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September 26, 2022

Rustic ruins at Paxton winery wedding

After their first attempt at getting married earlier this year was scuttled by a covid case at the hens party and subsequent close contract restrictions (they feel like a lifetime ago!), Imogen and Cooper finally made it happen on the weekend. With the weather gods smiling, and the winemaking gods from Paxton weaving their magic […]

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September 18, 2022

Wet and windy are two things you’re not really looking for on your wedding day, but for Jess and Shaun it didn’t matter. The inside/outside debate had been raging all day, ultimately they decided to throw caution to the wind (literally) and roll the dice with the soggy bottom lawns at Mt Lofty House. In […]

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September 12, 2022

Virginia and Peter’s wedding at the Winehouse Langhorne creek was unlike any wedding I’ve been to before. For a start, the wedding party consisted entirely of their kids, a beautiful collection of souls who clearly loved one another deeply. Secondly, there was no aisle! This made things a little tricky for me, but as a […]

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September 1, 2022

Natasha and Chris are two of the loveliest people you could hope to meet, with the worst luck imaginable when it came to their wedding. We did an engagement shoot way back in early 2020, pre-pandemic, when the world was simpler. Then covid struck and their wedding plans were thrown into disarray, the date had […]

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August 18, 2022

I hate to say it, but you could make a pretty good case that the rest of the world does weddings better than we do. Whether it’s a French wedding that typically kicks on until the sun comes up the next morning or a Lebanese wedding that has the most insane drumming to get the […]

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August 10, 2022

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Why do weddings run late? They can be stressful enough as is, the last thing you want is to be running behind schedule and needlessly adding to that stress. The trick is to ensure the timeline you come up with is reasonable (you can check out this post on how much time we need for […]

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April 1, 2022

The last time I posted a wedding on this blog we were in a pre-covid world. Instagram is an incredible way to share work, but it’s also important to show how a wedding photography collection comes together in the long-form (having said that, these photos make up less than 10% of the whole collection, you […]

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March 10, 2022

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How long do we need for family photos at my wedding, and how do we organise it to make sure things run smoothly? Unlike the rest of the day, family photos don’t have a lot of artistic merit. What they do have is a tremendous amount of historical significance and as a result, they are […]

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February 25, 2022

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A wedding day timeline is something a lot of couples have questions about. How long do we need for photos? What time do hair and makeup have to be finished? Will we get to have canapes with our guests after the wedding or do we need all that time for photos? Coming up with a […]

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January 27, 2020

If you’re a dog lover and you want your fur babies on board at your wedding you need to make sure your venue is on board. BJ and CJ really love their dogs and fortunately, Howard Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills is one such venue. They love their dogs so much that CJ surprised BJ […]

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