Canadian wedding photography

Where vows
become
photographs

A wedding is the last ceremony most people take part in. I photograph it as one: documentary through the parts that matter, directed only where direction is the kindness, and handed back as a record rather than a highlight reel.

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Toronto · Montréal · Vancouver
Double exposure of a groom in a dark suit layered with his bride's veil in window light
Two hands reaching toward each other across a black frame, a length of veil between them
Overhead black and white frame of a couple dancing alone on a spiral marble floor

The philosophy

“I do not photograph how a wedding looked. I photograph what happened to the people in it.”

The vows are a vow. The walk down the aisle is a crossing. The moment a parent lets go of a hand is a transfer of something with no other name. I work for that layer, which means I will not interrupt a blessing to reposition someone and I will not ask you to walk back up the aisle for a better angle. The pretty pictures come out of that, rather than the other way around.

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Selected work

A few pages from the album

Bride in a beaded cape beside her groom on a leather sofa, white flowers behind them
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Black and white frame of a couple kissing at the end of a long stone colonnade
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Bride holding her bouquet at the open door of a vintage car, shot through the window
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Bride and groom laughing with their hands held up like goggles over their eyes
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Bride walking the length of a dark gallery hung with gilt-framed paintings
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Spinning motion blur of a couple's first dance seen from above
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A gown spread down a gilded staircase beneath a lit chandelier
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Bride and her cathedral train laid out on the tiled floor of a domed church
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Investment

The price is
on the website

“Most couples say price is the first thing they want to know and the last thing photographers publish. Here it is, before you have to ask.”

Where I work

And anywhere else in Canada, coast to coast. Collections start at $3,200 CAD. Write to i@armanarai.com or use the form and you will have an answer inside two business hours.