Rippon Lea Estate · 192 Hotham St, Elsternwick VIC · Melbourne
Garden Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · City: Melbourne · Venue: Rippon Lea Estate
Cydnee and Darren’s wedding day: getting ready, the ceremony, portraits and the reception, all at Rippon Lea Estate in Elsternwick. The gallery below is 93 frames, in the order they happened.
Getting ready, Ceremony, Portraits and Reception: Rippon Lea Estate, Elsternwick.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 93 photographs in the order they happened, from getting ready to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Rippon Lea Estate on Hotham Street, Elsternwick, is a National Trust mansion about ten kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. It was built in 1868 for Frederick Sargood to a design by Joseph Reed, in polychrome brick in the Lombardic Romanesque style. The fourteen acres of garden include a lake, an iron-framed fernery, and the swimming pool and ballroom added in the 1930s. The estate passed to the National Trust in 1972 and joined the National Heritage List in 2006.
Veri has photographed two weddings at Rippon Lea. Cydnee and Darren had the bride’s preparation, ceremony, portraits and reception all on the estate; an earlier wedding in March 2014 did the same. Our notes from those days list the poolside terrace, the bridge over the lake and the fern garden as the portrait spots we kept returning to, with the ballroom for the reception.