Wedding – Alison and Andrew

On a picture perfect day in the Southern Highlands, Pepper’s Manor House set the stage for what will most likely be my final wedding. Having ‘retired’ from wedding photography once I’d finished at uni, Alison and Andrew had managed to convince me to be their wedding photographer (over a day of rock climbing two months earlier).

Being a relaxed couple, they made very few requests and were open to trying a variety of things. A lunchtime wedding also meant that we could shoot on into the sunset after the guests had left, a relative luxury considering the hour I’d usually had to make portraits at previous weddings.

I’ll let the results speak for themselves.

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Wedding – Cam and Jane

Sometimes it’s inevitable that something interesting will happen, this was’t a unique day in that regard. Cam Hollows and Jane Mckenzie were married on Shark Island, in the middle of Sydney Harbour. Every couple is unique, every wedding special, yet I think this wedding will linger in the minds of those who attended for a long time. It was a location not to be forgotten, even in the stifling heat and direct sun.

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But it’s not going to be the location the guests will remember this wedding for, but the exact moment, as bride and groom approached the cake cutting, the wind picked up everything on the island, blowing it down, around and upside down. Storm clouds rolled in, the horizon growing darker, and the city disappeared from view as dust was blown across the island, coating the guests. One would have expected this bridal nightmare to indelibly scar the party, yet there wasn’t a frown to be seen. Wide eyed with broad grins the bride and groom were elbow deep in the cleanup, guests rallying around them. As the packing up drew near completion the final ferry arrived, and with it the rain…