It has been an extremely busy week. I’m glad that I got to photograph Cate and Cameron’s wedding. It was just so touching.

I’ll post more photos later but for now, let me leave you with my favourite moment of the day. This was during the ceremony.

I really need to start packing now for my European trip.

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Your wedding is the most special moment in your life and you want to savor it. You want to commemorate by making the occasion unique and pleasant. As they say, marriages are made in heaven. When it comes to destination weddings, that’s heaven on earth. Because you make it as special and unique as you want it to be; you take all the worries out of your mind and enjoy the time in an unspoiled destination. The location that you’ve dreamed of for all those years come together in that important day.

As a photographer, I love destination weddings. I love capturing that special moment in the perfect location where everyone can be so relaxed. My favourite destination wedding would be in Santorini, Greece. The sunset is said to be the most beautiful in the world. And I must say, I wouldn’t disagree with that.

Here’s a few of favourite I took from my last trip to Santorini:

To enquire about destination wedding packages, please email me on info@bailie.com.au

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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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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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