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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WOW, DJI OSMO + has amazing capabilities

Test Video of my newly arrived OSMO+, focusing on my tripod head at max optical zoom 77mm, the tripod is 20cm from the lens. I was amazed by how close the new OSMO can shoot. Incredible! I suspect it would be the must have for most wedding videographer. DJI Go’s SlowMotion Mode Save

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Traveling light: Olympus M.Zuiko 12‑100mm F4 Real-world Samples

New Lens possible choice for Wedding Videography The new M.Zuiko Digital Ed 12‑100mm F4 IS PRO is a 24-200mm equivalent zoom for the Micro Four Thirds system. On paper, it’s the ideal travel lens, and we were lucky enough to bring one back from Photokina last week to try out. So how does it stack up? That’s what we wanted to know, so we spent a jet-lagged morning back in Seattle trying it out with the OM-D E-M1. And we […]

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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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Top pick for Sydney Wedding venues

In Sydney, we are lucky to have our pick of perfect wedding locations, and therefore, perfect snapshots of your special day. For the more traditional, there are ample numbers of churches and indoor locations. However, if you enjoy scenery, perhaps consider gardens, a beach, or Sydney icons like the Opera House as your wedding backdrop. At Colour 18 Weddings, we accommodate for your taste and preference so you can comfortably plan your dream wedding. Below are a run-down of the […]

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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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Is a wedding planner responsible for a toilet cleaner duties too?

Your wedding coordinator is there to design your wedding day, keep your bridal party and vendors on schedule, avert disasters—and do it all with a smile. And while her job may look like a lot of fun, it’s not all champagne and roses. In fact, there are some things she’d like you to know but she doesn’t have the heart to tell you. Here, big names in the biz dish their dirty little secrets. 1. “We’re not your personal assistants.” […]

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