What to Expect

Booking

There is a $200 deposit at booking, this is to hold your due date in my calendar so that I can ensure that we do not overbook around when your baby arrives. This amount is put towards your chosen digital package. (If you are booking only a newborn session, skip the Maternity info, if you are only booking a Maternity session, skip the newborn info).

Maternity Session Pre consultation

We meet via zoom and plan out your date and time of your maternity session. This is a great time for us to discuss your style and your comfort level with what you would like to wear. I have clients who prefer to not show much skin at all, and others who would like to go fully nude. We are able to work with all comfort levels on that. This meeting will also help prepare you with what to bring/wear, what your partner should bring/wear, and other little details like hair and make up if you decide you would like to do that. We find doing this pre-consultation is great at easing the nerves before the shoot as well, because you get to see that I am super easy going and honestly just a lot of fun, haha!

Maternity Session

We normally book this for when you are 32-36 weeks along, based on how you are feeling, and how your pregnancy has been progressing. I provide all of the dresses and have a decades long experience in posing women, so you are in good hands during this session. I make the session, easy, quick (but not too quick) and truly so much fun! I love to make my clients laugh and ease the tension and the nerves of being in front of the camera. My favourite thing that I hear from clients is how relaxed and fun I made the session for them.

Newborn Session

We wait to hear until baby has arrived before we schedule your newborn session, this is why we book in your due date, it tells us that a baby will be arriving around this date and we want to make sure we have available dates for you to choose from at that time. We have two options for the timing of the session, you could choose to come when baby is between the age of 5 and 10 days old, these sessions are great to capture baby when they are so fresh and brand new, or you could come when baby is 21 days old. The second option is great for when mama needs to recover from the birth, or if you just need more adjustment time to the new baby before you have your session.

If you booked the full story or stand alone newborn session, we schedule 4 hours for the newborn session, but we rarely ever need that long. We have this amount of time available because we totally get how unpredictable babies can be. You could be on track to leave the house on time and then suddenly baby needs a diaper change, another feeding, and a change of clothes because of another poopy diaper, and you find yourself half an hour behind. This is totally expected, and it is very often that our clients are running late for a newborn session. Additionally if baby needs time to feed, be settled, or just needs extra snuggle time, we are not in any rush and just follow baby’s cues. The Short Story Experience newborn session is roughly an hour long, because it is more of a focus on family with one or two set ups with baby on their own.

The posing we use is very relaxed for baby, and we work diligently within the guidelines of newborn safety. Both Chuck, (my business partner, husband, as well as assistant baby whisperer) and I will be working with your little one, making sure they are always super safe. And our son Lux may also make a cameo at the end of the session, as he is always super excited to see a new baby :)

The Reveal

We will meet once again via zoom where I can show you your gallery of images. This can be a very beautiful and emotional moment, so I always encourage both of you be there for the reveal. It is at this time that you will choose your digital images if you did a stand alone session. If you booked The Full Story or the Short Story, you will be receiving all of your edited digital images, which is approx 100-150 images combined from both sessions via digital download. Your deposit goes towards your price, so you will be invoiced for the remaining balance after the deposit is taken off. I will also use this time to explain to you how you will receive your images, best practices for caring for your digital images, and what to expect with your gallery and how to use it.

Once all is said and done we will have holding your hand through capturing this beautiful moment for a couple of months at this point. While for you it will be still a few more months of focusing on baby, and sleep deprived fog, for us it will be a great honour to have joined you on this journey, and we will hope to see you again as baby grows and grows. Basically, if you’ll have us, you will be stuck with us for years!