Zonzo Estate wedding photos: Mokshi and Josh stand hand in hand on the hilltop lawn as the sun sets over the hills, Yarra Valley
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Zonzo Estate Wedding Photos: Mokshi & Josh

Zonzo Estate · 957 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd, Yarra Glen VIC · Melbourne

Country Wedding · Winery & Vineyard Wedding · Region: VIC - Yarra Valley · City: Melbourne · Venue: Zonzo Estate

A red rose pinned on her dad’s lapel, vows in front of a huge black-framed window and a kiss in the doorway with a vintage car waiting outside. Mokshi and Josh’s Yarra Valley wedding at Zonzo Estate stayed on one estate, from glasses raised on a sunny balcony to the last dance under festoon lights. In between came a twirling first dance by an old brick fireplace and a golden walk across the lawn at sunset. We loved every minute.

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Mokshi in a white robe and three bridesmaids in orange floral robes raise their glasses on a sunny balcony at Zonzo Estate, Yarra Glen.
Josh in a forest green suit and two groomsmen in navy suits and red ties, arms around each other on the balcony above the vineyard.
Josh and his groomsmen stand full length on a tiled balcony above green country paddocks at Zonzo Estate in the Yarra Valley.
Josh shakes hands with a groomsman at the balcony railing, paddocks and distant hills stretching out behind them.
Josh and a groomsman in a navy suit and red tie stand side by side at the balcony railing above farmland.
Josh stands with a groomsman wearing a white buttonhole on the tiled balcony, gum trees and vine rows behind.
Josh laughs with a groomsman leaning on the balcony rail at Zonzo, open country rolling out to the hills.
Mokshi in a white robe pins a red rose buttonhole onto her dad's navy lapel on her country wedding morning.
Her dad smiles softly as Mokshi fixes the red rose buttonhole on his navy suit.
Mokshi in a white robe smiles beside her long sleeved wedding gown hanging in the window, getting ready in the Yarra Valley.
A bridesmaid in deep red satin fixes a pin in Mokshi's hair as she fastens a bracelet, getting ready at the winery.
A loved one in an orange and red dress settles the veil as Mokshi sits smiling on the edge of the bed.
Mokshi looks down through the soft sheer tulle of her veil, her long sleeved gown glowing white on her Yarra Valley wedding day.
Mokshi holds her train and smiles over her shoulder in soft window light.
Mokshi holds a blush and white bouquet with a few deep red roses by the bedroom window of the country estate.
Mokshi gazes out the window with her bouquet, smiling and ready for the vineyard ceremony.
Josh kisses Mokshi's forehead under a gum tree on the lawn at Zonzo Estate as her long veil streams across the grass.
Two flower girls in baby's breath crowns hold wicker baskets beside two boys in red bow ties in the chapel in the Yarra Valley.
Her dad walks Mokshi down the aisle of the Zonzo Cappella, a vintage car waiting outside the open doors.
Her dad shakes Josh's hand at the front of the chapel as guests watch beside a flower filled winery barrel.
Mokshi reaches Josh at the front of the Cappella at Zonzo Estate, her cathedral veil and long train spread across the floor.
Two guests, a woman in blush pink with a fascinator and a white bearded man, sit in the timber pews of the country chapel.
Three bridesmaids in red satin dresses hold pale rose bouquets as they wait at the front of the vineyard chapel.
Two groomsmen in navy suits and red ties stand with hands clasped by the pale timber wall of the Yarra Valley chapel.
A family member in a red and gold dress dabs her eyes as a guest films the ceremony.
A woman in red and gold and a man in a blue suit with a red rose watch the winery ceremony.
A young man in navy helps a little boy in a pale grey suit read at the microphone during the country ceremony.
Mokshi and Josh face each other before the huge black framed window, paddocks and hills behind, at Zonzo Estate in the Yarra Valley.
In black and white, Mokshi and Josh share a look in front of the great window.
Mokshi and Josh hold hands as a woman in lilac reads into a microphone before the big window of the Cappella at Zonzo.
In black and white, Mokshi and Josh hold hands during their ceremony, the window bars framing them against the paddocks.
Mokshi and Josh hold hands beneath the soaring black framed window, the vineyard and hills soft in the distance.
In black and white, a tall window frames Mokshi, Josh and the woman reading at the microphone during their country ceremony.
Smiling guests fill the timber pews in the Cappella at Zonzo Estate, a woman in a navy dress holding a card.
A man in a navy suit with a red rose buttonhole beams beside a woman in red and gold at the vineyard wedding.
Guests clap from the timber pews, a woman in pale blue at the front of the Yarra Valley ceremony.
Mokshi and Josh kiss in the middle of the great black framed window, country paddocks beyond.
In black and white, the window bars make strong graphic lines around Mokshi and Josh's kiss at Zonzo Estate.
Petals fly as Mokshi and Josh walk back up the aisle, guests cheering with phones up.
Mokshi and Josh grin through a shower of petals on their way up the aisle of the country chapel, guests reaching out on both sides.
Mokshi and Josh kiss in the doorway, a cream and black vintage car waiting on the paving at Zonzo Estate in the Yarra Valley.
In black and white, Mokshi and Josh kiss at the chapel door, her veil and train spilling back inside.
Guests watch from their seats as Mokshi and Josh kiss on the threshold, her train trailing inside the winery chapel.
Arms up and cheering, every guest squeezes into one big group shot with Mokshi and Josh in the Zonzo Cappella.
Mokshi and Josh with three bridesmaids in red satin and two groomsmen in navy before the chapel window in the Yarra Valley.
Mokshi and Josh stand with a family group of four in front of the big window onto the paddocks.
Mokshi and Josh pose with a woman in blush pink and a white bearded man before the great window of the chapel among the vines.
Mokshi and Josh with a family group of three, including a woman in red and gold, beside a winery barrel and tall windows.
Mokshi and Josh with two bridesmaids in red satin, a woman in orange and a man in a grey suit before rural views.
Mokshi and Josh stand between a man in a yellow tie and a woman in orange.
Mokshi and Josh glance down at her train in the aisle under the raked timber ceiling and skylights at Zonzo Estate, Yarra Glen.
Two bridesmaids in red satin with pale bouquets and two men in blazers by the frosted glass wall in the Yarra Valley.
Mokshi in a tea length dress and Josh hold coupes beside a champagne tower on a wine barrel at their winery wedding.
Josh wraps his arms around Mokshi as they cut a tall flower dressed cake in front of the old brick fireplace at Zonzo.
Mokshi and Josh light the wicks of a tall brass lamp together beside the brick fireplace of the winery reception.
Josh holds Mokshi from behind as her full skirt swirls out during their first dance at the country estate.
Mokshi laughs as Josh swings her across the dance floor at Zonzo Estate, brick and timber glowing under bare bulbs.
Mokshi throws one arm up mid twirl as Josh holds her hand on the winery dance floor.
Josh guides Mokshi through a spin by the winery's old brick fireplace, her skirt flaring out.
Mokshi grins at Josh, her skirt still swinging, as they dance under warm lights at their Yarra Valley reception.
Close in on the dance floor, Mokshi laughs up at Josh as a light glows behind them at the vineyard reception.
Mokshi and Josh walk hand in hand across the lawn in golden light, a timber winery building behind them.
Mokshi and Josh stroll across the lawn straight into the setting sun at Zonzo Estate, Yarra Glen.
Mokshi and Josh rest their foreheads together, eyes closed, in warm sunset light on the country lawn.
Josh kisses Mokshi's forehead as she closes her eyes and smiles, her drop earring catching the warm Yarra Valley light.
The low sun lights up Mokshi's hair as she smiles with her eyes closed in Josh's arms, out in the country.
Mokshi and Josh stand hand in hand on the lawn at sunset, gum trees and hills behind, at Zonzo Estate in the Yarra Valley.
The bridal party lines up with Mokshi and Josh on the lawn under a pink sky, country paddocks behind.
Mokshi, Josh and their bridesmaids and groomsmen laugh together on the lawn as the Yarra Valley sky turns pink.
Mokshi and Josh dance under festoon lights strung between the timber buildings at Zonzo Estate as dusk settles over the vine rows and hills.
The wedding story

Our Zonzo Estate wedding photos: vows against the Cappella’s big window, a kiss beside a vintage car and a golden walk across the lawn

Getting ready over the paddocks · Vows in the Zonzo Cappella · Petals and a vintage car · First dance by the brick fireplace · Golden hour on the lawn · Festoon lights at dusk

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Robes on the balcony

Our day at Zonzo Estate began on a sunny tiled balcony looking over green paddocks to the hills. Mokshi and her bridesmaids, in matching floral robes, raised their glasses with their backs to us and the whole view in front of them, a frame that tells you exactly where you are. Then the boys took the same spot. Josh, in a forest-green suit, stood between his two groomsmen in navy with red ties, and we let them loosen up: a handshake, a shoulder grab, a laugh. In bright early-afternoon light we kept the sun off their faces so nobody squinted.

A red rose pinned on

Inside, Mokshi pinned a red rose onto her dad’s navy lapel, and the smile on his face while she fussed with it is one of our favourite frames of the day. We moved in close and let the window light fall across both of them. Her gown hung in the window, long-sleeved and simple, waiting. Once she was dressed, a bridesmaid fixed a pin in her hair, and a loved one in a red dress stood behind her to settle the veil, the two of them laughing as Mokshi sat on the edge of the bed.

Through the veil

We love a veil frame, so we put Mokshi close to the sheer curtains and shot through the tulle itself: soft, bright and a little dreamy, with just her face in focus. Then she stood side-on to the window and the light ran along the long sleeves and fitted lines of her gown. Light from one window is the most flattering light there is, and it shows the shape of a dress better than any lamp. Her bouquet of blush and white flowers with a few deep red roses picked up the red that ran through the whole day. She glanced outside, smiled, and was ready.

Into the Zonzo Cappella

Before the ceremony we had a few quiet minutes with Mokshi and Josh under a gum tree on the lawn, and the breeze lifted her long veil out sideways in one sweep. Then everyone moved into the Zonzo Cappella, all pale timber walls and one huge black-framed window. Two flower girls in baby’s breath crowns held their little baskets, two small boys in red bow ties stood beside them, and the bridesmaids lined up in red satin with pale bouquets. Josh waited at the front with his two groomsmen, a wine barrel spilling with flowers beside them.

A handshake at the aisle

Mokshi came down the aisle on her dad’s arm, the red rose still on his lapel, and at the front he shook Josh’s hand before letting her go. We kept both men and Mokshi in one frame, because that handover lasts about three seconds. Guests turned to watch, a family member in a red and gold dress dabbed her eyes, and then a little boy stepped up to the microphone to read, with a guest leaning in to help him follow the page. Small moments like that are why we watch the room as closely as the couple.

Vows against the big window

The vows happened in front of the Cappella’s great window, with paddocks and hills stretched out behind Mokshi and Josh. That window is a gift and a challenge: the light pours in behind the couple, so we exposed for their faces and let the view go soft and bright. Mokshi and Josh held hands and laughed at something only they could hear, and the guests in the timber pews laughed with them. Then came the kiss, right in the middle of the window. In one black and white frame of it, the window bars become strong graphic lines around them.

Petals and a vintage car

Petals flew as they walked back up the aisle, guests on their feet with phones up. At the open doors a vintage car was waiting on the pale paving outside, and Mokshi and Josh stopped for a kiss on the threshold, her train spilling back into the chapel while the guests watched from their seats. Then we turned around and fitted everyone into one big group in the Cappella, arms up and cheering. Family groups and the bridal party followed in front of the window. Doing groups in the ceremony space while everyone is still there saves a lot of rounding up later.

A spin by the fireplace

For the reception Mokshi changed into a tea-length dress with cap sleeves and a full skirt, made for dancing. She and Josh raised a glass beside a champagne tower stacked on a wine barrel, then cut a tall cake dressed with flowers in front of an old brick fireplace. Then the first dance. We put a light behind them so the edge of Mokshi’s skirt glowed every time Josh spun her, while the brick and dark timber kept the room warm. She twirled, he laughed, and by the last spin she was looking up at him, grinning.

Golden hour on the lawn

Then we took them outside for the best light of the day. The sun was dropping towards the hills as Mokshi and Josh walked hand in hand across the lawn, and we shot straight into it so the glow wrapped around her hair and the hem of her skirt. Close in, foreheads together, the warm light did all the work. If you plan one thing for your Zonzo Estate wedding photos, make it twenty minutes on that lawn at sunset. The bridal party joined them under a pink sky, and our last frame was the two of them dancing between the timber buildings under festoon lights.

Photographer's venue notes

Zonzo Estate, Yarra Glen: Cappella vows against the big window and a sunset walk after the first dance

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One estate from balcony to lawn

Mokshi and Josh never left Zonzo Estate. Getting ready happened on site, with the bridesmaids and then the groomsmen taking turns on a tiled balcony above the paddocks, and Mokshi dressing in a bedroom with a bright window. Before the ceremony we took a few quiet minutes under a gum tree on the lawn. Then came the Cappella for the vows, the kiss at its open doors and every group photo, the reception by the old brick fireplace, and finally the lawn and the timber buildings as the festoon lights came on.

Summer timing on the estate

A summer wedding gave Mokshi and Josh a long evening, and they used it well. The balcony frames came in bright early afternoon sun, so we turned everyone side on and kept faces out of the glare. The Cappella window backlit the ceremony, which meant exposing for the couple and letting the paddocks fade bright behind them. Instead of heading outside straight after the vows, they went into the reception and danced first, then slipped out to the lawn as the sun dropped towards the hills, and the pink sky afterwards was a bonus for the bridal party.

The frames we chased for this couple

The Cappella’s huge black framed window was the centrepiece: we used it straight on for the kiss, and wider during the reading, so the window bars drew strong lines around them. The open doorway gave us a second frame, the cream and black vintage car waiting on the pale paving while the train still trailed back into the chapel. At the reception, a light placed behind them made Mokshi’s full tea length skirt glow on every spin. Outside, we shot straight into the low sun across the lawn and kept the gums and hills behind for depth.

Advice for a Cappella ceremony

Do your groups while everyone is still in the chapel, as Mokshi and Josh did, and you avoid hunting the lawns for missing relatives later. If a car is part of the day, have it waiting outside the open doors the way theirs was, because that doorway kiss works best with the car sitting squarely in the frame. If you change into a second dress for dancing, choose one with movement, since a swinging skirt photographs far better than a straight one. And keep a little of the evening free for the lawn when the sun is low.

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