Halden Halden

The work.

Six weddings, shown in the order the days happened. Nothing here is staged and nothing has been moved.

Ida and Tom

Basket Range, March

Ninety guests in an apple shed, and a storm that arrived twenty minutes into the speeches and stayed.

Rows of mismatched wooden chairs in an empty apple packing shed.
The shed, before anyone.
Two pairs of hands pinning a buttonhole flower to a dark lapel.
Her mother, pinning something.
A bride walking past close to camera, guests behind her turned toward the front.
The walk in.
Rain running down a perspex shed roof light seen from underneath.
Rain on the roof light.
Seated guests listening during speeches, the speaker out of focus.
The speeches, from the side.
A wedding dance floor late at night lit only by string lights and one lamp, photographed from the edge of the room.
The dancing, after the power came back.

Neve and Josef

Uraidla, October

A ceremony at the end of a driveway lined with people who had all driven up from the city that morning.

A gravel drive lined both sides with standing guests, low morning sun across it.
The driveway.
A man in a plain suit waiting alone at the end of a drive, seen from behind.
Josef, waiting.
Two pairs of hands holding a folded sheet of handwritten vows.
The vows.
An old sedan driving away down a gravel drive, dust glowing in low sun.
The drive back down.
A long trestle table mid meal under strung bulbs, guests down both sides.
The long table.

Rosa and Danny

Lobethal, February

Forty degrees, a tin roof, and the best afternoon of the year.

A crowded farmhouse kitchen on a hot day, back door open and blown out with light.
The kitchen.
Bottles pushed into melting ice in a concrete laundry trough, hard overhead sun.
Ice in a laundry tub.
Wedding guests seated in the shade of an open iron shed on a very hot day, hard sunlight and dry grass beyond the opening.
The ceremony, in the shade.
Men in untucked shirts with sleeves rolled, laughing in hard low afternoon sun.
The shirt situation by four o’clock.
Guests running through a garden sprinkler, the spray backlit by low sun.
The sprinkler.

Wren and Aditi

Piccadilly Valley, November

Two families who had met once, and a lunch that ran until it was dark.

Two women in their sixties laughing at something off frame, dappled light.
The two mothers.
Four people carrying a long trestle table across a lawn in hard afternoon sun.
The table being carried out.
An outdoor ceremony under a large tree seen from behind the standing guests.
The ceremony.
Glasses raised down a long table at dusk under strung bulbs.
The toast.
Guests reduced to silhouettes against the last orange band on the horizon.
The last of the light.

Clare and Sam

Mount Torrens, April

Eleven guests, a registry office in the morning and a paddock in the afternoon.

A plain registry office room, a couple signing at a desk in window light.
The office.
A country road seen through a windscreen from the back seat of a car.
The drive.
Eleven guests standing in a circle around a small ceremony in a green hillside paddock.
The paddock.
A farm dog sitting among the shoes and legs of wedding guests on dry grass.
The dog.
A small table set for eleven lit only by candles and one lamp.
Dinner for eleven.

Maia and Ollie

Balhannah, December

The only wedding where she has been asked to photograph the washing up, and the only one where the washing up was the best part.

People carrying chairs and laying a cloth in a garden in flat morning sun.
The setup.
A small December ceremony in a bare backyard under hard high summer sun.
The ceremony.
A long table eating in the dappled shade of a big tree on a hot afternoon.
The meal.
Two people in wedding clothes washing up together under one kitchen light.
The kitchen, after.
A packed dark dance floor with arms up, lit by one hanging bulb.
The last song.

Tell her about the day.

Tell her about the day