Mélanie Doire | Wedding & Lifestyle Photographer

I met with Jen from “The Bytown Bride” to start planning for my 5 years in business anniversary party. If all goes well it should be sometime this August. I’ll be posting more information as I finalise the details.

“The Bytown Bride” is an Ottawa area wedding blog created in 2009 by Jennifer Carter, and written under the pen name Trixie Tulip. This blog site is intended to create a central location where Ottawa brides can get information about local vendors and ask one-off questions. This site is also intended to be a place where Ottawa vendors can showcase their work.

Jennifer is a local Wedding and Event Coordinator who has a WPIC Certification as well as a Destination Wedding Coordinator Certification. She has a passion for weddings and events that shows through when you meet her. Her excellent communication skills and attention to detail gets the job done.

Doire Photography is featured on The Bytown Bride.

I’m so happy to have met with Jen from The Bytown Bride last Saturday. It was great chatting with her and getting to know her.

The website she started is a great idea and a great tool for brides planning their own wedding.

You’ll find caterers, musicians, DJ’s, florist, bakers, photographers and so much more from all over the Ottawa valley.

Jen takes the time to meet with every vendor she profiles, and it’s great to have all that information from different Ottawa wedding service providers in one place.

Great Show!

The weekend was lots of fun and quite social! I would like to say a great big Thank-You to everyone that attended the Ottawa Wedding Show, especially all the brides, grooms, parents, bridesmaids, friends, children, grand-parents, neighbours and other vendors for taking the time to find out what I’m all about.

This is one of the first shows that I had time to socialise and speak with other vendors. I met a lot of friendly and interesting people and I would like to highlight a few of them.

Reno video production: I met both Sylvain and Gaetan and was impressed with their knowledge and friendliness. They were great to speak with and I liked that they provide bilingual services.

In touch media: From what I saw at the wedding show I would be happy to recommend this DJ company to my clients. Sorin was great. He was outgoing, friendly and passionate about his services.

Lia Sophia: The ladies at this booth where a real hoot! They were fun to talk with and they had a lovely display of jewellery. I also learnt that each piece of jewellery has a lifetime replacement guarantee. How amazing is that?

Cedar Closet Bridal Boutique: I met these ladies very quickly at the end of the show when I was hunting for a cart. They impressed me with their kindness and their skill in packing a van. Quite impressive ladies!

Thank you once again to everyone that stopped at my booth and I look forward to working with you in the near future.

Come see what we’re all about this weekend March 5^th and 6^th at the Ottawa wedding show located at Lansdowne Park.

The show is free to the public and open from 10am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

We look forward to welcoming you into our booth #402 to show you our portfolio, tell you all about our services and to answer all your questions.

Erika and Jason got married in late January and couldn’t have asked for a better day. It was so mild out and the venue was so nicely decorated, the evening was a true winter-wonderland. Erika looked stunning in her dress and cape. I absolutely had to get them outside for portraits in the snow. I’m happy I did since I feel I captured the mood of their evening, and more importantly, both Erika and Jason love them.

Erika and Jason planned to get married in the evening at Strathmere in late January. Since they wanted day time photos of their venue, we opted to have their engagement photo session at Strathmere as well. Strathmere is such a great venue and everyone that works there is so friendly and accommodating. It wasn’t too crazy-cold outside the day we did the shoot and the sky was slightly blue. I had fun playing in the snow and getting Erika and Jason to pose with the snowshoes.

I photographed Gulnoza and Cedric’s wedding in August 2009 and have now had the privileged of capturing the maternity photos for their first baby. I brought my portable studio to their place and used a couple of backgrounds. The traditional black backdrop is one that I brought along, but what made it even more personal for them was to use one of the quilts she received as a present.