Genevieve and Jordan were married on a March afternoon in Sydney. The ceremony at the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel in North Sydney, then a reception across the water at Athol Hall in Mosman. The forecast had promised grey and rain all week. The day quietly ignored it and turned out golden.

Genevieve got ready at her childhood home, in a room full of the people who've known her longest and a wall full of the life she's lived, family photographs, and more than a few of her dancing. Genevieve is a ballet dancer and teacher, and you feel it in everything: the way she carries herself, the romance she's drawn to, the quiet drama of a beautiful thing done properly. There was a lot of laughing and happy tears that morning, and not much fuss. She arrived by vintage car to the chapel, where Jordan was waiting. The kind of couple who are visibly, unshowily mad about each other. Down to earth, both of them, with beautiful taste and nothing to prove.

"Anetta had done a shoot with us back in 2018, and it was the most fun and comfortable day ever — we knew then that when we got married, Anetta would be our photographer. Fast forward three years, and she was."
Genevieve & Jordan

By the time we slipped out for photographs, the sky the forecast had written off was doing something lovely instead. We wandered down to the water, the city and the Harbour Bridge sitting out across the bay, and into the bush near Athol Hall, where Jordan spun her down a track like the two of them had rehearsed it. They hadn't. That's just them. Athol Hall did the rest. Genevieve's taste ran French and romantic and unmistakably hers: blush and candlelight, garden roses spilling over a floral arch, gold and greenery down round tables. Miss Flouriste filled the old timber hall with flowers until it glowed. Elegant without trying too hard, which is the hardest kind of elegant to pull off. A down-to-earth couple with beautiful taste, a day that shrugged off the forecast, and a lot of love in one harbourside room. Exactly the kind of wedding I love to photograph.

Planning your own wedding at Athol Hall, or somewhere that feels like you? I'd love to hear about it.

Also at Athol Hall: [Kate and James] and [Laura & Tom]  or get in touch →.

Vendors
Ceremony: Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel, North Sydney
Reception: Athol Hall, Mosman
Flowers: Miss Flouriste
Dress: Amarige Bridal Couture
Hair: Moda Hair
Makeup: Kellsie Bain
Photography: Anetta Kirk