Meadowbank Estate · 1 Eldon St, Broadmeadows VIC · Melbourne
Church & Cathedral Wedding · Garden Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venues: Meadowbank Estate · St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Yarraville · Victoria Barracks
Rana and Con’s church wedding day: the ceremony at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Yarraville in Yarraville, portraits at Victoria Barracks in Southbank, then the reception at Meadowbank Estate in Broadmeadows. The gallery below is 126 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony: St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Yarraville, Yarraville. Portraits: Victoria Barracks, Southbank. Reception: Meadowbank Estate, Broadmeadows.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 126 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 Rana and Con it was the reception venue; the day also took in St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Yarraville in Yarraville and Victoria Barracks in Southbank.