Wedding Photographers in Vancouver
Michael Wachniak, Vancouver Photographer, 778.878.4531
Michael Wachniak is a wedding photographer based in White Rock, BC.
Primarily shooting weddings in Vancouver and around the Lower Mainland area, Michael has also traveled internationally for destination weddings in places such as Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Michael’s creative style has been described as passionate, organic, and warming and his ability to capture emotion is truly something not only to be seen but felt.
When asked to describe in his own words of what to expect when hiring his services for your wedding day, this is what Michael had to say:
“First of all, ‘Michael Wachniak Brides and Grooms’ are very fun, very positive, very outgoing, a little crazy, and awesome to the power of 10! They jump at the chance to try new things and aren’t afraid to show their true selves.
When I’m meeting with potential clients, I try to keep it as informal as possible. Its not written in stone that you have to be very serious and ‘by the book’ in order to be a Professional Wedding Photographer, and if it is I’m officially smashing that stone into a million pieces! A wedding and everything a wedding stands for is all about love + happiness, and by no means at any point should we accept anything less.
Right from the get-go I want the couple thinking of me as a friend. I don’t try to hind behind the ‘wedding professional’ nametag, I am genuinely interested in learning everything I can about them because the more we know about each other, the better our chances are at breaking that ‘photographer/client’ barrier. Once those walls fall down we have friendship, and the raw emotion + unscripted moments can truly be captured in a photograph. I would love nothing more than to have my photographs viewed years from now as little reminders that if you stop and look around, Real Love is everywhere.
By the time your wedding day comes around, we will have already built up a level of trust that the real moments will be captured as the day naturally progresses, and in most instances you might even forget a photographer is there at all! I never pose people. I may ‘suggest ideas’, but like I said nothing is written in stone. No two weddings are ever the same, and therefore they should be approached with as much care and love as was put into organizing them.
In my opinion, weddings are all about the ‘little moments’ that sometimes tend to go un-noticed. The smile on the bride’s face just before she walks down the aisle, the tear on Dad’s cheek, the innocence of the flower-girl. Real Love truly is everywhere.”
