It’s truth to be told that no matter what side of the ocean you are on, living in or visiting a different country, you can’t help but feel inspired by the setting of a wedding day. Though Ireland has some really amazing locations to have your wedding at, Canada has some stunning locations too. Toronto, being the city I currently reside in, is where I met the two new found loves of my life. The first you know about, Toronto and the second one, my girlfriend, my partner in crime and well fingers crossed, maybe I’ll go down that route someday, who knows? What makes a great wedding? A fancy castle surrounded by rolling hills or a hipster art house in the down town core? From my experience, nice locations are just backdrops, the couple, their family and friends in one room and the celebration, is what makes a great wedding.
I started my Toronto wedding videographer journey back in 2018, but I never intended to go back into it full-time. One of my goals when I came to Toronto at first was to take a break from it all, especially after being really busy and successful in Ireland, previously. Being isolated in the cutting room after a long wedding day or weekend can take it’s toll, so I needed a break from it all and decided to take a year out, so I went back to my roots in film production. Though working on film sets can be very exciting, it does have it’s negative sides, very long and odd hours, it can be very taxing on your physical and mental health for one, but worst of all, can really put a dampener on your social life. Luckily for me I fell back in to shooting weddings here in Toronto only by chance, a recently engaged couple had found my work through my old Facebook account and one of my posts highlighted that I had moved to Toronto, so they reached out to me with a very heartwarming email of why they wanted me to be the one to film their wedding day. I simply couldn’t say no.
So here we are two years later and I have accumulated a nice number of weddings under my belt under a different moniker, Maple and Clover. One that I’m proud to call my own, to build into the studio that I have dreamed of one day, a name that represents my birth country and a place that I one day will be a citizen of. Canada has been great to me and I have so much more to give back. I look forward to seeing where my work will bring me and meeting the many new clients I will work with down the road.
