Serendipity Photography Blog

We are very happy with our Serendipity album!  There is so much variety and the album flows from scene to scene showing our complete happiness together.  We are laughing in so many of the shots, there is a real sense of fun – we just have to say how much we enjoyed the session with Julian. He is just a superb photographer, so enthusiastic, and able to guide us to be really relaxed together. We laughed and cuddled and walked and the photographs are just so full of emotion and creativity. Julian is a real expert, gentle and very helpful and we felt very comfortable with him.

The album is just superb. We really love the lavender shots and the ones on the beach  – the pictures move from light to dark, and Julian has just caught the sun at its best, to create photographs with so much interest and drama.  Thankyou so much Serendipity, we are really looking forward to our wedding photographs with you!

Trang and Nguyen

Melbourne is known to have four seasons in one day but on this day the weather was especially crazy – calm and sunny, then a torrential downpour within 10 minutes with the temperature dropping 20 degrees. This all would have been fine if the ceremony was in a church, but we were on a cliff top overlooking views of the Melbourne CBD. The groom waited in his shirt sleeves with his umbrella holding off a considerable amount of water for an extra three quarters of an hour.  Amazingly the rain stopped just in time for the ceremony leaving a little room for some photographs of moments together before the it hit again.  If you can work with what is thrown at you, we find that some of our best wedding photography folio comes from this sort of day.

Chrissy & Chris Wedding Pictures

Adrian and Nikola chose a strongly retro 1920 theme for their photography. Their church was the completely marvelous St Ignatius Catholic church in Richmond – we then spent time shooting in the back streets of Richmond – where we could nearly here the calls from the sly grog trade of the period. Next was the a romantic interlude at Paris end of Collins St  with Le Lourve  - splendid Parisian backdrop – a wonderfully example of a 1900’s store front. Next was another great location in the Regent Theater – great as backdrop and the interior must be seen to be believed.

Nikoli & Adrian Wedding Pictures

Kylie & Nicholas Wedding Pictures

Corporate high flyers with a natural, down-to earth viewpoint, Nick and Kylie are a husband and wife team who enjoy stellar careers without losing sight of the most important thing, each other. The story of their meeting is typically low key and fun-loving of the couple. At an after work social function at Mahoney’s Irish Pub organised by a mutual friend, Kylie caught Nick’s eye. Hoping to meet her again, Nick asked the mutual friend to get them all together again, ‘Especially Kylie’. The friend took the hint and dumped the rest of them, organizing an intimate dinner for four, including Nick and Kylie. That was on the 3rd of October, and soon that date became remembered as their anniversary. A five year courtship followed, where they become best friends and eventually moved in together. One night they were out at the same pub, celebrating the fact that they had just bought their first house together. During a discussion about renovating Nick casually proposed. Having gone through a long list of jobs, from plasterboard to cornices, Kylie asked if they had anything to discuss.

“How about getting married,” Nick laughed, before proceeding to argue about cornices again. The casual, smooth and understated elegance  which was the key to their courtship, and engagement was to become the theme to the wedding. “If he had of proposed with a grand gesture like writing in the sky I would have turned him down,” laughed Kylie.

Kylie and Nicks’ brief to the photographer had been very simple – just shoot us as we are. The couple chose Serendipity because of the company’s excellent work and flair for design; they commented on the artistic quality and authenticity of the pictures. There were several meetings in the lead up to the wedding to plan a coverage design that would reflect the strong

connection between Nick and Kylie, who are best friends as well as fiances.

Serendipity Image founders Sally and her partner Julian worked hard to capture the playful affection and love between Kylie and Nick and their relationships with family and friends. During the day Julian took over 1500 separate shots; each telling moment detailing a microcosm of the myriad feelings of the day. After the magic of the wedding itself, the Serendipity photography team set about editing a set of photos that fulfilled Nick and Kylie’s wish to capture their love in all its simple, elegant glory.

Nick reflects on their wedding photography: “The album, both design and pictures captures our personalities at a deep level. We love out photos. We can really see the specialness of our day and how happy we were. I totally love our photos. We love looking through them and laughing with them, seeing our day unfold again. Julian made it very comfortable for us. He allowed us just to be ourselves. His approach to directing was very professional but quite casual. Instead of telling us what to do, it was as if he was painting a picture and that we flowed into the picture,” he said.

Madalina’s and Alex Wedding

One of our favorite Melbourne wedding photographic locations is the Flemington Court House in down the narrow side street. It is a American Romanesque building with a number of arches and steps allowing all sorts of photographic possibilities. And across the road there looks to be the remains of a former Fire Station from the same period also. As serendipity has it, Melbourne weather gave us a spatter of rain and we left this Flemington for Flagstaff Gardens for sunset shots over the city.

“It was a perfect day”, said Andrea and Bogdan, “our photos from Serendipity Image have amazingly good colours. Our day was a really wonderful day, and the rich blues and greens of the sea and sky, and subtle tones and reflected tints in the album prints really express that sense of a perfect day.”

Andrea & Bogdan’s Wedding Pictures

Andrea and Bogdan really loved the album spread with the big bridal party shot for its energy and strong colours, and the detailing, strong designs and subtle use of backgrounds throughout the album.

“We love the creativity of the pictures.” Andrea mentioned the large number of comments from guests on the photography, “Everything that Julian did on the day was really professional and well thought through. The album really reflects our day.”

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I could comment on Reshma and Shyamal wedding day but as THE AGE newspaper did a wonderful article which is at the link.