Melbourne CBD Wedding Photography
Cathedral stone, laneway paint and river light, all inside a ten-minute walk
Melbourne’s centre still runs on Robert Hoddle’s 1837 grid, one mile by half a mile of 30-metre-wide streets, with the laneways and arcades threaded through the blocks. Inside that walk are St Paul’s Cathedral, Flinders Street Station, Parliament House, the State Library and Hosier Lane, with the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens on the northern edge and the Yarra, Southbank and the Royal Botanic Gardens to the south. Couples marry in cathedral halls, hotel ballrooms, garden pavilions and the ballrooms at Crown.
We have photographed Pascale and Pasquale’s ceremony at the Chapter House beside St Paul’s with portraits at Parliament House, Frances and Tim’s wedding at Gardens House and The Terrace inside the Royal Botanic Gardens, and Danielle and Michael’s reception at Palladium at Crown in Southbank, with the skyline session shot as the towers lit up. Jip and Sarit’s pre-wedding session finished in Hosier Lane at dusk.
Emma & George
Pearl & Allen
Danielle & Michael
Frances & Tim
Becky and Gyu
Helen and Jonathan
Bianca and Mark
Sun and Jiang
Sofitel Melbourne on Collins wedding
Stephanie and Nicholas
Holly and Daniel
Greg and Pat
Rebecca and Geordie
Carlton Gardens wedding
Naomi and Hector
Vivian and Tony
Ruth and Chelsea
Annabel and Sam
Photographing weddings in Melbourne CBD
Late in the afternoon the east-west laneways funnel warm light between the buildings, so we plan the route like a tram timetable and do a shot-list recce the week before. Blue hour is the hour here: the buildings light up while there is still colour in the sky, and Parliament’s steps look as good then as at noon. Hosier Lane is a tourist spot, so we work fast. The Botanic Gardens are closed to cars; allow for the walk. The galleries above are all city weddings and sessions.