Click through the below to read what I believe makes my work stand out from the crowd —
This isn't your average "about me" page — this is a photo of me with my mom.
I lost my mom to cancer when I was seven years old. As each year passes, the photos I have of her grow in value exponentially. Photographs have the ability to instantly bring her back to me. This is where my belief in the value of photography was born.
My favourite photos of her aren't the staged or posed photos, but instead the real ones. When she's mid-laugh or unaware of the camera. Those are the photos that best captured her heart. It's those fleeting moments + uncensored details I have grown to love and prioritize. To my core, I believe these are the moments + details worth capturing on your wedding day.
Inclusivity + equality are at the heart of my business. I will never turn a couple away for their race, gender or sexual orientation.
This sentiment is extended to all of my couple's guests, as well as to their other wedding vendors. Everyone is treated with love and respect.
I have spent countless hours over the years developing the look & style of my editing. My presets are hand-made and one of a kind.
I always aim for timeless, true-to-life colouring that maintains a warm finish and flattering skin tones. The final product is not too bright, and not too dark — and your images aren't over edited, but are edited just enough to add some magic!
Generally speaking, wedding photographers don't do any kind of retouching to images. This means they only edit the colour and exposure of you photos.
I put in extra time and care to retouch little details, such as distracting light switches on a wall, or forgotten hair ties on a wrist. While this does not extend to full skin retouching or body photoshopping, I do believe retouching these little details instantly elevates your photos!
Clients can expect a gorgeous selection of sneak peek photos delivered between 24 hours to one week later, depending on their package.
Then, a delivery of their full wedding galleries a fast 5 weeks after the wedding, rarely stretching that to 7 weeks in the busy season.
There are no secrets here! Everyone who inquires with me has access to view 20+ examples of real full wedding and elopement galleries. This allows you to get a really great feel for my work, and further allows you to envision how I might capture your day.
This puts us on the same page, and helps avoid any surprises or letdowns when you reviews your full gallery from me!
You might already know the stereotype ... wedding photographers who are great artists, but terrible business people. This isn't me!
Clients regularly express gratitude for my fast response times, effective communication, attention to detail in planning, and my hard work in making sure your day doesn't fall behind schedule.
Inclusivity + equality are at the heart of my business. I will never turn a couple away for their race, gender or sexual orientation.
This sentiment is extended to all of my couple's guests, as well as to their other wedding vendors. Everyone is treated with love and respect.
I have spent countless hours over the years developing the look & style of my editing. My presets are hand-made and one of a kind.
I always aim for timeless, true-to-life colouring that maintains a warm finish and flattering skin tones. The final product is not too bright, and not too dark — and your images aren't over edited, but are edited just enough to add some magic!
Generally speaking, wedding photographers don't do any kind of retouching to images. This means they only edit the colour and exposure of you photos.
I put in extra time and care to retouch little details, such as distracting light switches on a wall, or forgotten hair ties on a wrist. While this does not extend to full skin retouching or body photoshopping, I do believe retouching these little details instantly elevates your photos!
Clients can expect a gorgeous selection of sneak peek photos delivered between 24 hours to one week later, depending on their package.
Then, a delivery of their full wedding galleries a fast 5 weeks after the wedding, rarely stretching that to 7 weeks in the busy season.
There are no secrets here! Everyone who inquires with me has access to view 20+ examples of real full wedding and elopement galleries. This allows you to get a really great feel for my work, and further allows you to envision how I might capture your day.
This puts us on the same page, and helps avoid any surprises or letdowns when you reviews your full gallery from me!
You might already know the stereotype ... wedding photographers who are great artists, but terrible business people. This isn't me!
Clients regularly express gratitude for my fast response times, effective communication, attention to detail in planning, and my hard work in making sure your day doesn't fall behind schedule.
All that said, my work isn't about me. It's about you + your partner, and the promise of forever.
If you want to know if I'm the right photographer for you, click the button below to read about the experience I provide —
"We felt so lucky to be able to book Tessa for our wedding day and couldn’t wait to meet her! Tessa’s communication before, during and after our wedding was the best I have ever experienced. She regularly contacted us and even provided styling advice! Tessa’s work is amazing, she is such a talented photographer and to top it off a beautiful person making the process even more special.
We are so incredibly happy that Tessa was our wedding photographer. The photos are so stunning! Tessa captured the perfect mix of formal and candid photos. She had the ability to interpret our vision in a way that was natural and non-intrusive and had an eye for all the details and special moments.
Tessa has such a gift and we are so thankful she shared it with us. I would recommend Tessa time and time again xx"
"Where do I even start - Tessa was simply incredible! From the moment I laid eyes on her photography, I just knew she had to photograph our wedding. Her photo and editing style is so dreamy - editorial, candid, never too posed, the perfect mix of moody, but still bright!
Her professionalism is top notch, too. She was super responsive and communicative throughout the entire process leading up to our big day. Tessa also has a way of making you feel like you are old friends - she made us feel so comfortable as two people who rarely like their photo taken. During the wedding day itself she was never intrusive or in your face... just quietly behind the scenes capturing the most amazing moments of our day and our guests. We love that she didn't just capture us as a couple, but also all of our favourite people having a great time. It was so nice to send our friends and family such beautiful, professional photos of them - I know they really appreciated it too :)
Tessa - thank you so much for what you do!"
"Not sure where to even start with Tessa. She is AMAZING. From the minute we enquired all the way through to our wedding day and beyond... Tessa cares! She helped, answered questions and supported us throughout the whole wedding planning process and made us feel completely confident in her. Her photos are INCREDIBLE and her patience, easy personality and adaptability on the day and in the lead up was better than I ever could expected.
We felt so comfortable with her having not even met her in real life until she shot our wedding day but we felt like we had known her forever. We could not thank you enough Tessa.
We look at our photos most days and fall in love with them (and each other) over and over again because of you!"
"Tessa is one insanely talented photographer and we feels so incredibly lucky we had her to capture our wedding day! From the moment we reached out to Tessa her professionalism was evident. Her passion for what she does is clear and I really appreciated how she took the time to get to know us as a couple and answer all my random questions along the way!
I had the upmost faith that Tessa would deliver us something special but I was not prepared for just how breathtaking our full album would be. Sitting with my husband and going through the photos was like we were reliving the entire day. It brought on the laughter and the tears all over again! Tessa captured the emotion and small, yet significant moments of the day beautifully and we’ve received so many compliments from family and friends on our photos. We are so grateful to have these to cherish forever.
If you are looking for a photographer that takes the time to understand you as a couple, that puts you at ease in front of the camera and that you can trust to capture your day perfectly then Tessa is absolutely your girl x"
"Where do we start? — The moment I met Tessa I felt instantly at ease. The entire photo process would have to be one of the funnest experiences of my life, it WAS so natural that we were completely and 100% us the entire time. Tessa knows exactly what’s going on and didn’t leave us doubting a single thing and ensured the whole process was smooth from start to finish.
I feel so blessed and lucky to have had Tessa capture our special day that we will cherish forever. The photos are honestly outstanding and incredibly timeless. Everything I had ever imagined was exactly what we got.
You’re an absolute legend Tessa and you sure take the most timeless photos. We cannot thank YOU enough. I hope we cross paths again one day!"
"As soon as I got engaged I knew I wanted Tessa to photograph our special day and boy did she deliver.
We booked our wedding day around her availability, because I was happy to compromise on everything wedding related except for photos! I told Tessa I would be absolutely over the moon if there were one or two photos my husband and I loved and could hang on our wall. Well we now have hundreds of photos we are obsessed with and couldn’t possibly decide which we love the most . Tessa captured our day + us so perfectly . We wanted it to be fun and relaxed and that’s exactly how the photos turned out.
My husband who HATES a photo of any kind even said that he actually enjoyed the whole process and felt so comfortable. So Thank you a million Tess. We had the best day, and now we can remember it forever."
"Words cannot describe how grateful we are for Tessa. Always contactable, answered all our questions and put our mind at ease. We ended up adjusting our wedding day to make sure we had Tessa as our photographer.
Despite only meeting her on the day of our elopement, she immediately felt like a close friend. She went above and beyond expectations, working with us to create a timeline so the day was entirely stress free. She even found a new location for us less than a week out from our wedding day because of border closures.
Tessa managed to make us feel completely at ease and comfortable in front of the camera. We didn’t have to worry about awkwardly posing, Tessa gave us enough direction and she captured candid moments of us just being our natural selves. We love the photos and how beautifully Tessa managed to capture all the emotions of the day.
Tessa helped make our elopement so enjoyable and stress-free, including being one of our witnesses and even drove us to the ceremony. It simply wouldn’t have been what it was without her help and we can’t thank her enough!!"
"Where to start?! Tessa is an absolute legend and photography wizard! Tess ended up shooting both our elopement and our wedding celebration and we couldn’t have been more happy about it!
Leading up to our wedding she was fantastic, super responsive and helped us plan out our day and then when we decided to postpone due to Covid she was incredibly understanding and flexible and THEN, she jumped onboard with our crazy idea to elope in a different state!!!
Tess made our elopement so special! Kinda like she was an old friend of ours! Matt and I can be pretty awkward at the best of times, but she made us feel so relaxed and at ease and our photos were totally magic - even though we got married in gale force winds!!
We couldn’t recommend Tess enough xoxo"