Erin Wallis Photography Blog

Cody and Alicia were magic from the start.
You may remember them from our engagement session (in the pouring rain), they were so much fun then… and were even more amazing on their wedding day!
I have no idea how, but I do believe I am blessed with having the most amazing couples… ever.

Their wedding took place at the Tigh-Na-Mara Resort in Parksville, and everything was flawless. On my way driving down, (in the pouring rain) I just somehow trusted that the weather would co-operate for them. The clouds were out, but parted, when Alicia and her dad walked down the isle.

She was absolutely radiant!

Cody confessed before the ceremony, that he wasn’t nervous at all, just so excited to see Alicia walk down the isle. He said, he knew she was going to look incredible… the tears in his eyes, proved that he was overwhelmed when he saw her. I believe everyone was!

It was such a beautiful day, with such amazing people. I feel completely blessed to have been given the honor of photographing such an important event in Cody and Alicia’s lives. You two are amazing, and I wish you a lifetime of laughter, blue skies and mountains of love.

Wedding Venues in and Around Campbell River
I get asked all the time about locations to be married near Campbell River, or the best wedding locations on Vancouver Island.
Here are a few of my favorite locations. Hopefully they will be of help while choosing wedding venues.

Campbell River Venues

• Vancouver Island Beach House



• Oyster Bay Resort
• Ocean Resort
• Strathcona Park Lodge
• Haig Brown House
• Dolphins Resort
• Painters Lodge
• Mount Washington

Quadra Island Venues

• Taku Resort
• April Point Resort

Courtenay & Comox Valley Venues

• The Filberg Grounds
• Kitty Coleman Woodlands Gardens
• Crown Isle Golf Course

It’s been a good few years…

With an updated website, a new blog, rejuvenated creative energy and a sunny disposition, I am ready for another exciting wedding season!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, a lot of breathing, and not to mention a lot of living, and I’ve come up with one thing that I know for sure.

I am grateful, for everything, always.

I feel so lucky to love what I do and have others reciprocate the feeling. I am overwhelmed and in disbelief at the emotional response people have been displaying for my photographs, but it makes me believe, that I’m doing something right…that I’m on the right track. Looking through past client emails, I was shocked by one underlying, and humbling fact…I’M MAKING PEOPLE CRY!

“I feel like crying!”
“Almost got a little teary eyed…ok i lied, there were tears!!”
“I just wanted to cry!”
“You brought tears to my eyes (of course, good tears)”
“they almost made me cry just looking at them.”
“and you actually made me cry!!!”

I’m making people cry?!

Now granted, normally that’s not a good thing to do. Nobody wants to be the person to make others cry, we learned that early in life! But good tears, happy tears, I think are much different. Happy tears are ok. I am grateful. Always.

So to open up my shiny new blog (courtesy of the incredible Jeremy Latham, without whom, I’d be unsuccessful - without a website, blog, or even business cards). I’d like to thank you all for visiting, for joining me on my photographic journey, for supporting me, for believing in me and share some of my favourite wedding images from 2007. I look forward to sharing many more from 2008.