Warrawong Estate · Eynesbury, Victoria

Tamara & Shannon

Chapter / GETTING READY

They have their own ideas.

A timber building and garden at Warrawong Estate.
Tamara sits with a young child in a sunlit room.
A bridesmaid looks back while another woman adjusts the fabric of her dress.
Hands fasten a bracelet around a tattooed arm.
Two women help Tamara with her wedding dress beside the window.
Tamara stands in soft window light in her wedding dress.
A young boy stands in window light while Shannon gets ready behind him.
Shannon adjusts his cuffs in his brown wedding suit.
A woman in green fastens Shannon’s boutonniere.

Chapter / THE CEREMONY

Try saying it slowly.

White fabric hangs from the timber arbour at Warrawong Estate.
Two young men sit among the ceremony chairs while guests wait behind them.
Shannon watches the aisle with a small smile.
Tamara arrives at the ceremony with children beside her.
Tamara and Shannon face each other beneath the arbour in black and white.
Shannon looks towards Tamara during the wedding ceremony.
Tamara smiles as she speaks during the ceremony.
Tamara and Shannon kiss beneath the draped timber arbour.
Tamara raises her arm as she and Shannon walk back through their guests in black and white.
Tamara embraces a guest after the ceremony.
Tamara kisses a young girl on the head as they embrace after the ceremony.

Chapter / OUT IN THE PADDOCK

Just out of earshot.

Tamara and Shannon stand in the shadows of the timber barn doorway.
Tamara and Shannon stand close together in the open paddock.
Tamara and Shannon kiss in the paddock with her veil lifted around them.
The couple walk away together past a tree in the paddock.
Tamara and Shannon laugh together outdoors in black and white.

Chapter / THE RECEPTION

Past their bedtime.

Lights run along the timber rafters inside the reception barn.
A small child in a cap sits at a timber table in the barn.
Two young children play with wooden toys at the reception table.
A young boy walks into the reception in a pink suit.
Guests in orange dresses dance together at the reception.
Tamara wipes a tear from her eye during the speeches.
A guest watches the speeches in warm backlight.
A young child in a black jacket looks upwards at the reception in black and white.
Shannon laughs beside Tamara at the reception table.
Tamara and Shannon dance beneath the barn lights in black and white.
Tamara dances among her guests under pink reception lights.
Shannon and a young guest share a moment on the dance floor.
Tamara and Shannon lean close in a pool of warm light outside at night.
Tamara and Shannon stand together in the darkness outside the lit barn.