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I sincerely believe that your relative levels of stress or excitement in the lead up to the wedding can heavily impact your experience of the day itself.

To that end, I’ve written down a bunch of thoughts, some extensive, some smaller, on the last few years and 150 odd weddings of experience to help (hopefully) make planning everything a little easier, reduce your stress, and skyrocket your froth.

 

How to Plan the Wedding Day Itself - AKA the Lost Art of Timelining

Most people, by definition, are rookies when it comes to planning their wedding day. Timing is super important for a whole bunch of reasons. The better planned you are, the less stressed you will be, the less stressed you are the more present you’ll be, and the more present you are the more you will have the space to focus on all the beautiful, messy, emotional, drunken moments.. (read more)

Sydney’s 15 Most Unique Wedding Venues

I get it, finding a wedding venue in Sydney can seem like a monumental and overwhelming task when you first start looking. Sydney is flooded with options, even once you start narrowing down your criteria. The first thing to do is figure out what kind of wedding you want - is it a big sit down affair with 200 of your closest or more of a laid back party with just your family and.. (read more)

Do I Need Wedding Prep Photos? (and how to get the most out of them)

Wedding prep photos. Do you need them? I get asked this question a lot. When most people think of “getting ready photos” they think of awkward photos of cufflinks being put on by friends and girls lined up in robes on a couch. Do you need those? Questionable. (read more)

 
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So Covid-19 Has Fucked Your Wedding Plans - AKA To Elope or Not?

TL;DR - think, then do you and don’t apologise for it, you scallywags.

So, it looks seems like we are currently in the midst of (hopefully?) the most historically defining time most of us have / will ever live through.I don’t know about you, but it’s the god damn uncertainty that’s getting to me the most. How the hell are you supposed to plan what is.. (read more)

 

Country NSW’s 13 Most Unique Wedding Venues

I get it, finding a country wedding venue in NSW can seem like a monumental and overwhelming task when you first start looking. Sydney is flooded with options, even once you start narrowing down your criteria. The first thing to do is figure out what kind of wedding you want - is it a big sit down affair with 200 of your closest or more of a laid back party with just your family and.. (read more)

 

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View fullsize I’m approaching my 300th wedding. This job has changed me.  I stumbled into this career by accident - an old work colleague had seen my photos of the beach and travels (…scroll down far enough on my IG and you can see the incredibl
View fullsize This is what it feels like. A tiny little wedding on a rooftop close to home.
View fullsize Baz Lurhmann eat your heart out. The brief was Romeo + Juliet with a bit of frivolity thrown into the mix. Capria & Dylan. A bit of cinema. A lot of heart.
View fullsize I want nothing less than to capture your very soul. I want people who have never met you to be able to look through a set of images and feel like they 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 you. Like they can see what makes you and your relationship tick. What your family is lik
View fullsize This first image, to me, represents everything I loved about this day. Community. Tradition. The mixture of love and overwhelm and romance and friendship and familiarity and strangeness and connection and kindness and energy and quietness and chaos t
View fullsize Last Saturday I attended a funeral in the morning and shot a wedding in the afternoon. Two of the last remaining rituals we have in our increasingly secular world. In some ways at polar opposite ends of the spectrum. But both also, in some ways, abou
View fullsize Friends. Change is coming. 2022 was wild. It was the year of the grind. It was the year of leaps and bounds and regressions and dizzying highs and colossal lows, both personal and professional. It was, more than anything, a big fat lesson. I shot
View fullsize Vulnerability is powerful. Ally & Joey dated briefly in their youth but, well, youth got in the way - as it often does. Lifetimes passed (..well, 7 or 8 years). Entire careers started and ended. Love was chased and hinted at but ultimately never
View fullsize This was about as aggressively joyful as they come. From the moment Ant and his mates sauntered in a flying v might ducks style down the aisle to the soaring refrains of Gang of Youth’s The Heart is a Muscle - a foot stomping, fist pumping ode
View fullsize Some tales are almost too good to be true. Boy spies girl across the way while they are both on placement in a faraway country - half a world from each of their homelands - and thinks she’s a bit of alright. One day she plonks herself down nex
View fullsize Nostalgia, super. A collection of (largely) intentionally imperfect frames from Jo and Doug’s raucous affair last week, cause I think sometimes nostalgia hits harder when things are a bit blurry - just like the memories swirling around in you
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