I’ve always been a fan of rainy day weddings – the umbrellas, the boots, the dramatic skies, the bride and groom surrendering to the uncontroable variable of weather – It’s just romantic to me. So when Love, Joy & Laughter sent over this rainy day picnic style shoot – I was sold. The gorgeous images are enough to make you hope for a rainy day for your upcoming fête, and there is even more to gush over in the full gallery of images!
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From Jess of Love, Joy & Laughter… Tucked away down a long narrow country road, we stumbled upon a little shed in the midst of long grass with a solitary pine tree at one end. Cows eyed us curiously from a safe distance as we poked our heads into the shed, which had fallen into disuse. The doors were wired together, and one side was missing most of the wall. This would be the perfect escape from the rain which had set in and turned our summer-time picnic-style shoot into something a little more challenging. This was the first attempt for us to style a fictional wedding setting, an opportunity to begin to show others a little more of our work as we make the move into this exciting industry.
An old door with cracked and peeling paint was used as the table, propped up on straw bales, and adorned with old linen used in layers, vintage crockery and old silverware. Hessian/burlap was used as a base layer on the table, and as the cake topper: a little heart hand-stitched with wool. Old potato sacks were made into cushions. The bride had a loose bouquet of peonies and David Austen roses with native berries to modernize it, and it was tied with a strip of hessian. The groom rolled up his trousers to keep them from getting wet from the saturated grass, and the bride stayed in her boots. Rain clouds were wrapping themselves around us, parting and forming, turning the countryside into a magical mystical place. This was a fictional shoot but the love we were capturing was very real indeed, as we hope you can feel.
Photography: Love, Joy & Laughter / Flowers: Muesli & Yoghurt / Location: Myrniong, Victoria, Australia / Suit: Jack London / Makeup: Victoria Lennard / Hair Piece: Elizabeth Hirst Millinery
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I love this!! Too sweet!
What a great wedding, I love how much fun it look like they had!
I see the weather played along here ! The cloudiness adds to much to the photos.
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Adorable shoot!!! Absolutely gorgeous!!!
i would love to do something similar how did u come across the shed?
@jacinta: I believe the photographer is out of town right now, so I unfortunately don't have a great answer for you. I'm under the impression they just happened to stumble on the shed while looking for cover after it started raining one day while they were trying to shoot. I'll reply back if I hear otherwise or get more info. Thanks for reading!
Wow! These Wedding Pictures are so beautiful. Amazing Photography work.
To answer the how we found the shed question: I spent quite some time looking for the right location going on drives specifically looking for the right spot... but not finding anything... until we were returning to Melbourne from a weekend camping and spotted a quaint church from the freeway. We took the next exit and cased out the church (which wasn't so quaint up close) and decided to go down a back road to see what else we might find... and we drove a few kilometers and found the SHED! Initially we weren't going to use the shed except as background but upon our arrival there for the shoot it was RAINING and so we had a sneaky look inside and saw that it'd be prefect for setting up... and proceeded to go on a investigative search for the owner so that we could get permission (we'd tried this from Melbourne unsuccessfully). Although he gave us the strangest look and struggled to understand exactly what it was we were doing in such terrible weather he did eventually agree! Hehe... I enjoy rambling! ;)
And thanks for the lovely comments :) The couple were amazing, they had so much fun despite it being really cold and wet!! They kept each other cracking up all day.