Mercure Ballarat · 613 Main Rd, Golden Point VIC · Melbourne
Ballroom Wedding · Garden Wedding · Region: VIC - Ballarat · City: Melbourne · Venues: Ballarat Botanical Gardens · Ballarat Premier Apartments · Mercure Ballarat
Georgie and Johnny’s garden wedding day: getting ready at Ballarat Premier Apartments in Ballarat Central, the ceremony and the reception at Mercure Ballarat in Golden Point, then portraits at Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Ballarat North. The gallery below is 83 frames, in the order they happened.
Getting ready: Ballarat Premier Apartments, Ballarat Central. Ceremony and Reception: Mercure Ballarat, Golden Point. Portraits: Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Ballarat North.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 83 photographs in the order they happened, from getting ready to portraits. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Mercure Ballarat Hotel and Convention Centre sits on Main Road at Golden Point, on the southern edge of Ballarat about ten minutes from Sovereign Hill and a short drive from the city centre. The hotel occupies seven acres of landscaped grounds with a lake, rose gardens, a gazebo and 97 rooms. It is one of the largest event venues in regional Victoria, with seven function spaces including the Victoria Rooms and the Conservatory, taking ceremonies of 5 to 250 and receptions of 20 to 500.
Veri photographed Georgie and Johnny’s ceremony and reception here, with the bride getting ready at apartments in Ballarat Central and portraits in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens by Lake Wendouree. That is a sound Ballarat plan: the gardens are fifteen minutes away and the hotel holds everything else, so guests staying on site walk from the ceremony to dinner.
For Georgie and Johnny it was the ceremony and reception venue; the day also took in Ballarat Premier Apartments in Ballarat Central and Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Ballarat North.