Ashley & Michael - Inner City Pre-Wedding Shoot

We love it when couples choose to shoot their pre-wedding shoot somewhere with significance and meaning to them as a couple, and Ashley & Michael certainly chose well! The gorgeous couple had their first date at Carriageworks in Sydney, viewing a music video exhibition and so chose to capture some images in this area on the date of their engagement anniversary! We really wanted to use the local area around Carriageworks as well as the beautiful Paddington Reservoir for their pre-wedding shoot, so we organised to catch up around 6.30am and get some portraits captured in the early morning light.

The lovely El Nina had some other plans in store, and we ended up shooting for approximately 3 minutes before heading off for a quick coffee to get out of the rain, which Ashley & Michael just took all in their stride and we ended up having an absolute blast hanging out together for a couple of hours. The couple had had plans for an engagement party for the afternoon, but with the C-word still raging through Sydney, and elderly family members being in attendance, they chose to forgo the big plans to celebrate and instead marked the occasion with the shoot followed by their favourite take-away and a good film.

The couple are due to wed at the Beautiful Bendooley Book Barn this coming Winter, and we cannot wait! It’ll be our first time shooting at the gorgeous Southern Highlands venue after having it on our wedding ‘wishlist’ of venues to shoot at, so we are so pumped!

These two are just such a gorgeous couple. They have so much fun together and are so sweet and full of love and joy (as you’ll see in the images), as well as just genuinely lovely humans with a soft sweet side to their dynamic too. We are so looking forward to seeing and celebrating with them on their wedding day and meeting their friends and family and capturing another special moment in time for them!