Summerfields Estate Wedding, Bittern

Summerfields Estate is a country house and olive grove at Bittern on the Western Port side of the Mornington Peninsula, about 61 km south-east of Melbourne. The house dates from 1998, built in the American Cape Cod style with six bedrooms and a Great Room, and sits in 50 acres of lawn, an ornamental lake and some 2,000 olive trees. Ceremonies are held under the olives; receptions move to a hall with French doors onto the garden and a black-and-white tiled floor.

Veri’s Summerfields gallery is a 23-image location set: the house from the drive, the olive rows, the lake and the reception hall, put together to show what a classic country-house wedding looks like here. The estate photographs as a single composition, white weatherboard against green, and the olive grove gives dappled shade for portraits in the middle of the day.