Ella and Dylan Prunster in the enchanted forest

HUNDREDS of photos were taken on the day Ella and Dylan Prunster got married last November. This was the final one.

Ella and Dylan Prunster strike a dramatic pose at the end of their wedding-day photo session. Picture: Jarrad Seng

HUNDREDS of photos were taken on the day Ella and Dylan Prunster got married last November. This was the very last one — and almost an afterthought.

They were walking out of the pine forest after doing the usual set-up portraits when photographer Jarrad Seng said he wanted to try one more thing. He swapped over to a fisheye lens, crouched down low and asked them to do something really dramatic. And didn’t Ella and Dylan step up to the mark with this impromptu Gone With the Wind moment?

Surprisingly, they’re not romantic types. Neither can recall their first date when they were in Year 9 at Manjimup Senior High School (“I think we just went to the chicken shop in town during a free period,” says Ella) and there’s no big story to tell about the proposal, because there was no proposal. Rather, these two soulmates just had an understanding that they’d marry one day.

Life has been busy since the wedding. Two weeks ago Ella, 25, qualified as a lawyer, and they’ve just bought their first home, a 1930s house in Perth which needs a lot of work. She’s the sole breadwinner because Dylan, 24, is back at uni studying medicine, having decided that his first career as a mining engineer wasn’t for him (“It’s all fly-in, fly-out work, which meant too much time away from Ella”). He wants to be a surgeon, while her ambition is to do advocacy work. That’ll be a good fit for their characters, Ella says: she’s outspoken, and he’s reserved. He’ll like surgery, she jokes, because he won’t have to make conversation with clients who are conked out under a general anaesthetic.

Incidentally, not all the shots from the forest were as elegant as this one. They did the obligatory photo of all the groomsmen lifting Ella off the ground — and they’d had a few beers by then, so when someone suggested that the bridesmaids do the same to Dylan, a big cheer went up. They couldn’t quite manage it, though; they dropped him flat on his face in the dirt.