Vancouver Children's Portrait Photographer | Rebecca Sehn

Adam & I left Shanghai last week, and while it was neat to experience… we were honestly happy to head to Bali!  I’ve seen my share of smelly cities, and it let me tell you – it was up there. What I did enjoy was visiting a few temples, trying out some street food, and visiting a water village outside the city – it was super touristy, but looked the way ancient china does in the movies.  

I improved my skills with chopsticks, while Adam plodded away eating with the serving spoon – there were no forks to be found!  He wasnt’t too happy about that.

Now we are in Bali, and it smells of incense & flowers in the streets, and we’re never too far from a beach.  We are so happy to be here.

Incense burning in a temple in Shanghai:

I hope you’re all having a good day!

It’s just after midnight and everything is packed.  Showered, toes painted (I always paint my toes before I go on a trip; not sure why) backpacks zipped and carry on’s filled with books and earphones & chewing gum for our thirteen hour flight to Shanghai.  In twelve hours Adam and I will be in the air – off to three weeks of adventure.

I won’t be on the internet too much while we’re away, and emails won’t be checked until we’re back home, but I’ve promised to email my mom every few days – so chances are the blog will get little updates too. (If I have any luck uploading pictures over there I’ll try to post one every now and again as well.)

In the meantime… I hope you all enjoy our lovely, chilly Canada while I head off to the beaches of Bali.  

Summer and Eric were so excited — no, they were EXCITED!!!! to be getting married.  Every couple of days last week, Summer’s facebook status would pop up in my feed: “4 more sleeps!”, then “2 more sleeps!!” – it was getting me pretty darn excited too.When I arrived at Summer’s house in the morning, her gorgeous dress was just going on – hair and make-up were perfect, and the house was a mix of big smiles and nervous jitters.  A beautiful bouquet from Eric was on the counter, and the limo would be arriving shortly.My super duper awesome second shooter Elaine was hanging out with the boys, documenting the tying of ties and the putting on of shiny shoes.Their gorgeous ceremony was at Holy Rosary Cathedral – here they are exchanging rings, lighting the unity candle, and holding hands as a new family with Eric’s daughter Callie.
Following the ceremony, we began family portraits at Stanley Park – the rain had stopped and the sun was coming out – but boy was it COLD!  (I’m talking colder than ‘it’s-snowing-cold ‘!)  The icy wind was lashing at these troopers as we blasted through as quickly as we could.We sent the wedding party and family members back the warmth of the limos, and decided to head back to their hotel for wedding party portraits.  I kept Summer & Eric outside for a few more minutes – and I was so glad I did.  I don’t know how Summer managed to not freeze to death, but she powered through…. and somehow managed to look super glamorous instead of cold!  Here are a few of my favourites:Back in the warmth of the hotel, we finished off with more of the whole wedding party:And a few more of Summer & Eric too:Reception details:First dance- I didn’t notice until later that one of the kids had shot a confetti gun in Summer’s face right as I shot this.  So awesome.  Also, confetti guns are really cool!  If you’d like to see more of Summer & Eric’s wedding day, scroll down to watch the highlights slideshow:

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Wedding Date: 11.11.11

Summer & Eric – thank you so much for asking me to capture your day for you -
wishing you a long and happy life together. Congratulations!!!