riikka & henri | married!

On Wednesday, I left sunny, warm Vancouver for Helsinki. I arrived in much better time this go – less than 17 hours as opposed to the 48 hours it took the last time between Helsinki & Vancouver, so already – we’re off to a much better start! The single biggest problem was however, and still is in fact, that I left Vancouver and it was a delicious 25°C, and clearly it slipped my mind I was heading to Scandinavia as I packed. Arrive Helsinki – it’s a cool 14°C, which isn’t half bad. So Anna meets me at Helsinki’s Vantaa Airport just past 6pm where we grab a bus back to her place, literally throw my backpack on her living room floor, change, and go right back out the door to the train station where we caught a train North to Tampere for a bridal shoot at 09:00 the next morning! We arrived in Tampere, and it was like 5°C – no jacket, no gloves. Got up the next morning for the shoot and the clock in Tampere reads 6.6°C… Nice. Thanks. So essentially, I flew half way around the world – completely changed seasons, and had a bridal shoot 15 hours after touching down in Finland with no appropriate clothing. Oh yeah, and it’s supposed to snow Thursday. Wooooo!

 

So let’s get onto Riikka & Henri! Whenever Anna e-mails me about upcoming shoots, I can never keep track of everything she has planned but when she told me Riikka & Henri had plans for a bundle of balloons – it locked into my memory like candy to my shopping cart! Tampere feels like much more of an industrial city than anywhere else I’ve been in Finland, but it seriously has a great vibe & some extremely photogenic locations! Enjoy!