Weddings, from the first coffee to the last song.
Each one is shown roughly in the order it happened. We’ve kept the rainy bits.
- Page 04Mara and Sefton, BarossaNinety guests, a family garden and a ceremony under the old trees.
- Page 12Priya and Callum, McLaren ValeA storm, one umbrella between nine bridesmaids, and gold light after.
- Page 20Hollis and June, StirlingTwenty-six guests in the town hall, then pies on the steps.
- Page 28Anouk and Ben, Kangaroo IslandAn elopement on the north coast with two witnesses and a lot of wind.
Ninety guests and a family garden
Ninety guests in a family garden in the Barossa, a ceremony under the old trees and a party that ran until the light went.
Mara’s family has lived on the same block outside Nuriootpa for three generations. The ceremony was under the oldest trees by the house, with the guests on timber chairs and one chair in the front row kept for family who couldn’t be there.
We shot one roll of film between the speeches and the dancing, and four of those frames ended up on the first spread of the album.
The album has thirty spreads. Mara asked for the last page to be the empty tables at dusk, which is the photograph we’d have picked too.
Rain at two, gold at six
A winery wedding where the forecast was right for once, and the storm gave us the best light of the year.
The ceremony moved inside at ten past two. Nine bridesmaids shared one umbrella for the walk to the cellar door, and nobody minded.
The rain stopped just after five. We took Priya and Callum out between the vines for fifteen minutes while the guests ate, and the ground was still steaming.
Priya’s mum ordered a second album. She said it was the first wedding album she’d seen with her own sister laughing in it.
Twenty-six guests and a town hall
A small wedding a short walk from our studio, booked as The Ceremony and finished with pies on the hall steps.
Hollis and June wanted four hours and no fuss. The ceremony took twelve minutes. The speeches took longer.
Hollis wore his old regiment’s dress uniform, sword included. We made portraits in the main street in the last of the autumn leaves, then walked back for the cutting of a cake that June’s brother had baked that morning.
Small weddings are some of our favourites to photograph. You can see every face.
An elopement on the north coast
Two witnesses, a celebrant and a wind that never let up.
Anouk and Ben took the morning ferry from Cape Jervis with us and their two closest friends. The ceremony was at a lookout above a beach at the end of a dirt road.
The wind took Anouk’s veil twice. The second time Ben’s friend went into the water after it, which is the photograph on their fridge.
Elopements are two hours of our time and travel is quoted up front. Ask us about weekdays.
Spring and summer Saturdays book about a year out.
Send us your date and we’ll tell you within two business days whether we’re free.