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Mar 25, 2024
White Top Venues are the industries premium event professionals, taking care of catering, styling and event production at the most sought after wedding venues in Victoria and the most decadent luxury events.
White Top Venues have exclusive access to a stable of in demand venues in the most scenic locations, as well as a wealth of experience planning high-end events and celebrations on private property (see more private property wedding venues in Victoria).
What sort of weddings do White Top Venues host?
White Top Venues are host high-end luxury weddings, for couples who want the industries best involved in every are from planning, to styling, florals, catering and more. They specialise in everything from intimate soirees to decadent affairs with several hundred guests, with a cache of private wedding venues under their custodianship.
Guest photos taken at White Top Venues Barragunda Estate, at our live portrait Vanity Fair Photobooth, Blanc.
Contact information
Main website: https://www.whitetop.au/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whitetopvenues/
Book Briars Atlas to photograph your White Top Venues wedding
Make an enquiry here
Related luxury wedding venues: see the Melbourne Higher Ground wedding of Samantha and Michael.
Mar 25, 2024
With deep roots in regenerative agriculture and farming, you can also book a Barragunda Estate wedding. Partnering with White Top Venues (enquire with them to see some of their private property wedding venues), Barragunda Estate is a gem of the Mornington Peninsula and a favourite venue of choice for couples seeking the very best in luxury, decadence and, privacy.
The wedding of Ella Walters and Mack Horton, planned by Weddings of Desire, and featured on Vogue Australia.
What sort of weddings do Barragunda Estate Host?
Barragunda Estate is most known for hosting high-end weddings with a large volume of guests, and the most high level of planning detail involved.
Do you have any Barragunda Estate wedding photos?
Recently we brought our live portrait experience, also known as the Vanity Fair Photo Booth, Blanc, to Barragundana Estate See some of our photobooth images below.
Contact information
Main website: https://www.barragunda.com.au/barragunda-estate/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barragunda/
Book Briars Atlas to photograph your Barragunda Estate wedding
Make an enquiry here
Planning a soiree further up north? Book us as your Macedon Ranges wedding photographer.
Mar 9, 2024
We have just opened the doors to BLANC: the worlds first live wedding portrait experience, for weddings and events. You can book this with any Briars Atlas wedding photography coverage (or even if you have booked someone else for the main event or wedding photography but obviously… we’re biased). This is an incredible alternative to the traditional photobooth, and we have a hunch that you’ve never seen anything quite like it.
No shade on the fancy shades, but we don’t bring props, and we don’t use a cold machine with a countdown timer. This is a live portrait experience by internationally award winning portrait photographers, bookable by the hour.
Suited to the canapes hour or a couple of hours of your reception (for a good time reception venue see this Cutler and Co wedding, if you want), you can book BLANC to be installed anywhere inside or out. We’ll bring out the best of your guests, and deliver professional, studio quality images the same night of your wedding.
That’s right… we think waiting a week for your photobooth photos is a bit naff.
Wedding portrait booth vs wedding photo booth
This is not a photo booth, this is a wedding portrait booth. You’ll get to enjoy a live wedding portrait experience, guided gently by a real (human) portrait photographer, and this is how you get yourselves some real VIP portraits.
Book the BLANC live portrait experience now.
Website: www.blanc.photo
There are two of us operating the live studio experience (we prefer to call it that, as it’s anything *but* a photobooth), and one of us is editing and printing the images while the other is photographing your guests. After we clock off, we ensure that your gallery is processed and uploaded in time for your guests to enjoy them right as they’re doom scrolling their phones as their heads have hit the pillow after your fabulous event at 2am.
All BLANC bookings include as many 4×6″ professional prints, hand delivered to your guests, as we can pump out on the fly. We aim to at least create one print of every setup. Last time, we did a little over 150 prints while we were there.
Every single photograph we take will be uploaded into your very own portal, where you and your guests can order incredible prints from the best fine-art lab in Australia.
A photo booth is something you go into and bring a cheesy grin while waiting for a timer to count down. They’re fun, but this is entirely different: this is a world-class studio portrait shoot, on-site at your event by a portrait photographer. The difference? Instead of your guests relying on props to bring out their personalities, a skilled photographer will interact with them, making a wide range of incredible portraits that show them at their best. You just have to see it to believe it – so, scroll back up.
When most people look at our live studio shoot images, they’re reminded of the Oscars entrance portraits, or a setup from Vanity Fair. We’re quite alright with that comparison, and it’s probably the best way of communicating what you receive.
Check out the best Melbourne Wedding celebrants going, and also these gorgeous unique wedding venues (we think we’d look pretty fancy at all of them, particularly at a Reine and La Rue wedding).
BLANC is available in every state in Australia (check out this Beta Bar wedding in Sydney), and you can even book us for your destination wedding. Travel fees apply.
BLANC portraits are all taken on digital, so that we can turn them around for you on the very night of your wedding. If you are looking for 35mm film photos of your wedding or elopement, head over here where we have more information on being a film wedding photographer.
There are many brilliant wedding planners in Melbourne, Geelong and beyond, and one great one that comes to mind now is Weddings of Desire.
Jan 10, 2024
Weddings of Desire, led by renowned stylist and planner Laura, craft the most fashion-forward, design minded weddings and events in and beyond greater Melbourne, Victoria. Ella and Mack chose Laura and the Weddings of Desire team to style and plan their Stones of the Yarra valley wedding, which was later featured on Vogue Australia.
All floral styling by Flowers St Germain.
Macks suit by Christian Kimber wedding suits.
What sort of weddings do weddings of desire plan?
Weddings of desire specialise in ultra luxury weddings where no corners are cut. Initially beginning as an area of passion (like all great success stories) as a blog, Laura’s style and taste soon caught so much attention that the next logical step was offering a full bespoke planning experience, rather than featuring the work of others.
This detail driven approach to planning covers all the areas you might expect – such as venue styling, colour palettes and more – over to ones you might not: such as typography on collateral, and the feel of materials.
Private property wedding venues Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula
Weddings of Desire are Victorias leading architects of private property wedding venues, with a broad library of exclusive access private properties in Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and more. Laura has worked extensively to generate exclusive relationships with the owners some of the most spectacular properties, where they can host your wedding over a limited number of dates each year.
To enquire about private property wedding venues in and outside of Melbourne make an enquiry here.
Contact information
Main website: https://weddingsofdesire.com.au/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddingsofdesire/
Book Briars Atlas to photograph your wedding
Make an enquiry here
Mar 16, 2022
Those in the culinary know are aware of the famously understated and widely acclaimed restaurant and accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula, Graceburn & Tedesca Osteria. Ruth and Jack held their intimate wedding on it’s grounds under the careful hands of Bridgette and her marvellous team.
Ruth and Jack are featured on Together Journal, and photographed on a mixture of digital and analogue Kodak film.
Graceburn & Tedesca Osteria wedding
Tedesca Osteria website: https://www.tedesca.com.au/
Head here for more Mornington Peninsula Wedding Venues
Jan 20, 2021
Spectacular wineries (further out in Nagambie, check out this Mitchelton Winery wedding), incredible coastline and an abundance of rural Victorian beauty are just a few of the reasons so many folks choose a Mornington Peninsula wedding. I’m a Mornington Peninsula wedding photographer, and wanted to share some of my favourite little slices of the region at the weddings of brilliant humans out there.
Wedding venues such as Tanglewood Estate and Crittenden Estate on dromana are standounds, as are the art-deco Lindenderry, and out to the Shearing Shed, at the slightly further out Phillip Island.
Sunset scenes with Sarah at her wedding to Kurt at Lindenderry in Red Hill.
Since you’re here, maybe you’d like to check out this list i’ve made of the Best Melbourne wedding celebrants (all of them are more than happy to make a trip down to the Mornington Peninsula and some are based there), and for something more industrial in vibe, you might like to check out this Rupert on Rupert wedding, or this roundup of the most unique wedding venues in Melbourne.
More help for your Mornington Peninsula wedding planning
Planning a wedding on the Mornington Peninsula? It’s hard to go past the brilliant Popup with Style, if you’re looking for assistance in your planning. Popup with Style are based in the region, and familiar with planning weddings large and small. And for the ride, bring along the worlds first live portrait experience, VIP portraits.
Best Wedding Venues in Mornington Peninsula
Out on the Mornington Peninsula you’ll find some of the most incredible wedding venues available anywhere in Victoria. Between the bay, ocean coast, expansive wineries and a gateway to a sublime slice of regional Victoria, the Mornington Peninsula has the most amount of venue variety you’ll find in VIC.
- Tanglewood Estate
- Crittenden Estate
- Lindenderry Red Hill
- All Smiles Sorrento
- Brighton Savoy
- The Shearing Shed
- Private Property (see these private property wedding venues on the Mornington Peninsula)
Want to see all of these Mornington Peninsula wedding venues in detail? Head over to this post on Mornington Peninsula wedding venues and see if you can find a venue that fits your vibe.
On the other side of the Peninsula: Yarra Valley wedding venues
For wedding venue ideas on the other side of Victoria, here’s a list of 5 incredible Yarra Valley wedding venues for you to cast your glorious eyes across.
Wedding photographer: an FAQ
Anywhere in and around Mornington Peninsula, Gippsland, and greater Victoria. There are no travel charges are payable within Victoria, and I regularly photograph weddings everywhere on the Mornington Peninsula.
These are the best Mornington Peninsula wedding venues.
A favourite is this Graceburn Tedesca Osteria wedding and this Barragunda Estate wedding.
Book your Mornington Peninsula wedding photographer.
Wedding photography Mornington Peninsula – enquire at briarsatlas.com
