Guelph Grad Photos · For the family
Gift a Grad Session.
How parents and family gift a grad photo session: pay the deposit in your name, we coordinate the date directly with your grad, and your gift note rides along. Which package to pick and why it beats another mug.
Better than another mug.
You survived the tuition, the moving days, and the late-night “can you read this over” calls. Now there is a degree with your family’s fingerprints all over it, and the usual gift table (a mug, a hoodie, a gift card) does not quite cover the moment. A grad session does. One golden afternoon on the University of Guelph campus becomes the photos your family will frame, share, and pull out at every holiday for the next thirty years.
Here is the thing about grads: they rarely book this for themselves. They are busy finishing final projects, hunting for jobs, and packing up the student house. That is exactly why a gifted session lands so well. Someone they love looked at everything they just did and said: this deserves a photographer.
This is roughly how it feels to receive one. Go ahead, open it.
How gifting a session works.
We kept it simple on purpose. You do not need to know your grad’s schedule, their outfit plans, or their favourite corner of campus. That is our job.
- Choose a package. Signature and Premium both make wonderful gifts; the full sheet of inclusions and group pricing lives on our pricing page. There is guidance just below if you are torn.
- Pay the $50 deposit in your name. That is all it takes to lock in the gift. Book through our booking page and tell us it is a gift; the deposit goes on the calendar under your name, not theirs, so the surprise survives.
- We coordinate the date with your grad. Once they know, we take over the logistics: we reach out to them directly and plan a date, time, and locations that fit their schedule, not yours. No calendar wrangling required from you.
- Your gift note rides along. Write a few lines when you book and we include them when we confirm the session with your grad, so the first thing they see is not our logo, it is your message.
The deposit comes off the package price, and if you would rather gift the whole package up front, you can prepay it in full. Either way the session is booked and the moment is theirs.
Why it beats the usual gifts.
It includes everyone.
A session is not only for the grad. Parents, siblings, grandparents, roommates: everyone can step in for a few frames at the Portico or under the Johnston Hall clock tower. The mug never did that.
It ages beautifully.
Gadgets get replaced and gift cards get spent. A photo of your grad laughing on Alumni Walk in their gown only gains value: it becomes the graduation photo, the one on the wall, the one their own kids find one day.
It is effortless to give.
Fifty dollars and a few minutes, and you are done. We handle the scheduling, the location plan, and the weather watching. You just show up in the family frames if you want to be in them (you should).
Which package to gift.
Signature: the confident default.
An hour across 3 campus spots, 10 edited photos, and 70+ unedited, with the gown and hood included so your grad has nothing to chase. Ideal when the session is mostly about your grad and their closest people. It is the package most grads would have picked for themselves, which makes it a very safe gift.
Premium: the grand gesture.
Two hours and 6 locations, 30 edited photos, 150+ unedited, golden-hour priority, a champagne pop, a LinkedIn headshot, and Polaroid prints. Like Signature, it includes the gown and hood. If the whole family is coming, this is the one.
Every package, gifted or not, includes a sneak peek within 48 hours and the full gallery within 7 days. Group pricing drops per person as the group grows; the complete breakdown is on the pricing page. When in doubt: Signature for the grad and their closest people, Premium when it is a whole-family occasion.
The moments you are actually buying.
Not a product, a pile of memories. Flip a few.
“Absolutely loved working with Pouya! He’s so talented, easy to work with, and genuinely such an amazing person. I am so happy with the final results. Would definitely recommend him to anyone looking for a great photographer.” (Simran Sidhu, Google review)
Make it the gift of the year.
Pick a package, pay the deposit, and we take it from there. Want advice first? Tell us about your grad through our contact page and we will point you to the right fit.