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Campaspe House great wedding photography venue

June 3, 2011 By Andy Rogers Leave a Comment

The first thing I noticed when I got out of the car at Campaspe House in Woodend was the serenity! It’s so quiet and peaceful and the air is fresh – the perfect atmosphere for a Wedding. I wanted to feature Campaspe house because of the great gardens you have as options for wedding photo locations. It has a lovely front garden that is intimate and colourful with a few great little spots for photography as well as a terrace garden and more lush green spaces at the rear of the house. The great thing about these separate gardens through out is that each has it’s own distinct feeling. This is great for Wedding portraits as it means we can stay at the one venue and still have a variety of different backdrops and moods. The front garden is more rambling, with beautiful large liquid amber trees, hedges and smaller tree’s, the terrace garden has a romantic feel, nestled amongst crab apple tree and the pottage has a strong, clean symmetry that allows lots of play with angular compositions.

Being just outside the town centre of Woodend, which is part of the Macedon Ranges it’s only about 50 minutes from Melbourne. All through out the Macedon ranges area your guests will find great accommodation. By staying the night they can visit one of many spa’s in the area, head over to hanging rock or pop into the surrounding towns and browse the antique stores and sample the fine local produce.

Here are a few photos taken during Autumn of the gardens around Campaspe House.

The Lake House Daylesford – Great wedding photography location

June 1, 2011 By Andy Rogers Leave a Comment

Another great Wedding venue in Daylesford is the Lake House. Situated above the Daylesford lake the view from the deck looking across the water and surrounding trees is just beautiful. Lake Daylesford is quite large and would take a little while to walk around, especially for a bride in heels. Fortunately you don’t have to walk far from the Lake House for great scenery and photography! Wooden foot bridges, a little pier and silver birch trees provide great context for the country wedding vibe.

There’s a great advantage to having your Ceremony, Wedding photography session and reception all at the same venue. Quite often when we head off for photos the whole bridal party will join us. But after a little while the portraits with the bridal party will be over. Now, don’t get me wrong, you’re bridal party love you and they want to share this day with you BUT they don’t want to spend a big chunk of it taking photos. With the whole day occurring in the same place the bridal party can leave after their portraits are done and wonder back to the rest of your guests while we have some more photos of just the two of you.

Here are a few images from around the Daylesford lake.

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The Convent Daylesford featured wedding venue

May 29, 2011 By Andy Rogers Leave a Comment

If you’ve been entertaining the thought of an out of town wedding – somewhere a little more quiet with that fresh country air then you really must consider the Daylesford Convent as your Wedding venue.

This is another one of those really great locations that provide you with one location for the ceremony, reception and photography. Recently I’ve been featuring many of these wedding venues that can host your entire wedding day. It’s an option that I favour for a few reasons – Having your whole day in one location makes things easier for your guests as they don’t have to worry about traveling from the ceremony site to the reception – going through the trouble of actually finding the reception site and then some decent parking. But, I think the biggest thing is that it allows you, the couple to spend more time with your guests – we don’t have to travel from ceremony to photo locations to reception. We can assign time to take portraits around the venue while your guests mingle and indulge in canapés and champagne before you re join them for the celebrations!

The gardens of the Daylesford convent aren’t huge, but a very manageable size with great little pockets of varying colours, textures and lighting. From area’s big enough for a family portrait of 15 people to little alcoves for some personal space and intimate portraits of just the two of you.

Here are a few photos that merely scratch the surface in terms of the different colours and textures available to us as we wonder the gardens.

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Sault a great Daylesford Wedding Venue

May 25, 2011 By Andy Rogers Leave a Comment

Sault is one spectacular Wedding Venue! Nestled against the Wombat state forest in Daylesford, Sault Estate is a one-stop venue for your Ceremony, reception and Wedding photography.

The major attraction here are the rows and rows of Lavender bushes that are a feast for the eyes and provide amazing colours and textures for your Wedding photos. Unfortunately when I stopped by the lavender had neared the end of its season, but through spring and summer the grounds of the estate burst with the beautiful purple hues and sweet scent of the lavender.

The grounds also host great open spaces with views of the state forest as well as a lake populated by ducks and swans. The front of the restaurant is made of sandstone which give a classic look to portraits and the back decking provides an amazing view over the lake as the sun sets in the west – the open areas of Sault are perfect for some great late evening and twilight portrait sessions.