Peel
wedding photographer

Farm paddocks at Mardella, a heritage church in Pinjarra, vines and jarrah forest on the edge of the escarpment at Dwellingup — the Peel region starts less than an hour south of Perth and gives you country light without a long drive.

We’ve photographed weddings right through Peel: among the hay bales and post-and-rail fences at Mardella Meadows, beside the dam and the vines at Redgum Wine Estate outside Dwellingup, in St John’s church at Edenvale in Pinjarra, and in the forest near Dwellingup, where a red aisle ran between the trees.

What ties them together is space. Paddocks, gardens and forest are all within a short walk at these places, so the photographs change without anyone getting into a car, and nobody is hurried along by the next booking.

The light is the other reason. Out on open farmland the last hour comes in low and gold; under the jarrah it is soft and green all afternoon, which is kind to faces on a hot day. We plan the day so each part happens in the right light.