Encore St Kilda Beach · 10/18 Jacka Blvd, St Kilda VIC · Melbourne
Beach Wedding · Church & Cathedral Wedding · Waterside Wedding · Region: VIC - St Kilda · City: Melbourne · Venues: Encore St Kilda Beach · Immaculate Conception Church, Hawthorn · St Kilda Botanical Gardens
Sharon and Daniel’s church wedding day: the ceremony at Immaculate Conception Church, Hawthorn in Hawthorn, portraits at St Kilda Botanical Gardens in St Kilda, then the reception at Encore St Kilda Beach in St Kilda. The gallery below is 78 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony: Immaculate Conception Church, Hawthorn, Hawthorn. Portraits: St Kilda Botanical Gardens, St Kilda. Reception: Encore St Kilda Beach, St Kilda.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 78 photographs in the order they happened, from the ceremony to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Encore St Kilda Beach is a reception venue inside the St Kilda Sea Baths on Jacka Boulevard, right on the sand at St Kilda Beach. The rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows onto Port Phillip Bay, an outdoor terrace over the beach, a built-in dance floor and operable walls, so the space scales from about 50 guests to 400 seated. Ceremonies happen indoors, or on the rooftop between October and April with the bay behind the couple, and there are two bridal suites on site.
We have photographed and filmed weddings at Encore since 2018. The day usually runs entirely along the foreshore: ceremony on the roof or the sand, portraits on the beach and the St Kilda Pier, drinks at the neighbouring bars while the room is turned, then the reception with the sunset in the windows. It is one of the few Melbourne venues where the couple session needs no car at all.
For Sharon and Daniel it was the reception venue; the day also took in Immaculate Conception Church, Hawthorn in Hawthorn and St Kilda Botanical Gardens in St Kilda.