Adelaide Registry Office Wedding – Maeva & Rahul

bride and groom in front of plain grey wall

Adelaide Registry Office Wedding – Maeva & Rahul

Maeva and Rahul chose the Adelaide Registry Office for their wedding ceremony. Before the main event, the day began at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens where both families gathered for a pre-wedding gathering. Although the weather threatened rain, it held off, allowing for a pleasant day. The gardens provided a scenic backdrop for the couple’s pre-wedding photoshoot, setting the stage for the events that followed.

Adelaide Botanic Gardens Pre-ceremony shoot

The Adelaide Botanic Gardens is nothing short of a fairy tale. With its sprawling greenery, majestic trees, and vibrant flowers, it was the perfect canvas for Maeva and Rahul’s pre-wedding shoot. As we strolled through the gardens, we captured candid moments, laughter, and the pure joy of two families coming together. The nearby Botanic Park was another gem, offering us a myriad of picturesque spots. Although, I must admit, the lights from the Illuminate Festival were a tad bit distracting. But hey, every story has its quirks, right?

Couple in the sunlight and bamboo

Couple in tree together

Couple in front of the economic building

Couple with reflection

Couple holding hand in sunlight

Couple kissing through trees

Bridal couple together throguh trees

Bride and groom hugs

Bride and groom under Dr Suezz Tree

bride and groom walking throguh greenhouse

Bridal couple under Adelaide Historic grenhouse

Bridal couple in foliage

bride and groom under the canopy of a tree

Couple walking over garden bridge

bride and groom walking between trees

bride and gromo under big tree

Bride and groom sitting on tree root

Bride and groom dancing in Adelaide Botanic Gardens

bride and groom through leaves

Groom walking towards bride

Groom biting nose of bride

Bride and groom walking through archway

After our delightful photo escapade, we made a sweet pit stop. And by sweet, I mean cake!

Centered in the heart of the gardens is this adorable cafe. Here, surrounded by their closest friends and family, Maeva and Rahul cut their wedding cake. The air was filled with cheers, laughter, and the sweet aroma of the cake. It was a moment of pure joy, a prelude to the beautiful ceremony that awaited us.

Pink floral single tier wedding cake

Bridal couple cutting their cake

Bride eating cake

Bride and groom laughing at one another

Adelaide Registry Office Wedding Ceremony

With cake crumbs still on our lips and joy in our hearts, we made our way to the Adelaide Registry Office. The walk was filled with spontaneous photo ops, giggles, and the palpable excitement of the upcoming nuptials. The ceremony itself? Oh, it was the epitome of love and happiness! The celebrant, with their vivacious spirit, made sure it was a ceremony to remember. Short, sweet, and filled with love, Maeva and Rahul exchanged their vows, sealing their forever.

Entry to Adelaide Registry office wedding

bridal couple holding hands at front

Adelaide Registry office wedding ceremony

First kiss at Adelaide Registry office wedding ceremony

Bridal couple kissing with certificate

Wedding celebrant joing in

North Terrace After Ceremony shoot

Post-ceremony, we headed to the iconic Adelaide Arcade. The vintage charm of the arcade, combined with the newlywed glow of Maeva and Rahul, made for some truly memorable shots. Our final destination was North Terrace. With its awe-inspiring buildings and timeless architecture, it was the cherry on top of an already perfect day.

bride and groom in front of brick wall

bridal party blurred around bride and groom

bride and groom in middle of Grenfell St

Adelaide Arcade wedding photo

bride and groom in front of plain grey wall

bride and groom in front of Bonython hall

Bonython hall wedding photo

Adelaide Police Barracks wedding photo

Bride and grom on the police barracks

Laughing bride and grom on bannister

Bride and groom walking down stairs

A day filled with love, laughter, and memories that will last a lifetime. Maeva and Rahul’s Adelaide Registry Office Wedding was a testament to the fact that love truly is the most beautiful thing in the world.

I’d liek to thank this lovely couple for having me as their Adelaide Wedding Photographer!

August 5, 2023

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Adelaide Marriages Registration Office Wedding – Skye & Lachlan

Skye and Lachlan held a simple, private ceremony with their two sets of parents at the Adelaide Births and Marriage registration office in the Adelaide CBD . The great thing about a Adelaide Marriages Registration office wedding is that the ceremony is short, sharp and shiny, whithout costing a huge amount – and yet you still get to take advantage of all the amazing photo spots around Adelaide!

Adelaide Marriages Registration Office Wedding Ceremony

I was surprised to arrive after Skye and her family had – as, as many people know – I tend to arrive far to early to my weddings sometimes, and that’s usually the case for me at the registry office also! All that wer were missing before the ceremony was Lachlan!

Skye and Lachlan’s ceremony was nice and short, with the usual fussing over signing the documents that the resident celebrant takes great pride in having fun doing so, before doing a few family photos and heading out to hit the town!

Engagement ring in red flowers

Smiling bride and groom before ceremony

Bride and groom at the doorway

Bride and groom listening to celebrant at front

Bride and groom holding hands in front of wooden panels

Adelaide Marriages registration office wedding ceremony

Exhanging wedding rings during ceremony

Smiling bride looking at camera during ceremony

First kiss at Adelaide Marriages registration wedding ceremony

Bride and groom signing the marriages registry

Glamour Photos

I suggested we first head over the road to the Adelaide Arcade, which is always a nice way to break up the green photo deluge that usually occurs if you plan on just using the Botanic Gardens for wedding photos.

We head up stairs to use the long, straight passage the ornate space offers, while also using the huge arch window that overlooks Grenfell street for a bit of a dance 🙂

Bride and Groom in the middle of Granfell St Adelaide

Bride and groom in the Adelaide Arcade

Bride and groom walking along the Adelaide Arcade

Bride and groom dancing in the Adelaide Arcade

Smiling at each other in the window

Bride and groom walking along the roads in Adelaide

After driving over oto the Adelaide Btanic gardens, we parked along Plane Tree drive, which also allowed us to use the stunning trees in the adjacent Botanic Park. These moreton bay fig trees just have the most stunning roots which are easy to stand amongst and get some great shots!

As we had no bridal party to slow us down, we managed to use quite a bit of the Botanic gardens with a bit of a whirlwind tour, starting out by the friendship gates, zooming around to the famed Palm house, then the gardens in between, before finishing up in the Bicentennial Dome.

bride and groom standing under trees in the Adelaide Botanic Park

Adelaide Botanic Park wedding photos

Bride and groom touching heads in the Adelaide Botanic Park

Bride and groom in the ivy

Smiling bride in ivy

bride and groom crossing bridge together

Bride and groom int he foliage of the Adelaide Botanic gardens

Bride an dgroom walking together in the trees

bride and groom standing in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Bride and groom in a bench in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Bride and groom touching noses

Bride and groom standing under fun tree

Landscape wedding photo

Adelaide Botanic Gardens wedding photo in the lane

Adelaide Botanic Gardens wedding photo in the elm lane

Adelaide Botanic Gardens wisteria wedding photo

bride and groom in a doorway

Bride and groom under the veil

bride showing off engagement ring

Bride and groom under the sun

Thanks so much for having me be a part of your Adelaide Marriages Registration Office Wedding Skye and Lachlan! I had a blast and I hope you enjoy your photos!

October 30, 2022

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Botanic Park Wedding – Naz & Peter

Bride and groom walking under the trees after their Botanic Park Wedding

Botanic Park Wedding – Naz & Peter

Peter and Naziera opted to hold a very small, intimate Adelaide Botanic Park wedding in front of their 3 sons, their celebrant and myself which made for a cozy little atmosphere under the stunning moreton bay fig trees on a stunningly sunny day!

Although their Botanic Park wedding ceremony was flanked by no fewer than 3 engagement celebrations and other users of the public space, their wedding ceremony felt beautifully personal regardless!

Adelaide Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

Peter and Naz’s tiny little ceremony – which could also be called an elopement took place on one of the larger moreton bay fig trees on parade along the Botanic Park, just north of the Adelaide Botanic Garden‘s Friendship gates.

We attempted to have as little as possible behind Peter and Naziera during their cermeony so that their photos did not have anything but the stunning beauty of the park in the background. Wasn’t always possible of course, but we tried our best!

Their ceremony was short and sweet, with two of their three sons acting as witnesses on their marriage certificate.

Three sons standing under stree

hugs before the wedding ceremony

bride looking pretty before her Botanic Park Wedding

bride and groom using the lovely tree before their wedding ceremony

Smiling groom before his Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

Wedding celebrant arrives

Smiling bride ready to start wedding ceremony

bride and groom standing under tree during their wedding ceremony

Celebrant talking during ceremony

Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

Smiling groom during his wedding ceremony

Adelaide Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

Wedding cceremony under Moreton Bay Fig Tree

Shot of bride though shoulders of Sons

Sun gleaming through the foliage

Wedding ceremony in the Adelaide Botanic Park

Exchanging wedding rings on bent arm

Groom kissing hand of his bride

Married now!

Glamour Photos

For glamour photos, we made good use of the Botanic park’s trees, going for a little walk and trying to get the midday sun to shine through the foliage before heading into the Botanic Gardens to make use of some different backdrops.

The Moreton bay fig trees in Botanic park make for some stunning backdrops for wedding photography – I just love walking through them – particularly on sunny days such as this, the atmosphere is one of such joy and happiness when the sun plays nice!

The Adelaide Botanic Gardens as always turned it on for us, walking through we managed to make use of quite a few little spots I had grwon fond of after my many weddings I have shot through here. That being said though, the middle of the day is possibly the wost time of day to take photos through here – so I attempted to head to shadier spots to make use of the shade rather than direct sunlight.

bride and groom sitting on a bench together

Bride and groom after their Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

bride and groom under a moreton bay fig

bride and groom headbutting one another

brige and groom cuddles

Bride and groom walking under the trees after their Botanic Park Wedding Ceremony

Bride and groom walking under the trees after their Botanic Park Wedding

Large Moreton Bay Fig trees as a backdrop to the bride and groom

Bride leaning into groom against a wall

Adelaide Botanic Gardens wedding photo

Adelaide Botanic Gardens wedding photo 2

Bride and groom amongst the foliage in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Museum of Economic Botany doorway photo

Museum of Economic Botany doorway wedding photo

bride and groom inside a tree

bride and groom enjoying the bamboo forest

Groom leading bride over a hill

Amongst the trees at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Bride and groom’s sons take center stage

Peter and Naz’s Botanic Park wedding ceremony was a delightful little outing, and I do hope they enjoy their photos!

April 20, 2021

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Botanic Gardens Adelaide Wedding – Georgia & Nick

Georgia & Nick
Botanic Gardens Adelaide Wedding

On what must have been the busiest wedding day in decades, October 10th was the date for Georgia and Nick’s wonderful wedding at the Botanic Gardens Adelaide. Based mainly on the repetition of the date and fun addition of the date and month numbers ot make the year, then combined with COVID-19 rescheduling, I must have had dozens of enquiries for 10/10/20! And what a wedding Georgia and Nick’s turned out to be! Beautiful weather, lovely people and possibly the best spot to take photos in the Adelaide CBD :).

Preparation

I began the day as I usually do with Nick and his groomsmen getting ready in a hotel room in the city. Their room overlooked the northern part of the Adelaide CBD in quite a striking fashion with a great view of the new royal hospital and even Adelaide Oval!

When I arrived the boys were sitting about watching some horse racing, so I began the day by getting them to get a bit hyped up by placing fake bets on a horse race – this allowed for everyone to let go of any nerves thay may be lingering around and loosened everyone up for their preparation photos which we took in and around their room.

Wedding rings box 2

Wedding rings perched on shoes

Groom watching TV 2

Adjusting his shirt

Adjusting shirt

Groomsmen looking fab

Groom leaning on wall

Groom basking in sunlight

Smiling groom in his suit

chilling groomsmen

Georgia and her bridal party were being prepared at the couple’s house in Hillcrest. The girls were getting ready along side their paresnts and some well wishers that arrived half way through. The atmosphere was very laid back with allowed for some beautiful natural smiles and showing of emotion. It was especially endearing when Dad first saw his daugher sporting her wedding dress!

Bridal bangle

Engagement ring in bouquet 3

Bride having hair done 2

Bride’s Mum having makeup done

Bride having makeup done

Bride silhouette

bride getting ready 4

Putting on bridal shoes

Bride looking at bouquet

Bride in hallway 2

Mum looking on 2

Father’s first look of his daughter

Botanic Gardens Adelaide Wedding Ceremony

Finding a park at the Botanic Gardens Adelaide at the best of times can be quite tricky, but on a wonderful warm day such as Georgia and Nick’s wedding day it was extremely hard which led to Georgia being a little later than she had planned to be on the day, leaving Nick to pace about at the front of their congregation showing that he was not aty all nervous.

Georgia and Nick’s wedding ceremony took place at the Araucaria Avenue ceremony spot which boasts a lovely row of New Caledonia Pines (or Araucaria columnaris) leading off into where the sun sits which makes for a lovely,m sunlit backdrop for any wedding ceremony.

As the weather on Georgia and Nick’s wedding day was perfectly sunny, the whole ceremony was delightfully backlit creating a nice halo effect over everyones’s heads all throughout. It does make it ricky though to take phtoos from the side as the light makes for some harsh shadows form that angle. Still beautiful none the less. 🙂

My favourite part of the ceremony was the level of coordination Georgia and Nick’s guests showed with the birdal sendoff, blowing ample bubbles into the aisle to create quite an impressive send off! It’s often the case that not many bubbles show up in photos, but in this case it worked very well!

Groom waiting 2

Groom waiting patiently 2

Groom’s first look of bride 2

Botanic Gardens Wedding ceremony 2

bride during wedding ceremony

Wedding ceremony botanic gardens

Wedding ceremony botanic gardens adelaide

Wedding ceremony botanic gardens adelaide 2

Groom looking at his bride during the ceremony

reciting vows

Exchanging wedding bands 2

Wedding cermeony at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 3

First kiss 2

Bridal exit under bubbles

Botanic Gardens Adelaide Glamour Photos

Directly after the group pho0tos and a bit of a rest to thankeveryone for coming, we hopped right into the glamour photos wandering about the botanic gardens. It was the plan to do this and then head out to North Terrace, or even the Adelaide Zoo to take photos with the animals as that’s where their reception was taking place, but on the day we opted to stay within the botanic gardens which made things easier.

As the sun was beating down rather harshly, I tried to stay in shaded areas for the most part, utilising the lens flares the sun was throwing up through the foliage and occasionally using the brightness as a backdrop to some of their photos.

All the plants at this time of year in the Botanic Gardens Adelaide are super green and lush which makes taking shots throguh the foliage that much easier and satisfying to see!

In between the Botanic Gardens and the Adelaide Zoo we also made use of some of the Morten Bay fig trees around the adjacent Botanic Park for some photos!