Green Acres Golf Club Wedding Photos
Eighteen holes along the Yarra at Kew East since 1948, with a modern clubhouse for the night.
Green Acres Golf Club is a private 18-hole club on Elm Grove in Kew East, about 8 km east of the Melbourne CBD, founded in 1948. The course runs beside the Yarra River on the suburb’s northern edge, roughly fifteen minutes from the city, with a modern clubhouse and a practice centre, and the club hosts weddings, conferences and functions as well as golf. The suburb was farmland along the river before it was anything else, sold off in the 1840s.
Veri photographed a wedding here, and the gallery below is the album from that day. A golf club wedding in the eastern suburbs has a practical shape: the ceremony and the reception at the club, portraits out on the course among the trees with the river side of the course behind, and everyone back inside for dinner without a single car moving.
Photographing a wedding at Green Acres Golf Club
Golf courses are open ground, so the trick is to find the edges: the tree lines and the river side of the course, where the light filters rather than blasts. Late afternoon puts long shadows across the fairways and lights the couple from the side. A golf cart moves a wedding party a long way quickly, and clubs are used to lending one. The clubhouse covers the rain. The gallery above is a Green Acres Golf Club wedding album from Kew East.