Sydney Opera House · Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW
Destination Pre-Wedding · Region: NSW - Sydney CBD · City: Sydney · Venue: Sydney Opera House
Jeannette and Pierre’s pre-wedding session: portraits at Sydney Opera House. The gallery below is 67 frames, in the order they happened.
Portraits: Sydney Opera House, Sydney.
The gallery is the pre-wedding session in full: 67 photographs in the order they happened. Veri’s featured edit of this wedding is on its own page, linked below.
The Sydney Opera House stands on Bennelong Point between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, next to the Royal Botanic Garden and across the water from the Harbour Bridge. Jørn Utzon won the design competition in 1957, construction started in 1959 and Queen Elizabeth II opened the building on 20 October 1973. The shells are precast concrete clad in over a million glossy white and matte cream tiles, and the building runs 183 metres long. It was added to the World Heritage list in 2007.
For couples it is a portrait location rather than a ceremony venue: the forecourt and the wide Monumental Steps are public, and the harbour foreshore runs from here around Circular Quay to The Rocks. Veri photographed Jeannette and Pierre’s pre-wedding session across exactly that loop, the Opera House, The Rocks, the Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout and Circular Quay, before heading out to Cape Banks at La Perouse and the Bradleys Head amphitheatre at Mosman.