Riva St Kilda Wedding Photos
A marina room on Marine Parade, boats at the window and the bay and the city skyline beyond
Riva St Kilda is the waterfront function venue at the St Kilda Marina on Marine Parade, where St Kilda meets Elwood on Port Phillip Bay. The Marina Room seats up to 180 for a reception, 150 with a dance floor, or holds 400 for a cocktail party, and ceremonies for up to 150 run indoors or outside with the marina and the bay behind the couple. There is a private courtyard over the marina and a bayside lounge bar that stays open late.
Veri photographed Markala and Gavin’s wedding here. A bayside venue like this makes a full day simple: a ceremony by the water, portraits on the foreshore and among the boats, and the reception a few steps away, all without a car between locations. Some couples arrive by boat through the marina, which is an entrance worth photographing.
Photographing a wedding at Riva St Kilda
The bay is the backdrop, so I time the couple’s portraits for the last light over the water while guests are at drinks. The marina walkways and the moored boats give the graphic frames, and the foreshore path and the sand give the softer ones; both are within a couple of minutes of the room. Inside, the room looks onto the water, and after dark the city lights across the bay come into the reception pictures. The gallery above is Markala and Gavin’s wedding at Riva.