This dreamy styled elopement on an organic flower farm was designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ acceptance

This styled shoot in Ontario, Canada came to be after a local queer couple was rejected by a photo and video vendor in photographer Amberlyn Farrington’s hometown. Farrington, of Honey and Lux Photography, wanted to help accepting vendors reach the LGBTQ+ community.

“Many industry professionals saw this viral email and started to adjust their websites and social media bios to state that they were in fact inclusive,” Farrington, a queer photographer, explained. “[I] noticed that many of these photographers were also expressing that they had not had the opportunity to work with 2SLGBTQIA+ couples, and some were using language and terminology that might actually still paint them as discriminatory.”

So Farrington planned this styled shoot to give photographers the opportunity to build a portfolio that included a real queer couple.

“Additionally,” Farrington said, “an educational component was added so that photographers could invest in the work of learning how to avoid unintentionally excluding this clientele. Instead, attendees engaged in conversation facilitated by two queer educators, to learn how to cultivate space for queer love in their business structure and practices, and spread that education so that we can make effective change in this industry.”