A CineMotive Proposal · Prepared with care

Robbie & Tara

Saturday 11 December 2027 · Oatlands Estate
Put together for you by John Poulakis · with thanks to Elvis for the introduction
What matters to you

A day that feels genuine — and stays that way for life

You said it beautifully, so I've built everything here around it. What you're after isn't a run of posed setups — it's a warm, relaxed day where the two of you and everyone you love can simply be present, and the moments in between are captured as they happen.

Relaxed, never rushed

Both of you are a little camera shy, so the priority is a team that helps you forget we're there. We plan the flow so nobody's marched from one photo to the next — the ease you feel is what ends up on screen.

Family, faith & heritage

Your Croatian heritage, your families and the faith woven through the day are all captured naturally as they unfold — not staged, just seen. Cultural celebrations are a large part of what we do.

The people who matter most

The speeches, your families, and your grandparents especially. These are the frames couples return to for decades — and full-day presence is what makes sure none of them are missed.

A film you'll re-watch

You told me you've watched your parents' wedding video more times than you can count. That's exactly what we're making here — the record you'll return to, and one day watch with your own family.

How your day looks

The shape of 11 December

Here's the day as you've described it. We'll firm up the finer timings together — but this is what the coverage is built to hold.

From ~8:00–8:30am

Getting ready — both family homes

The two of you preparing at your family homes at the same time — Tara in Kellyville, Robbie in Mulgoa. The quiet, in-between moments of the morning with the people closest to you — often where the day's best frames quietly live.

Around 1:00pm

Ceremony · Blacktown

Your ceremony at the Church of Our Lady of the Great Croatian Covenant in Blacktown — vows, faith and family, captured in full at its own natural pace.

Afternoon

Portraits, unrushed

A relaxed window for the two of you and your families — built with enough breathing room that it never feels like a checklist. We choose the locations and carry a wet-weather plan so you don't have to think about it. With a mid-December sunset near 8pm, there's a long, easy golden-hour window to work with.

Through to ~11:00–11:30pm

Celebration at Oatlands Estate

Arrivals, speeches, the dancing and everything in between — right through to the last of the night. Full-day presence means the energy of the whole celebration is there, start to finish.

Roughly fifteen hours, held calmly — so the day never carries a rushed feeling into the middle of it.

The coverage, and why

Two homes, two mornings — covered at once

Because you're both getting ready at your own family homes at the same time — Tara in Kellyville, Robbie in Mulgoa, on opposite sides of the city — a single team simply can't be in both places. So every option below covers your morning with two people, not one — this isn't an upgrade you're paying extra for, it's what covering two homes across the city at once requires.

Robbie's morning — Mulgoa

Your side of the morning covered in full at your family home — the preparation, the family, the moments before you leave.

Tara's morning — Kellyville

Yours covered in parallel at the same time — nothing missed on either side, the two stories then joining as one for the rest of the day.

A Croatian note

And if you're keeping the tradition of Robbie arriving at Tara's family home before the church — the lighthearted presenting of the bride before the real Tara is brought out — we'll build the morning's choreography around it, so it's caught the way it should be. It's exactly the kind of cultural moment we plan for, and part of why we map the morning together rather than guess at it.

From there the teams move together as one crew. The choice between the options below isn't about how many people — it's photography alone, or photography and film together, and how fully you'd like the film to hold the day.

Referral rate · 10% applied

Three ways to hold the day

Each is built around the exact coverage above. You asked to see it with film and without — so here's both, plus the fullest version for when you want the whole day kept.

Option One

The Photography Collection

Photography, in full
$7,000$6,300
Referral rate — 10% off
  • Coverage
  • 2 photographers
  • Both family homes covered in the morning
  • Lead photographer stays to the end of the night (~11:30pm)
  • Second photographer through to the end of reception formalities (~9:30pm)
  • Photography
  • Full edited high-resolution gallery, print-ready
  • Sneak-peek preview within 2 weeks of the wedding
  • Private online gallery to share & download
  • All RAW photos, on a hard drive you supply
  • Also included
  • Complimentary Pre-Wedding Session
  • Your Wedding Planning Session
Tailored to you — shaped together in your planning session
Our recommendation
Option Two

The Full Story

Photography & film together
$12,900$11,610
Referral rate — 10% off
  • Coverage
  • 2 photographers + 2 cinematographers
  • Both family homes covered on photo & film in the morning
  • Lead photo & film team to the end of the night (~11:30pm)
  • Second photo & film team through to the end of reception formalities (~9:30pm)
  • Photography
  • Full edited high-resolution gallery, print-ready
  • Sneak-peek preview within 2 weeks
  • Private online gallery to share & download
  • Film
  • Teaser Film
  • 5-minute Highlight Film
  • Extended Documentary Film — extended preps & cultural traditions at both homes, full ceremony, all speeches in full, photo session & farewells
  • Also included
  • All RAW photos & footage, on a hard drive you supply
  • Complimentary Pre-Wedding Session
  • Your Wedding Planning Session
Tailored to you — shaped together in your planning session
Option Three

The Complete

The whole day, kept
$15,900$14,310
Referral rate — 10% off
  • Coverage
  • 2 photographers + 2 cinematographers
  • Both family homes covered on photo & film in the morning
  • Lead photo & film team to the end of the night (~11:30pm)
  • Second photo & film team through to the end of reception formalities (~9:30pm)
  • Photography
  • Full edited high-resolution gallery, print-ready
  • Sneak-peek preview within 2 weeks
  • Private online gallery to share & download
  • Film
  • Teaser Film
  • 5-minute Highlight Film
  • Extended Documentary Film — extended preps & cultural traditions at both homes, full ceremony, all speeches in full, photo session & farewells
  • Episode-Length Film — a longer, story-driven edit of your day
  • Keepsake
  • Heirloom fine-art album, designed with you
  • Also included
  • All RAW photos & footage, on a hard drive you supply
  • Complimentary Pre-Wedding Session
  • Your Wedding Planning Session
Tailored to you — shaped together in your planning session

Nothing here is set in stone. Each collection is a starting point — we'll shape every detail around your day together in your Wedding Planning Session.

Optional extras

Tailor it further

Anything here can be added to any collection. Where your referral rate applies, the discounted price is shown — and a couple of these are already part of the fuller collections, noted below.

Episode-Length Film — a longer, story-driven editAdd to The Full Story · included in The Complete · see what an Episode film is → $2,500$2,250
Heirloom fine-art album, designed with youIncluded in The Complete · add any time, even after the wedding · view the album collections → $1,700
Keep your second team to the end of the nightRather than wrapping after reception formalities On request
Additional hour of coveragePer hour, per team $650$585
Drone / aerial coverage On request

You experience your wedding three times

How we think about the whole of it — not just the day itself, but the shape around it.

I

Before

In the planning. We map how the day will actually flow so the morning and the moments after the ceremony stay calm — and your complimentary pre-wedding session lets the camera start to feel like nothing at all.

II

The Day

In the living of it. Two teams, both homes, nobody marched around — just the two of you present with your families, while we quietly keep the timing so you never feel it.

III

For Life

In the reliving. The film, the album, the frames you'll return to for decades — the way you already return to your parents' video. This is the part that lasts longest of all.

Whichever you choose

In every collection

Everything handled in-house — photography, cinematography and editing, all by our own team, start to finish.

A Wedding Planning Session where we map the flow of your day together before anything is locked in.

The same people the whole way — from your first session through to your final films and album.

Culturally fluent coverage — we read the moments of a Croatian celebration as they come, without being told.

We conduct the timing on the day — locations, wet-weather plans and the running order, so you don't carry any of it.

A natural, unposed approach — timeless over trend, atmosphere over arrangement.

Some moments reveal their value only with time.

The next step

Whenever you're ready

There's no rush at all — take your time with it, and talk it over between you. When you have a sense of which collection feels closest, just tell me the one you're leaning towards and I'll prepare the official quote for you to accept. If you'd rather talk it through first, or shape a few details together, I'm always happy to.

Simple booking terms

$2,000 booking deposit on accepting the official quote — that's what secures your date.

Final balance due the week before the wedding.

Nothing in between — no hidden stages, no surprises.

Looking forward to it, Robbie & Tara. John Poulakis · CineMotive
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