Wedding: Trevor + Davina

Posted by in Centennial Vineyards - Bowral, Southern Highlands Wedding, Wedding

The first time T+D+Me met up it was what we now refer to, fondly, as a ‘speed date’. We had a very small consult – flicking through albums before I had a wedding. I obviously interested them as they came back for a proper look later on!

Fast foward to the 8th of January they had their beautiful Bowral wedding. Davina prepared in her parents house in Mittagong, before we left for the church, just down the road. Janelle conducted a beautiful wedding ceremony, before we left with the small bridal party – 1+1 for the location photos.

Davina’s Dreamteam:

Makeup: Yvette – Ethix Makeup
Video: Daniel – No Limit Pictures
Ceremony: St Stephen’s Church, Mittagong
Reception: Centennial Vineyards
Flowers: Kate – Absolutely Flowers
Cake:Β  – Olivia – I do Cakes
Hair: Sensoria

a wedding is always completed by the details…

D made a stunning bride – you can’t see any nerves in these photos!

onto the church and it was all smiles the entire time…

this cute girl was running in and out of Davina’s veil and having a great time…

then back to Centennial Vineyards for some more photos…

Davina’s themeing was gorgeous…

their beautiful first dance –

Davina must have spent a small fortune on props for the crazybooth… we had boxes of them!… made for some very fun photos…

Everyone else – leave Trevor & Davina a message in the comments below.
Also make sure you check out the rest of the crazybooth photos on their gallery here.

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Wedding: Dan + Cass

Posted by in Manly Golf Club, Sydney Wedding, Wedding

I looked forward to Dan & Cassie’s wedding – it was the first wedding for 2010 and because I went to school with Cassie. They had a rocking e’session – so I knew it would be a very fun day! Her wedding was like a mini 10 year high school reunion with lots of teachers and classmates! We watched the weather turn horrible from Cassie’s parents where she got ready for the day but things fined up enough for their ceremony and some quick photos down at Shelley beach, Manly. Big thanks to Clare Day who was visiting from Perth who helped take photos and my lil bro James for parking cars and holding lights.

Wedding ceremony – St Matts, Manly
Wedding reception – Manly Golf Course
Cassie’s dress – Sarah Devine
Bridesmaids – SABA
Makeup – Renee Rodgers – Kiss and Makeup Artistry

I loved the colours available for their details shots…

Devine gowns – always gorgeous…

Cassie’s sister Pip, made her a coffee…

Renee did a stunning job on the makeup…

no rain was gonna stop this girl smiling and having fun!

what a groom to come down the aisle too… (Naomi says)

Dan sees Cassie walking in…

the one and only Roger Climpson did one of their bible readings – Dan’s Grandpa!

lets see that last photo closer… πŸ˜€

Shelley beach was of course packed… we arrived to a standing ovation from the beach-goers!

one beachgoer mumbled – “why would you bring a bridal party to such a busy beach…” maybe she should see the photos πŸ˜€

if you’re funny infront of my camera… it will make it on here πŸ™‚

Cass had a great idea to use the bridal bouquets as centrepieces – they looked great and you had somewhere to put them on the tables!

Dan was the first groom I’ve seen receive a fish as part of the brides speech! (Dan is a big fish-head!)

Thanks for letting me be a part of your amazing day guys – and for the best wedding to start the year with!!

Everyone else – make sure you leave Dan + Cass a message in the comments below!

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Wedding: Samuel + Anna

Posted by in Kam Fook Restaurant - Chatswood, Wedding

The last wedding of 2009 was Sam + Anna’s (or Sanna as I called them) on the 23rd of December! Their wedding was the first tea ceremony I photographed myself. (I’d shot one previously with Jenny Sun to see what they were etc) I found it absolutely fascinating what goes on during a chinese wedding. There was lots of red, hugging, tea drinking, more hugging, games, fun and family / friends! I admired the big respect shown for friends and family at the day along with the beautiful and funny traditions. Special mention to Martha of D’Makeup Station for doing the hair, makeup and touchups the WHOLE wedding day!

I arrived at the Meriton Serviced Apartments where the games began. Basically, for Sam to see Anna, he had to prove himself to Anna’s friends and family by completing their ‘challenges’ set before him. These challenges involved: Eating super hot food, doing physical activities (situps / pushups) and…

having part of his legs waxed…

… reading outloud and signing a love ‘contract’ and paying an exact amount of $$ specified to see Anna…

then we all walked down to the Chinese Garden of Fellowship in Darling Harbour for their tea ceremony…

after that we had some photos of the two of them in their traditional dress around the gardens…

I love this one…

then we went back to the Meriton, had a break for a while and then they started getting ready in their european wedding gear. We went down to The Rocks and Sydney harbourfront for some more location photos…

after that they had their ‘european’ wedding ceremony at their reception location, at the Kam Fook in Chatswood Westfield…

lots of fun and more crazy games followed…

afterwards I popped out and went Christmas shopping at Westfield! Thanks Sam & Anna for a beautiful, very different wedding – I was humbled to share it with you.

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E’session: James + Adele

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James and Adele were originally getting married at Milton Park, in Bowral – but changed their plans and are now getting married in Perth. To save them looking for another photographer all over again, we decided I’d make the trip over in March for their wedding! AWESOME! I’ve always wanted to shoot with the sun going down over the water (I’m not an early-riser) and with James & Adele – it will be an awesome wedding. We had their e’session on-location at Milton Park and despite the lousy- scottish looking weather we still had alot of fun! Here is a handful from their shoot…

I love this wall…

then out near the venue’s heli-pad I spot a field…

I half joked they should be up this tree… next thing I know they were!

the rest of you e’session photos are available over at my client galleries here.

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E’session: Jeff + J’B

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Again back in December we squeezed in Jeff and J’Belle’s (JB) e’session before their upcoming wedding at Fountaindale. We pretty much just walked around the heart of Bowral for their e’session and they were such easy-going fun people to be around. This was the first time I had met them, J’B’s mum had done most of the organising for the wedding as they are out of town. I am really looking forward to their wedding – it sounds both quirky and fun – exactly what J&J are πŸ™‚

… the rest of your e’session photos are on our client galleries here.

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E’session: Jerry + Nathalia

Posted by in Esession, vi

Earlier last year Jerry came across my work over on Flickr. I am always stoked when another photographer books me to shoot their wedding! I met him and Nathalia at my studio and then headed out for their e’session. They were both positively in love and their wedding in the following weeks will be utterly gorgeous! Here is a few from the shoot…

their e’session was in the middle of the day… my flash helped out πŸ˜€

 bts

beautiful…

… the rest of your e’session photos are up on our client galleries here.

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E’session: Nils + Rose

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On a gorgeous Sunday afternoon back in December, I met with Nils & Rose for their e’session at Red Cow Farm in Sutton Forest. They both live in Sydney and took the opportunity to stay down in the Southern Highlands for the weekend and have their e’session shoot. Their wedding is at Killara Golf Club in the coming weeks so we were, along with the next few blog-posts – fitting their e’session in before their wedding.

We had a lovely arvo and they are a beautiful couple. Rock on this Saturday for their wedding!

… the rest of your e’session photos are up on our client galleries.

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Bridal: Vibrant + Jenny Sun again!

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Once again the very talented Jenny Sun and I did a for-fun bridal shoot in the Southern Highlands! I blogged out previous shoot here and both Naomi, Caleb and I were looking forward to seeing Jenny again. This time we ended up at Red Cow Farm at Sutton Forest for the shoot. Somewhere you have seen a few times recently on the blog for e’sessions (and one coming up).

We put together a team of our personal favourite vendors from the Southern Highlands to help us for the shoot…

Megan from Visionary Hair
Yvette from Ethix Makeup
Erica from Erica Jayne Floral Designs

Our two models for the day were Danielle Byrnes (blonde) and Alexandra Pruze (brunette). Jenny sourced the amazing wedding dresses from Pretty in White, a leading wedding couture designer in Malaysia and brought them home on the plane! (as you’ll see, they are not small dresses!) We also had some gorgeous jewellery on loan from Pastiche.

We had an amazing day… althought being threatened early in the day with typical Southern Highlands weather and a light rain mid-shoot, we were very happy with how it went! In the late afternoon we went for a crazy drive in search of some fields during what I call ‘Jenny-light’ (last few hours of daylight). Thanks to google on the iPhone, we ended up contacting local wedding and reception venue Summerlees cottages and were given kind permission to shoot in one of their back paddocks. We arrived just in time to catch the last remnants of light for some spectacular finishing images.

Make sure you also check out Jenny’s images from the shoot – a very different totally awesome take on the day!

Anyway blah blah… hows about some images…

We started around midday and while I took my time Alex shooting in a slow way – with lighting etc, Jenny was buzzing around with Dani…

Megan’s hairstyling is always stunning, you can never seen any pinning or such…

no not a composite…

and a behind-the-scenes of the shot above…

love this next one – sitting down really suits this dress…

then swapping again for some more shots with Alex – love the back detail of this dress…

it rained so we had a break indoors…

then back out and into some bright sun…

I love the fun of this next one…

I love the colours the flash brings out in this next photo…

and natural light of the above – all thats changed is no flash…

hijacking Jenny’s shoot of Alex…

f/1.2 yummyness…

Dani was such a cute bride…

Alex was very vogue and equally as stunning…

again hijacking Jenny.. πŸ™‚

then onto a field for the last of the day… probably my favourite shot of the day…

or this one… ahhh too many favourites…

swapping again…

love this one… of Dani in the ‘squirrel-tail’ dress…

the light went so the flash came out again…

sunset was just incredible… Jenny and I were jumping up and down like schoolkids!

Huge thanks to Megan, Yvette, Erica, Alex and Dani for their stunning efforts!
Next time I think I should head over to Malyasia for our next Vibrant + Jenny shoot!

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Wedding: Malcolm + Alex (or Mal + Al)

Posted by in Fountaindale Grand Manor - Robertson, Southern Highlands Wedding, Wedding

Ok, huge blogpost follows, simply for the amazing designs and details…!

When I first met Malcolm and Alex (or Mal + Al to their friends) for their e’session and we chatted about their wedding day. I’m not sure who was more excited, Alex or me! We both wanted it to roll around ASAP! What she was describing sounded nothing short of amazing… and only one woman + amazing team could pull it off. Enter Sheree from She Designs. Alex pretty much booked out everything Sheree had and the setup coupled with, our favourite Robertson venue, Fountaindale Grand Manor was nothing short of SPECTACULAR! Alex had put in the invitation – to wear fabulous hats, come frocked up and ready for some fun… what followed was just that!

Oh oh – special mention for Alex’s Manolo Blahnik shoes!
Another special mention to Michelle for helping take photos!

Alex was such a fun, gorgeous bride…

the ceremony was in the lower gardens of Fountaindale…

we walked around Fountaindale for some photos – always stunning…

I never tire of these tracks…

I could almost do a blog post on the flowergirls alone… too much cuteness!

Now onto the setup on the front lawn… to really show you it in full, I have to take you up into the air…

click the image below for a larger Panoramic photo!

the reception was outside and the weather played very nicely…

even more beautiful at night…

we had to make the most of the gorgeous lighting around us…

I setup a crazybooth outside for the guests… and Alex, Malcolm and their guests were absolutely hilarious…

Alex totally had her ‘party pearls’ on for the reception! Thanks guys for a fabulous, amazing wedding.

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Wedding: Andrew + Sylvia

Posted by in Sydney Wedding, Vaucluse House, Wedding

Andrew & Sylvia had their beautiful wedding in the grounds of Vaucluse House, with their Reception in the Vaucluse House Tearooms. We started off the day at Sylvia’s parents house and I had a great time photographing all her vintage-y details in her parents house…

Sylvia was gorgeous!

Andrew & his father showing their Scottish heritage & checking to see if Sylvia was running late… apparently!

The moment that Andrew saw Sylvia for the first time…

husband & wife…

After the Ceremony we wandered around the grounds of Vaucluse House for some relaxed location photo’s

I felt a bit strange, telling Andrew to manage his ‘skirt’ for this next shot… πŸ™‚

Andrew + Sylvia are both designers, and I loved how they did their stationery.

Thanks for a lovely day Andrew & Sylvia, enjoy your super-long amazing honeymoon and I’ll show you the rest when you get back!

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