Sally Mussared is the designer and founder Mussared design studio creating handmade silk wedding gowns.

Jesse Hisco is an amazing available light photographer at Jesse Hisco Photography.

Cover Photograph by Andrew Harvey.

Recording by the fabulous Miss Bella Hazelton.

Time stamp

00.25 Jesse’s Procedure

00.56 Ideal Timeline

01.38 Favourite Wedding Elements

03.34 Jesse Hisco Photography’s Uniqueness

04.00 How Jesse Hisco Evolved

05.18 Biggest Tip for Brides

06.05 Most Unique Request

07.23 What to Look for in a Venue

08.10 Jesse’s love story

10.40 Jesse’s Brunswick Studio

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Hopelessly Devoted podcast. I’m bridal gown designer Sally Mussared delivering you the inside tips from Melbourne’s top wedding professionals…

[Sally Mussared] Today we’re thrilled to be here with Jesse Hisco, at Jesse Hisco photography, who…principally weddings?

[Jesse Hisco] Yeah, princ…people.

[Sally] Fantastic. Thank you for…being involved the interview.

[Jesse] Aw, thank you. Pleasure.

Jesse’s Procedure

What happens when a bride first contacts you, what’s your procedure?

For me, generally it’s just that we’ve got to touch base. I think it’s incredibly important that we gel on a personal level. You spend no more extra time with someone on your wedding day than your photographer. So, I find that parts really important, so first thing I do is pick up the phone and have a chat.

Okay. And then?

We arrange to meet, I show them some of my stuff in person. Have a look at what they’ve got planned and what they need to get planned, and then we arrange up a timeline that suits what kind of experience they want to get out of the day.

Ideal Timeline

And what is your ideal timeline?

My timeline really revolves around what they want to get out of the experience. I don’t have a, a set amount of time that I, uh, that I stay on the wedding. I turn up at the start and I leave when they don’t need me anymore. So a lot of the time we just work with them to find out what’s really important, and how we can set up the timeline to suit that experience. So, if they want to spend more time with the guests, well I’m not going to arrange for three hours of us to be spending in a field taking pictures. I want to get them straight into hanging out with the guests. So if that means restructuring the day a little bit and doing something like a first look in the morning so that we can get some of the portraits out of the way. And getting them straight into hanging out with guests. That’s what I’m about.

Favourite Wedding Elements

Okay. Cool. Yeah. What are the elements of your favourite weddings?

Look…it comes down to one thing, it’s gotta be real. I don’t want to see somebody trying to be something that they’re not. I don’t want to see people copying other brides cause they saw something on Pinterest and they thought it was really cool, but it doesn’t really gel with their personality. It’s just got to be real. So I do whatever I can to sort of break down some of those barriers that they might be putting up.

To us, it’s really important that the brides come out in a gown that suits their personality. And it just oozes who they are and comes forth. And we’ve had to build a process where, during the fittings we try and do as much as we can in front of the mirror, so that they actually go; “oh I don’t like that” or “I do like that” or “lets do this”. And that’s where we start to see them shape out of that. How do you draw their personality out?