The Royal Hotel Queanbeyan · Queanbeyan NSW · Canberra
Church & Cathedral Wedding · Heritage & Historic Venue Wedding · City: Canberra · Venues: National Museum of Australia · St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church · The Royal Hotel Queanbeyan
Trish and Chris’ church wedding day: the ceremony at St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Kaleen, portraits at National Museum of Australia in Acton, then the reception at The Royal Hotel Queanbeyan in Queanbeyan. The gallery below is 72 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony: St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Kaleen. Portraits: National Museum of Australia, Acton. Reception: The Royal Hotel Queanbeyan, Queanbeyan.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 72 photographs in the order they happened, from the ceremony to the reception. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
The Royal Hotel QBN is the pub on Monaro Street, Queanbeyan, about 15 kilometres south-east of Canberra across the New South Wales border. It opened in 1926, when Canberra itself was dry and Queanbeyan’s hotels did the capital’s drinking; today it is a bistro and live-music pub downstairs with a function floor above called The Upperhouse. Up there are the Manhattan Room, the largest, with its own bar, the Menzies Room opening onto a courtyard, the small Beadman Room, and an atrium of Japanese maples.
Veri photographed Trish and Chris’s reception here after their ceremony at St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Kaleen and portraits at the National Museum of Australia. That is a typical Canberra wedding: church in the northern suburbs, the couple’s photographs by Lake Burley Griffin, then the short drive out to Queanbeyan for the evening.
For Trish and Chris it was the reception venue; the day also took in St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Kaleen and National Museum of Australia in Acton.