Love for the lens

Fifty of them were outside Brisbane - the city where Edwina now lives after growing up on cropping and grazing property Hallcraig, near Deepwater, in northern NSW.

"I just love bush weddings. It's so much more beautiful - that's just something really close to my heart," Edwina said.

After shooting her first two weddings in 2012, Edwina's work has taken her far and wide.

From the rugged natural beauty of the red cliffs at Cape Leveque near Broome in WA, to NT's tropical capital city of Darwin, Edwina has been there.

This bubbly character can often be found snapping away at weddings along the east coast of Australia, from Mackay down to Sydney, as well as everywhere inland in between - Roma, Goondiwindi and Tamworth just to name a few.

She's even been flown to Italy to capture one couple's big day.

An average wedding is a 15-hour day for Edwina, as she feels her work should reflect the entire experience to really capture the story and emotion behind an image.

"It does get tiring," she admits.

"But even though it's work, it's still social. Some friends I see more now than I ever have because I stay the night with them while travelling through, out west.

"The more weddings I do the more I realise that although there's greater distances to travel, I think for me it's really important to give back to people in the rural communities.

"There's not as much access to great services when it comes to weddings in the bush. If I can offer that, then that to me is what I want to do."

Though most people have barely popped the 2015 calendar up on the kitchen fridge, Edwina's weekends are already filling up fast - she's vowed to limit herself to 40 weddings this year.

Not bad for a former real estate photographer who shot her first wedding after some arm-twisting from an elderly real estate agent.

"I had no idea what I was doing at my first wedding," Edwina laughed as she recounted the experience.

"He was 70, on his fifth marriage and he kept asking me to do it.

"Then it was actually really good; it was really fun.

"I suppose I should be thankful to him for making me do it - I always had this perception there are 'bridezillas'.

"But it's actually not; it's actually a really beautiful day and all my clients are really relaxed and cruisey and just go with it."

Everyone has their favourite moment at a wedding and Edwina is no different.

"I really love the speeches and the laughs and the tears that come with them," she said.

"I had a speech not too long ago and the mother of the bride did a rap. She wore a Redfoo hat and glasses and she did a rap about her daughter and new son-in-law."

"I've seen some really great speeches and I think a lot of people speak from the heart."

So for the photographer who has seen more than her fair share of weddings, just how would she picture her big day?

This outgoing girl from the bush would like to return to her country roots by getting married on her family property.

Still run by her father, Hallcraig has been in the family since 1839 and Edwina is the seventh generation on the land.

"I would love to have it there, I think that'd be very sentimental to me," she said.

"I think a lot of people do like to have their weddings at home because of that attachment."

Oh, and for any prospective clients, something you may want to consider when doing up the guest list: Edwina is single and "definitely open to a relationship".

The laugh-a-minute lass has even promised to refund her services if she finds her future husband while working at a wedding.

Now that's a challenge worth saying "I do" to.