Okie Dokie · 6/1-7 Canterbury Rd, Braeside VIC · Melbourne
City: Melbourne · Venue: Okie Dokie
Elissa and Kenny’s wedding day: portraits and the reception, all at Okie Dokie in Braeside. The gallery below is 49 frames, in the order they happened.
Portraits and Reception: Okie Dokie, Braeside.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 49 photographs in the order they happened, from portraits to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Okie Dokie is on Canterbury Road in Braeside, about twenty-five kilometres south-east of the Melbourne CBD in the City of Kingston. Braeside is an unusual wedding address: it is a largely industrial suburb with only a handful of residents, and more than half of it is Braeside Park, a reserve of heathland and trails opened in 1987. That mix, warehouses on one side and open parkland on the other, is what a couple gets when they choose a venue here rather than a city hotel.
Veri photographed Elissa and Kenny’s portraits and reception at Okie Dokie, with the venue doing double duty after their ceremony. A single-venue afternoon and evening like this keeps the day relaxed: no convoy, no clock-watching between locations, and the guests already in the room when the couple walks in.