Meadowbank Estate · 1 Eldon St, Broadmeadows VIC · Melbourne
Church & Cathedral Wedding · Garden Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venues: Meadowbank Estate · Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Thornbury
Stella and Saad’s church wedding day: the ceremony at Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Thornbury in Thornbury and portraits and the reception at Meadowbank Estate in Broadmeadows. The gallery below is 116 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony: Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Thornbury, Thornbury. Portraits and Reception: Meadowbank Estate, Broadmeadows.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 116 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 Stella and Saad it was the portrait and reception venue; the day also took in Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Thornbury in Thornbury.