Some weddings stay with you long after the last photo is edited. Anita Wing Lee and Tim Muttoo's summer 2025 wedding at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Streetsville, Mississauga is one of those weddings — and I am so honoured to have been the one behind the lens for it.
If you have spent any time on the internet in the last few years, you may already know their story. Anita and Tim's love story went viral — accumulating over 200 million views and coverage from more than 60 international news outlets in over 20 languages. They were featured in People magazine. And yet, when I arrived on their wedding day, what struck me most was simply how quietly, genuinely in love they were.
A Love Story Nine Years in the Making
Anita Wing Lee is a director, producer, and global storyteller. Tim Muttoo is a licensed engineer and humanitarian who co-founded an international water charity that has brought clean water and sanitation to over 100 communities across 12 countries. Two remarkable people — whose paths first crossed in East Africa in 2012, but who didn't truly find each other until nine years later in 2021.
What followed was a love story that the world couldn't stop watching. Their reunion, their relationship, their engagement — all of it unfolded publicly and beautifully. By the time their wedding day arrived, millions of people around the world were invested in this couple. I was just grateful to be in the room.
Getting to Know Them
Before the wedding, we had a call together — Anita and Tim, both of them. I already knew Anita, but I had never met Tim, and I wanted to get to know them as a couple before we ever stepped in front of a camera together. We talked about their vision for the day, what mattered to them, the kind of feel they wanted to carry through the photos.
At some point, they asked if I had any concerns — about them, about their dynamic, about anything. I told them honestly: none whatsoever. Tim was quick to say that nothing was off-limits, and that he doesn't offend easily — so if I thought of something worth trying in the moment, we could always just try it and see. That kind of openness from a couple sets the tone for everything that follows.
Together, we decided early on that we would not try to minimize or conceal the difference. We would celebrate it. We would lean into it. Because that difference is part of their story — it is part of what makes them them.
"Thank you for your artistic eye and calm, steady, joyful presence on our wedding day." — Anita Wing Lee
That quote from Anita means more to me than I can properly express. Being a calm and joyful presence on someone's wedding day — that is exactly what I aim to be, every single time. Because wedding days are full of emotion and energy and beautiful chaos, and the last thing you need is a photographer adding to the noise.
The Wedding Day
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Streetsville, Mississauga is a stunning setting — historic, warm, and full of character. I love every wedding I shoot, but I don't think I have ever shot one with this many portraits that were just picture perfect. And the uniqueness of this couple — my heart just melts looking at them, and it melts even more when you know their story.
Because they were so open, so casual, so genuinely positive, the whole day just flowed. The portraits especially — we moved through so many different poses and set-ups, and Anita mentioned afterward that she never would have thought of half of them herself. I use a blanket in nearly all of my wedding portrait sessions, and it worked just as beautifully for them. When your couple is that relaxed and willing, you never run out of ideas.
Their love is the slow, steady kind — built on friendship, faith, and a shared vision for something bigger than themselves. You can feel that in a room. You can feel it through a lens. And I hope it comes through in every image.
What Their Story Taught Me
Working with Anita and Tim reminded me of why I do this work. Not just to make beautiful photographs — though I care deeply about that — but to show up for people exactly as they are, and capture who they actually are together. When a couple is that open, that joyful, that fully themselves, the photographs almost make themselves.
That is the kind of energy I try to bring to every session. And Anita and Tim gave me the gift of seeing what happens when it all comes together just right.
You can follow their ongoing story at anitaandtim.com — they continue to create beautiful, meaningful content about love, faith, and intentional living. And you can read their People magazine feature here.
To Anita and Tim — thank you for trusting me with your day. It was one of the greatest honours of my career.
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