The Details
Wedding location: Yering Station, Yarra Valley
Ceremony Official: Susan Harcourt – Memento Ceremonies
Flowers: Blooming Brides
Jewellery: Necklace - Elva Fields earrings – Pip Keane
Music: Regent Strings Quartet
Invitations: Ruby & Scarlett for wedding invitation and Papermarc for name placings
Richard and Sally were married at Janet Lady Clark Rotunda in the Royal Botanic Gardens and had their reception dinner at Ascot House. Below are a few of the laughs, moments and emotions I captured throughout Richard and Sally’s wedding day.
The details:
Bride’s Wedding dress and jewellery: L’Amore bridal boutique in Blackburn South.
Wedding Flowers: Australian native flowers made by Melinda Blythe from Wedding Flowers Ect
Ceremony decorations from Nicole McKnight and Delightful Occasions
Celebrant: Lynton Round
Groom: Suit from Peter Jacksons, Shirt was Boston Brothers from Myer
The bridesmaids dresses: Henry Roth
The best lady’s dress: Daniela’s
The girls hair and makeup: Magical Makeovers with Liz and Monique.
Anthea and Jim are just lovely, together and as individuals. Anthea and Jim met through two very special people in their lives who thought they’d be perfect together. Obviously they knew them both very well as Anthea and Jim are getting married later this year. They both come from Greek backgrounds and have just come back from Greece where they met each others extended family. It is obvious that family is very important to them both and that they will play a very important role on their wedding day.
These photos are taken in the museum grounds where Anthea and Jim had their first kiss. Anthea tells me Jim was quite the gentleman in their courting days.
It’s great getting out and about and even though we have worked together at another wedding, an engagement shoot is a great time to get to know each other.
I can’t wait for your wedding day guys, we’re going to have a ball!
Everything in one spot meant an idle stroll through Williamstown to get around to different locations. I loved the separate group photos of all the male and all the female guests, what a great idea. After the group photos we were spoilt for choice with photo locations. The jetty was brilliant fun, well, at least for anyone not wearing high-heels.
The bridal photos done, Laura and David retired to their magnificent suite to relax with family and friends before heading to their reception at Pelicans Landing.
Nothing was a problem for Tim and Alison. I found it very pleasant hanging out with them, their bridal party, their friends and family. After the ceremony we wandered around the CBD exploring laneways and lamp posts, ensuring that we capture some of Melbourne’s earliest and finest architecture, to which Alison fondly relates as “Melbourne.” We then headed to the beach to run the sand through our toes, and then celebrated the night away as the sun set over St Kilda from the balcony of One Fitzroy St.
Brad proposed to Rachael atop the Sydney harbour bridge. He even concocted an elaborate surprise to get her up there! They are getting married in September at St Patrick’s Cathedral. I am really looking forward to photographing their wedding and catching up with the family once again!
Mary and Hoi are getting married at Rippon Lea Estate next month. I am really looking forward to photographing their tea ceremony and wedding.
It was really nice to meet them and hear more about their wedding day, wander the streets and snap a few portraits along the way… I am really looking forward to photographing their wedding on Saturday. It promises to be a very relaxed day!
Emma, who is one stylish designer herself, had put so much thought into all of the details, including sourcing suppliers from Etsy and working closely with them to make personalised everything! Every time I looked around I spotted another amazing detail to photograph.
I loved what made the wedding uniquely Australian: the venue was set on a old homestead and surrounded by beautiful old gumtrees. Emma and Ben’s choice of mixing Australian wildflowers into their decorations matched seamlessly with their surroundings.
Emma and Ben were such fun to work with, and nothing was ever a problem. I was extremely flattered at the effort they went to include us. Ben fondly recalled the story of how he realised our table was missing a ‘crepe poof’ at one of the settings. He worked frantically to make another on the very day he was walking down the aisle just to make sure that we didn’t miss out! Doing this may have also given him further appreciation of how difficult they were to make, and the time Emma had put into all the little details!
I thought I’d post something that Emma wrote to Vanessa, my studio assistant, as I felt the very same way about working with Emma and Ben.
“Lizzy made us feel so unbelievable comfortable, our time with her didn’t make us feel like ‘photo time’ was a chore, it was more like chatting with a friend who was really good at taking pictures of us having a great time. Her interpretation of the feeling we were trying to achieve throughout the evening was spot on – we can’t wait to see her final product!”
This is just a small selection of the photos and the details from their wedding day….
Hope you liked the little animation at the end!
The suppliers who helped make their day include:
Wedding location: Emu Bottom – Slab Hut.
Ceremony Official: Melissa Jacob from ‘The Ceremony Store’
Shoes: Brides= Jimmy Choo, Groom= ‘vegan’ friendly shoes by CBC available from SoleDevotion
Makeup/hair: Ashlee Cousins email:ashleecousins@y7mail.com and Lisa Tehan of ‘Lisa Ann’ hairdressing
Flowers: Blooming Brides
Cars: Family friend – gift from Ben’s uncle
Wedding Rings: Ellissi Melbourne (bride) and Raymond Jewellers, Moonee Ponds (groom’s family jeweller)
I think I find it hard because I need to find a way to express in words those moments each couple will never forget. How do I express the joy, the emotion and the fun in a way that captures all that I witnessed in one day?
I don’t think I can. But I hope the images can.
Having said that…
Some standout moments that I noticed, which will be etched into my memory from Chris and Dom’s wedding were…
Dominik’s dad standing proudly in the corner with a grin that stretched from ear to ear as he watched the boys going through the routine of preparing for the day, and struggling and debating over ties and cuff links.
The boys deciding that it was a good idea for Dominik’s mum to iron their shirts, and then lining up in succession to have their shirts ironed!
Chris comfortably switching between English and Greek as she conversed fondly with her grandmother.
Chris reverting to childhood innocence and excitement when she looked to her bridesmaids, when she was all dressed up.
The kiss, and the moment that Chris and Dom stole straight after the ceremony while waiting for the guests to come and offer their congratulations.
The tears in Chris’s mother’s eyes and her beaming smile during Chris’s speech.
The fantastic speech Dom made about their trials and tribulations learning the dance they’d bring to everyone that night. Including their discovery that their shared journey was much more important than the dance, which they took to with a vigorous light heartiness and performed to perfection!
Chris and Dom got married at St Eustathios Greek Orthodox Church in South Melbourne and held their reception at Port Melbourne Yacht Club.
To see the photographic journey I took with Chris and Dom in it’s entirety their pre-wedding couples session photos can be seen here.
Chris and Dom, I hope you are having a fantastic time in Cuba and Mexico on your honeymoon! I hope you also know how jealous I am, right now! And that I expect to see lots of photos!
It was a bit of a drizzly day in Melbourne when we headed out to photograph Sara and Nima for their pre-wedding (engagement) photo session. Not that it was any deterrent for Nima and Sara, who seem to have fun in whatever they do!
I am really looking forward to photographing their wedding later this month. They’ve got some great creative ideas which they are going to incorporate to really personalise their wedding day. It promises to be a very fun and relaxed day.
For a tiny town, Terang has some beautiful historic buildings. Clare and Shane were married in the town’s impressive Thomson Memorial Presbyterian Church.
It was clear that Clare and Shane felt honoured that so many of their family and friends had travelled far and wide to celebrate their wedding day with them.
I, too, felt honoured to be photographing this very special day, as I am Clare’s cousin. It felt very intimate to be given this all-access pass to my cousin’s wedding day!
One thing is fairly clear. They enjoy each other’s company.
I enjoy their company too…
Sometimes when I edit my clients images I smile to myself. I smile because it takes me back to that moment; why they are smiling at each other, smiling back at me or smiling at something that has just happened.
When I posted the first preview images of Emma and Ben I chuckled. I laughed out loud. I laughed because we’d joked about how they didn’t have any photographs of the two of them, despite them having been together for years, travelling together and living together. The best one they could recall was one in which they were tiny in the frame and a mountainous landscape loomed over them. So I picked a couple of initial images where they were tiny in the frame! It made me laugh, and I hope Emma and Ben can have a laugh too, because they can be assured there now exists some images where they are the significant subject in the frame…
