Beachfront Wedding Venues in Sydney
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Looking for a beach wedding venue in Sydney, NSW? This list of the best beachfront wedding locations in Sydney includes all of the city's most beautiful seaside venues from the iconic beaches of Manly & Bondi to hidden clifftop spots with incredible ocean views.
Sydney's top beachfront wedding venues range from luxury seaside hotels and chefs hatted restaurants to exclusive holiday homes, and include several coastal reception venues that offer affordable wedding packages catering to all budgets.
These are the top 18 beachfront ceremony & reception venues in Sydney.
Top 18 Beach Wedding Venues in Sydney
Jonah's Whale Beach
- Location: 69 Bynya Road, Whale Beach, NSW 2107
- Capacity: 30 - 122
- Accommodation: Sleeps 22
- Wedding Packages: From $260/pp
Jonah's Restaurant & Boutique Hotel sits on a breathtaking clifftop overlooking panoramic ocean views and is one of Sydney's most spectacular venues for beachfront weddings. The resort-style venue has a private lawn for wedding ceremonies with a birds eye view over Whale Beach, an outdoor terrace with a sunset vista over the horizon and a glass-walled restaurant with uninterrupted water views.
This chefs-hatted restaurant is ideal for couples wanting a fine dining experience in an exclusive oceanfront setting as all wedding packages come with a customised menu paired with award winning wines, and a personal wedding planner. The hotel has 11 ocean-facing suites offering the perfect spot to get ready for your special day.
The Wedding Pavilion
- Location: 2 Bong Bong Street, Kiama, NSW 2533
- Capacity: 30 - 400
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
The Pavilion blends panoramic seaside views with excellent affordability making it one of the best oceanfront wedding locations near Sydney. It's situated on its own secluded headland overlooking a surf beach about an hour south of Botany Bay and is a modern function space filled with light from large ocean-facing windows.
Beside The Pavilion are two beautiful ceremony sites with stunning coastal views. One is an elegant foreshore park framed by Norfolk Pines. The other is sheltered from the sea breeze between two rows of rustic boat sheds. The other great thing about The Pavilion is that is has a seperate entrance foyer that's perfect for wedding ceremonies if its raining. Bridal suite onsite. Luxury hotels within walking distance.
Private Estate at Palm Beach
- Location: Palm Beach - Sydney
- Capacity: 100
- Wedding Packages: Ceremonies + Photos
This $40m holiday house is located at Palm Beach and is Sydney's most exclusive beachfront ceremony venue. The immaculate Balinese-inspired grounds offer 2,500m² of private seaside gardens for your wedding ceremony and photos with Pittwater's turquoise water and bobbing boats as your backdrop.
With an onsite wharf you can arrive by boat and there's ample street parking for guests arriving by car. Venue hire includes bathroom amenities but no furniture or shelter so we recommend engaging a wedding planner to help arrange logistics and set up on the day.
Pilu at Freshwater Beach
- Location: Moore Road, Freshwater Beach, NSW 2096
- Capacity: 100
- Wedding Packages: From $230 per person
Pilu is a chefs hatted Sardinian restaurant that offers the perfect seaside setting for luxury weddings with up to 16, 26, 50 or 100 guests. The heritage beach house sits high above the waves of Freshwater and is an all inclusive wedding venue with a spectacular clifftop courtyard for your ceremony and 3 ocean view reception spaces tailor made for micro weddings.
The upscale Italian menu, highly experienced event staff and flexible layout make Pilu one of the best beachside wedding venues in Sydney for foodie couples with a small guest list.
St Siandra Mosman
- Location: 75 Parriwi Road, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 20 - 140
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
St Siandra is located at Middle Harbour in Mosman and is the perfect beach reception venue for fun celebrations with a laid back Mediterranean vibe. The restaurant stands apart for its bright interiors, seaside holiday-style menus and signature cocktails and has two distinct function spaces with breathtaking views over its own private beach and luxury yachts moored in The Spit.
The Bluebird Room sits above the St Siandra Restaurant and is the perfect beachfront space for small weddings with up to 50 seated guests or 85 people cocktail style. The downstairs restaurant seats up to 100 guests in an oasis of colour inspired by the Amalfi Coast.
Ormeggio at the Spit
- Location: Spit Road, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 100
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive from $230/pp
With floor to ceiling glass walls offering a panoramic coastal vista over Middle Harbour and Pearl Bay, Ormeggio At The Spit has long been one of Sydney's most scenic seaside wedding venues. If you're looking for a beautiful reception venue surrounded by glistening water and luxury yachts so you feel like you're in the Amalfi Coast, Ormeggio is the perfect location.
All inclusive wedding packages come with a fine dining Italian seafood menu by owner & chef Alessandro and the outdoor deck offers a beautiful location for beachfront wedding ceremonies. There's also a mooring so you have the option to arrive by boat or water taxi and sail away under a starlit sky at the end of the night.
Long Reef Golf Club
- Location: Anzac Avenue, Collaroy, NSW 2097
- Capacity: 25 - 180
- Wedding Packages: $160+/pp
With sweeping coastline views that stretch from Narrabean to Avalon, Long Reef Golf Club is one of the most picturesque beach wedding venues in Sydney. It's also one of the easiest places to organise your wedding as all inclusive packages come with a choice of fully styled ceremony set ups, budget friendly catering options and an in-house planner.
When you book your wedding at Long Reef Golf Club you also get golf buggies to zip around the Bicentennial Coastal Walk and take bridal photos with an ocean backdrop on the headland. The beautiful function room seats up to 140 guests, has large windows overlooking the Northern Beaches, a cocktail terrace and stunning ceremony space directly on the ocean's edge.
Watsons Bay Hotel
- Location: 1 Military Road, Watsons Bay, NSW 2030
- Capacity: 60 - 150
- Accommodation: 32 suites
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
The Top Deck at Watsons Bay Hotel has been freshly renovated with a modern Hamptons vibe and offers a chic beachfront setting for wedding receptions with epic sunset views over Sydney Harbour. The funky rooftop bar works equally well for seated (up to 8o guests) or cocktail events (150 people) and partners the original Sunset Room (pictured) which seats 120 guests in refined luxury.
One of the things we love about this iconic beach venue is that it's located at Watsons Bay Wharf allowing arrival by ferry or charter boat with the option of transporting guests via a harbour cruise. Being set on its own stretch of sand you can also say "I do" on the water's edge right out front.
Lindesay House
- Location: 1 Carthona Avenue, Darling Point, NSW 2027
- Capacity: 10 - 100
- Venue Hire: $6,535 - $10,385
Lindesay House is the perfect venue for elegant garden parties on Sydney Harbour with private lawns providing an intimate setting for outdoor ceremonies & receptions directly on the harbour foreshore. This stunning Darling Point venue is conveniently located just 5 minutes from the CBD and is best suited to day time weddings with up to 60 guests due to residential zoning restrictions.
The beautiful waterfront space comes with a large marquee-style awning so if its raining you can still have a stunning outdoor reception with the same exclusive water views. BYO caterers and drinks.
The Boathouse Shelly Beach
- Location: 1 Marine Parade, Manly, NSW 2095
- Capacity: 30 - 120
- Wedding Packages: $230 - $260/pp
The Boathouse is the perfect Manly Beach wedding venue if you're wanting a more intimate local vibe as its located via a 5 minute coastal walk from Manly Promenade hidden in the protected marine reserve of Cabbage Tree Bay.
There's a buzzing cocktail bar downstairs and a stunning event space seating 60 guests upstairs with large windows that let in the warm sea breeze. Being literally 2 steps from the sand, The Boathouse immerses you in the relaxed coastal ambience of Shelly Beach which is famous for scuba divers and snorkelers offering plenty to watch while enjoying cocktails and canapés. All inclusive wedding packages priced from $230 - $260 per person.
Orso Bayside
- Location: 79 Parriwi Road, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 240 seated, 350 cocktail
- Ceremony Sites: Deck, park
- Receptions: Restaurant
- Wedding Packages: From $190 per person
Recent renovations have made the Bayside Room at Orso one of the most elegant beachfront wedding spaces in Sydney with floor to ceiling glass walls offering a breathtaking vista over Middle Harbour and Clontarf Beach. This stunning event space features a grand white marble bar and a romantic fairy-lit roof and specialises in larger weddings with up to 240 seated guests with tailored packages for Asian, Greek, Indian, Jewish and Middle Eastern celebrations.
What stands Orso apart from other beautiful beachside venues across the city is that it sits directly over the sand so you can have barefoot beach photos right outside the reception space. It also has its own wharf and jetty where you can arrive to your wedding ceremony in style.
Manly Beach 16ft Skiff
- Location: East Esplanade, Manly, NSW 2095
- Capacity: 80 seated, 120 cocktail
- Ceremony Sites: Deck, park
- Receptions: Function room
- Wedding Packages: From $190 per person
Manly 16ft Skiff is Sydney's premier oceanfront venue for overwater weddings with a floating reception space and a unique covered atrium offering an exclusive opportunity to exchange vows and celebrate in one place, directly over the gentle lapping of sea water.
The Skiff is located at Manly Cove and offers picturesque sunset views over Sydney Harbour with the option for guests to arrive via the iconic Manly Ferry service from Circular Quay. From the terminal to The Skiff is an 8 minute walk along Manly's picturesque esplanade. All inclusive wedding packages are priced from $190 per person and centre around a fresh seafood menu.
Public Dining Room
- Location: 2A The Esplanade, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 110 seated, 135 cocktail
- Wedding Packages: $210+/pp
Public Dining Room is a fine dining restaurant and relaxed wedding venue on the shores of Balmoral Beach in Sydney's north. Situated adjacent to the iconic Balmoral Baths, Public Dining Room affords uninterrupted views to North Head across Middle Harbour.
Wedding ceremonies can be held on the terrace overlooking Balmoral Beach before serving canapes here while you have photos at iconic locations nearby including the Balmoral Baths. The beachside reception venue offers a mediterranean influenced menu complete with matching wines recommended by the in-house sommelier.
Public Dining Room has a private dining area suitable for smaller weddings of up to 40 guests and for larger weddings this space can be utilised as a dance floor.
Athol Hall
- Location: Bradleys Head Road, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 130 seated, 200 cocktail
- Ceremony Sites: Lawns, beach
- Receptions: Hall
- Wedding Packages: Ceremony only, Reception venue hire
Athol Hall is Sydney's most popular coastal wedding venue as it's perfectly positioned in on the foreshore in Mosman amongst picturesque National Park and has sweeping water views to the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The heritage hall offers the perfect blank canvas for coastal themed weddings with white walls and exposed overhead beams where you can easily hang floral installations.
Waterfront wedding ceremonies can be hosted on the sloping lawn in front of the hall and there's a private beach on Sydney Harbour accessed via a short bush track that offers cracking beach wedding photos with the city skyline as your backdrop.
The Bathers' Pavilion
- Location: 4 The Esplanade, Mosman, NSW 2088
- Capacity: 100 seated, 170 cocktail
- Ceremony Sites: Beach, terrace
- Receptions: Function room, private dining
- Wedding Packages: From $175 per person
The Bathers' Pavilion is a heritage building on the foreshore of Balmoral Beach. With only a promenade separating this iconic oceanside wedding venue from the beach, the Bathers' Pavilion offers some of the best coastal views in Sydney.
The first floor function space caters to seated weddings of 100 guests and has an adjoining outdoor terrace perfect for wedding ceremonies overlooking Sydney Harbour and the shoreline of surrounding beaches. Wedding packages are available from 30 to 170 guests.
Killcare Surf Club
- Location: 81 Beach Drive, Killcare, NSW 2257
- Capacity: 150
- Ceremony Sites: Beach
- Receptions: Hall
- Wedding Packages: Venue hire, BYO
Killcare Surf Club is an affordable venue for beach weddings a hop, skip and jump from Sydney. You can hire the upstairs hall for a DIY style wedding reception and bring your own caterers making use of the commercial grade kitchen facilities.
Barefoot wedding ceremonies in the sand are popular at this beach location and there are endless photo opportunities at coastal sites nearby. A large balcony overlooks the beach and is the ideal spot for guests to enjoy drinks before your wedding reception.
Clovelly Surf Club
- Location: Donnellan Circuit, Clovelly, NSW 2031
- Capacity: 150 sit down, 250+ cocktail
- Wedding Packages: $160+/pp
At Clovelly Beach in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, the local surf club offers a stunning oceanfront reception space with panoramic coastal views, and comes with affordable wedding packages from just $160 per person. The venue also has a large balcony for stunning seaside ceremonies so you can exchange vows and celebrate all in one unforgettable beachside location. Catering options include cocktail menus with live paella pans or formal seated faire.
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Coastal Wedding Venues
The most beautiful beach wedding venues in Sydney are located on the city's Northern Beaches, Eastern Suburbs, Sydney Harbour and Sutherland Shire and cater for a wide range of coastal ceremonies & receptions from small celebrations to grand events. Use these curated shortlists to find your perfect seaside wedding location in Sydney.
Small Beachfront Venues in Sydney
Cheap Beachfront Venues in Sydney
Beachfront Ceremony Venues in Sydney
- Private Property Sydney Harbour: 2 - 50 guests, Kirribilli
- Private Property Palm Beach: 2 - 100 guests, Northern Beaches
Beachfront Reception Venues in Sydney
- Jonah's Private Dining Room: 30 - 40 guests, Whale Beach
- Jonah's Main Restaurant: 50 - 122 guests, Whale Beach
- The Pavilion: 30 - 400 guests, Kiama
- Pilu Freshwater Beach: 16 - 50 guests, Northern Beaches
- St Siandra: 100 guests, Mosman
- Ormeggio: 100 guests, Mosman
- Long Reef Gold Club: 140 guests, Collaroy Beach
- Lindesay House: 100 guests, Sydney Harbour
- Orso Bayside: 240 guests, Mosman
- Clovelly Surf Club: 150 guests, Clovelly Beach
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