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The Decision 07 Your ceremony time isn’t a preference. It’s arithmetic.Your ceremony time isn’t a preference. It’s arith...
09/10/2026

The Decision 07

Your ceremony time isn’t a preference. It’s arithmetic.

Your ceremony time isn’t a preference. It’s arithmetic.

Melbourne sunset, mid-month:

Jan 8:43 · Feb 8:18 · Mar 7:39 · Apr 5:53 · May 5:19 · Jun 5:07 · Jul 5:19 · Aug 5:44 · Sep 6:10 · Oct 7:36 · Nov 8:09 · Dec 8:37

Now work backwards. Never forwards.
Start at the time your venue opens. Take off 90 minutes for portraits — two locations plus the styled room before anyone’s in it. Take off travel, door to door, not map time. Take off 30 to 40 minutes for congratulations and family, straight after the ceremony. Take off the ceremony itself.

What’s left is your ceremony time.

Winter: 12:30 to 1pm. Summer: 2:30 to 3:30, if your venue opens 6:30 to 7.

Here’s the part nobody mentions. Winter costs less, and it also starts earlier. You picked June because the venue was cheaper and the date was free. What comes with it is a lunchtime ceremony, and nobody tells you that before you sign.

And watch the cliff. Sunset on 15 March is 7:39pm. On 15 April it’s 5:53pm. One hour forty-six minutes gone in four weeks, because daylight saving ends the first Sunday in April. I’ve had celebrants turn up an hour out because of it.

No, we can’t just shoot it after dark. Flash gets you one or two images, not a portrait session.
And since nobody asks — autumn is the best light of the year. Summer sun at two in the afternoon isn’t forgiving. If your date is still open, look at March.

Start too early in summer and you’re exhausted before the entrée. Start too late in winter and you’ve got no light at all.
What month is your wedding? Tell me below and I’ll tell you if your timing works.

Cards 2 and 3 are the ones to screenshot.

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Sophia, Prahran. Bradley and Tyler.Sixty metres of room, twenty-six arched windows, and a ceiling nobody has tried to ti...
09/10/2026

Sophia, Prahran. Bradley and Tyler.
Sixty metres of room, twenty-six arched windows, and a ceiling nobody has tried to tidy up.
Here’s what I’d actually tell you about shooting here. The room is already lit. Those arched windows don’t look out onto Chapel Street, they look into the arcade — so the light arrives soft and from one side, all day. No hotspots on the tables, no blown-out windows behind your head table, no scrambling at five o’clock because the sun moved. A room like this photographs the same at four as it does at six.
And the styling knew it. White roses, single stems, clear glass, white candles, black ribbon, black type. That’s it. In a building with this much ornament already on the walls, restraint isn’t playing it safe — it’s the only move that works. Anything louder and you’re competing with a hundred and forty years of plasterwork, and the plasterwork wins.
Long tables down a central aisle, the fireplace and that gilded mirror holding the far end. Everyone can see everyone. Nobody is seated behind a pillar wondering what’s happening.
Photo and film, one team. One crew, one story, nothing competing for your attention in the moment.

The Decision - 06Out of every ten weddings I film, about three have both parents walk the bride in.The other seven, it’s...
02/10/2026

The Decision - 06

Out of every ten weddings I film, about three have both parents walk the bride in.
The other seven, it’s her father on his own. And nobody chose that — it’s just the one nobody questioned.

Here’s what I see through the lens. When both of them walk her in, the frame changes. Two faces beaming instead of one. It stops looking like a handover and starts looking like a shared thing, which is what it actually is.

Most couples never get that shot. Not because they didn’t want it — because nobody offered it to them.

So, five ways in:
→ Both parents, one on each arm → Her father takes her halfway, her mother takes the second half (this is the one divorced families have already solved, and the swap in the middle is the shot) → Both sets of parents — her parents walk her, his parents walk him → Her mother on her own → Her father on his own — still beautiful. Just choose it, don’t default to it

Two things nobody plans for:

The aisle. Three people need a wider one. If this matters to you, ask the venue before you book, not after. Plenty of ceremony spaces have an aisle built for two and you find that out on the morning.

The conversation. Most brides who want both don’t ask, because they think it’ll hurt their dad. Say it as an addition, not a replacement — “I want you both to walk me in.” And ask early, while it’s still a plan and not a correction.

And where I stand on the rest of it: I don’t believe any person is truly given away. I don’t think that’s a father’s to give. The walk isn’t a transfer — it’s the people who raised you taking you as far as they can go, and then letting go.

Who’s walking you in? Tell me below.

— The Decision. A new one every Friday. Follow C2 - Cinematic Wedding Films & Photography. — photo + film, one team.

A few still moments with Andrew & Ilana.
01/10/2026

A few still moments with Andrew & Ilana.

A few still moments with Kane & Zara.
30/09/2026

A few still moments with Kane & Zara.

A few still moments with Jady & Mindi.
29/09/2026

A few still moments with Jady & Mindi.

27/09/2026

Ritz Carlton x Amica

Another gorgeous creation by the ever talented Amica. The brides reaction when she first walked in, was pure unadulterated joy!

The Decision - 05The best thing you can do for your wedding day is free.Seven days apart before the wedding. No contact ...
25/09/2026

The Decision - 05

The best thing you can do for your wedding day is free.
Seven days apart before the wedding. No contact at all — and I mean none. No calls, no texts, no voice notes, no sad emoji at 11pm. If something genuinely can’t wait, a friend passes the message.

Everyone’s first reaction is that it isn’t possible. I did two weeks, and we lived five doors apart from each other. It’s possible.
If you live together, one of you goes to your parents for the week. Seven nights. That’s the whole ask.

Here’s what it does. For months you’ve been talking about seating charts — where your uncle goes because he doesn’t speak to his ex-wife, whether the napkins turned up, what time the bus leaves. Take the conversation away and all of that goes quiet, and what’s left is the two of you and the reason any of it is happening in the first place.

Because weddings eat marriages. It happens slowly and nobody notices. By the last fortnight most couples aren’t planning a marriage any more, they’re running an event. I’ve watched it time and time again.

Then you wake up on the morning excited. Not nervous — excited. Time is the only thing on your whole run sheet that builds anticipation, and nothing you can buy does it.

And when you walk in, there’ll be a hundred and fifty people watching, and you won’t see a single one of them. It all blurs out. There’s just the person at the other end of it.

I’ve pointed a camera down a lot of aisles. You can tell instantly which couples spent the week apart. It isn’t the dress, the flowers, the venue or the light. It’s the face. And the only thing that makes that face is time.

Styling, entertainment, a destination — all of it costs money and none of it does what this does.
Seven days. It’s free.

Think you couldn’t manage it? Tell me below.

The Decision — a new one every Friday. Follow C2 - Cinematic Wedding Films & Photography. so you don’t miss the next one.

A few still moments from Domenic & Theadora.
22/09/2026

A few still moments from Domenic & Theadora.

A few black and whites with a splash of colour. [EDITORIAL/CINEMATIC/ART DOCO]
20/09/2026

A few black and whites with a splash of colour.



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