Sarah + Tom | Starling Lane Winery

Kelly Brown February 10, 2015

Sarah and Tom's whimsical garden wedding had me in smiles all day. You could just feel the love around you. From all the handmade details to the little notes they passed each other before the ceremony... these two just have that all encompassing kind of love. Congrats Sarah + Tom!

*find their full vendor list at the bottom of this post along with the feature wedding dress designer, Grace Loves Lace, did on their wedding!

*grace loves lace feature

Wedding in the woods | Revelstoke

Kelly Brown February 3, 2015

I awoke the morning of Keshia + Kelsey's wedding to misty mountains and a relentless rain that hung around all day. Most people are terrified of a rainy wedding day but Keshia told me the rainy days in Revelstoke are her favourite and she loved nothing more than seeing the mist on the mountains. This carefree and adventurous attitude made photographing this wedding so much fun. Any bride who forages her bouquet, still wants to get married outside when it's raining and wears Blundstones so she can climb waterfalls and take helicopter rides through the mountains is a dream bride to me. Congratulations Keshia and Kelsey, I can tell you two are going to have a beautiful and adventurous life!

Mish + Jason

Kelly Brown January 23, 2015

I had the pleasure of helping out Christie Graham on this beautiful backyard wedding over the summer and am excited to finally share some photos. Mish and Jason were such a fun couple and their wedding was full of so many sweet moments. Here are a few favourites.

hurst & brown

Kelly Brown January 18, 2015

In early May, one month after moving to Victoria, I nervously sent out an email entitled "New to Victoria." I sent the email to a designer whose work I was introduced to and had immediately resonated with me. I felt like her design and creative direction was telling the same story that I try to tell with photographs. The email was an introduction of myself but also an invitation to hopefully meet up and possibly collaborate. To my delight, she replied with a warm welcome and lunch recommendation.

A week later, we met for lunch and spent the next hour talking about travel, food, art, the journey of working for yourself and how we had both come to find ourselves living in Victoria. It was one of those effortless meetings that naturally turned into friendship.

A half year later, after countless collaborations, work trips and personal creative projects, Tara Hurst and I are excited to announce and share with you the work of Hurst & Brown. Our work offers creative direction, branding, website design and photography, along with personal creative projects, interviews and editorial content.

While I will continue to work on my own projects, weddings, family sessions and editorial content, I am very much looking forward to spending more time each week collaborating with Tara. So, to keep up on what we are doing follow along on our journal (which you can also find on my homepage) or by searching #hurstandbrown