Wedding & portrait photography — Toronto, Ontario
I photograph the day as it actually happens — the nerves before the first look, your aunt crying in the third row, the last twenty people dancing. No stiff lineups, no hour-long photo sessions in a field while your guests wait.
Booking 2026 and 2027 weddings · Toronto, Prince Edward County, Muskoka, and anywhere you'll fly me
Four years of weddings, portraits, and the in-between. Every frame below was made on a real day, with real light, and nobody was told to laugh.
Maya Okafor
I'm Maya. I've been photographing weddings full-time since 2019, and before that I spent six years shooting for a news wire, which is where I learned to be invisible in a room and to get the frame in the half-second it exists.
That background is the whole reason my weddings look the way they do. I'm not going to arrange your family into a pyramid for forty minutes. I'm going to stand near the bar during cocktail hour and catch your best friend telling a story with both hands. I'm going to be at the back of the ceremony with a long lens so your grandmother doesn't notice me at all.
What I do ask for is one thing: twenty minutes, once, on your own. After the ceremony, before dinner, I take the two of you somewhere quiet — a side street, a loading dock, the parking lot with good light — and we make the handful of portraits your parents will frame. Twenty minutes, and then I disappear again.
I work in a mix of digital and 35mm film. The film is slow and imperfect and it's the reason my galleries don't look like everyone else's. I deliver around 600–800 finished images for a full wedding day, hand-culled, hand-edited, no batch presets.
— Maya
Three ways to work together. All prices are in Canadian dollars, include travel within the City of Toronto, and are held for 30 days from the date I send your quote. HST is added at checkout.
01
$650
For couples, families, graduates, and anyone who wants one good photograph of themselves before the decade ends.
Add a second location or a studio hour for $180.
02
$3,400
The one most people book. Full coverage from getting-ready to the dance floor, shot by me, start to finish.
Second photographer for the full day: $850.
03
$5,200
For multi-day celebrations, destination weddings, or anyone who wants the weekend and not just the Saturday.
Destination weddings outside Ontario: quoted per trip.
A signed agreement and a 30% retainer. The remaining balance is due two weeks before the wedding. I take a limited number of weddings per month so I can edit every gallery myself — once a date is gone, it's gone.
We shoot in it. Some of my favourite weddings have been wet ones — umbrellas, wet pavement, everyone crowded under one tent. I bring clear umbrellas and a backup plan for portraits, and I've never had a day where we couldn't make it work.
Constantly. Prince Edward County, Muskoka, Ottawa, Montreal, and a handful of destination weddings each year. Travel outside Toronto is quoted at cost — I don't mark it up.
Yes, and you should. Ask me for two or three complete weddings from the last year — not the highlight reel, the whole thing, start to finish. That's the honest way to choose a photographer.
A sneak peek within 72 hours, the full gallery in five to six weeks. Film takes longer to come back from the lab, so a small set of film scans arrives with the final delivery.
Tell me the date, the venue if you have one, and roughly how many people. I answer every enquiry myself, usually within two days, and I'll tell you straight away if I'm already booked.
Prefer email? Write to [Email address]. I'm also on Instagram at [Instagram handle], where I post far too much film.
Based in Toronto. Available across Ontario and beyond.