Bellbrae Harvest Wedding Photos
Seventeen acres behind the Surf Coast, a mud-brick room and a lily pond with geese
Bellbrae Harvest is a 17-acre country property on Portreath Road at Bellbrae, between Torquay and Anglesea, about five minutes off the Great Ocean Road and ten from the beaches. It has run weddings since 2009. The heart of it is a mud-brick style building beside a lily pond, with a terrace for dining and a covered area under vines for sit-down meals; ceremonies happen at the pond or on a nearby beach before the party comes back. There is accommodation on the property.
Kylie and Sandy held their ceremony, portraits and reception at Bellbrae Harvest. It is a one-property day: vows by the water, portraits around the pond and the grounds, then dinner on the terrace or under the vines as the evening cools, with the Otways close by and the coast ten minutes away.
Photographing a wedding at Bellbrae Harvest
The pond is the picture: reflections in the last hour of light, and the resident geese usually make an appearance. Give the couple a slow walk along the water and back through the vines, and use the mud-brick walls for a warm, plain background in the family groups. The building takes the ceremony indoors in wet weather and dinner already sits under cover, so rain changes little. The gallery above is Kylie and Sandy’s Bellbrae Harvest wedding.