Elly & Marc - Bellarine Estate Wedding, Bellarine

Bellarine Estate is a family-owned winery on Portarlington Road at Bellarine, about twenty minutes from Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsula. The vineyard was planted in 1996 on north-facing hills that look over Corio Bay, 27 acres of vines within a property of more than 100 acres, growing chardonnay, pinot noir and shiraz. The estate also runs Thirty Acres Distillery and its restaurant, a bright room with large windows that opens to the outdoors, and glamping on site.

Elly and Marc held both their ceremony and reception at Bellarine Estate, and the 338 images in that gallery show how the day moves: vows outside with the bay behind, drinks on the lawn as the light drops over the water, then dinner in the restaurant. Ceremonies seat up to 80; the restaurant takes 80 seated or 100 for a cocktail reception, so it suits a mid-sized wedding rather than a big one.