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November 5, 2022

Mandalay House Wedding Spring

As far as wedding venues around South Australia go, there are few that conjure up images of old-world charm with a modern twist quite like Mandalay House. The grounds themselves are spectacular, but that’s just the beginning, the homestead is big and open and ideal for bridal preparations, and remoteness feels like you’ve been transported […]

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October 21, 2022

Irina and Jason managed to pull off an incredible, intimate wedding with just a few short months of planning time, but you’d never know it. White Hill Estate was the perfect canvas for their reception masterpiece, a single long table illuminated by overhead festoon light, it created an incredibly intimate atmosphere for around 40 of […]

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October 19, 2022

For most cities in the world, you’d need to drive for a while to find a gorgeous field for some photos, perhaps you would head up into the hinterland, or down to the coast somewhere. Not Adelaide. Right in heart of the city, in the CBD itself, exists a secret spot with lush native grasses, […]

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October 5, 2022

Tell me about your The Beginning! We are high school sweethearts – been together for 19 years- long distance for most of it What style/theme have you chosen for your Wedding Day? Modern Hamptons – sage, copper, white When and where did you get engaged? In Noosa at Noosa national park at Laguna lookout What […]

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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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