Outdoor Wedding Venues on the South Coast
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Looking for an outdoor wedding venue on the South Coast, NSW? The South Coast is an ideal spot for outdoor weddings with many venues in the region offering alfresco event spaces that have been purpose-built for garden ceremonies & receptions. From open-air chapels & bush cathedrals to outdoor reception venues set under festoon canopies and amongst fairy-lit trees, Wollongong to Bateman's Bay has some of the most unique outside areas for weddings in New South Wales.
Here are the top 12 outdoor wedding locations on the South Coast. With stunning views & picturesque surrounds they offer the perfect location for alfresco weddings and have temperate weather ideal for outdoor wedding receptions between November to March each year.
Outdoor Wedding Venues - South Coast
1. Figbird Cottage
- Capacity: 150
- Location: 330 Comerong Island Rd, Terara, NSW 2540
- Wedding Packages: Day or 3 day venue hire + BYO
Figbird Cottage is an affordable outdoor wedding venue in a relaxed, country location near Nowra on the South Coast. The property features stunning rose gardens and perfectly manicured lawns that are surrounded by peaceful dairy country. It's the perfect spot for garden ceremonies and is ideally laid out for outdoor wedding receptions.
Budget friendly wedding packages include exclusive use of the entire property including the luxury European marquee. Hire also includes all ceremony and reception furniture for inside & outside events plus romantic festoon lighting. (A big budget saver on hire fees) There's two farm cottages onsite that sleep 8 guests in total.
2. The Cove Jervis Bay
- Capacity: 200
- Location: Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay, NSW 2540
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive (with accommodation)
The Cove is a coastal wedding resort with its own private beach for you to get married on, or overlooking. The all-in-one wedding venue is the perfect place to bring your entire wedding guest list to stay for a weekend away on the South Coast. Wedding packages include exclusive use of the expansive grounds with accommodation for up to 126 guests.
The Cove centres around an outdoor garden area that has a 'backyard' ambience. There is a wrap around bar under a large tree draped in romantic fairy lights and you can set up long table dining outside on the lawns. There is a function centre onsite in the event of wet weather.
3. The Woods Farm
- Capacity: 200
- Location: Lot 3 Bayly Rd, Tomerong, NSW 2540
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
The Woods Farm is a 40 acre wedding wonderland where you can stay with your entire guest list for the weekend. The property is well set up for outdoor weddings with a purpose built open air bush chapel for your wedding ceremony. A spectacular garden arbor curves its way to the chapel creating a grand and romantic ceremony entrance.
The coastal location also features an outdoor garden area for drinks and nibbles beside the barn reception venue and you can add a marquee onsite if you wish, increasing the guest capacity from 150 to 200. Accommodation is in 8 x 3 bedroom cottages and 18 glamping tents sleeping 120 people in total.
4. Willow Farm Berry
- Capacity: 130
- Location: Galls Lane, Berry, NSW 2535
- Wedding Packages: Venue hire or all inclusive
Willow Farm in Berry is a private country retreat with 160 rural acres just a few minutes to popular South Coast beaches. Wedding packages include exclusive hire of the entire property giving you plenty of open space to find the perfect place for your garden wedding ceremony.
Popular spots for outdoor weddings include the ceremony paddock under an old farm tree, a secluded creekside location and manicured lawns overlooking the farm's dam.
With views for miles, Willow Farm is an ideal spot to have your wedding reception outside. The property features a refurbished rustic barn with an adjoining lawn games area where marquee's or an open air dance floor can be erected. The farmhouse sleeps 10 and there's loads of other accommodation nearby.
5. Fig Tree Park
- Capacity: 200
- Location: 58 Sherringham Lane, Central Tilba, NSW 2546
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Fig Tree Park is a brand new wedding venue in the Sapphire Coast region of Southern NSW. The property is a picturesque blank canvas featuring an elegant homestead, vine covered arbours, rose gardens, expansive lawns and the option to set up a marquee near the beautiful old fig trees.
Just 2 minutes to the beach and with stunning ocean views, Fig Tree Park offers a romantic coastal escape for small weddings and large weddings alike. The Airbnb style property sleeps 2 and elopement packages are available mid week.
6. Linnaeus Farm Berry
- Location: 599 Coolangatta Road, Berry, NSW 2535
- Capacity: 2 - 30
- Accommodation: Sleeps 12
- Location Hire: $7,500 - $9,500
- Food & Drinks: BYO
Linnaeus Farm is nestled within 3.5 hectares of manicured grounds in Berry and has two outdoor wedding areas perfect for intimate nuptials with a maximum of 20 - 30 guests. One is a poolside dining space and the other is a barn-front lawn with a pair of delightful old Fig trees and views to Saddleback Mountain.
Venue hire includes 3 days exclusive use of the 5 bedroom estate & grounds which feature an infrared sauna, Petanque court, orchard, olive grove, lake house and entertainment barn.
7. Ravensthorpe Guesthouse
- Location: 56 Tongarra Rd, Albion Park, NSW 2527
- Capacity: 200
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Ravensthorpe Guesthouse is an intimate garden venue highly suited to romantic outdoor wedding ceremonies. The gardens sit within the grounds of a Georgian Manor style house and reception venues onsite include a light-filled conservatory, adjoining courtyard and outdoor marquee.
Outside you'll find 3 acres of classic gardens with a vine covered rotunda setting the scene for elegant and romantically intimate ceremonies. You can have your photos in the gardens afterwards while your guests enjoy cocktails and canapés in the cobblestone courtyard.
All inclusive wedding packages include ceremony, reception and recovery brunch. There is accommodation for 14 wedding guests.
8. The Lodge Jamberoo
- Location: 406 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo, NSW 2533
- Capacity: 300
- Accommodation: Sleeps 136
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
The Lodge is a private country hotel with 43 renovated rooms for your guests overlooking a huge outdoor swimming pool. The resort is a stunning location for outdoor weddings where all your guests stay onsite with you for 2 nights. There's a bar and restaurant servicing all needs during your stay plus outdoor gardens and courtyards where a welcome night & recovery brunch can be arranged.
The wedding ceremony venue is an amazing Pine Tree Cathedral which is set in a shaded creekside spot and has a outdoor timber chapel surrounded by a fully paved amphitheatre. Huge avenues provide a unique setting for outdoor weddings where long tables can be set up under the stars.
9. Growwild Wildflower Farm
- Location: 916 Old Hume Hwy, Alpine, NSW 2575
- Capacity: 30 - 145
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Growwild Wildflower Farm is a 25 acre outdoor wedding venue located at the gateway to the South Coast. Set amongst wildflower plantings that are grown for provision to the Sydney Flower Markets, the property's manicured lawns, gardens and meandering paved paths offer a beautiful location for garden weddings.
A Secret Valley for private wedding ceremonies is accessed via paved steps onto a manicured lawn set against a backdrop of National Park. For outdoor wedding receptions there is a rustic courtyard next to a micro wedding barn that seats up to 50 guests or the larger garden marquee which has opening sides and an adjoining festoon-lit courtyard and outdoor dance floor.
10. Eleven Eighty Weddings
- Location: 1180 Bolong Road, Coolangatta, NSW 2535
- Capacity: 80
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
- Accommodation: Sleeps 15
Eleven Eighty is a small heritage-listed wedding venue with a purpose built courtyard for outdoor weddings and receptions seating up to 80 guests. The courtyard has an adjoining outdoor bar and comes fully furnished with tables, chairs, velvet lounges and a choice of ceremony arbors.
This quirky little country venue comes with 2 nights accommodation for 15 guests in two onsite cottages. Wet weather is fully accommodated with the barn, hall and a garden marquee seating 30, 50 and 80 guests respectively. The property also has a gorgeous garden arbor with an Argentine brasero wood fired BBQ and grill.
11. Kiruna Farm
- Location: Woodstock Rd, Woodburn, NSW 2538
- Capacity: 50
- Venue Hire: $4,000+
- Catering & Drinks: BYO
Kiruna Farm is the perfect indoor/outdoor venue for wild garden weddings as it features an open sided machinery shed with soaring ceilings and a fully retractable marquee that both have incredible views over the flower farm's colourful paddocks of seasonal blooms. This brand new 100 acre farm is situated near Milton with plenty of accommodation for guests available in Milton & Ulladulla, and comes with 3 days access and $1,000 worth of fresh flowers for your big day.
12. Mountain View Farm
- Location: 11 Mount Dromedary Trail, Tilba Tilba, NSW 2546
- Capacity: 2 - 130
- Accommodation: Sleeps 2 - 18
- Venue Hire: $3,950 - $11,950
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Set against the dramatic backdrop of Mount Gulaga, the open-sided dairy shed and adjoining courtyard at Mountain View Farm offers the perfect location for a cocktail reception outdoors. This picturesque farm is situated near the quaint town of Tilba Tilba and has four acres of gardens with a purpose-built vintage arbour, plus seasonal paddocks of everlasting daisies that are in full bloom during Spring every year.
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