Shontei & AJ - Panorama House Wedding, Maddens Plains

Panorama House is a reception venue on the Princes Highway at Maddens Plains, on top of the Illawarra escarpment at Bulli Tops just north of Wollongong. The view is the point: from the gazebo and the dining rooms you look down the coast over the Illawarra and out to the Pacific. There is a purpose-built ceremony gazebo with the ocean behind it, and rooms that scale from the Pacific Room for around 40 guests to the full room for several hundred.

Veri photographed Shontei and AJ’s wedding here with the ceremony and reception both on site. The gazebo faces the water, so the ceremony photographs with sky and sea behind the couple rather than a wall, and the edge of the escarpment gives the portraits without leaving the property. Inside, the Ocean View Room keeps the coast in the windows through dinner.