Dina & George
Understated — but not underplayed.
You've both done a wedding before, so you know what you want this one to be: relaxed, warm, no fuss for its own sake — and still every bit worth marking properly. That's exactly how I'll shoot it.
An 11am ceremony under the gazebo in the garden, lunch in the Rebecca Room, and out by three. Seventy or eighty of your closest people. No bridal party, nothing to over-choreograph — just a lovely afternoon that happens to be one of the most important of your lives.
And when I realised I'd already had the joy of photographing weddings in George's family, it stopped feeling like a first meeting and started feeling like being welcomed back.
Eleven till three, unhurried.
9:30 am – 3:00 pm, one photographer, the whole day covered. If Oatlands can give you a room on site to get ready in, we simply start at 10:00 — the earlier start is there so travel never eats into your moments, and it's built in at no extra cost.
The one thing to sort out.
You were hoping for a room on site — and you might be right. The adjoining room you pictured isn't there, but Oatlands has an upstairs area, and that's likely what you're remembering.
First, the easy win: ask Oatlands whether the upstairs suite is available for you to get ready in. If it is, we start there — no travel, no fuss, and I photograph the whole morning on site.
If it's not available, here are two spots I'd recommend — both about ten minutes from the estate, and both with the space and natural light that make getting-ready photographs quietly beautiful.
Skye Suites Parramatta
Modern suites with room to spread out for hair and makeup and big windows for soft, even light — the easiest kind of room to photograph well.
View on map →PARKROYAL Parramatta
Newly renovated, calm and generous rooms — a reliable, comfortable base to get ready in and an easy run to the estate.
View on map →Two or three things only your day has.
The golf course
The gate beside Oatlands House opens straight onto the fairway. With George's love of the game, we'll take a buggy out for a handful of frames on the green — you've done it before, and it's the kind of photograph that's unmistakably, only yours.
From above
Aerial frames of the estate — the gardens, the gazebo, the two of you small against all that green. It gives the day a sense of place the ground never quite catches.
Weather and airspace on the day permitting.
George, quietly
"He asked me not to fuss over him". Fair enough. But a few unforced portraits of him when he arrives — the larrikin, off guard — will be some of the ones you're most glad exist.
Two ways to hold onto the day.
Photography is the heart of both. The second simply adds the one thing a photograph can't hold — the sound of your vows and the speeches, kept.
The Photography Collection
- One photographer, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
- Ceremony, family & group photographs
- Couple portraits — gardens & the golf course
- Drone / aerial coverage of the estate
- Full professionally edited high-resolution gallery
- Private online gallery & full print release
Photography + Ceremony & Speeches Film
- Everything in The Photography Collection
- Plus, a cinematographer for the moments that speak
- Your full ceremony, edited with the real audio of the day
- Your full speeches, start to finish
A few extras, if they're for you.
CineMotive Socials — The Storyteller
$1,250A dedicated content creator alongside us for the day, delivering two vertical Reels plus all the raw clips — with the real sound of the day — within 48 hours. It's the version your family can share while the confetti's still out, ready before the feeling fades. Five hours of coverage, matched to your day.
Fine-Art Album
$1,700A beautifully bound heirloom of the day's best frames — the thing that ends up on the coffee table, not the hard drive. Can be added at any time, including well after the wedding.
Flat priceSecond Photographer · the ceremony
$650A second angle through the ceremony — reactions from the front while I hold the wider frame. Lovely to have, though for a day this size, not something you need.
A note on pricing: the Socials package and the album are set prices — everything else on this page is shown at your referral rate.
You'll live this day three times.
The anticipation
The planning, the small decisions, the quiet excitement of choosing to do this — together, again.
It goes fast
Eleven till three passes in a blink. You'll be present for your own wedding, which is exactly how it should be — and I'll be the one making sure none of it slips by uncaught.
What stays
A reel your family shares this week. A gallery you'll return to for years. And — if you'd like it — your own voices from the day, kept for good.
Some moments reveal their value only with time.
The things I don't make you ask for.
Tell me the one you're leaning toward.
Reply and let me know which option feels right — and whether you'd like the reel or the album with it — and I'll send the official quote to lock in your date. No rush, no pressure. I'm here for the questions in between, too.
Looking forward to looking after you both.John · CineMotive
