IS BACK BABY!
That's right,
wedding mania is back for 2025
I hear ya.
"Josh, what the F**k are you talking about?"
Here's the deets:
what:
Wedding Mania is a 3 day photography/ videography work shop held in Adelaide, South Australia where not only will you get hands on experience from some of Australia's leading wedding vendors you'll also get to attend/ photograph a REAL wedding for your portfolio.
None of this styled shoot business, these are real weddings with real couples who are getting legally married courtesy of you guys.
Where:
This year we have something epic in store.
Wedding Mania 2025 is being held at...
THE FREAKIN' MANOR BASKET RANGE
Yup, the multi award winning, ridiculously good looking, amazing Manor Basket Range is hosting us for 3 full days of fun, laughter and marriage.
WHEN:
December 1, 2, 3 2025
PLAN:
The plan this year is to seperate the attendees into 2 groups:
Experienced and freshies.
This way you'll be able to get advice based on a general skill level of the group rather than having to listen to someone ask about what aperture means.
It also means that if you need a bit of extra help you wont be frustrating anyone around you and you'll get the help you need.
Day 1:
Experienced group: Shoot a full wedding day with Josh
Freshies: Full day of classes on site at the Manor.
Day 2:
Experienced group: Shoot a full wedding day with Josh
Freshies: Shooting micro wedding with Josh.
Day 3:
All attendees come together for a final day of classes, editing help, post procesing, run through of the previous day and then.
Vendor Party in the evening for everyone involved.
LEARN:
Learn from some of the BEST in their fields.
Current educators consist of:
TASH
Tash is an ex-wedding now newborn photographer from QLD.
Tash's class is all about how to keep your passion for photography even adfter you've gone full time.
It's all well and good to make photography your job but how do you keep it enjoyable?
(@DawnPhotography.com.au)
mike
Mike is a wedding and engagement photographer originally from NSW but now residing in rural VIC.
Mike's technical knowledge and educational reels have been viewed by millions.
Sit with Mike as he walks you through the ins and out of editing in Lightroom.
(@MikeJeffreyPhoto)
Bek
Bek is the only non-photographer on the educator list.
What Bek lacks in photography knowledge she more than makes up for in her marketing degree and knowledge of viral content creation.
Bek puts her brush where her mouth is boasting an ever impressive 1.4m total follwers online for her live wedding paintings.
(@The.Wedding.Painter)
josh
I'm Josh Huggett,
Wedding photographer, educator, golden retriever enthusiast.
Shooting 70+ weddings a year still to this day I have my finger on the pulse of what it takes to make it in the industry.
Through raw, unfiltered honesty and a hands on experience we will get you through the wedding industry, together.
(@ImJoshHuggett)
More special guests announced soon.
Hear from the host:
DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT
HERE'S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT LAST YEAR:
"This workshop was so much more educational than a styled shoot. We had three real couples so that we could be split into groups and experience everything a real wedding involves, from getting ready to first dance.
I do get wedding bookings, but they are usually just for the ceremony and a few photos afterwards. This workshop meant that I got more experience with the other parts of a wedding that I’m not always there to photograph. Of course, I have shots for my website, but now I also have the confidence of knowing I’ve done this before.
Josh’s organisation and the structure of this workshop was a perfect balance of theoretical and practical skills, and the community bonding with other photographers was a great bonus."
ANGELIQUE
(SYDNEY)
"Wedding Mania 2024 was absolutely epic! I can’t wait to attend again in 2025. Josh planned the event meticulously and ensured that we were provided with an opportunity for both learning and practice through theory/information workshops and practical photography sessions. He and the team went beyond the basics of wedding photography, taking us behind the scenes of their businesses and answered our many questions with patience, providing real-world professional advice and information. I was very grateful for the enthusiasm of our couples across the engagement sessions and wedding day. All seemed well prepared and entirely willing for us to capture and interact with them on what would usually be a very intimate occasion. I was particularly impressed by Josh’s coordination with vendors and acknowledgement of all businesses involved and the pre-event preparation for each of us. I am so pleased I attended and am still in touch with many I met during the event, it gave me the confidence to tackle weddings as an extension of my business. I can’t recommend Josh Huggett Media and the team involved highly enough!"
ROBYN
(BRISBANE)
"I owe Wedding Mania everything. It kick started my metamorphosis into a primarily wedding photographer. It provided me with the confidence to know I could slay this as a solo venture, and the content and knowledge I gathered in those workshops was enough to book out my 2025 season and hard launch my 2026 bookings.
As a neurodivergent creator I was never going to be able to take the traditional second shooter route, and I will forever be thankful to Josh for providing this space and education in such an engaging and hands on manner."
KAYLAH
(BATHURST)
TLDR:
IT'S GREAT AND YOU SHOULD COME.
pricing
Option 1:
THE FULL WEDDING MANIA EXPERIENCE
- Full acces to the 3 day event
- Shadow Josh for a full wedding day experience and portfolio building day (10 hours)
- Full day of exclusive classes and mentoring from each of the educators (8 hours)
- Second full day of classes, panels and podcast recordings (6 hours)
- Post wedding debrief, editing help, culling help and post processing (4 hours)
- Vendor meal provided for the wedding day
- Lunch and snacks provided for classes
- 2 Engagement shoot portfolio building sessions with 6-8 couples
- Small groups of absolutely no more than 10
- Hands on help and education
- Day 3 backup, culling and editing help
- Post-wedding recap and debrief
- Q&A for wedding day.
earlybird pricing:
$1,995
then $2,495
- Full acces to the 3 day event
- Shadow Josh for a full wedding day experience and portfolio building day (10 hours)
- Full day of exclusive classes and mentoring from each of the educators (8 hours)
- Second full day of classes, panels and podcast recordings (6 hours)
- Post wedding debrief, editing help, culling help and post processing (4 hours)
- Vendor meal provided for the wedding day
- Lunch and snacks provided for classes
- 2 Engagement shoot portfolio building sessions with 6-8 couples
- Small groups of absolutely no more than 10
- Hands on help and education
- Day 3 backup, culling and editing help
- Post-wedding recap and debrief
- Q&A for wedding day.
+ GST
only 20 tickets total
no more releases
Option 2:
wedding mania
day 3 only
- Access to Wedding Mania day 3 11am - 5pm (6 hours)
- Access to the LIVE podcast recording with Tash, Mike, Bek & Josh
- Access to the Q&A Panel with all educators
- Access to educators smaller classes
- Hands on help and advice
- Detail styled shoot opportunity
- Lunch & Coffee van provided
- Welcome bag
- Exclusive discounts
earlybird pricing:
$495
then $750
- Access to Wedding Mania day 3 11am - 5pm (6 hours)
- Access to the LIVE podcast recording with Tash, Mike, Bek & Josh
- Access to the Q&A Panel with all educators
- Access to educators smaller classes
- Hands on help and advice
- Detail styled shoot opportunity
- Lunch & Coffee van provided
- Welcome bag
- Exclusive discounts
- Access to vendor party
+GST
Who is this for?
Literally everyone!
By splitting the goups into beginner and advaced photographers/ videographers we are actually going to have tailed classes to each group.
What you'll learn
Mike
Learn the ins and outs of wedding days.
What do take photos of, how to position yourself and how a wedding day runs
tash
everything is content
how to capture bts to get yourself ahead.
bek
basic marketing and brand building.
mike
advanced flash techniques
tash
everything is content
how to capture bts to get yourself ahead
bek
more advanced marketing techniques and brand growth.
Beginners
advanced
full 10 hour wedding day with josh.
person 1 getting ready
person 2 getting ready
ceremony
couple session
bridal party photos
sunset session
reception
dance floor
full 10 hour wedding day with josh.
person 1 getting ready
person 2 getting ready
ceremony
couple session
bridal party photos
sunset session
reception
dance floor
Day 1
Day 2
morning
Day 3
post processing:
- editing help
- culling help
- image review
- post wedding workflows
- post wedding debrief/ recap
- Wedding Q&A with josh
A far more relaxed morning where we go through the images that we took, talk about the weddings, the good, the bad, the ugly.
afternoon
class is back.
everyone comes together for a live podcast recording,
q&A panel with all the educators
specialised classes from all educators
family lunch
big vendor party to bid everyone farewell
Beginners
advanced
SHANNAN | WEDDING
If your looking for a wedding photographer look no further. Josh was amazing, easy to talk to, great direction for the perfect shots. And will 100% Recommend him and his team to anyone in need of a photographer