Jules + Ian
Winter Lake Minnewanka Wedding

There is something to keep in mind when looking through Jules and Ian’s images, and that is the temperature was flirting with -30C for the entirety of their week in the Canadian Rockies for their destination Banff wedding. After a rather mild winter, this week had us scrambling for our long johns, and calculating the shortest possible routes for all errands. So when you see these images, of two people outdoors in their finest wear, remember, the temperature was that that causes sentences to become hard to utter, when your fingers lose feeling within minutes, and your head hurts from the cold.

These two had to embrace the coldest temperatures, but also icy roads to and from their rehearsal, the acceptance the mountains may hardly make an appearance on their wedding day. This is following the inevitable need to downsize their original plans on account of Alberta’s COVID gathering restrictions. I can truly say, they handled the curveballs thrown their way with such grace and acceptance.

After getting ready in the sweetest little AirBnB above Canmore’s newest restaurant, änkôr, we met at Lake Minnewanka. In front of a forest laden with snow, Jules walked up behind Ian and embraced him. Any worries about the day ahead lifted now that they were together. We explored the fog and snow covered mountains. Felt near blown off of Lake Minnewanka, where the horizon disappeared altogether in monotonous whiteness. Only a figment of Mount Inglismaldie showing though.

We ventured to less windy vistas at Two Jack Lake and the entrance to the Banff townsite. Marvelled out some remnants of open water that stubbornly refused to freeze.

Then we drove to Calgary. To a church with a connection to Jules’ family in Manitoba. A piece of home so far away. There, in front of just their family, they were married.

We met a couple of days later. For a mountain wedding without visible mountains has its beauty, but wasn’t quite what they may have had in mind when planning a Banff wedding. So there at Lake Minnewanka, transformed from the snowstorm that rolled through the days before, we ventured out on the frozen lake and through forests with trees blinded by snow on one side.

So was the wedding of Jules and Ian. Nothing as expected, but absolutely perfect in every way.

Portrait Location | Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Alberta . Florals | Amborella Floral in Calgary . Videographer | Dan Kim Studios in Calgary . Dress | Pronovias . Suit | Tiger of Sweden . Church | Springs Church in Calgary