Hi there!
We're Marina & Steven
We're Meven Studio — weaving Ottawa wedding stories through photography & videography since 2017 (the year we said "I do", adopted DouLe our Cavalier King Charles spaniel comic relief, and welcomed our tiny human who's now a camera-curious 5-year-old).
Specializing in authentic Ottawa wedding moments and natural narratives, we capture the quiet magic between vows and the belly laughs between formal shots. Let us turn your wedding day into a visual legacy that ages as gracefully as our marriage... DouLe’s distinguished grey muzzle... and our son’s growing collection of ‘helper’ shots captured with his first camera.
We’ve been where you are… now let us document YOUR forever
Meet Marina:
Photographer. Filmmaker. Handmade Dumpling Artisan.
Ottawa wife & mom with cinematic light in her DNA
Growing up in developing trays beside her photographer father, she mastered visual storytelling through Digital Media Arts/Film Production – painting with light by day, kneading dough by night. From directing reality TV magic at an International top network to sculpting cinematic wedding films in Canada, her journey crystallized in 2017:
Our wedding’s faded memories became the yeast that fermented Meven Studio – blending a director’s precision, a painter’s eye, and a dumpling-maker’s patience to craft Ottawa weddings that rise to perfection.
Weekdays: Capturing first giggles & wagging tails for Ottawa families.
Weekends: Framing "I do"s under scarlet maple canopies.
Because vows deserve the same care as hand-pleated bao – layer by intentional layer.
Meet Steven:
Roboticist. Ottawa Wedding Cinematographer.
Wok-Wielding Storyteller.
When unreliable vendors nearly ruined his wedding, this tech tinkerer (and Chinese stir-fry savant) traded circuit boards for cameras. Now partnering with wife Marina, he engineers Ottawa wedding videography with a roboticist’s precision – whether rebuilding DSLRs or crafting his fiery yuxiang shredded pork.
Weekdays: Commercial shoots mapped like code.
Weekends: Cinematic vows framed under Ottawa’s maples.
Because love, like wok hei, needs perfect heat control – every seared emotion, every golden-brown memory.
