Emily Raftery Photography | Olivia & Sam’s Wedding

Olivia & Sam’s Wedding

Devonport, Auckland

November 29th, 2015

You know you’re meeting a pretty cool couple when the groom-to-be offers to give your daughter skate boarding lessons as part contra. Olivia and Sam are an awesome, down to earth, gorgeous and generous couple who really would have been happy wearing their skate shoes instead of wedding attire. Oh wait, hang on, Sam did.

The wedding was all based locally to where Olivia grew up, which also happens to be where I grew up too. So it was sort of like having the wedding at home, with Devonport being the entire back yard. The ceremony was on the cliff top over looking Narrowneck beach, a beach where both of us would have spent a lot of time swimming at while growing up. Following the ceremony it was a quick stroll for guests – shoes or not – down the hill after to relax by the beach while we nipped off for photographs. I always love photographing weddings in my own ‘backyard’, it makes for fun little missions to local spots we both had spent a lot of time at growing up, which I always love seeing in wedding setting.

All the best you two, and thank you so much for trusting me with capturing your gorgeous day.