CineMotive · Photography & Film Proposal

Tamara & Slav

Sunday, 21 February 2027
St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox, BlacktownThe Victorian, Clarence House · BelmorePhoto & Film by CineMotive
From Our Conversation

What You Told Me

Before the collections, here's the day as I heard it — so what follows is shaped around your wedding, not built from a menu.

The Look
A clean, timeless edit — natural colour, nothing over-processed or washed out. You know the look you want, and it's the reason you reached out in the first place.
The Whole Day
You'd rather relive the day in full than in a few highlights. As you put it — you only live it once, so the longer film matters more to you than a short clip.
The Morning
The Serbian morning at your place — the family gathered, the pretend bride, Slav arriving to collect you. It's where the character of the day begins.
The Ceremony
At St Nicholas, the ceremony speaks through chanting and ritual rather than vows. The film is built to hold that — the sound and the tradition, not dialogue.
The Dancing
And the dancing. A Serbian reception lives on the floor, and that energy is a big part of what you'll want to sit back and watch again.
Kept Considered
No engagement shoot, no album to decide on now — kept simple. Every photo and every frame of footage delivered on a drive, and your gallery online for life.
The Shape of the Day

Flow of the Day

A working sketch of how 21 February moves. The morning and the half-hour after the ceremony are where timing gets tight — that's where we plan hardest, together, closer to the day.

From 10:30am
Two Homes at Once
Slav gets ready in Fairfield Heights, you in Green Valley — about fifteen minutes apart. A team at each home so both mornings are covered in full, nothing missed on either side.
~12:00 – 1:00pm
The Collection · Kupovina Mlade
Slav and his party arrive at your place to collect you — the bargaining with your family, the pretend bride, and then you. The heart of the Serbian morning, and we cover it from both sides at once.
2:00 – 3:45pm
The Ceremony · St Nicholas
The service at Blacktown, the greetings afterward, and family photographs. The second team sets up multi-angle at the church while the first wraps the morning.
~4:00 – 5:30pm · TBA
Photo Session
A relaxed window between church and reception for the two of you and the bridal party. We'll choose the location together at the planning session, with a wet-weather option locked in.
6:00 – 11:30pm
The Victorian · Clarence House
Guests in from six. Entrances, speeches, the cutting of the cake, and the dancing through to close — held on a locked multi-camera setup so nothing on the floor is missed.
Coverage

Why Two Teams

Two homes at once, and a morning built around one set-piece — the collection of the bride. That's where a second team earns its place: both teams at your house for the kupovina mlade, capturing the bargaining and the pretend bride from each side. After the church, one team is the right call.

Team One
With you, start to finish
Green Valley
Your morning, and the collection from your side — the pretend bride, then you.
St Nicholas
The ceremony from the primary angles.
Photo session
The two of you and the bridal party.
The Victorian
Through to close, around 11:30pm.
Team Two
The morning & the church
Fairfield Heights
Slav's morning with the boys, in full.
On to Green Valley
Follows the groom's party in — the bargaining and the pretend bride from Slav's side.
Ahead to church
A head start to set cameras and audio while Team One wraps the collection.
St Nicholas, then wraps
Second-angle ceremony coverage, wrapping once the family photos are done.
At the Reception
With around 150 guests in the Victorian room, one team is the right fit. I cover the night on a locked multi-camera setup — cameras fixed on the key angles plus one in hand — so the entrances, the speeches and the dancing are all held, without a crowd of shooters on the floor.
Ways to Relive Your Day

Wedding Film Experiences

Every couple connects with their wedding memories differently. Some want something short, cinematic and instantly shareable. Others want a deeper, more immersive way to step back into the atmosphere, emotion and natural flow of the day.

01

Teaser Film

The Excitement

A short, emotionally driven snapshot of the atmosphere, energy and anticipation of your wedding day.

Best for sharing shortly after the wedding.

02

Highlight Film

The Emotion

A cinematic retelling of your day, crafted with music, movement, natural audio and emotional pacing.

Best for reliving the essence of the day.

03

Episode‑Length Film

The Experience

A deeper, more immersive film that preserves more interaction, atmosphere, dialogue and natural flow.

Best for couples wanting a more complete cinematic story.

Explore Episode-Length Films
04

Documentary Film

The Memories in Full

Longer-form coverage preserving full ceremonies, speeches, live audio and important moments as they unfolded. Documentary Film comes in three flavours, depending on how much of the day you want preserved.

Basic Doco Up to 1.5 hours — the core moments in one fuller film.

Standard Doco The full day, beautifully told.

Extended Doco Everything in Standard, with more of what matters.

Best for preserving the day in its fullest form.

Explore Documentary Films

Many couples choose a combination of film experiences, allowing different parts of the day to be preserved in different ways.

And Every Photograph

A Full Wedding Gallery

Beyond the films, every photograph from the day — culled to the best of the best — lives in a private online gallery. High-resolution for printing, web-ready for sharing, and yours to keep for life. Have a look through a full gallery to see how it feels to move back through a whole day.

View a full gallery
The Collections

Three Ways to Do It

Coverage and photography are the same in every collection — two teams through the morning and church, the full gallery, your day captured without limits. What changes is how much of the day you relive on film.

The Essentials
Beautifully covered, simply told.
$9,000
$8,100
10% Early Bird
  • Two teams through the morning & church — photographer + cinematographer at each home
  • The kupovina mlade captured from both sides — yours and Slav's
  • Lead team through to close (~11:30pm) on a locked multi-camera reception setup
  • Full photography, no limit — clean, timeless edit
  • Sneak-peek gallery — 20–30 edited photos within two weeks
  • Private online gallery, high-res & web, hosted for life
  • Teaser Film — 40–60 seconds, within two weeks
  • Highlight Film — up to 5 minutes
  • Documentary · Basic — up to 1.5 hrs: full ceremony, entrances, speeches, first dance
  • All RAW photos & footage on a hard drive we provide
Select & Customise
Recommended
The Full Story
The whole day, the way you described it.
$11,000
$9,900
10% Early Bird
  • Two teams through the morning & church — photographer + cinematographer at each home
  • The kupovina mlade captured from both sides — yours and Slav's
  • Lead team through to close (~11:30pm) on a locked multi-camera reception setup
  • Full photography, no limit — clean, timeless edit
  • Sneak-peek gallery — 20–30 edited photos within two weeks
  • Private online gallery, high-res & web, hosted for life
  • Teaser Film — 40–60 seconds, within two weeks
  • Highlight Film — up to 8 minutes
  • Documentary · Standard — the full day: preps, full ceremony, all reception formalities, 5 min of each dance bracket
  • All RAW photos & footage on a hard drive we provide
Select & Customise
The Complete
Every part of the day, held in full.
$13,000
$11,700
10% Early Bird
  • Two teams through the morning & church — photographer + cinematographer at each home
  • The kupovina mlade captured from both sides — yours and Slav's
  • Lead team through to close (~11:30pm) on a locked multi-camera reception setup
  • Full photography, no limit — clean, timeless edit
  • Sneak-peek gallery — 20–30 edited photos within two weeks
  • Private online gallery, high-res & web, hosted for life
  • Teaser Film — 40–60 seconds, within two weeks
  • Highlight Film — up to 10 minutes
  • Documentary · Extended — everything in Standard, plus extended morning traditions (up to 10 min per home), the photo session, more of every dance bracket, and the farewells
  • All RAW photos & footage on a hard drive we provide
Select & Customise

These are starting points, not fixed menus — every collection is shaped further with you, and any line can be adjusted. Prices shown at the 10% Early Bird rate.

Optional

Add If You'd Like

None of this is needed to complete your collection. But each can be added if you decide you'd like more — and most of them, even after the wedding.

Fine-Art Album
$1,700
A hand-bound, printed album — the day in your hands, not just on a screen. Designed with you from the finished gallery.
Add anytime, even after the wedding
Pre-Wedding Session
$850
A relaxed shoot before the day — a chance to be in front of the camera together first, so the wedding feels familiar.
Before the wedding
Extended Documentary Upgrade
$650
Lifts The Full Story's Standard documentary to Extended — the extended morning traditions, the photo session and the farewells.
Add later from your footage
Episode-Length Film
$2,500
Up to 40 minutes — the full ceremony and speeches carried inside a cinematic edit of the preps, photoshoot and reception.
Add later from your footage

The 10% Early Bird applies to these too — the album is the one fixed item, held at $1,700 whenever you add it.

Why It Matters

You Experience Your Wedding Three Times

Once in the planning, once on the day, and once for the rest of your life. Everything we do is built around those three.

Before
Begin
Before anything is filmed, we map how your day actually moves — the morning, the collection, the twenty minutes after church — so the timing serves you instead of chasing you.
The Day
Feel
On the day, you're in it — present — while we carry the run sheet, the locations and the timing. The logistics are ours; the day is yours.
For Life
Remember
Everything after is yours to return to — not just a record of the day, but a way back into it, years from now, when it means even more.

Some moments reveal their value only with time.

The future doesn't decide what mattered — it reveals what always did. That's what the longer film holds: not the parts you'd remember anyway, but the ones you'll be glad you kept.

Where to From Here

The Next Step

Whenever you and Slav are ready — here's how it comes together. No rush, and any part of it can be talked through first.

01
Choose your collection
Pick the one that fits — we can adjust any line together.
02
Secure your date
A $2,000 deposit holds 21 February 2027. The balance is due ten days before the wedding.
03
Plan it together
Closer to the day, we map every detail in your planning session.
The Essentials The Full Story The Complete

Prefer to talk it through first? Book a planning session →

However you choose, your teaser arrives within two weeks, and every photograph and frame of footage comes back to you on your hard drive — with the gallery online for life.

John Poulakis
Director · CineMotive
john@cinemotive.com.au
Scroll to Top