing many of their family member’s weddings, I was excited to hear Makayla and Cornell were the next in line to wed! We started off their Picture Butte late summer wedding photos at the family’s beautiful property that backs onto the coulees. Just like a few years ago at a sibling’s wedding, the view was very smoky! Luckily the smoke looks amazing in the coulees :)

Their nieces and nephews were (mostly) excited to have a photographer come visit and gave us all kinds of adorable poses! We had quite a few family members tasked with removing photobombing children from photos, and later the dogs and barn kittens started crashing the shoot too!

The Picture Butte Golf Club was very generous with letting us run around the course for photos and explore the grounds with a whole fleet of golf carts.

Makayla and Cornell have such a great group of people they call friends. Like the other weddings, we spent the day in laughter and never knew what silliness to expect when we turned around. They have such great senses of humour and will have an amazing lifetime together making each other laugh.

Congratulations, Makayla and Cornell!

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When we booked Sylvia and Jamie’s wedding for early April we didn’t expect we’d be taking Lethbridge spring blossom wedding photos in 27C! This gorgeous day made everyone so carefree and happy. It was beautiful to celebrate this new marriage with the start of a new spring!

After their ceremony and lunch, we met at the scenic Picture Butte Golf Club for family photos. The gorgeous summer-like day meant we had to avoid a few more golf balls than originally expected! The course was so accommodating and Sylvia (plus her brother sporting crutches) got to be escorted everywhere in a golf cart.

We made friends with a horse along the way to Lethbridge, then swung by the University park where we were surprised by the most gorgeous patch of fresh blossoms. We had sent the bridal party away by that point so that Jamie and Sylvia could share some romantic privacy in the beautiful flowers.

Congratulations, Sylvia and Jamie!

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