Lyrebird Falls Wedding Photos
Mountain ash, tree ferns and running water on Monbulk Road, and one wedding a day
Lyrebird Falls is a boutique wedding venue on Monbulk Road at Kallista, in the wet forest of the Dandenong Ranges about 35 kilometres and fifty minutes from the Melbourne CBD. The grounds are tall trees, ferns and running streams, with three ceremony settings: a garden, an ornate gazebo, and a chapel. Receptions are in a dining room with views back over the Dandenongs. The venue takes up to 120 guests and hosts only one wedding a day.
Veri has photographed three weddings at Lyrebird Falls. Alex and Bec did ceremony, portraits and reception on the property. Andrea and Steve and a third couple married and celebrated here but took their portraits up the mountain at the RJ Hamer Arboretum, which is a short drive and gives open lawns and long tree rows the forest at Kallista does not.
Photographing a wedding at Lyrebird Falls
This is one of the darkest venues in the Ranges in the good sense: the canopy filters everything, so there is no harsh sun to fight even at two in the afternoon. We work at wider apertures and slow down. The streams and fern gullies are the couple’s spots; the gazebo takes the wedding party. For a change of scale, the arboretum is ten minutes up the hill. The chapel covers rain. The galleries above are three Lyrebird Falls weddings.