Danja & Andre
Eight Willows Retreat wedding

A July wedding at Eight Willows Retreat in Metricup — vows in the bush under a timber arbour, then the lake in the low winter sun.

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Danja & Andre married at Eight Willows Retreat in July. A South West winter has a reputation, but a clear July afternoon down here is some of the kindest light of the year — low, warm and soft enough to shoot straight into.

The bride got ready laughing with her bridesmaids, then walked down the aisle laughing too. They held hands beneath a timber arbour in the bush for the ceremony, signed the certificate, walked back down the aisle together, and later shared a kiss over champagne glasses.

Then the lake. The lawn runs right down to the water, and with the sun low across it there was room to move — which is how you end up with a groom twirling his bride beside the lake instead of two people standing still.

The veil photographs were made with the sun coming straight through the trees, and a long, straight tree-lined road gave us a clean frame to finish on.