We’re based in Sydney, Australia, and happily travel anywhere your celebration takes us. Whether it’s interstate or overseas, we love photographing and filming weddings in new places. We also offer special discounted rates for destination weddings to make bringing us along easy and affordable.

Yes! There is a $150 saving when booking both photography and videography.

Simon started shooting weddings as a photographer in 2008 and Shyani in 2015. Prior to this, Simon was an event, fashion and editorial photographer and worked for big brands like Disney, Vogue, Harper’s BAZAAR and Cosmopolitan. Simon has been fortunate to be able to transfer his passion for photography into videography, often thinking 10 steps ahead to create one of a kind cinematic wedding films.

Shyani started off as a newborn/baby and family photographer in 2012 and has a Diploma in Professional photography as well as mentoring from five of the world's leading wedding photographers and other creatives. 

Yes. When you book Moments Photography & Film you get us -Shyani as your lead photographer and Simon as your videographer. If you add a second shooter for either photography or video, we bring along an experienced team member we know and trust, but we are always the primary creatives on your wedding day.

If you need to move your wedding date for any reason, we will happily transfer your booking to a new date as long as we are available. A detailed cancellation policy is in our contract. 
Please note that the Booking Fee (20% of the total service fee) is non-refundable if the new date is one we cannot accommodate.

We currently take bookings up to 18 months in advance. Just send us an enquiry with the package you are interested in and any add-ons and we will send through a quote. 

We require a 20% non-refundable deposit at the time of booking to secure your date and a balance is payable 7 days prior to your wedding day. 

Yes, absolutely! We set up an initial consultation over the phone or zoom and answer any questions and offer tips we might have from our years of experience. We stay in touch and help with the scheduling and planning and have a final consultation the week prior to your wedding day.
If you have booked a pre-wedding shoot, we spend the afternoon together laughing and getting to know each other in person!

We both 100% believe that ANY two people who are lucky to have found each other have the right to be married! We strongly believe in equality, acceptance and celebrating love.
We are so lucky to meet and work with so many incredible couples and are waiting for the day that this question never needs to be asked!

Photos
We always send through a sneak peek gallery within a few days after the wedding and we aim to deliver everything to you within approximately 4 months of the wedding day. Portrait sessions can take about 4 weeks for final delivery. 

Video
As a 4-minute video takes Simon 40+ hours to edit and we generally spend more time actually shooting than editing during peak seasons (March - May and September - November), the final delivery can take up to 8 months after the wedding day. Simon shoots and edits everything on his own and does not outsource like some of the larger photography/videography companies. We always try and deliver earlier whenever possible because we are excited for you to watch it too!

Photos
For a typical wedding day, expect around 600+ professionally edited, high resolution digital images in an online gallery and a USB so you have something tangible to hold. You can download, print and share these! A print box is included for weddings 10+ hours. We do not impose a limit on the number of photos taken/delivered, you can expect approximately 50-100 edited high resolution images for every hour of coverage. 

If you really love seeing your photos in print, we can assist with professional archival grade prints and albums at your request. 

Video
Simon seems to work 100km/ph at a wedding (at least his brain does) to capture every detail perfectly so he can execute his vision in the editing room - where the real magic happens. He creates a breathtaking 4-6 minute cinematic film, professionally colour graded set to licensed music, often overlaid to your vows/speeches, and focuses on capturing the emotion and love in an engaging and creative way.

You can order the full ceremony and reception speeches separately with the original audio. This will still be edited with multiple camera angles. This depends on the duration, timeline and may require a second videographer. 

Yes we do! And Simon uses this whenever possible for establishing shots for his videos. We are sometimes limited by weather and aviation restrictions (such as being near an airport, private property or military base) but it’s always exciting to be able to see the location where you get married from the sky! 

For a full wedding (with getting ready, ceremony and reception) we find that 8 - 10 hours coverage works perfectly. We end the coverage at 10pm or at the last formality at the reception, whichever happens first. We are more than happy to stick around longer and extra hours can be added on for each of us.

Shorter bookings (elopements and micro-weddings) are available if you don’t need us to hang around for the whole day. 

Funnily enough, if you put either of us in front of the camera, we tend to freeze and be all kinds of awkward (what do I do with my redundant arm?!) - but we DO know how to pose! We have even taken actual courses on it (four of them). 

Our style throughout the day is journalistic, we capture what is happening in front of us and remain as unobtrusive as possible. We work hard to capture the spontaneous laughter, intimate moments and all the good stuff that happens naturally throughout the day.

We are people-centred photographers which means that during your portrait session, we will casually guide you into poses that are the most flattering for you both (these are only tiny adjustments and you won’t even feel the difference and sometimes can be hilarious!). 

A lot of our couples opt to have a pre-wedding shoot for this very reason! They learn our posing methodology and style and it becomes one less thing to be nervous about on the actual wedding day - trust us, you’ve got this! 

Your online gallery will be available for 1 year after we deliver your images and we will keep your images backed up for 6 months after we deliver the gallery or USB. We recommend that you backup your images onto another device or Cloud storage immediately upon receiving your images. 

Your online gallery is password-protected, so only you can share it with friends and family.

Photography and videography are a creative process for us, and we’re proud of the work we create. We love posting highlights on our social media, sharing a blog post on our website (which you’re welcome to share too), and sometimes submitting weddings to online or print publications.

If you would rather keep everything private, just let us know and we will not share your photos or video.

Photos
We keep our editing natural so your images reflect the real day. We make only essential adjustments for exposure, white balance, sharpening and contrast, and we colour-match throughout the gallery so the photos stay consistent as the light changes. We often include a few black-and-white images, especially during the getting-ready moments.

We never airbrush or alter body shapes because we believe everyone is perfect as they are. If something temporary pops up, like a last-minute blemish, we will remove it so the photo reflects you, not a passing pimple.

Video
Simon edits with a clear vision, carefully selecting the most important moments and syncing them to the beats of the soundtrack for an emotive, cinematic feel. He colour-grades each frame to achieve a film-like finish similar to what you see in the cinema. If you would like dialogue layered over the music—such as vows or speeches—he can include it, or skip it if you prefer.

We both use Nikon for photography as it has more minty green/yellow tones (which really only camera nerds like us can tell). For Videography its a mixture of both Sony and Nikon shot using proress 422 log footage that delivers a highly professional cinematic finish.

We also use an array of high quality lenses from Nikon, Sony, Canon and Sigma. Over our 20 years of experience, we have found that some lenses perform better than others and we will mix and match to achieve our look. We usually use mostly prime lenses on the day to achieve those dreamy shots our clients love.

Shyani also (on occasion) shoots with a Pentax 645 Medium Format Film camera for reference photos - there’s something so magical and timeless about old school film which we work very hard to emulate in our digitals in the editing room. Film photography can be added on for an additional cost. 

We usually deliver only the finished films because so much of the magic comes from the edit itself. If you’d still like the raw footage, it must be ordered before the wedding day and we will provide a quote that includes the cost of the hard drive.

Simon shoots in a flat profile (10-bit 4:2:2 log), which means the raw footage is about 3 TB and looks very grey and dull. He then spends 40–50 hours colour-grading, sharpening, and adjusting exposure to create the final 4K film with perfectly matched colour. If you’re curious about the process, you can see an example of colour grading log footage here: Colour grading LOG wedding films using FCPX – no LUTs.

We focus on real moments. Most of the day we quietly observe, anticipating the action so we can capture natural, candid scenes as they happen. When needed we give gentle direction to keep you relaxed and looking your best. Our editing and shooting stay consistent for a clean, timeless finish in every photo.

We know many couples would love to pick their own soundtrack, but to stay within copyright law we can only use properly licensed music. Simon sources every track through MusicBed, which has a huge library, and he spends a lot of time finding a song that matches the mood and pacing of your wedding film.

Licensed music also lets us choose clean instrumental versions so we can weave in vows or speeches without competing vocals. Finding the right track is a careful process because the tempo, build and final crescendo all shape the emotion of the finished edit.

If you have your heart set on a specific artist’s song, you can request a direct licence from the rights holder, for example through BMI. Be aware this can cost several thousand dollars, and if the track has lyrics we may not be able to mix in spoken audio like vows or toasts.