Meet Peter
and Melissa
We got married. And like most couples, we spent months making hundreds of decisions while quietly wondering if we were doing it right.
The photographers we loved most weren't the ones who arrived with the most gear. They were the ones who already felt like they knew us — who could read a room, disappear when the moment called for it, and show up fully when it didn't.
We built Bella Vita because that's who we wanted to be for someone else.
Between us, we bring over 20 years of photography and film — rooted in fashion and lifestyle work, which taught us that the most powerful images happen between the posed ones. The glance. The exhale. The moment you didn't know anyone was watching.
We're based in Montreal. We travel anywhere. And we take on a limited number of weddings each year — not because we have to, but because every couple we say yes to deserves our full presence, not a fraction of it.
If you're here, you're probably looking for more than a photographer and videographer.
The Backstory
Before Bella Vita, I spent years as a fashion and fitness photographer, published, working with agencies, building a career around reading people under pressure.
What that work actually taught me had nothing to do with lighting ratios or lenses. It taught me how to see the moment just before the moment. The breath someone takes before they let go. The way emotion travels across a face before the person even knows it's there.
Then I met Melissa.
She was from Upstate New York. I was in Montreal. We did the long-distance thing, then the engagement thing, then the wedding thing — and somewhere in the middle of planning our own day, we realized we were seeing the industry from the inside in a way most photographers never do.
We knew what couples actually needed. Not just great images and films. Someone who had been there.
Bella Vita came from that and it's still built around that same idea — that the best thing we can bring to your wedding isn't just skill. It's understanding, empathy and a helping hand.
