Sergeants Mess · Chowder Bay Rd, Mosman NSW · Sydney
Waterside Wedding · Region: NSW - Sydney North Shore · City: Sydney · Venues: Clifton Gardens · Sergeants Mess
Sarah and George’s waterside wedding day: the ceremony and the reception at Sergeants Mess in Mosman and portraits at Clifton Gardens in Mosman. The gallery below is 98 frames, in the order they happened.
Ceremony and Reception: Sergeants Mess, Mosman. Portraits: Clifton Gardens, Mosman.
The gallery is the wedding day in full: 98 photographs in the order they happened, from the ceremony to portraits. A companion gallery from the same day is also in the archive.
Sergeants Mess is a waterfront function venue at Chowder Bay in Mosman, on Sydney’s lower north shore, looking across the harbour to Watsons Bay. The site became a Submarine Miners Depot in 1892 and later an army base; the present building went up in 1963 as the sergeants’ mess and opened to the public in 2000. It sits between the water and a steep wall of bush, with a dining room for 250, a bar with a 180-degree view and a private wharf.
We have photographed a wedding here and filmed seven more since 2021. The venue keeps ceremony, portraits and reception on one strip of foreshore: vows by the water, the wharf and the bay for the couple, and the dining room with the harbour behind the top table.
For Sarah and George it was the ceremony and reception venue; the day also took in Clifton Gardens in Mosman.