Wedding photographer · Gold Coast · Byron Bay · Brisbane
The calm one in the corner of your wedding.
I'm Francis, a wedding photographer based on the Gold Coast and happy to travel for your day. I capture honest, unposed love stories that still feel like you in twenty years.
Documentary wedding photography · Coverage from $3,500 · Available Australia-wide
The approach
I / IVRelaxed, documentary, unhurried. The in-between moments that actually feel like you.
My style is relaxed and documentary. I'll guide you when you need it and step back when you don't, so the day feels like yours rather than a photoshoot. The look your partner gives you when no one is watching, your mum wiping her eyes in the second row, the dance floor at 10pm when everyone has stopped being polite. Those are the frames you will keep coming back to.
I'm based on the Gold Coast and available for weddings across South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. I also travel often, including back to Victoria where I started out, so wherever you are marrying, I would love to hear about it.
How I work
The person, not just the photosI plan the logistics hard in the background, which is exactly what lets your day feel relaxed and unplanned at the front.
I played music for years before this. It taught me to read a room, hang back, and catch the moment without ever interrupting it.
When something goes sideways, and at a wedding it always does, I don't panic. I once photographed a whole wedding in about ninety minutes and everyone left happy.
You are trusting a person to be in the room all day. I read and reply to every message myself, and I would rather we actually got on.
I photograph weddings the way I would want my own remembered.
Francis Kurth · Photographer
Investment
II / IVFull wedding coverage starts here. As I establish on the coast I am taking a limited number of introductory bookings, so tell me what you are planning and I will tailor something to suit.
The work
III / IVThe day, in sequenceDetails
Getting readyA real day unfolds here as you scroll, once we choose the set of frames.
The ceremonyGolden hourDrag or swipe through the frames. The full galleries follow below.
About
IV / IVI moved to the Gold Coast for the same reasons a lot of couples choose to marry here: the light, the water, and the easy, unhurried way life runs up this way. I cut my teeth photographing weddings down in Victoria, and I have brought that experience north with me. I still travel often, including back to Victoria for couples there, so distance is never the issue.
I photograph weddings the way I would want my own remembered. Less standing around waiting for the perfect pose, and more of the actual day as it unfolds. I want you to be able to look back and feel exactly what it was like to be there.
When I am not shooting weddings you will usually find me somewhere near the coast with a camera in hand. If a relaxed, documentary approach sounds like your kind of day, I would love to hear from you.
I don't always work alone. My partner Emma often joins me as a content creator, filming the day as it happens so you have a same-day highlight to share while the excitement is still fresh. She captures the moving, of-the-moment side of the day while I focus on the timeless frames.
Francis
Off the clock
When I'm not behind the cameraA full day on Tallebudgera Creek, through every lure in the box, often catching absolutely nothing.
I bake a decent banana bread, and I make a Negroni with double the Campari. No apologies for either.
I am a complete sucker for a wedding that turns into a sweaty, no-one-is-polite-anymore dance floor.
A boy from a small fishing town in Cornwall, now five minutes from the beach on the Gold Coast. Not a bad trade.
Get in touch
Send me your date, your venue or location, and a little about the wedding you are planning. I read and reply to every message myself.
