Outdoor Wedding Venues - Private Spaces

Marrying outdoors in Melbourne?  There are so many breathtakingly beautiful gardens, vineyards and fields to choose from.  Earlier this year I shared my favourite Outdoor Wedding Venues - Public Places. Here are my favourite privately-owned outdoor spaces in Melbourne (and surrounds).  

Yarra Valley

Alowyn Gardens, Yarra Glen

Stones of the Yarra Valley, Coldstream

 Image: Warrenphotography

Zonzo at Train Trak Winery, Yarra Glen

Balgownie Estate, Yarra Glen

Chateau Yering

Immerse, Dixons Creek

Image: Julieanne Perara Photography

RACV Country Club Healesville

Mandala Wines, Dixons Creek

Image: Simply Digital Photography

 The Riverstone Estate, Coldstream

City & Inner Suburbs

Como Historic House and Garden, South Yarra

Abbotsford Convent

Park Hyatt Melbourne - Trilogy Garden

The Willows, Melbourne

North

Overnewton Castle, Keilor

 

Meadowbank Receptions, Campbellfield

North West

Flemington Racecourse

Image: Venues2Events

East

Bram Leigh Receptions, Croydon

The Gables, East Malvern

Leonda By The Yarra, Hawthorn

Butleigh Wootton, Kew

  

West

Goonawarra Winery, Sunbury

Emu Bottom Homestead, Sunbury

Image: Lizzy C Photography

South East & Bayside

 Rippon Lea House & Garden, Elsternwick

Image: Peter Rowland

Yarra Yarra Golf Club, Bentleigh East

Luna Park, St Kilda

 Riva St Kilda

The International of Brighton

Sandringham Yacht Club

Penninsula

The Garden Vineyard, Moorooduc

Morning Star Estate, Mount Eliza

Summerfields Estate, Bittern

Lindenderry at Red Hill

Daylesford

Sault Restaurant Daylesford

Lake House Daylesford

And what's the advantage of marrying at a private venue, as opposed to a public space?  You'll most often be able to have your reception onsite (guests love not having to drive to two venues), and you'll most likely able to head indoors with minimal fuss should the weather become inclement.  It's also likely that there will be venue staff on hand to assist, rest rooms and considerably better (and free) car parking options for guests. 

Click here to see my favourite Outdoor Wedding Venues - Public Places.

With the exception of those credited to photographers, the images used in this post have been obtained from official venue web pages.  

Sally Hughes - Melbourne Celebrant

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Karen & Alex's Yarra Valley Wedding

When an industry professional asks you to conduct her wedding ceremony, it’s a great honour. That was indeed the case when wedding planner and stylist Karen from One Day, Your Way and her husband-to-be Alex, asked me to compose and conduct their ceremony at the beautiful Immerse in the Yarra Valley. 

Karen and Alex envisaged a stylish, personalised and unique ceremony; something that reflected their romantic and sentimental natures, was enjoyable for them and their guests and was different from the norm.

Holding a bouquet of white roses, decorated with a silver charm given to her by her bridesmaids, Karen entered via the exquisite rose garden to River Flows In You by Yiruma.  

 

 

After a lighthearted welcome, Alex’s close friends kept the mood happy and bright by enacting an hilarious comic strip reading.  I then shared with the guests Karen and Alex's very romantic story, noting the sentimental significance of her Alexandrite engagement ring; a stone that not only shares its name with her husband, it's also his birth stone. 

 

We then witnessed their poetic, heartfelt and at times hilarious vows before I had the very happy task of declaring them to be husband and wife.

Karen and Alex wrote love letters to each another prior to the ceremony.  They were sealed and placed in a box, together with a bottle of pinot noir, produced from the grapes grown at Immerse. The letters and wine will remain unopened until the occasion of their 10th wedding anniversary.  Alex opened a second bottle of Immerse wine and together they shared their first drink as husband and wife.

Congratulations Karen and Alex.  Your sense of style, romance and humour shone through as much as your contagious happiness.  It was my great pleasure to conduct your ceremony.  May you always remain as happy as you were on your wedding day. x

Sally Hughes
Marriage Celebrant Melbourne
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Photo credits: Julieanne Perara Photography.