Meet kristie lee
I've been photographing weddings since 2013.
Not because I stumbled into it. Because I understood early what a photograph can become not just on the day, but in the decades after it.
That understanding has never left me. It's the reason I still care, deeply, about getting this right.
I'm based on the South Coast of NSW a place I genuinely love. My partner Mitchell and I spend as much time outside as we can, our caravan packed, the kids in tow, chasing slower weekends and open roads. I'm a mum and a step-mum, and that role has changed the way I see everything.
I know how fast it goes. I know how quickly the ordinary becomes the irreplaceable. That awareness comes with me to every wedding I photograph.
South Coast NSW Wedding Photographer
A partner. A mum. A step-mum.
My grandparents were married for 55 years.
The photograph from their wedding day still sits in my home for everyone to admire. I've looked at it my whole life the way they're standing, who was around them, the beginning of something that shaped everyone who came after.
That image didn't feel important when it was taken. It was just a moment.
Just a day. But it became everything.
That's what shifted something in me. Your wedding day will blur. The nerves, the laughter, the quiet in-between moments you didn't even realise were happening they move fast. But your photographs won't blur.
They hold how it felt. Who was there. The people who shaped you.
One day, someone who wasn't even in that room will hold your photographs and feel the beginning of it all.
That's what I think about when I lift my camera. Not just the day but the decades that follow.
I grew up seeing what photographs can become.
What it's actually like to have me there.
I don't have one mode.
Some moments need me to be calm and steady a grounding presence when the morning feels chaotic or the emotions hit harder than expected. Other moments need someone easy to be around, someone who makes you laugh and helps you forget there's a camera in the room.
And then there are the moments where I just disappear. Where I step back and let what's happening, happen because the best photographs are never the ones that were directed.
Couples tell me they forgot I was there half the time.
That's exactly the point.
your legacy continues
If this feels like the way you want your story remembered, let’s begin.
What keeps me here isn't routine. It's the opposite.
Every wedding is its own thing its own people, its own rhythm, its own version of what love looks like. And every time I hand over a gallery, I get to watch a couple relive something they were almost too present to fully absorb on the day.
That never gets old.
This work is part of something that genuinely matters. To the couples I photograph. To their families. To the people who will one day look back at these images and feel the weight of them.
Being trusted with that is not something I take lightly.
