Summerfields Estate Wedding Photos
Two thousand olive trees, a lake and a Cape Cod country house on fifty acres at Bittern
Summerfields Estate is a country house and olive grove at Bittern on the Western Port side of the Mornington Peninsula, about 61 km south-east of Melbourne. The house dates from 1998, built in the American Cape Cod style with six bedrooms and a Great Room, and sits in 50 acres of lawn, an ornamental lake and some 2,000 olive trees. Ceremonies are held under the olives; receptions move to a hall with French doors onto the garden and a black-and-white tiled floor.
Veri’s Summerfields gallery is a 23-image location set: the house from the drive, the olive rows, the lake and the reception hall, put together to show what a classic country-house wedding looks like here. The estate photographs as a single composition, white weatherboard against green, and the olive grove gives dappled shade for portraits in the middle of the day.
Photographing a wedding at Summerfields Estate
The olives are the asset: silver-green leaves, low canopies and long straight rows that hold their look from noon to dusk. We shoot the ceremony wide from the back of the rows, then bring the couple to the lake for reflections once the sun drops. The verandah and the Great Room fire are the wet-weather fallbacks, and the tiled hall lights well for the first dance. Being an hour from Melbourne, guests can stay on the peninsula. The gallery above is our Summerfields location set.