Mystery wedding couple found after epic Sydney Harbour photograph goes viral

The photographer who took a striking photograph of two newlyweds embracing in Sydney Harbour has found the couple after a global social media hunt. Sam Yeldham was out shooting a timelapse sequence of extraordinary weather conditions in the city when he snapped the bride and groom, Jessica Pearson and Chris Galvin, in a fleeting embrace at Bradleys Head.

After he posted the image to Instagram at the weekend the shot went viral. On Wednesday he received a reply from the couple, who were honeymooning in Hawaii: ‘Hi @samyeldham you can call off the search! This is me and my wife @jessicapearson4!!! What a great photo!’

Yeldham says the shot was his first wedding photograph – and a fortuitous one at that: ‘I’d been braving the pending storm, shielding my camera from the rain, when the couple arrived with their photographer and debated whether to shoot. Eventually they did, and when the couple entered my frame it was just too stunning not too shoot.’