Waterside Wedding Photos

A waterside wedding sits on a lake edge, a harbour deck, a marina lawn or a river bank, and the water does two things for the pictures: it throws light back up into faces, and it gives every frame a flat horizon to sit on. Still water in a sheltered cove reflects; open water in wind does not. The best light comes off the water in the last hour before sunset and again in the blue half hour after it.

We photographed Becky and George’s reception at The Boat House in Barton, beside Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, and stepped out between the speeches for a short sunset session at the water’s edge. At Prince Deck in St Kilda the rooftop looks across St Kilda Marina to Port Phillip Bay, and Georgia and Michael’s sunset portraits beside the bay followed a bright afternoon ceremony. At Crittenden Wines in Dromana the ceremony lawn sits under willows beside the estate lake.