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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Weddings are always at a stand still between mid-Dec and mid-Jan and it’s always a great time for me to relax and put up some christmas decorations. This year, I decided to create an enchanted tree look from fallen branches I picked up from a nearby park. All I did was painted them white and hanged some ornaments on them. The result was a lot better than I expected:

2007 has been another very busy year and 2008 looks to be even busier! Congratulations to all newly-weds and I look forward to photographing more weddings next year.

Have a merry christmas!

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I had the best time photographing Lisan and Paul’s very unique wedding. The wedding was held at a Victorian style boutique hotel with little more than 30 guests. Such intimate wedding has always been my dream wedding. I just loved the blend of western and oriental wedding traditions. And the bride and groom was certainly the most down to earth couple I’ve ever met.

Heading out to another wedding now but here’s a couple of my favourite photos for now - stay tuned for more.

Ready to go! I love the chinese traditional dress - it deserves a rusty old look to the scene.

Tea ceremony to the inlaws:



more to come…

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Kristin is an amazing musician. She plays drums and guitar and has such a beautiful voice that I think she’d easily win the Australian Idol. Before returning to Canada, she wanted a photo portfolio featuring her music and personality and I think we did just that. Here’s some of my favourite with the new blog layout.

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I love keeping up with technology but I also like to do-it-yourself when in comes to my website design which is why I haven’t changed my website since day 1 - I’ve either been too busy or just too lazy! And that’s probably also why my blog started with absolutely no design - just a white background.

But today, almost exactly one year since I started blogging wedding shoots, marks a very special day for my blog. I have a new design!!! Another do-it-yourself design and I’m very proud of it. I’ll be posting a very special photo shoot tomorrow with a completely new layout. Stay tuned.

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On Saturday, I shot an absolutely wonderful wedding of Kristina and Lukas at the Mary Mackillop Memorial Chapel in North Sydney. Kristina got ready nearby the Chapel which made the entire wedding run very smoothly.

I’m a firm believer that you can judge a wedding by the shoes.

The girls getting ready:

Kristina trying to fix her veil



Kristina’s simply stunning..



Did I say she’s stunning?



I quickly went around to the boys when they were getting ready. They really struggled with the bowties.



Lukas just couldn’t resist messaging Kristina



The very happy bride:

The very cool couple:



and the cool bridal party



Kristina and Lukas are just a perfect couple.

Set free and release the childhood within

The reception was at the shores, Middle Harbour:

First dance:



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Amanda is an amazing artist. She chose a vintage theme for her wedding and all the details perfectly matched up to expectation. It was just a big laugh photographing the girls’ preparation and of course it’s always nice to walk in to a bride’s house that is nicely decorated. This wedding reminds me just why I love my job. Sharing the fun with couples in the most important day of their lives. Thanks Jenny for tagging me along to second shoot at Amanda & Matt’s wedding.

I decided to add a bit of the vintage touch to my photos.

Amanda with her very artistic eyes decided to do the makeup and hair of the entire bridal party:



Amanda doing her own hair (this photo reminds me of some 1940s film):



Of course, we needed the vintage portrait of the bride



Classic!



They also had the vintage bridal cars which was really cool.

The ceremony was held at the Garrison Church.

We walked around the Rocks for some classic old backdrops for location shots

Another 1940s film scene..



I’m definitely not a fan of smoking but this is just too cool to miss

My favourite last photo..



Thank you Amanda & Matt for letting me be a part of your big day and congratulations!

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There’s only one word to describe today’s session - fun. I had the opportunity to work with one of the top makeup artists in the industry, Heidi, from Something Beautiful. I was selected as the exclusive photographer for her new book on bridal makeup. This is one of those opportunities that comes once in a life-time and I was soooo over the moon when I found out that I was chosen. It turn out to be just pure fun. Unfortunately the photos cannot be posted here until I get copyright release but here’s a couple that I got model release for.

Kristin’s was so energic:

and so gorgeous.

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Deandre and Daniel got married on Saturday, just in the nick of time. Had the wedding been on a few hours earlier or later, everyone would’ve been soaking wet. We had 40mm of rain in a space of a few hours.

Luckily, this wedding was one of those weddings that the longer I stayed, the more I wanted to stay. Because pretty much everyone at the wedding was musicians and they had awesome music!!

One of my favourite flowers, yellow daisies:

Bridesmaid, Janelle helping Deandre with the necklace - a borrowed key.

Just before the ceremony:

Daniel manages just about every MTV ever produced in country. I decided to give this MTV touch to this photo



During the toast:

It’s bed time:



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