Bee Vintage

Bee Vintage wants to sting you with style, so we offer gorgeous rental vintage pieces for photo shoots, special events, and much more! !

My name is Jennifer and I would love to share with you my story of how Bee Vintage came to bee and what it offers.

My Love of Photography:

Our lives are like storybooks and my favorite part of storybooks has always been the pictures. I truly feel a picture is worth a thousand words as it’s hard to often explain feelings, passions, personalities, however pictures capture the essence of who you are without speaking a single word. My most treasured tangible belonging (besides my wedding ring) are my family photos. I love spending rainy days looking over photos of my grandparents in their early years. Although it would be many, many decades until I entered their world I feel from looking at past photos that I knew my grandparents growing up. It was as if I were there with them as a friend experiencing their life alongside them. I want that same experience for my children, my grandchildren & my great-grandchildren. When I’m long gone I want them to feel like they knew me and my personality through the different stages of my life. I want them to know that family and memories were always so important to me along with my love for beautiful antiques. Finding ways to incorporate antiques into modern living was my motivation for starting Bee Vintage. I am writing my storybook with stunning photos and I would love to help you bee-gin your storybook too!

My Love of Antiques:

When I was a child my mom would tell me that ‘little girls were made of sugar and spice, and everything nice’ and I would shake my head and say, ‘lace and pearls is what makes little girls! ’. That’s when I realized I loved ‘pretty’ in every sense of the word. I love pretty jewelry & clothing, pretty furniture and most of all pretty antiques. To me, pretty antiques represent a feeling of old-school charm and romance and what girl doesn’t want that! ! ! My love for antiques amplified when I met my amazing husband, Brett…no, he’s not an antique we are the same age! Brett is an old soul that exudes rustic charm and he has a huge interest in history and a huge love for anything old, especially people and vehicles. For our honeymoon, we purchased our biggest antique to date, a 1928 Ford Model A and gave it to my grandfather as a gift (http://www. capebretonpost.com/News /Local /2010-07-14 /article-1567645 /Newlyweds-forgo-honeymoon-to-give-grandfather-gift-of-a-lifetime /) after we drove it from Portland, Maine to Sydney, NS. Our journey felt like a step back in time with no radio, just conversation. There was no air conditioning just the breeze of the air and no stress if we broke down as the entire car could be fixed with just a simple toolkit. More importantly, the car’s cruising speed is only 40 - 45 MPH so it forced us to slow down, sit back and enjoy the scenery and each other. In such a fast-paced world we live in, I find antiques to be like a form of mental yoga for me. I love to look at an antique and then close my eyes and dream of its past, its unknown story and how I can tie it into a beautiful photograph for our stories today.




Building A Beehive:

After taking photography classes at SAIT and being given weekly photo assignments, I wished I had some really neat vintage props to use in my photos to showcase my style. I started purchasing an antique piece here and there and before I knew it, my home started looking like the Canadian Picker’s Barn. I need organization in my life and my home was getting too cluttered, so I decided to get bee-usy and turn my personal treasures into a business to share with others. All my beautiful vintage pieces were moved into a fabulous indoor heated storage unit (aka. the beehive) at a central location in Calgary and ‘Bee Vintage’ was created.

Bee Vintage Services:

Bee Vintage wants to sting you with style, so it offers gorgeous rental vintage pieces for photo shoots, special events, theatre productions, decorating store front window displays and much more! ! !