Meadowbank Estate · 1 Eldon St, Broadmeadows VIC · Melbourne
Church & Cathedral Wedding · Garden Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venues: Carlton Gardens · Meadowbank Estate · St George Orthodox Church
Eva and Stathis’ church wedding day: the ceremony at St George Orthodox Church in Thornbury, portraits at Carlton Gardens in Carlton, then the reception at Meadowbank Estate in Broadmeadows. The gallery below is 137 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony: St George Orthodox Church, Thornbury. Portraits: Carlton Gardens, Carlton. Reception: Meadowbank Estate, Broadmeadows.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 137 photographs in the order they happened, from the ceremony to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Meadowbank Estate is a reception venue on Eldon Street in Campbellfield, in Melbourne’s north, built around a manor house that a Scottish carpenter, Alexander Gibb, put up in about 1850. The house is on the Victorian Heritage Register: coursed basalt walls, a slate roof and hipped dormer windows in a Scottish lowland style rarely seen in Victoria. Around it sit three acres of formal gardens with heritage-listed trees, a tiled pool and three ballrooms, the newest looking straight over the water.
We have photographed and filmed weddings at Meadowbank Estate over several years. A day here tends to stay in one place: ceremony on the lawns or in a ballroom, portraits through the gardens while guests have drinks, then the reception inside. The old stone of the manor and the clipped hedges give two very different looks within a few steps of each other, which is handy when the timeline is tight.
For Eva and Stathis it was the reception venue; the day also took in St George Orthodox Church in Thornbury and Carlton Gardens in Carlton.