Camp Sunnystones · Bacchus Marsh VIC · Melbourne
Country Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venue: Camp Sunnystones
Kelly and Tory’s country wedding day: getting ready, the ceremony, portraits and the reception, all at Camp Sunnystones in Bacchus Marsh. The gallery below is 58 frames, in the order they happened.
Getting ready, Ceremony, Portraits and Reception: Camp Sunnystones, Bacchus Marsh.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 58 photographs in the order they happened, from getting ready to the reception. Veri’s featured edit of this wedding is on its own page, linked below. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Camp Sunnystones is a 50-acre bush property at Merrimu, on the edge of Bacchus Marsh about 45 minutes west of Melbourne, built around a stone homestead among the gums with views to the Macedon Ranges. Weddings take the whole site from Friday afternoon to Sunday: ceremony on the Lower Terrace with its fire pit and valley view, dinner in the 26-metre stone Homestead Hall for up to 100 seated, a lawn sized for a tipi, a festoon-lit courtyard, and nine ensuite rooms sleeping 90.
We photographed Kelly and Tory’s weekend here, and have filmed another couple’s since. A weekend-long wedding photographs differently: guests settle in, guards drop, and by the second hour everyone forgets the camera exists. The golden-hour walk through the paddocks gave us the frames; the campfire gave us everything else.