Wedding planning guides
Long-form answers to the questions couples actually ask us — with the numbers sourced and the awkward parts included.
The Engagement Shoot Is a Rehearsal — Treat It Like One
The photos are the by-product. The point is finding out how you two photograph before the day it matters.
What Your Venue Type Does to Your Wedding Photographs
Venue lists tell you which places are beautiful. This is what each kind of venue does to your light, your timeline and your rain plan.
The 20-Minute Family Photo Block: A Running Order That Actually Works
Twelve groups in twenty minutes is normal. The same twelve take an hour without a running order and someone to call names.
Your Wedding Photos in 30 Years: What Survives and What Quietly Disappears
The gallery link expires, the laptop dies, the cloud plan lapses. What to do in the first week so the photographs are still there in thirty years.
How to Vet a Wedding Photographer: 9 Questions and the Answers to Listen For
Anyone can hand you sixty questions. This is the shorter list — with what a good answer and a worrying one actually sound like.
Rain on Your Melbourne Wedding Day: The Plan That Actually Works
Every Melbourne photographer tells you to embrace the rain. Almost none of them tell you who decides, at what hour, or what it costs you in minutes.
Wedding Day Photography Timeline: Build It Backwards from Sunset
Most timeline templates quietly assume a summer sunset. Here is how to build one that works for your actual date.
Wedding Photographer vs Videographer: Do You Need Both?
A straight answer instead of "it depends" — plus a decision tree for the couples who are genuinely torn.
How Much Does a Wedding Photographer Cost in Melbourne? (2026)
Real 2026 ranges, a breakdown of where the money actually goes, and the contract clauses that cost couples money later.
