Carley and Mathews’ wedding has finally arrived, well almost… we are heading North of Melbourne this Friday for the wedding on Saturday. I am looking forward to getting out of Melbourne and really looking forward to the wedding.
Stay posted for this and more, I’ve been a little distracted with my posting of late but a wave of clean saltly water is about to wash over this blog!
Katherine and Jonathan chose the very exotic Pioneer Women’s Memorial sunken garden in the Kings Domain for the wedding Ceremony.
Jonathan and the groomsmen took the tram from Balencea apartments down St.Kilda Rd all the while in fine voice. The wedding party then had a a quick trip into the city to have some photographs taken in Degraves Street and Flinders Street Station The reception was held at the Carousel where Everyone enjoyed the beautiful food and the dancing continued at a frenetic pace through the night. Gallant Lee did a great job of the videography.
Rebecca and Trent were married on the 19th of January; starting at Rebecca and Trent’s very stylish apartment in Young St. Fitzroy. The vintage Rolls Royce cars didn’t like the hot day leaking a little green radiator fluid on the pavement (the temperature was up near the 40′s) but that wasn’t enaough to stop the party.
The ceremony was held at Chapter House and followed by drinks at the Mocking Bird bar in Fitzroy St St.Kilda and the the Ceremony was at my old favourite the Stokehouse restaurant on the foreshore in St.Kilda. Here is a glimpse of their day.
This is a little muck around video compilation from the photography of Rebecca and Trent’s fantastic wedding
Ella and Zach were married on the 29th of January at a private residence in Brighton. The Chuppa was outside in a beautiful garden under large trees protecting us all from a 40 degree day!
There were tears of joy, ecstatic laughs and much love that flowed through the day. The reception was held at the Carousel in Albert Park and the dancing continued on well into the night. Zach entertained everyone with his a couple of songs and quite a few clothing changes!
I’ll let the photographs tell the rest of the story.
David McArthur
I Do Weddings 
I had a lot of fun last year at Stephanie and James’ last year, they were both determined to do things a little differently and when IIKEA was mentioned as one of the locations for photography, I knew It was going to be a great day.
Well IKEA didn’t quite kick us out (I thought they might) they actually invited us to stay for coffee and cake on them. The politely asked that we didn’t take any more photos lounging on the sofas.
The Church service was held at the Crossway Baptist Church, Burwood East and the reception was at the International in Brighton. I’ll let the photographs tell the rest of the story
The combination of a beautiful young couple, Como house and Quat Quatta, not to mention a beautiful Spring day in Melbourne is bound to be the right mix for a fantastic wedding.
The day started at David’s house in Richmond with his best man Leigh and his Dad Gordon. There was a little confusion with the windsor knot early on but the problem soon dissipated.
From there I spent some time with Danielle and her bridesmaids in the Crown Towers Hotel over looking the Yarra. Como house was looking resplendent in the Spring sun and the ceremony was presided over by the inimitable Greg Evans.
I love photographing weddings outside of Melbourne and when the invitation to photograph Annika and Dennis’s wedding in Mildura came up I was really pleased.
They are a great couple who got married at the Gol Gol Ampelon gardens before returning (via a very scenic route) to the Grand Hotel in the middle of Mildura.
Here are some photographs, the opportunity didn’t get past me to dine out at Stefano’s restaurant with my wife Ines the night before.
I have been asked to come back and photograph Carley and Matthew’s wedding in Milduraon the 12th of November 2011, and I am REALLY looking forward to this one!
Alana and Craig, and all their guests had a lot of fun at their wedding in Ballarat in September.
The Ceremony and reception was held at Tumblers Green in Creswick
A bit of rain was not able to dampen the spirits of all those who attended!
Have you heard of that trust/relationship building exercise where you literally have to fall backwards from a standing position? You have to trust that your partner is going to catch you and prevent you from hitting the ground.
It is a fun little exercise that can be uncomfortable for a lot of people, in fact I have seen some people that simply can’t do it!
I think there is some similarities in this to being photographed. The essential element is trust. You need to trust that the photographer is there working for you to make you feel and look comfortable and the remarkable part about this is that when the trust is real, the results really show through.
If you haven’t tried this exercise before give it a go!
Annie and Ben were married at the Vines Restaurant on the 2nd of October 2010
We started and finished the day at the beautiful Yering Gorge cottages, this setting provided the backdrop to some great moments later in the day.
Annie is a long distance runner and Ben was in the mood for a run, we had a lot of fun. Later in the day Annie’s parents pulled out the ‘little miss bossy’ and the ‘mr lazy’ books during there speech, this combined with the quiz of Annie and Ben’s relationship provided a lot of entertainment to the guests.
Helyna from the Vines was great and made everyone feel very comfortable.
