Private residence, Narre Warren South Wedding Photos
A backyard ceremony in Melbourne’s south-east, family in every doorway, and the city gardens for portraits
Narre Warren South is a residential suburb in the City of Casey, about 39 kilometres south-east of the Melbourne CBD. It was farmland until the mid-1990s and grew quickly through estates such as Berwick Springs, so most of its houses are recent, with backyards built for entertaining. That makes it one of the suburbs where couples still choose to marry at home: a ceremony on the lawn or under the pergola, then a reception in the same house or a marquee out the back.
Veri photographed a wedding here in October 2016, with the ceremony and reception held at the family home and the couple’s portraits made in the Treasury Gardens in the city, about forty minutes up the Monash Freeway. The gallery below is the full contact sheet from that day, nearly 200 frames of a home wedding as it happened.
Photographing a wedding at a private residence in Narre Warren South
A home wedding is photographed differently from a venue. There is no bridal suite, so getting ready happens in bedrooms with window light and family walking through, which is the point. For the ceremony we find the side of the yard with open shade and put the couple against a hedge rather than the house. The city gardens are worth the drive for a change of scale. Veri photographs home weddings across Melbourne’s south-east and is available in Casey and Cardinia. The gallery above is the October 2016 home wedding.