BYO Venues in the Hunter Valley
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Looking for a BYO venue for your wedding in the Hunter Valley, NSW? The BYO wedding venues shortlisted below allow you to bring your own alcohol to be served at your wedding. Most of these reception venues are also self catering locations that provide the freedom to choose your own wedding suppliers from food trucks to mobile bars.
Here are the Hunter Valley's best BYO wedding venues. They all allow BYO alcohol and are serviced by a great range of local wedding caterers, making it easy to arrange your DIY wedding.
Best BYO Wedding Venues in the Hunter Valley
Nirvana Vista Estate
- Location: Sweetwater Road, Rothbury, NSW 2320
- Capacity: 70
- Accommodation: Sleeps 20
- BYO: Catering & drinks
Located on a scenic hilltop with panoramic views over the Hunter Valley, Nirvana Vista Estate is the perfect BYO wedding venue for elegant garden nuptials. The expansive lawns & gardens surrounding the 7 bedroom home feature a white ceremony rotunda and an outdoor reception space in a covered garden pavilion.
The affordable venue hire fee includes exclusive use of the property with accommodation for up to 20 guests for two nights. You can host pre & post wedding functions in a covered entertaining area and there's tables & chairs to seat 70 guests onsite.
St Joseph's Guesthouse
- Location: 1029 Saint Albans Road, Saint Albans, NSW 2775
- Capacity: 10 - 100
- Accommodation: Sleeps 10
- BYO: Catering + Drinks
One of the most unique & affordable spots for BYO weddings in the Hunter Valley is St Joseph's Guesthouse. This incredible Airbnb style venue was built from the ruins of a 160 year old church and has 5 luxury bedrooms in the 2 upper floors and a function space for up to 100 guests (60 seated) on the ground floor.
At St Joseph's Guesthouse you can hire your own caterers and alcohol with food trucks and mobile bars welcome onsite.
Leaves and Fishes
- Location: 737 Lovedale Road, Lovedale NSW 2320
- Capacity: 2 - 300
- Accommodation: Sleeps 12
- BYO: Catering and alcohol
Leaves & Fishes is a versatile BYO catering and alcohol venue set on 20 acres of tropical gardens in the Hunter Valley. The affordable 3-day venue has a range of indoor & outdoor spaces suitable for seated, cocktail-style or food market-style weddings and you can hire your preferred caterers, food trucks, drink vans etc according to your budget.
Onsite event spaces include a gorgeous Tuscan-style sunken garden, a tropical marquee setting, an elegant ornamental pear tree site, a luxe banquet hall with a candlelit Roman bath and several outdoor decks and verandahs.
The Lodge At Mount Rivers
- Location: 38 Lawrences Road, Mount Rivers, NSW 2311
- Capacity: 250
- Accommodation: Sleeps 16 + camping
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
If you're looking for a DIY & BYO wedding destination where guests can camp and there's no curfew, The Lodge at Mount Rivers is an ideal spot. This modern 6 bedroom homestead sits on a bend in the Peterson River about 45 minutes from Pokolbin and is a complete blank canvas on which to create the wedding of your dreams. The picturesque front lawn and poolside event space are your starting points.
The unique riverfront location offers an abundance of things for guests to do during an extended stay. There are swimming holes and fishing spots at the river, plenty of space for kayaking, mountain biking and bush walking trails in the surrounding hills and paddocks where you can bring your horse. Marquee hire packages are available from the property managers.
Mandalong Country Estate
- Location: Mandaluck Chase, Mandalong, NSW 2264
- Capacity: 150
- Accommodation: Sleeps 16
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Mandalong Country Estate is a short stay accommodation provider with multi-purpose event spaces that can be hired for DIY weddings. Surrounding the 7 bedroom home is a rustic reception barn, an open-air shed, a natural bush cathedral and a viewing deck that overlooks the Watagans State Forest. Venue hire includes a two night stay and there's a swimming pool & spa onsite.
Wallaringa Farm Elopements
- Location: 321 Wallaringa Road, Wallaringa, NSW 2420
- Capacity: 12
- Accommodation: Sleeps 8
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Wallaringa Farm is the smallest BYO wedding venue in the Hunter Valley, catering for intimate elopements with a maximum of 12 guests. Situated in the picturesque hills of Dungog Shire amongst paddocks of friendly Wallaringa Horses, this beautiful 3 bedroom homestead allows you to create the wedding of your dreams with BYO catering, drinks and vendors. Affordable package deals are also available.
Carriageway Dungog
- Location: 4426 Clarence Town Road, Wirragulla, NSW 2420
- Capacity: 40 - 100
- Accommodation: Sleeps 40
- BYO: Catering & alcohol
Carriageway Dungog is one of the Hunter Valley's most affordable wedding venues and allows BYO catering & drinks. Although we recommend the pizza package if you're looking for a cheap catering option.
This quirky wedding destination has five original Red Rattler train carriages that have been refurbished into a private dining reception space and 4 self contained units. There’s a delightful open-air wedding chapel that can be repurposed as a reception space or marquee weddings are permitted.
Marlu Station
- Location: 129 Wollombi Road, Broke, NSW 2330
- Capacity: 150 - 200
- Accommodation: Sleeps 9
- BYO: Catering & drinks
Surrounded by 112 acres of peaceful & pristine countryside, Marlu Station is one of the Hunter Valley's most scenic BYO wedding venues. At Marlu Station you have private and exclusive access to the entire property and plenty of places with scenic views to choose as your ceremony & reception backdrop.
Popular wedding ceremony locations are atop Yellow Rock or beside one of the property's dams. The unique reception venue is a festoon-lit cow shed that caters for weddings of up to 200 or you can hire a marquee or teepee to erect anywhere on the grounds.
Greystone Estate
- Location: 617 Hermitage Rd, Pokolbin, NSW 2320
- Capacity: 30 - 110
- Accommodation: Sleeps 32
- BYO: Drinks
Greystone Estate is one of the Hunter Valley's most luxurious BYO venues. If you're looking for an up-market private estate where you can bring your preferred tipple, this 10 acre Hamptons-inspired property offers an elegant option.
The property comes with 5 star accommodation across 4 dwellings for up to 32 guests and has an open air wedding pavilion (an ultra modern outdoor chapel), a luxe all-white wedding reception hall and spacious areas inside & outside the main residence suitable for smaller events.
Goosewing Cottage
- Location: 1194 Mount View Rd, Mount View, NSW 2325
- Capacity: 20
- Accommodation: Sleeps 12
- Elopement packages: $3,595+
Goosewing Cottage is a gorgeous little elopement venue that caters for BYO weddings of up to 20 guests. Wedding packages start at $3,595 including venue hire, your choice of celebrant and an award winning photographer and you can add accommodation in one or both of the onsite cottages which sleep 8 and 4 guests respectively.
Goosewing allows guests staying onsite to share a celebratory dinner together in the larger of the cottages where you can BYO private chef and drinks. For receptions larger than 12 guests (not including children) there are recommended restaurants nearby that have private dining areas.
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