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Boutique wedding studio on Sexsmith Road doing pre-wedding and wedding-day photography plus cinematography, with hair, makeup and gown shoots handled in house. It also books family, maternity and newborn studio sessions.
Couples in full formal dress get posed against the boats in Steveston, under the cherry trees at Garry Point, or on the grass at Minoru Park, months before the wedding itself. Anyone walking the waterfront on a Saturday in spring has seen it happening. The pre-wedding shoot comes out of Hong Kong and Taiwan and is thoroughly established here, and Charlie Studio is one of the boutique studios working that market from Sexsmith Road.
The studio handles pre-wedding and wedding-day photography plus cinematography, with hair, makeup and gown shoots done in house, and that combination is the entire point of the model. Coordinating a photographer, a videographer, a makeup artist and a gown separately is a project in itself, and putting them under one roof removes most of the scheduling risk on a day with no room for any. Family, maternity and newborn sessions run through the same space.
Sexsmith Road sits in the working pocket between Bridgeport and Aberdeen, close to the Canada Line and away from retail rents, which is where a lot of the city's studio space has ended up. Anyone booking should settle the standard questions early: who is actually shooting on the day, how many images arrive and in what form, what the turnaround is, and whether raw files are available at all. Wedding photography terms vary enormously by season and scope, so get the answers in writing before committing to a date.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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