about

SHOEBOX

We are two… a husband & wife team. We have created a fantastical life and truly feel we have the best of both worlds. We have no gimmicks, we love what we do, we laugh, we joke, we create. Your story is what we want to tell, simple and clean. We can’t wait to laugh with you and hug it out once we are finished and let you dance away into the night. Orrr we’ve been known to bust out some serious moves upon request. Just sayin’

MEL IS

BOSS LADY + CORNY JOKE LOVER

I'm a romantic silly heart. I live for epic captures. The ones that make your heart sing and bounce all up and down the room. It's one of the reasons why I'm here.. doing what I do, for all of you. The other reason, is that I'm an island bum at heart and a personality type that doesn't work well under authority. I needed to do my own thing and so did that guy over there. I have an obsessive love for palm trees and the ocean. I have an eclectic hippie soul.. but not the fashion sense to pull it off in real life. Nor the body type for that matter... but meh.. chocolate, popcorn and late nights snacks with movies are my heaven. That's right.. I'm the whole package folks. I love happy music, the sound of rain... but not the rain itself so much. I'm a huge camper, boater, fisher, just spend a day at the lake kinda girl. I'm terrible at jokes & oh.. don't ever ask me to tell you a story. You'll wish you hadn't.

currently: dreaming of summer camping trips

ROB IS

FUNNY GUY + BAD AT YOGA

I like to want to do yoga but when I see myself doing it - I feel its best I just stop. For the most part I eat healthy... but it's those snacks - just so tasty. I love my wife, we get each other and she's a stunner. I adore my children. They're smart, funny and beautiful little souls. I suppose being BLESSED means feeling exhausted and annoyed all the time - yet somehow at the end of the day I wouldn't change a thing. Warning.. cliche coming up strong! I literally feel like I am doing what I love. I can honestly say that after 200 + weddings I still laugh as hard with the wedding party and secretly get hit in the feels when the bride dances with her dad as I did in the beginning. I do realize though on a serious note that when a couple chooses us for their day it's a big deal and we are thankful. What can I say, I'm not a robot machine sent to do perfect yoga and eat all my vegetables.

currently: trying my best to be better at yoga

TOGETHER WE ARE

ONE BAD ASS FAMILY + A HELL OF A RAD TEAM

Our early days were spent as friends, coffee’s together before the work day kicked in, lunch breaks in the cafe & little visits during the day to each others stores (we worked in retail back then) to catch up on the latest happenings of our little town. Over the course of a year, we both started to recognize that there was something a little more going on between us besides a blossoming friendship. One day, while having our traditional coffee together on the bench outside the mall doors, our knees touched… the butterflies came & you wonder if you should move your knee away or not, but then you realize that the other person isn’t moving either, so you both just stay put, making sure not to move an inch so as not to disrupt this perfect little moment that you soooo didn’t realize was the beginning of something big. Yup. We’ve been married now for 14 awesome years, have an incredibly talented little beauty of a daughter, the most wonderfulest sweetest little man and the most adorable pup on the planet. The rest, is history. A history that we’d love to tell you over a coffee.

 

bio images by the talented Photo by Karina

fun fact

We couldnt think of our company name no matter how hard we tried. The first bunch either never rolled of the tongue properly or were confusing. Then one day a lifetime ago we were road tripping across Canada listening to some Jack. "Better Together" played as we drank our coffees and watched the scenes change. This one verse helped shape who we would become from that point on...

"There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard. No song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart. Our dreams, and they are made out of real things, like a, shoe box of photographs with sepia-toned loving."

 

...And now you know

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