Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron · Beaumaris VIC · Melbourne
Waterside Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venue: Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron
Bec and Brent’s waterside wedding day: the reception at Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron in Beaumaris. The gallery below is 98 frames, in the order they happened.
Reception: Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron, Beaumaris.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 98 photographs in the order they happened. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron, BMYS to its members, is a trailer-boat and social club on the foreshore of Beaumaris Bay in bayside Melbourne, looking straight out over Port Phillip. The club was founded in 1959 and its members reclaimed about four acres from the sea to build the clubhouse in the early 1960s. Weddings use a waterfront lawn with a white timber arbour a few metres from the shoreline, and an upstairs reception room with a full-length balcony over the water that seats around 140.
Bec and Brent married and celebrated here, and we took their portraits along the sand at Half Moon Bay and Sandringham Beach, both a short drive up the coast. That mix is what makes BMYS work for photos: ceremony on the lawn with boats and water behind, a walk down to the pier, then back up to the balcony as the sun drops over the bay.