About half a year ago, my good friend Romy asked me if I could provide the video coverage of his daughter’s wedding in Melbourne.  Being given the opportunity to shoot a different city (aside from Sydney), I got excited and gladly accepted the assignment.  Although it was cold and raining, the city itself did not disappoint.  The wedding locations were all beautiful.

Melissa and David chose their favourite places in Melbourne for the wedding locations.  They would want to preserve the memory of these places because they are set to relocate overseas after the wedding.

David’s preparation video was shot at their residence in the Melbourne CBD.  Melissa’s was at the classy Hotel Windsor.  The ceremony and formal shoots took place at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.  The reception was held at the Melbourne Museum.  What is great though is that we where allowed to shoot in the Museum after business hours when everything is closed to the public.  We had the entire place to ourselves!  How cool is that!

The city by the river really left a good impression with me.  The gardens and architecture are so nice.  I hope to shoot another wedding in Melbourne again.

My good friends from Digital Artworks Australia and Alexander Alba Photography had contracted me to shoot the wedding video of this charming couple.

The ceremony was held at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney.  I wasn’t aware though that the cathedral itself has 2 venues.  The ground floor where the main church is located.  And the smaller venue at the bottom called the Church Crypt.  Our couple’s ceremony took place at the smaller venue which is less-grand but still, a very beautiful location.

The formal shoots took place at the Hyde Park beside the Cathedral.  The reception was at the Stamford Hotel near the airport.

Highlights (summary) video of Maria and Stan’s Wedding which we covered last month.  For a rundown of the event, you can check out my previous post about their wedding photos.

A friend of mine from Roy Grafix Photography had asked me to do the video coverage of a Sri Lankan wedding.  This wedding was during a cruise at Sydney Harbour.  I was happy to be given the chance.  Who wouldn’t want to film a wedding in the middle of our beautiful harbour?  it was a short event so I was the only one who covered it.

We arrived early at a pier in Balls Head Drive, Waverton.  Docked on the pier was a beautiful 6-million dollar boat.  I immediately started filming the boat inside and out.  Renuka and Thilak (together with their closest friends) arrived shortly.  This is the first time I met them.  They’re a very friendly couple

The boat left the pier and headed towards Pyrmont Bay Wharf.  That was the assembly point for all the wedding guests.  After the guests had boarded, we then headed to a bay close to the Sydney Opera house.  The boat anchored and the wedding ceremony began.

During the filming of the ceremony, I experienced a terrible bout of seasickness.  I’ve always enjoyed riding on boats and had never experienced seasickness before.  But this time, it was my first time shooting a video on a boat.  Constantly looking at the camera viewfinder while the boat was swaying gently through the waves was enough to give me a major headache.  Luckily, I didn’t throw up.  I just steeled myself during the ordeal.  It’s a good thing that I was using a monopod to hold the camera.  The videos did ended up fine and I did recover after the ceremony.

There was also an interesting event during the day.  Somebody (not from the boat-party) had tried to propose to a girl by hiring a plane to sky-write his proposal.  The plane wrote “Marry Me”.  A short time later, a new sky writing appeared saying “She answered Yes!” .  Everybody on the boat then cheered the newly-engaged couple — whoever they are.

For this highlights video, Renuka and Thilak requested the song “I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams.  A few days later after the event, the couple flew to Sri Lanka for their grand wedding celebration.  They intended to show this video during that celebration.