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Elysha & Mitch - The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham

The Cosmopolitan Hotel · Trentham, VIC

Country Wedding · Region: VIC - Macedon Ranges · City: Melbourne · Venue: Cosmopolitan Hotel

Elysha and Mitch took over the Cosmo — Trentham’s grand old pub reborn, all pressed tin, timber verandahs and country-town warmth. Vows in the garden, pints on the lawn, and a spud-country sunset down the main street. The kind of wedding where the whole town seems quietly invited. Melbourne wedding photography, high-country pub edition: scroll in.

The gable of a rendered stone building rises above pear trees and clipped box balls.
An arched timber door with a fanlight stands open in a rendered wall beside a rusted iron lantern.
White climbing roses frame an arched window with timber shutters on the rendered wall under a cloudy sky.
A girl with a flower in her hair reaches up to a peg rail of navy bridesmaid dresses.
Boxed bouquets of white anthurium, king protea and roses sit beneath shelves of books and deer figurines.
A flower girl in white tulle and a flower crown holds her petal basket in the kitchen.
The flower girl's hands hold a grey wicker basket of pink petals tied with peach ribbon.
A bouquet of king protea, white roses, anthurium and ferns lies on a timber table beside pillar candles.
A black brushed band and a diamond eternity band rest on a twig covered in lichen.
From behind, Elysha in a white robe and flower crown walks barefoot along stepping stones beneath ivy.
Elysha in her white robe holds a glass of champagne against an ivy shadowed rendered wall.
Seated at a timber table, Elysha smiles as a stylist pins flowers into her hair.
Three bridesmaids in pink floral robes and Elysha gather around the flower girl beneath a tree.
Elysha in her robe reaches up to the beaded lace gown hanging in the arched window.
Wearing the strapless beaded gown, Elysha looks down at her bouquet beside the shuttered window.
Elysha smiles at camera holding her protea and anthurium bouquet before the shuttered window.
Through a foreground of white roses, Elysha smiles with her bouquet at a shuttered door.
Elysha crosses the lawn between two bridesmaids in navy before the rose framed window.
Elysha, three bridesmaids in navy and the flower girl line up before the rose framed shuttered window.
Through a fanlight door, three men load a golf bag beside a cream vintage car.
At the arched window, Elysha pins a white boutonniere to a bald man's charcoal shirt.
Stepping out of the arched door with her bouquet, Elysha is met by a woman gasping.
A yellow and a cream vintage sedan wait on the gravel before the rendered building.
In a white shirt, tan chinos and brown braces, Mitch smiles on a sleeper step among pots.
Four men in white shirts, braces and tan chinos laugh with beers on the garden steps.
Close on clasped tattooed hands between knees in tan chinos, brace clips at the waist.
Seated on grey timber steps before a black weatherboard wall, Mitch looks off to the left.
Mitch looks at camera with three groomsmen soft behind him against the black weatherboard building.
Two ribboned vintage sedans, cream and yellow, drive down a tree lined country street past a stop sign.
Elysha smiles from the back seat of the cream car as a hand helps her out.
Mitch and three groomsmen in braces stand beneath silver birches with a page boy in front.
On the arm of a bald man in charcoal, Elysha crosses the lawn beneath a big tree.
Between the blurred heads of the groomsmen, Elysha looks toward Mitch with flowers in her hair.
Wide view of the garden ceremony at The Cosmopolitan Hotel beneath silver birches, bridesmaids in navy.
Behind the celebrant, Mitch in braces smiles at Elysha beside a birch trunk.
Seated guests laugh on timber folding chairs, a woman in black lace beside a man with a boutonniere.
Past a birch trunk, the celebrant and Elysha face Mitch and the guests on the lawn.
Seen from behind with roses in her hair, Elysha is smiled at by Mitch.
Elysha in profile smiles at the celebrant holding a folder, guests blurred behind.
Standing guests watch the ceremony, a woman in red lace with a hand to her cheek among them.
An older woman in a bright patterned jacket laughs among the seated guests during the ceremony.
A small girl in white sits on a guest's lap beside a woman with a corsage.
The first kiss beside a birch trunk as the celebrant claps and guests stand across the lawn.
The couple kiss as they walk back through the garden hand in hand past guests with phones.
An older woman in sunglasses and a patterned jacket reaches to hug Elysha holding a champagne flute.
Under a tree, Mitch shakes hands with a guest while a groomsman laughs with a beer.
On a country road, Elysha climbs into the ribboned cream sedan as a bridesmaid helps her.
In a fern floored clearing beneath tall mountain ash, Elysha and Mitch stand with the bouquet.
Close on the couple smiling at each other, the anthurium and king protea bouquet between them.
Tiny among mossy trunks and ferns, Mitch leads Elysha by the hand across the forest floor.
Mitch looks across at Elysha, who smiles back with roses in her hair among pale trunks.
Beneath a mossy branching tree, Mitch smiles at Elysha holding her bouquet in the forest.
Mitch looks down at Elysha, who looks down with roses pinned in her hair.
Mitch's tattooed hand rests at Elysha's waist as she looks down, beaded bodice in frame.
Among ferns and gum trunks, Elysha holds Mitch's face and kisses him.
Resting her head on Mitch's chest with eyes down, Elysha smiles as he laughs.
From behind, three groomsmen in braces walk through long grass toward the bridesmaids and the couple.
The bridal party walks in a line through long grass beneath tall gums, Mitch last.
Mitch leads Elysha by the hand through the grass, a barefoot bridesmaid in navy behind.
Elysha and Mitch walk toward camera hand in hand with three bridesmaids in navy, gum forest behind.
Profile of Elysha in the forest clearing, roses pinned in her hair, bouquet at her hip.
Over Elysha's blurred shoulder, Mitch waits in the clearing with hands in his pockets.
Kneeling and holding Elysha's hand, Mitch is smiled at from above among pale gum trunks.
Kneeling before Elysha in her beaded gown, Mitch kisses her hand.
Three bridesmaids in navy with foliage bouquets stand before a row of wire hoops beneath tall gums.
Mitch lifts Elysha's tulle train from the grass as she walks ahead, bare back to camera.
Glancing over her shoulder, Elysha shows the low back of the gown, train on the grass.
Leaning on the bonnet of the ribboned cream sedan on a forest road, Mitch holds his braces.
Walking through long grass beneath a lichen covered gum, Elysha looks off to the right.
Elysha and Mitch walk hand in hand down a gravel forest road smiling at each other.
The yellow vintage coupe lays a cloud of tyre smoke as it pulls away, the cream sedan behind.
A sign lettered The Cosmopolitan Bar on a timber outbuilding beside a rusted brazier and open barn door.
A hanging installation of king protea, anthurium and foliage above fairy lights in the timber room.
A timber crate of stubby holders printed Mitch and Elysha, to have and to hold.
A framed wishing well sign beside a birdcage and a guest book lettered eat, drink and be married.
Elysha swings her bouquet high, laughing, as Mitch leads her by the hand under a willow.
Guests cheer beneath the hanging florals in the timber room at The Cosmopolitan Hotel, phones raised.
Elysha and Mitch walk hand in hand up the gravel path toward camera, both beaming.
A man in a navy jacket with a white boutonniere smiles in the garden.
Groomsmen and guests with beers gather on the gravel beside the black timber Cosmopolitan bar under willows.
Mitch raises a finger mid story to a guest as a groomsman laughs beside the barn door.
Through glass, a flower girl watches a boy and a woman in yellow kneeling on a low stage.
The flower girl and a boy press their palms together through the glass, laughing.
From behind, a bridesmaid in navy and a bearded man walk hand in hand toward the barn doors.
Through willow leaves, Elysha talks with guests at the open barn doors of the Cosmopolitan bar.
A girl in a white dress stands on a low willow branch while two boys run below.
A white Mr and Mrs sign hangs by ribbon beneath a lantern above pink peonies in a birdcage.
Smiling with eyes closed as a microphone is held toward her, Elysha stands beside Mitch.
A bridesmaid in navy reads her speech from a card between Mitch in braces and a groomsman.
Under the hanging florals and festoon lights at The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Elysha looks up at Mitch.
Speaking into the microphone with a tattooed arm, Mitch makes Elysha laugh beside him.
Elysha smiles back at Mitch over her shoulder as he speaks, fairy lights above.
Guests wipe tears during the speeches, a flower girl in a flower crown on a woman's lap.
A woman in a red jumpsuit leaps for the tossed bouquet as a flower girl reaches up.
A shirtless boy dances at the front of the stone floor as guests dance beneath the hanging florals.
A grey suited man crouches mid dance between a laughing woman in orange and a woman in black.
Guests cheer under festoon lights, a woman in red holding the caught bouquet at right.
Laughing in profile beneath a candle chandelier and fairy lights, Mitch holds a glass.
From behind, Elysha dances lit purple beneath the hanging florals, a guest filming at left.
Tiny beneath dark trees at The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Elysha and Mitch stand lit by a single globe.
The couple kiss beneath the lone globe among dark branches at night, the tulle skirt catching light.
The story

Pressed tin, pub garden, main-street sunset

Ceremony & reception: The Cosmopolitan Hotel @ Trentham.

A lap of Trentham

Country pubs photograph like film sets — verandah light, worn timber, beer garden laughter. We stole Elysha and Mitch for a lap of Trentham’s wide streets at dusk and the town played along perfectly.

Photographer's venue notes

Shooting at The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Trentham

Garden and verandah

The Cosmopolitan’s garden gets open sky for ceremonies while the verandah gives instant cover if the Macedon weather turns — a genuine each-way bet. Trentham’s main street runs broadly east–west, so the last light shoots straight down it for the golden frames. The falls ten minutes away make a lush add-on if the timeline allows.

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