Villa Botanica, Whitsundays Destination Wedding - Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian Photographers - Kirsten & Luke

Kirsten and Luke married each other at one of Australia’s best and most beautiful wedding venues, Villa Botanica in Queensland’s Airlie Beach. With the Whitsundays as the backdrop for your wedding, how can you go wrong? Right!

The bride prepared herself to walk down the aisle in Airlie Beach town, as did the groom. Kirsten and Luke were at different locations though to keep in line with the tradition of the bride and groom not seeing each other on the day of the wedding before the ceremony. This was one tradition they adhered to. The wedding bouquet however, was radicalised. WOW. WOW WOW. Wait until you see the bride’s wedding bouquet. AHHHHmazing.

Luke got himself ready with his brother AND his twin brother. Oh and there was another set of twins in his groom party. Not only were there two sets of twins in the but one twin in each set was called Aaron! Mind. Blown.

Kirsten completed her final wedding preparations at Villa Botanica. Then the moment arrived to walk down the isle and what a stunning entrance this awesome bride made. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful, marked by some hilarious guest appearances by the bride and groom’s son who received his very own wedding ring. So cute!

Post wedding ceremony we took some group shots, followed by some family photos and then we adventured to various areas around Villa Botanica for some bridal party photos. Then we cruised on down to the private beach beside Villa Botanica for some bride and groom couple shots. Our trusty drone of course made an appearance for some epic aerial wedding photos from above.

The newly weds then headed off to prepare for their reception on the epic deck at Villa Botanica (check out the drone shots of the reception setup). The night kicked on with out-of-this-world amazing gourmet entrees and main meals, a cake cutting, first dance and some very hilarious and a few teary speeches.

What an spectacular day at an extraordinary day for two stunning people getting hitched.

We wish you all the happiness in the world Kirsten and Luke!

Enjoy…
Jesse & Mikala

Villa Botanica, Whitsundays, Queensland
Australian Destination Wedding
Ceremony and Reception
Sunshine Coast Drone and Family Photographers

Best of 2019 Wedding Photos - Sunshine Coast, Australian Destination Photographers

2019 was an action packed year for us and our of wedding photography business. In October we photographed 9 weddings in 3 weeks during October. One of these weddings was in country Victoria and four of them were destination weddings on Fraser Island. The rest of them were on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. It was an absolutely bonkers busy time but we loved all of the awesome brides and grooms we worked and created with. Not only that we had a blast meeting all of the bridal parties, family and friends from each and every one of these weddings. We also travelled to New Zealand earlier in the year for a gorgeous destination wedding in Russell (Bay of Islands). We do love ourselves an international destination wedding!

We managed to finish the year by winning a couple of international wedding photography awards too. The first was a Fearless Award which is beyond an honour considering there were over ten thousand photos entered into the competition. The second and most recent was a third placing in the “From Above” category of (this one’s a mouthful) the International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards. Both of these award winning images are pictured just below this text.

Oh and just before Christmas our main Instagram account @alltheloveintheworld_photos was hijacked and has been turned into a Turkish jewellery page. We had 39.1k followers, yep nearly 40, 000. So if you hapen to know how to get a completely hijacked Instagram account (they changed the email and password associated with the account) back we would LOVE to hear from you. Even better if you know someone that works for Instagram please hook us up!

It has been a brilliant year though and we’re so thankful to all the loved up newly married couples we have had the privilege of working with - THANK YOU!!! And to all the wedding vendors we have worked with on the Sunshine Coast and beyond, thank you for your friendship and laughs throughout the year - what a great bunch you all are.

We are so looking forward to photographing all of the couples who have already booked us to photograph their weddings and we can’t wait to meet loads more of you newly engaged couples in the upcoming months. We do love talking ceremonies, receptions, drones, sunset times (yep we’re nerdy like that), cakes, flowers and of course photography, with the newly engaged folk from around the world.

Big Love and a super happy new year to you all!

Jesse & Mikala X

INTERNATIONAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS - 3rd Place “From Above” category
(Photographed at Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island - 3 hours drive from The Sunshine Coast)

FEARLESS AWARD - Winner
(Photographed at Maleny Retreat, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland, Australia)

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Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian
Destination Wedding Photographer

Best Drone Wedding Photos of 2018 - Sunshine Coast Destination Aerial Photographers

Our drone has received quite a workout this year at the weddings we’ve photographed across the Sunshine Coast - Noosa, Maleny, Montville, Mapleton, Caloundra, Nambour, Yandina, Valdora, Obi Obi, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba, Kawana, Point Cartwright, Point Arkwright, Coolum, Beerwah and more. But our trusty drone also travelled to Villa Botanica (Airlie Beach, The Whitsundays), Ireland, Portugal, London, Hong Kong and Melbourne.

We want to thank all the brides and grooms, bridesmaids, groomsmen, friends, family and randoms who trusted us as photographers and also who laid down on sand, grass, wood, rocks, pebbles, bridges, piers, boats, roads and dance floors to get THAT shot. We certainly have a lot of fun during the drone wedding and engagement photo sessions but also ironically our brides and grooms often comment that it was the most relaxing part of their wedding day.

Needless to say our trusty sidekick drone is taking some well earned R&R over the Christmas and New Year break.

Please enjoy some of our favourite drone moments captured at some stunning venues and locations around the world featuring some gorgeous newlyweds.

Merry Christmas and a super Happy New Year to you!

Big love,
Jesse & Mikala X

Maleny to Noosa to Caloundra, Sunshine Coast,
Queensland, Australian Destination
Wedding & Family Photographers

Black & White Wedding Photography - Sunshine Coast Photographer

Colour looks great when used in wedding photography - but so does black and white! Some of our all time favourite wedding photos, whether taken on the Sunshine Coast or in Switzerland, we have edited in black and white. Sometimes this black and white treatment manages to capture the emotion of a moment in a wedding photograph better than colour ever could have. 
Below is a selection of these taken from various weddings and locations including Maroochydore, Maleny, Melbourne and plenty of other places starting with the letter M.

Sunshine Coast Wedding Photographer - Mooloolaba, Maroochydore, Mount Coolum, Noosa, Beach, National Park, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Maleny, Montville, Mapleton, Flaxton, Marcoola, Nambour Caloundra, Kawana, Mount Ninderry, Maroochy Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Byron Bay.