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Melanie & Pete were one of my favourite weddings from 2009. Melanie was so keen to have us photograph her wedding that she changed he wedding date in order to make sure she could have her favourite venue, photographer and celebrant. Melanie planned the most perfect day, I have never seen someone have so much attention to detail with their wedding.

What made it even more exciting for us is that we got to work with so many of our favourite wedding vendors.
Melanie’s beautiful makeup was done by Danielle Robinson. Their Celebrant, Anne Campbell is absolutely amazing! Then of course their wedding cake (photo below) was made by Sarah-jane from Cake That! mmmmmmmm hehehe. Now you can’t go past the stunning grand ballroom at the Stamford Plaza, just beautiful and Melanie had the room decorated just perfect!

There were so many photos I wanted to share from this wedding but I need to keep it down to a minimum so here are just a few of my favourites.

Melanie also has a new website called Brides in Brisbane

Brides in Brisbane is a fantastic new wedding website focusing on Brisbane and the surrounding areas. Their aim is to satisfy all the planning needs of a bride to be by offering them everything they need on one comprehensive site!

Some of the features of their website include;

A Wedding Directory for local wedding suppliers – from cakes suppliers, florists, celebrants, bands and DJs to photographers and reception venues and more;

A Brides Guide – offering tons of information for brides to be on all aspects of a wedding including the roles and responsibilities of the bridal party, the big day itself, honeymoon planning advice, ceremony readings, planning tips for hens parties and much more;

A Forum for users to share their thoughts and experiences on their big day;

Wedding Planning Tools including a budget planner, seating planner, to do list and guest list planner;

Wedding profiles of real life brides who share their photos and stories of their special day; and

Galleries of wedding flowers, hair styles, wedding cakes and more to inspire brides in their choices for their own wedding as well as articles on many different wedding topics.

If you are a soon to be bride who needs some help planning your big day or even just a few ideas – visit the site and take a look around!

Each time I think that i am catching up on blog posts i realise that i am only up to October last year.  I will get there,  i have so many shoots to show everyone i just haven’t had a chance to blog them all.

Josh and Sarah will always be a special couple for me and we have a fab day with an awesome bridal party.  They have become quite good freinds since we shot the wedding nearly 5 months ago.  We covered the full day including the reception at Rydges at Southbank which just made a beautiful back drop for an amazing wedding.

Josh and Sarah came to the last expo that we had at the sofitel and told all of the potential bride and grooms about their experience with XSiGHT shooting their wedding.  And then they stayed around and helped me pack our whole stand up,  what a legend!!    Josh is an awesome photographer himself and has come out on a few weddings with me since his wedding and getting some awesome stuff.

As always we had an awesome day with lots of laughs,  the album that has been designed looks awesome and I cant wait to see it all come together.

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Kimberly and Michael said that they wanted something a little bit different and pretty much left the day up to me for locations, style and everything.  So what i did is go to 3 locations that I have never gone before but have been itching to get there for ages.

Oh and I nearly forgot,  Michael shot himself with a nail gun or some heavy piece of equipment 3 days before the wedding!!  minor scaring but he will be fine.  Kimberly and Michael were a capital A for awesome!!

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Jo and Ash are an amazing couple and it was an absolute plesure to photograph them and be part of their special day at Mt Tamborine. Here is a few images from their day

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Thought I would share a little bit of our Christmas day with you. This was shot with my 5D Mark II and edited with the simplest video editing program in the world imovie on the macbook pro.

I hope that everyone had a fabulous christmas and that your new years is just awesome!

Jacqueline and Brenton are a beautiful couple that we had the please of photographing and also doing the video for back in August.  We had an awesome time with these guys.  I must say that the family was probably one of the most fun families that we had the privilege to photograph and we had a ball all day.

.Jacqulines family has been photographed by XSight about 3 times now with lots of different weddings in Brisbane and in Melbourne.  we cant wait for the next one guys

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I love my job,  i get to meet the most awesome people,  Holly and Iian had a beautiful beach wedding at Noose with one of our favorites Dawn Louise as the celebrant.     These guys are just so in love,  and deffinitly the perfect match.   There was a number of family members that came over from the UK to celebrate the beautiful wedding.  A barefoot beach wedding seemed to be the order of the day.  I cant say that I get to take my shoes of and bury my toes in the sand often while i am working but this was a great exception.

I can say that it felt like one of the brightest days of the year and the guests certainly knew what it was like to have an Australian beach wedding.

When Will and Yoshiko initally contacted me about photographing their wedding they drove all the way up from Toowoomba to meet me and through chatting a little bit realised that we have quite a few similar freinds and went to the same school  (maybe a little to long ago now) and are only a couple of years apart in age.  So the wedding was a bit like a school reunion as I knew quite a number of the guests that I hadn’t see in years.

The day was set to be amazing with the ceremony being held at Newstead park at the rotunda and the reception at the amazing customs house.

This was the first time that i have shot a wedding at the Novotel Twin Waters on the sunshine coast but it was an absolutely amazing day,  the weather held out and everyone was pretty stress free.  it was awesome fun to be driven around the little golf carts and there were heaps of places to venture for photos.  Veena and David both got ready in the Grand Mercure North shore apartments which was just around the corner for where the big day took place.

One of the more amusing things that happened on the day was that Venna and David where supposed to actually catch a boat from the jetty over to the reception venue,  i think this is a very romantic way to enter a ceremony,  the unfortunate thing was that one of the staff members actually forgot to hook the motor correctly to the boat and it fell off and sunk to the bottom of the river.   Luckily Veena and David hadn’t got on the boat yet.   It wasn’t funny at the time but looking back now I am sure that this is something that everyone will remember as a pretty amusing point for the day.

we are going back a little while now but here is some of the shots from Gabrielle and Matts wedding.  I have to make a special mention to Danielle Robinson who did the fabulous makeup and I recommend her to everyone as I think that she is one of the better, if not the best makeup artist in Brisbane.

It was such a relaxed day as we headed to Tenneriffe for the photoshoot and a funky little bar/reception area in Southbank.

 

Inside Broadway Chapple a very popular place to get married.

this shot on the bottom left would have to be my fav from the day