Beige & Harley’s Pre Wedding Portarits

By Brook Desmond Wednesday, March 21, 2012 0 Blog No tags Permalink 0

Beige & Harley

During the winter season of last year we embarked on a journey into the Kimberly region of Western Australia’s far north. The objective of this was to photograph the Wedding of Shannon and Kenneth at Home Valley station just out of Kununurra. One of the crazy bridesmaids there was Shannons cousin Beige, who also travelled up from Perth to spend the day with her beloved family. On the Wedding day we had a blast and this young lady brought a lot of fun to the party that’s for sure. She talked of hosting her own Wedding one day at the same venue and having the same brilliant photographer (Your Truly) there to photograph her day.

Several months later I was contacted by Beige saying she was in need of a Wedding Photographer as her partner Harley and proposed to her. Well that happened fast and so the ball began to roll. The Wedding however was to be held in the South West of Western Australia in Yallingup’s Leeuwin estate, a far cry from the Home valley station of the outback.

To prepare for the Wedding we met with the couple for our standard pre Wedding portrait session or engagement session. Sometimes this is the first time that the bridal couple to be has actually been professionally photographed together, and so it acts as a real practice session for what the Wedding day will be like. Getting that smile to stay on for great periods of time, practice holding each other and embracing, getting used to the magic that will flow on the day and of course doing it all in front of a someone with a camera and on cue.

Harley and Beige became engaged while on a trip to Paris. Isn’t that just so romantic. So for the pre Wedding portraits they wanted the look that kind of had a classy romantic Paris feel. Harley spotted a beautiful little terraced park in Subiaco and after scouting it out we decided that this was the right location.

At the session Harley and Beige brought with them some of Beige’s Grandfathers handy artwork, their save the date notification and names cut out from timber. This prop plus her favourite teddy of all time also starred in the photo-shoot.

The beautiful evening light and shaded area under the trees provided a great location to work with this beautiful young couple. And this resulted in some fantastic candid and natural portraits being captured.

Next stop is the couples Wedding down south next year, and with plenty of promise to come and a stunner of a day to prepare for.