Category Archives: Wedding blog

Wedding trends: Gold Coast couples choosing private homes for their big day

COULD these be the Gold Coast’s most romantic properties? Loved-up couples are choosing to tie the knot on private properties, bucking traditional wedding venues such as churches and beaches. The trend that has couples hitched in their homes now has wedding bells ringing in multi-million dollar mansions and Hinterland properties. Happy days! Getting married at home is the latest matrimonial trend. Prominent-businesswoman Sandra Cowell lent her Mermaid Beach penthouse to her personal assistant Belinda Gailey. “She had her wedding ceremony […]

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Public parks for Weddings

1 McKell Park McKell Park is on the shores of Sydney Harbour with views of the Harbour Bridge to the west and Sydney Heads to the east. The park comprises grassed landscape terraces stepping down to the harbour foreshore and the public ferry wharf. The Park is ideal for wedding ceremonies as it has superb Harbour views and manicured gardens surrounded by magnificent mature trees. The Harbour and the well maintained gardens provide a perfect backdrop for any special occasion. […]

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Sunset weddings

Sunset weddings Sometimes you will have a bride tell us “I want to get married at sunset, just as the sun touches the horizon.” This is usually a bad idea. First of all as you know every wedding starts at least 15 minutes late, and secondly in the tropics the sun sets at a steeper angle than it does further north or south, meaning that the period of twilight is very short. If the wedding ceremony happens at sunset, all […]

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Capture your Beautiful,Authentic moments in Sydney

Hope everyone had a great long weekend holiday! Speaking of holiday, there’s trend of people coming to Sydney from oversea for their pre-wedding shooting. Taking pre-wedding photos is one of the significant item on your to-do list in life. It is the reflection of your love story which leave you to look back on in the future.    

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Photography at a destination wedding

Location and climate How much the destination will affect the way you approach the photography will of course depend on how different it is from where you normally shoot. But let’s take the most common situation which is a photographer from a temperate climate (Northern or Central Europe, North-East or North-West USA or Canada) travelling to shoot in a tropical or sub-tropical location, such as Hawaii or the Caribbean. The first thing you want to check with your client (after […]

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Wedding transportation 101

When it comes to your wedding, most of you will only concern on the decorations of ceremony, the outfits, the venues but totally forgot about the transpotation to the places. Early Decisions Choosing your transportation begins with an assessment of who you have to take with you, and the size of your bridal party plays a big part. If it’s just you and two bridesmaids, a slick luxury sedan will get you there in style — the bride’s parents can […]

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Photo ideas

Photo ideas You may feel a bit stuck for ideas if you are on an open beach without the usual props of trees, doorways, walls etc., but there is lots you can do with just the light, shooting from different angles, creating side-lit or silhouetted images, and using fill-flash to balance the sunset can look good too. If you do have some open shade that you can use, such as an awning, a beach hut, or a veranda, go for […]

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How to plan a church wedding (Part 2)

If you want to have your wedding in a church, then church wedding decorations will be one of the main consideration in your overall wedding decorations. Since you cannot easily remodel the building, you may need to find a way to blend your intended decorations with existing decor of the church. Before you choose wedding decorations: Talk with church officer to find out what, if any, their rules are for wedding decorations. Decide on a budget for the church wedding decorations. […]

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