Bramleigh Estate · 420 Ringwood-Warrandyte Rd, Warrandyte VIC · Melbourne
Country Wedding · Garden Wedding · Region: VIC - Yarra Valley · City: Melbourne · Venues: Bramleigh Estate · Dark Horse Café
Nikka and Jessy’s country wedding day: getting ready at Dark Horse Café in Watsons Creek and the ceremony, portraits and the reception at Bramleigh Estate in Warrandyte. The gallery below is 141 frames, in the order they happened.
Getting ready: Dark Horse Café, Watsons Creek. Ceremony, Portraits and Reception: Bramleigh Estate, Warrandyte.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 141 photographs in the order they happened, from getting ready to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Bramleigh Estate is a wedding venue on Ringwood-Warrandyte Road at Warrandyte, in Melbourne’s north-east where the suburbs give way to the Yarra Valley. The property is ten acres of native bush with formal gardens around the buildings. Ceremonies are held on a timber deck against the trees, or inside by a stone fireplace; the reception room is Hamptons in style, with cathedral ceilings, exposed beams and floor-to-ceiling windows over the bush and Warrandyte Reserve. It seats 100 to 350, one wedding a day.
We have photographed and filmed weddings at Bramleigh Estate since 2021, seven days across four seasons. The deck puts the ceremony in front of the bush without leaving the lawn, and the ballroom windows keep the reception in daylight until the sun goes. The gardens and the bush edge are a few minutes’ walk from the room, so portraits happen between ceremony and dinner without a car.
For Nikka and Jessy it was the ceremony, portrait and reception venue; the day also took in Dark Horse Café in Watsons Creek.