Alisa & Andrew’s wedding has got to be one of my favourite weddings ever. Alisa & Andrew decided to have the wedding in a destination where they both really love, shared some memorable times together, away from the big smoke, in a funky spa town, Daylesford, famous for its natural mineral springs.

When I arrived in town, I even thought I was in Europe. This is because the town still reflects the character of their earliest heritage when Swiss-Italian immigrants settled there.

I love everything about this wedding and I have to thank my assistant, Stacey for all her help on the day.

err, no..this wasn’t the wedding car, but I really love the rusty old look. I even got to speak to the owner and apparently she’s owned this car brand new since 30 years ago.



Alisa got ready at the Station House where it maintains its original colonial style. Check this out, a 17th century painting:



You probably can’t judge a book by the cover, but you can certainly judge a wedding by the shoes:



I can tell you I really love them:

Alisa is so stunning - everything she did was elegant!

Like I said, I love everything about this wedding - the bouquet is no exception

I’ve always thought Alisa was really pretty, but she looked spectacular on the wedding day:



One last check - I caught this moment just before we left for ceremony:



They got a London Black Cab as their get away car - classy!



Just before they walked down the aisle

Got to love this portrait! This was completely natural and unstaged. Alisa and Andrew were waiting for the bridal party to get ready and I got this relax portrait.

The reception was held at Sault. Anyone who wants great food and scenic backdrop for their wedding, Sault is a must! Jodi, the owner/manager, is just awesome to work with.

Everyone had such a good time at the reception. Alisa and Andrew made the point that they really love those moments and so I decided to capture as many as possible:

Yum!

The best thing about this destination wedding is that we still got awesome lights in the middle of the night. Alisa and Andrew went outside after the meal to enjoy and take in the atmosphere. It truely was amazing seeing the sunset behind the lavender farm.

Thank you for having me as part of your awesome big day. Have a great honeymoon!

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Well almost! Here’s the story: When I was little, I’d always wanted a more common name; one that the kids wouldn’t laugh at, like John or Peter. Because as kids, we always saw exceptions as evil. But one thing that I’ve always been doing was to try and find something that’s related to my name and claim it as mine. Of course, it wasn’t easy and the closest I got to was the Irish cream.

Fast forward to last Wednesday, on my way to shoot an awesome destination wedding, which I’ll be blogging shortly, I found a street pretty close to my name right in the heart of Melbourne CBD. And I thought, I’ve found my street:

Now of course, I love my name.

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On Saturday, we had the most bizarre weather ever. But of course, rain is never a problem for wedding photos and in fact, it often makes great photos. And when the rain did finally stop, we had such a blast photographing Lis and Luke’s wedding. The whole bridal party was so easy to work with and they were up to anything we told them to do. I am glad that I got to second shoot this wonderful wedding of Lis and Luke with the super cool Jenny.

We started off at Lis’ house for the preparations:

Just a few finishing touches:

All ready to go!! Lis looks simply gorgeous. I grabbed this photo just seconds before we headed out to the church. And yes, she loves her dress.

And while the girls were all getting ready. the boys were waiting very anxiously at the church:

Seconds before Lis walked into the church



The very proud dad



More recently, I found that a lot priests forget the very important symbolic part of the ceremony - the kiss! So quite rightly, Luke took a very good opportunity to kiss the bride - just as they were walking out of the church.

Of course, there’s always more to come….

Within seconds of this photo, it started bucketing down like there’s no tomorrow.

And all within 5 minutes, it stopped. The girls had tons of fun on the track:

The reception was at Dockside function centre. Love the center pieces:

Just a little side note to couples who are planning for their wedding. If you are thinking about how to decorate the reception, apart from all the details of the center pieces, you really can’t beat a professionally designed lighting package. It can really change the mood of the whole reception, creating a romantic ambience. And photos will turn out much better in good lights. But of course, a little artifical portable lights from the photographer will also help. Jenny brought a portable light source and I helped to hold the light up for this photo.

Obviously I didn’t take the photo, Jenny took this awesome cake photo.

This one was also taken by Jenny while I was holding the light up from the right:



Cake cutting



Thank you for having me as part of your big day



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Recently I’ve been trying something little different to add to my style of photography. I wanted to add a little to my photos by using some textures which is slowly becoming more and more popular in wedding photography. Textures, when tastefully applied to wedding photos, can affectively enhance the original photograph. Here’s an example on a recent wedding:

Would love to hear what you think.

Happy new year!

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