For all of the cancellations, replanning and delays, Hannah Eden assures that not even Covid-19 can stop love.  

Eden, a Yellowknife-based photographer, opened her business to wedding bookings for the first time in 2020. While almost all of the weddings she was set to shoot were cancelled, Eden said the one that did take place was intimate and just as, if not more, lovely than other weddings sheSA国际影视传媒檚 seen. 

Eden recalls being contacted by the couple at the height of the pandemic. She said the pair were not clients who had initially booked her services for 2020, but that they had been planning to get married on the east coast and didnSA国际影视传媒檛 want to give up their wedding in spite of travel and large gatherings becoming impossible. 

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EdenSA国际影视传媒檚 background is in photojournalism, which she suspects is why she leans more towards a candid style of photography, as opposed to something staged in a studio. 

While her 2020 business was not half weddings as planned, Eden said she was still busy photographing family sessions with new babies, or engagements, and couples who had never before had their portraits taken professionally. 

With some residents having a few extra dollars of disposable income from cancelled vacations, families this year opted to document their time together and capture life as it was in 2020. 

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She said that all 2020 photoshoots were taken outdoors, which allowed Eden to maintain a distance from the clients. 

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As the fate of weddings and other gatherings continue to be uncertain in 2021, Eden suggests moving ahead with a smaller wedding anyways. 

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