I love to capture every moment and every detail – big, small, quiet, joyous, teary and proud.
Hey there! I'm Erin - cat lady, tea addict and professional shutterbug. I crash people's parties for a living, and nothing makes me happier than going home from a wedding feeling like I just joined a new family. I love the love-in vibe of big weddings, and I adore the intimacy of elopements - I guess I'm just a hopeless romantic at heart.
I'm a sentimental soul, so the most important thing to me is people, and I carry that importance into every photo I take. I prefer to use natural light whenever possible, because it's the best way to capture how a moment really felt, and I don’t pose the people in my pictures – instead we share stories, we laugh and we hang out - and that way the "posing" takes care of itself.
I live in a charming old character-filled house in Spring Hill, right outside Brisbane city with my man and our black and white cat. I service the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Byron Bay areas - although I could be persuaded to travel further!
If you can see yourself in 10 years time on your couch with your husband or wife, maybe some kids or maybe some fur babies, flipping through your wedding album and getting lost in your own love story, then I think we might just get along great. I'd love to hear a bit about your love story, and what your dream wedding looks like.
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Hey there! I’m Erin – cat lady, tea addict and professional shutterbug. I crash people’s parties for a living, and nothing makes me happier than going home from a wedding feeling like I just joined a new family. I love Japanese food, getting lost in Mecca Maxima and dancing like nobody's watching, and I've always been obsessed with recording and documenting lives - to me, it's so important to have pieces of ourselves to pass down through future generations.
Erin Smith
Business Owner
Erin Smith Photography
Your photographer has captured plenty of weddings, so they know the big moments you'll need - the little details, the kiss, the rings ging on, the cake cutting and first dance and so on. If you have any cultural tradtions, super important people, very special items etc that you want photographed that your photographer might not know about, or there's something you have in mind that you want to recreate, definitely mention it to your photographer - they might even ask you about this stuff first! I always ask my couples about which of images are most important to them, any super special details or people and what kind of photos they can imagine displaying in their home. I ask for a list of family photo groups too, with everyone's names included so we don't accidentally miss anyone!