How they met
Olivia and Lee both grew up in country Victoria, and both knew from the start that a city wedding wasn’t the answer. The church in Clarke’s Hill had been part of Olivia’s family for decades. Dean Hall, just down the Ballarat-Daylesford Road, was the natural choice for what came after.
The day
St Peter’s Church sits on the Ballarat-Daylesford Road in Clarke’s Hill, a simple white weatherboard building that holds more history than it lets on. April light in central Victoria is generous and low, and the church catches it well.
The ceremony was traditional in the best sense: unhurried, full of people who’d known this couple for years, and with a quality of attention in the room that you feel rather than hear. Olivia walked the aisle to complete silence and it was the right choice.
From the church it was a short drive along the road to Dean Hall for the reception: a country hall in the way that means something, with long tables and a kitchen that had been busy since morning.
Six hours of coverage that captured two of the quietest, most grounded people I’ve photographed.
A moment from the day
“We didn’t want anything flashy. We wanted it to feel real. It did.” – Olivia
