▶Bramleigh Estate · 420 Ringwood-Warrandyte Rd, Warrandyte VIC 3113 · Melbourne
Nikka and Jessy’s wedding film: getting ready at Dark Horse Café and the ceremony, portraits and the reception at Bramleigh Estate.
▶The film follows the day in the order it happened: getting ready at Dark Horse Café and the ceremony, portraits and the reception at Bramleigh Estate.
Getting ready: Dark Horse Café, 765 Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Watsons Creek VIC 3097. Ceremony, Portraits and Reception: Bramleigh Estate, 420 Ringwood-Warrandyte Rd, Warrandyte VIC 3113.
Bramleigh Estate is a wedding venue on Ringwood-Warrandyte Road at Warrandyte, in Melbourne’s north-east where the suburbs give way to the Yarra Valley. The property is ten acres of native bush with formal gardens around the buildings. Ceremonies are held on a timber deck against the trees, or inside by a stone fireplace; the reception room is Hamptons in style, with cathedral ceilings, exposed beams and floor-to-ceiling windows over the bush and Warrandyte Reserve. It seats 100 to 350, one wedding a day.
We have photographed and filmed weddings at Bramleigh Estate since 2021, seven days across four seasons. The deck puts the ceremony in front of the bush without leaving the lawn, and the ballroom windows keep the reception in daylight until the sun goes. The gardens and the bush edge are a few minutes’ walk from the room, so portraits happen between ceremony and dinner without a car.
On this day the film moved between 2 locations: getting ready at Dark Horse Café and the ceremony, portraits and the reception at Bramleigh Estate.