BYO Wedding Venues in Sydney
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BYO wedding venues in Sydney include a wide range of dry hire venues where you can bring your own catering, alcohol and suppliers to create a personalised celebration that fits both your vision and budget. From blank canvas spaces on Sydney Harbour to affordable wedding venues in the 'burbs, the city has BYO reception venues to suit all sized weddings, allowing you complete control over costs, styling and experience.
Sydney's best BYO catering wedding venues range from DIY function rooms to all-in-one luxury estates. There's private dining rooms for small weddings and elopements where you can hire your own chef and BYO drinks, through to large reception spaces well suited to Asian, Lebanese and Indian weddings with commercial kitchens for private caterers to prepare culturally authentic cuisine.
All wedding venues on this page allow BYO alcohol and charge no corkage fee unless otherwise specified. You're free to purchase and supply your own beer, wine and spirits, which by law must be served by qualified RSA staff. While some venues provide in-house bar staff to satisfy this requirement, others require you to hire your own mobile bar services.
Here are the 12 best bring-your-own venues to hire for weddings in Sydney. For more exclusive hire options you may like to explore our list of BYO wedding venues in NSW.
Top 12 BYO Wedding Venues in Sydney
1. St Joseph's Guesthouse
- Location: 1029 Saint Albans Road, Saint Albans, NSW
- Capacity: 100
- Accommodation: Sleeps 10
- Venue Hire: $7,500
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
St Joseph's Guesthouse sits on a scenic hillside in the Hawkesbury Valley just 90 minutes from Sydney, and is a private property that offers exclusive-use wedding weekends with complete freedom to BYO alcohol and catering. The 5 bedroom estate was built from the ruins of a 160 year old church and has a dramatic three-storey sandstone façade that creates an atmospheric backdrop for ceremonies and festival-style receptions in the backyard.
The entire ground floor is a blank canvas event space that comfortably seats 60 guests and accommodates 100 people for a cocktail function. Venue hire is $7,500 including a 5 night stay, with furniture and tableware available onsite. In-house wedding coordinator Veronica is RSA qualified to serve your BYO drinks, and you're welcome to bring all your own suppliers without restrictions, from food trucks and drink vans to external stylists.
2. Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
- Location: 362 Narellan Rd, Mount Annan NSW 2567
- Capacity: 600
- Venue Hire: From $935
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is one of South-West Sydney's most affordable BYO wedding venues, offering a wide range of native Australian gardens, lakefront lawns and woodland settings for outdoor ceremonies and receptions in nature. All event spaces within the 416 hectare property are dry hire venues where you create your own personalised wedding, choose your own caterers, furniture and styling, and bring your own alcohol.
Ceremony and reception spaces range from an intimate rainforest garden for small weddings with up to 60 guests, to a spacious marquee lawn for 600 people. There's also an indoor function room that allows BYO catering and alcohol that seats up to 120 guests and has an onsite kitchen. Among the most budget friendly wedding spaces in the gardens are sheltered picnic areas with BBQ facilities for self catering. An external RSA licensed bar service is required for the service of alcohol.
3. Lords Estate Chapel
- Location: 313 Seven Hills Rd, Seven Hills, NSW 2147
- Capacity: 2 - 100
- Venue Hire: From $4,330
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
Lords Estate offers a European-inspired setting for self catered weddings on the grounds of a 19th century vicarage located in Seven Hills, just 10 minutes from the Hills District. Weddings at this private heritage estate centre around an historic sandstone chapel, rustic courtyard and wild rose gardens where historic architecture provides an elegant backdrop for luxury DIY weddings with up to 100 guests.
Ceremonies and receptions can be hosted inside the historic chapel which offers a blank canvas space filled with heritage charm, or outdoors surrounded by lush gardens, manicured lawns and an urban meadow. This exclusive-use estate comes with complete freedom to bring your own caterers, drinks and suppliers, and custodian Claire provides hands-on wedding coordination in the lead up and on your wedding day.
4. Growwild Wildflower Farm
- Location: 916 Old Hume Hwy, Alpine, NSW 2575
- Capacity: 145
- Venue Hire: From $7,000
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol
Growwild Wildflower Farm is Sydney's premier BYO venue for relaxed garden weddings offering a peaceful country location surrounded by native Australian flowers on the outskirts of the city. The exclusive-use property spans 25 acres of manicured lawns, pathways and wildflower gardens bordered by natural bushland, offering a private all-in-one location for your entire wedding day.
Small wedding receptions with up to 50 guests are hosted in a timber garden shed or adjoining rustic courtyard, where popular catering options include food trucks, mobile bars and Brazilian BBQs. The larger garden marquee is perfect for cocktail receptions with roaming canapés or long-table dining with up to 145 guests, and has sweeping garden views, an outdoor dance floor and built-in bar for the service of your BYO beer and wine. Both spaces come fully furnished with access to a secret valley ceremony site for your ceremony.
Venue hire starts at $7,000 plus a small per head fee that includes corkage, and you're free to choose your own caterers and RSA qualified bar staff.
5. Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf
- Location: 32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont, NSW 2009
- Capacity: 40 - 680
- BYO: Gold class caterers
Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf is one of the few luxury wedding venues on Sydney Harbour to allow external catering for cultural weddings, making it possible to serve authentic cuisine in a premium harbour-front setting. Couples planning an Indian wedding, Lebanese wedding or other cultural reception can select from a range of Gold Licensed caterers approved by Doltone House. BYO spirits are permitted when you book an in-house alcoholic beverage package.
The venue's eight contemporary event spaces are housed within a restored finger wharf at Pyrmont, just a 10-minute walk from the heart of the city, and range from private lofts to grand heritage halls seating up to 680 guests. With panoramic harbour views, grand heritage architecture and extensive experience hosting multicultural celebrations, Jones Bay Wharf offers a luxury experience for couples wanting custom cuisine served at their wedding.
6. The Vicarage At Lords
- Location: 313 Seven Hills Rd, Seven Hills, NSW 2147
- Capacity: 10
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
At The Vicarage, you're invited into custodian Claire's private residence for an intimate wedding ceremony and private dining experience catered by your choice of chef. The entrance to this 19th century vicarage is hidden within the rose garden behind Lords Estate Chapel, providing a private setting for elopements followed by an exclusive dinner with BYO alcohol for up to 10 guests.
Weddings at The Vicarage have private use of a downstairs area with a grand Victorian staircase and three adjoining rooms featuring period furnishings. The Drawing Room offers a beautiful space for wedding ceremonies with comfortable lounges and windows overlooking the gardens. Adorned with historic family photos, the private dining room delivers a highly personal experience where family and close friends gather around the table for a chef-prepared meal, while a Whisky Parlour provides a relaxed space for a post-wedding drink or cigar.
7. Lindesay House
- Location: 1 Carthona Avenue, Darling Point, NSW 2027
- Capacity: 10 - 100
- Venue Hire: From $7,550
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
Lindesay House is one of Sydney Harbour's most exclusive BYO wedding venues, offering a private waterfront garden for outdoor ceremonies and receptions, set against the elegant backdrop of an 1830's heritage mansion. Located at Darling Point just five minutes from Sydney's CBD, the estate provides a prestigious setting for waterfront ceremonies and luxury garden party receptions.
The grounds feature a huge private lawn on the water's edge, a large courtyard that seats all guests under a weather-proof awning, and elegant wedding photo opportunities in a manicured Paterre Garden and grand circular drive. At Lindesay, you are not restricted to a preferred supplier list, rather you have complete autonomy over your catering and styling choices to create a totally bespoke celebration including bringing your own beer, wine and cocktails.
8. Kirribilli Event Space
- Location: 51-55 Upper Pitt Street, Kirribilli, NSW 2061
- Capacity: 2 - 35
- Venue Hire: From $750 per hour
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
This private lawn terrace in Kirribilli is one of Sydney Harbour's most affordable wedding venues, offering iconic views of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge for intimate weddings with a maximum of 35 guests. With a three-hour minimum hire fee of just $2,250 and complete freedom to BYO catering, drinks and styling, this venue is unmatched on price for a private reception with front-row seats to Sydney's most iconic backdrop.
This spectacular ceremony and reception space comes with removable tables and chairs for up to 24 guests, access to kitchen facilities for your chosen caterer, refrigeration for your BYO drinks and an optional marquee. With exclusive use of the terrace, this space is ideal for couples seeking a small wedding venue for a self catered celebration overlooking one of the world's most renowned harbour views.
9. Palm Beach Estate
- Location: Palm Beach, Northern Beaches
- Capacity: 100
- Venue Hire: $10k
- BYO: Catering & Alcohol (no corkage fee)
Private Property Palm Beach is a premium DIY ceremony venue set within the oceanfront gardens of a $40 million private estate on Sydney's Northern Beaches. The property's 2,500m² of manicured lawns and Balinese-inspired gardens provide an exceptional setting for weddings and elopements, with panoramic coastal views across Pittwater to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Unlike other self catering wedding venues in Sydney, this garden is primarily a spectacular ceremony location and is best suited to couples wanting an exclusive place to say "I do" followed by an intimate garden party with BYO drinks and canapés.
10. Allegro Function Centre
- Location: 1 Porters Road, Kenthurst, NSW 2156
- Capacity: 300
- Venue Hire: From $50 per person
- BYO: Catering & Drinks
Nestled within a towering blue gum forest in the Hills District of Sydney is Allegro Function Centre, a BYO catering wedding venue where nature takes centre stage. This unique hidden gem centres around a Mediterranean style villa where a huge covered terrace bar and indoor reception venue offer a serene setting for ceremonies and receptions in the forest canopy.
The extensive leafy gardens feature a sheltered rotunda with a huge tiered seating area for guests, and with open flames allowing sacred fire rituals this is an ideal spot for traditional Hindu wedding ceremonies. Venue hire is priced from $50 per person with a minimum spend of $7,500 on peak Saturday nights, and includes furniture, cutlery, crockery and glassware, plus commercial kitchen access for licensed caterers. An RSA package is available at $25 per head including two bar staff.
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11. Leuralla Amphitheatre
- Location: Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW 2780
- Capacity: 200
- Venue Hire: $4,400
- BYO: Catering & Drinks (no corkage fee)
Leuralla Amphitheatre offers iconic views over the dramatic cliffs and valleys of the Blue Mountains, making it one of Australia's most spectacular places to get married. The amphitheatre is located on private land and is managed by Blue Mountains Weddings, who offer a dry hire package from $4,400 including exclusive use of the site for 4 hours, with built-in stone seating for guests (saving on the hire cost of furniture).
The amphitheatre is adjoined by a mountain-view lawn suitable for cocktail-style wedding receptions during daylight hours. Marquees are permitted on the lawn and you can bring your own food and drinks, with alcohol required to be served by RSA qualified bar staff. There is no onsite kitchen or guest amenities at this lookout-style venue, hence pizza trucks are a great option and portaloo hire is required.
12. Serene View
- Location: 535 Pitt Town Bottoms Road, Pitt Town Bottoms, NSW 2756
- Capacity: 150
- Accommodation: Sleeps 11
- Venue Hire: $7,000
- BYO: Catering & Drinks (no corkage fee)
Serene View is a fully DIY wedding venue located on the banks of the Hawkesbury River. The 12 acre country-style estate offers complete freedom to bring all your own wedding vendors to create a personalised all-in-one wedding weekend in a private waterside setting.
The $7,000 venue hire fee includes exclusive use of the property for two nights with onsite accommodation for up to 11 guests. A huge lawn overlooks 200 metres of river frontage providing a nature-filled blank canvas for outdoor ceremonies and receptions, and you're welcome to hire your own marquees, caterers and styling items to bring your dream wedding to life. The property has a covered outdoor entertaining area with a wet bar for service of your BYO drinks, and cooking facilities including a BBQ for your preferred caterers.
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