Joanna & Dominic - Federal Golf Club Wedding, Red Hill

Federal Golf Club is on Gowrie Drive in Red Hill, in Canberra’s inner south. Founded in 1933, the club sits in a bushland valley: kangaroos on the course, native birds in the eucalypts, and the Brindabella Ranges along the western skyline. For weddings there is a ceremony lawn with a contemporary arbour framed by gum trees, and a function room with floor-to-ceiling windows over the course. The Scott and Russell rooms combine into the Federal Room for around 200 guests.

Veri photographed Joanna and Dominic’s wedding here from ceremony through to reception, all on the one site, which is the practical appeal of the club: no convoy between locations, and the fairways double as the portrait ground. The green of the course against pale Canberra bark, the long line of the ranges behind the arbour, and the glass wall of the function room once the lights come on inside all give a day here its shape.