Macedon Ranges Wedding Photography
Cold clear air, stone churches and hill-station gardens, an hour up the Calder
The Macedon Ranges begin about 45 minutes north-west of Melbourne at Gisborne and reach Kyneton and Trentham in a little over an hour. The country runs colder in winter and hotter in summer than the city, and Camel’s Hump on Mount Macedon, at 1,011 metres, sees snow most winters. Couples here marry in wineries, old stone and weatherboard churches, homesteads, hill-station gardens, barns and country pubs, with Hanging Rock and the Mount Macedon gardens close by for portraits.
We photographed a country pub wedding at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Trentham, with a garden ceremony, the verandah as wet-weather cover and a lap of the wide main street at dusk. Our film work in the ranges includes Cleveland Winery, Forest Glade Gardens, Lancemore Macedon Ranges and Romsey Uniting Church.
Photographing weddings in the Macedon Ranges
Autumn is the season people book the ranges for: the deciduous gardens on Mount Macedon turn hard colour, and the light goes soft early under the big trees. Trentham’s main street runs roughly east to west, so the last light shoots straight down it. Winter weddings work indoors by the fire, and the mist that sits in the valleys on a cold morning is worth getting up for. Pack a coat for the portraits. The gallery above is from Trentham.