Lethbridge Weddings & Portrait Photography by Tanya Plonka

This graduation season I was thrilled to work with Hailey for her Lethbridge high school grad photos. From our brief time taking photos, she gave off such an air of maturity and kindness. She is beautiful both inside and out!

The rain from the day before and threat of even more rain that day made for fantastic photos in Indian Battle Park. The colors became so deep and rich, really making Hailey’s dress pop out.

Hailey wore a stunning black and gold floor length dress with sheer lace accents, and the gold perfectly complemented her long blonde hair. She rocked that dress!

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Sheila and Ben joined us for their Lethbridge spring wedding photos just after their ceremony on what could have been a rainy day… but as luck would have it, it stopped raining exactly just during our scheduled photo time!

I don’t think I have ever laughed this much from a wedding party before. They wore blankets as scarves, high fived a jogger in the coulees at every bend in his path, the girls ran up the coulees in heels, one groomsman managed to get a girl’s phone number downtown in between photos, and everything finished with endless airplane puns at the appropriate time (though most of those came from Cam once they got going!). Seeing as how I first knew Sheila and Ben for their hilarious piggy back rides, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that they are such a fun group!

We started our photos in the coulees, now a saturated green from all the rain, then headed downtown to some of the most beautiful old architecture. Sheila and Ben have such a romantic, deeply passionate look when they interact with each other and these locations really accented those feelings.

Our last location was a fun one: the airport hangar! Even though we ended up not needing to escape any rain, it was such a great spot to take photos.

Congratulations, Ben and Sheila!

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After an entire day of torrential downpour, the clouds cleared and left behind gorgeous, lush green colors for Kari and Henry’s Fort Macleod spring wedding! We met up with the couple for their first look in the Fort Macleod Wilderness Park, where Henry couldn’t stop smiling hearing Kari approaching him. Once they had a few extremely happy moments alone, we went down by the river and the landmark green bridge with their wedding party (with their family helping out controlling traffic!).

After family photos in the park and their early afternoon ceremony, we met back up with them at the Galt Museum for the rest of their photos. They are so happy together and their friends seemed absolutely excited for them, making our job so easy!

Congratulations, Kari and Henry!

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It’s hard to manage the separate activities of five children, so I really appreciate Kevin and Sarah taking a moment out of their busy day for their Lethbridge morning family session… even if it meant they had to rush off to their next activity! This family is so sweet together and I couldn’t get over how well behaved and ready for the camera the little ones were. They were definitely a family of perfect models!

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I’ve known Sarah and Kyle for quite a few years now but this was the first time I got to meet their adorable kids! Josephine and Levon had a fun time playing in the grass at their Nicholas Sheran spring family photos. The kids are a perfect mix of their mom’s sweetness and their dad’s silliness :) That silliness came in handy from both parents when they had to act ridiculous behind me to get bigger smiles out of the children!

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I’m getting so excited for Andrea and Tylor’s wedding this month! I’ve known Andrea since grade one and it’s amazing to see her taking this step. We met up a few weeks before the wedding for Nicholas Sheran spring engagement photos so that they’d have something up to date to share at their reception. Their cute little girl Evelyn hopped in for a couple photos but quickly let us know she was happier hanging out with her uncle behind the scenes and picking grass blades.

It was such a gorgeous evening in Lethbridge; we couldn’t have asked for better weather! We even lucked out with a few lilacs still in full bloom :)

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