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

Darin Collison is a superb wedding photographer who creates stories through images at Darin Collison Photography.

Recording by the fabulous Miss Bella Hazelton.

Time Stamps

00:56 Darin’s Procedure

02:30 The Best Weddings

03:20 How it Began

05:51 Why Darin Does It

08:45 Biggest Tip for Brides

09:38 The Strangest Thing

10:47 Soul Mates From the Start

We’re here today with Darin Collison of Darin Collison Photography, who is a beautiful wedding photographer. Thank you for seeing us today.

You’re welcome.

Can you tell us a bit about of what you do?

I take wedding photos. There’s all sorts of ways of taking wedding photos. I try really hard to take photos that tell stories, take photos that show what the day is about, take photos that show behind the scene stuff, intimate moments, things that go on that the bride and groom know are going on but can’t know of on the day because they’re just too busy. I want to provide a document that tells the story of the day, shows what the day was all about at the end of the day.

Lovely.

Yeah.

Darin’s Procedure

And, when a bride and groom contact you, how does your procedure work?

Sure. It’s dead simple, they get in touch normally via emails, sometimes via phone. First step is to send all the relevant info out, pricing, give them a brief overview of how I go about things. By the time people contact me, they’ve been on my website. They’ve got a fair idea of what I do. So, if that work’s for them we get together, we meet, in person or via Skype and if we fit, I shoot their wedding. It’s great.

Lovely. And so do you meet them again before the wedding?

Um, typically not. I used to, but I found more and more of the last week or 2 before the wedding when I need to get all the info, brides and grooms can be really, really busy! So, yeah. So it takes 20 minutes to half an hour on the phone and that’s easy.

Yeah, great!

And then on the day of the wedding, what’s your favourite timeline? What would you ideally…?

I mean ideally everyone would plan their day about taking portraits in the best possible light but that doesn’t happen. Look, I’m just there to tell the story, so I frequently get contacted by brides before the day wanting to know what’s … the make up artist wants to know what time the photographer is gonna be there and that sort of jazz. I just tell everyone to organise the day to suit themselves, the more relaxed and happy the bride and groom are the better the photography will be. So I just work around them.

The Best Weddings

And what elements do your favourite weddings have?

Ha! Good question. I don’t know, my favourite weddings have elements in common beyond a shared and obvious enjoyment of the day from the bride and groom and from their family and friends, weddings…

That’s really lovely.

Yeah, well. If everyone’s emotionally invested in the wedding day and shows it’s brilliant, it’s brilliant as a photographer, it’s brilliant for, for the couple. It just makes for a fun day.

If you think that’s really important, it’s important that their personality comes out and that’s what we try and do with the gowns-

Yeah, for sure.

-it’s to bring forth who they are and what they’re all about, but then they need to just enjoy the day, don’t they?

They need to just enjoy the day. Yeah, and people can do as much planning as they want to before hand. Provided that on the day the planning is done.