Fondata 1872 · Kangaroo Ground VIC · Melbourne
Country Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · Region: VIC - Yarra Valley · City: Melbourne · Venues: Fondata 1872 · Montsalvat
Leah and Daniel’s heritage wedding day: getting ready and portraits at Montsalvat in Eltham and the ceremony and the reception at Fondata 1872 in Kangaroo Ground. The gallery below is 374 frames, in the order they happened.
Getting ready and Portraits: Montsalvat, Eltham. Ceremony and Reception: Fondata 1872, Kangaroo Ground.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 374 photographs in the order they happened, from getting ready to the reception.
Fondata 1872 is an Italian restaurant and event venue at Kangaroo Ground, about 45 minutes from the Melbourne CBD at the near end of the Yarra Valley. The building began as a Cobb & Co inn around 1872 and was long known as Weller’s; Fondata is its revival. The main dining room seats 100 under high ceilings around a double-sided heritage fireplace, with the smaller Weller’s Room, a Bar Room opening to an alfresco terrace, and lawns for outdoor ceremonies looking over the hills.
Leah and Daniel had their first look and portraits at Montsalvat in Eltham, then drove the short way out to Kangaroo Ground for the ceremony on the lawn and dinner inside. That pairing works well: stone and artists’ colony at Montsalvat, then the valley opening up behind the vows. The 374-image gallery covers the whole run, from the lawn ceremony to the fireplace room at night.
For Leah and Daniel it was the ceremony and reception venue; the day also took in Montsalvat in Eltham.