Hawkesbury Wedding Venues
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Looking for a wedding venue in the Hawkesbury, NSW? This guide brings together a wide range of all-in-one ceremony and reception venues in and around the historic riverside towns of Windsor and Richmond. From urban riverside venues and luxury resorts, to country wedding venues nestled in the Hawkesbury's natural beauty, they're all unique places to get married that offer a relaxed atmosphere and stunning scenery.
The Hawkesbury River region's most beautiful wedding venues range from hillside Airbnbs to private farms and wilderness retreats, and are all located in scenic landscapes offering stunning views over rivers, mountains and untouched bushland. Most of the breathtaking wedding destinations featured below offer onsite accommodation, making them the perfect place to host a 3 day wedding celebration in nature.
If you're searching for a picturesque place to get married that's off-the-beaten-track but less than two hours from Sydney, these beautiful Hawkesbury wedding venues are the ideal spot.
Best Wedding Venues in the Hawkesbury
St Joseph's Guesthouse
- Location: 1029 Saint Albans Road, Saint Albans, NSW
- Capacity: 100
- Accommodation: Sleeps 10
- Venue Hire Cost: $3,500 - $7,000
Having been built from the ruins of a 160 year old church, St Joseph's Guesthouse is one of the most unique wedding venues in the Hawkesbury Valley. This award-winning heritage estate is located in a peaceful hillside setting with sweeping views over surrounding bushland, offering a stunning backdrop for outdoor weddings set against the dramatic 3 storey sandstone facade.
Upstairs are 5 luxury bedrooms that accommodate up to 10 guests with open plan kitchen, dining and lounge areas perfect for casual gatherings. Downstairs has an intimate function space that seats 60 guests or caters for cocktail functions with up to 100 people.
The backyard has flat lawns with a circular stage on the top of a buried water tank offering an ideal space for chic garden parties or relaxed festival-style weddings. The affordable venue hire fee includes exclusive use of the property and plunge pool, with furniture and tableware available onsite. You also get the legend Veronica to assist with wedding planning.
Chapel Hill Retreat
- Location: 36 Berambing Crest, Berambing, NSW
- Capacity: 150
- Accommodation: Sleeps 34
- Wedding Packages: All-inclusive
With 6 beautiful wedding ceremony venues, a choice of indoor and outdoor reception spaces, and optional onsite accommodation, Chapel Hill Retreat is the most versatile wedding destination in the Hawkesbury. Set across 35 acres of rolling green fields just 90 minutes from Sydney, this stunning property is perfect for couples who want a tranquil country wedding with scenic Blue Mountains views.
One-of-a-kind wedding spaces include a lakefront bush cathedral, hilltop chapel (civil & religious), an intimate avenue of oak trees, an open air mountain-view deck, a covered verandah perfect for outdoor receptions in any weather and a modern function room with an outdoor dance floor.
When you book Chapel Hill you get exclusive use of the entire retreat with 6 stylish cottages reserved for your big day. (You don't have to pay for the cottages if you don't use them)
Stix Farm By Pearl
- Location: 600 Laws Farm Road, Cumberland Reach, NSW 2756
- Capacity: 20 - 350
- Accommodation: Sleeps 2
- Catering & Drinks: All inclusive
Stix Farm offers a fine dining wedding experience surrounded by 100 acres of riverside paddocks and native bushland. This private Cumberland Reach farm is operated by Pearl Catering who deliver restaurant quality paddock-to-plate menus, making it one of the best wedding venues on the Hawkesbury River for nature-loving foodie couples.
All inclusive wedding packages include your ceremony hosted beneath the branches of a giant Moreton Bay Fig tree, in fruit orchards or overlooking regenerative farmland framed by the river and bush-lined hills. A contemporary barn seats up to 250 guests providing a modern reception space for indoor events, or you can dine outdoors on spacious lawns in the natural surrounds of your own private wilderness. The farm is located just over an hour from Sydney with river access from Wisemans Ferry.
Serene View
- Location: 535 Pitt Town Bottoms Road, Pitt Town Bottoms, NSW 2756
- Capacity: 130
- Accommodation: Sleeps 10
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Serene View is one of the newest wedding destinations on the Hawkesbury River and is located in Pitt Town, an easy one hour drive from Windsor and the Sydney CBD. The 12 acre property offers a blank canvas for DIY weddings, and comes with a rustic pavilion large enough to seat up to 50 guests and adjoining lawns where outdoor ceremonies and receptions are hosted right on the water's edge.
The venue hire fee is $7k for exclusive use of the entire property for two nights and you have complete freedom to choose all your own wedding suppliers to create a personalised celebration perfectly tailored to your vision. With a chalet-style log cabin that sleeps up to 10 guests onsite and a BYO camping flat, Serene View offers a scenic waterfront setting for laid back wedding weekends on the banks of the Hawkesbury River.
Berry Hill Hawkesbury River
- Location: 1832 River Road, Leets Vale, NSW
- Capacity: 20 - 200
- Accommodation: Sleeps 54
- Catering & Drinks: BYO
Berry Hill is a 75 acre country property that sits on 2km of Hawkesbury River frontage just 30 minutes from Windsor. With an impressive sandstone escarpment on one side, the river on the other and undisturbed Blue Mountains wilderness all around, Berry Hill offers the ultimate setting for relaxed outdoor weddings in nature.
Wedding ceremonies are either hosted on the riverbank surrounded by blue gum–covered hills, at a lightening-struck tree in an open paddock or within the manicured gardens of a renovated homestead. Reception spaces include a permanent marquee with solid flooring and a festoon-lit lawn where tables can be set up under the stars.
With exclusive use of the entire property, your own private beach and onsite accommodation for 54 guests in an historic homestead, converted shed suites and luxury glamping tents, this scenic rural estate is ideal for wedding weekends secluded in native bushland. And it comes with no curfew! There's also an artisan wood-fired pizza oven for welcome soirees and a recovery brunch, and a campfire area for your after party.
Spicers Sangoma Retreat
- Location: 70 Grandview Ln, Bowen Mountain, NSW
- Capacity: 30
- Accommodation: Sleeps 16
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Spicers Sangoma Retreat is the Hawkesbury Valley's most exclusive wedding venue and caters for a maximum of 30 guests cocooned in the nature sanctuary of Bowen Mountain. This world class resort is catered by chefs hatted restaurant Amara and offers 5 course degustation dining with all wedding and elopement packages.
Scenic ceremony sites include a poolside lawn with expansive Blue Mountains views, lush gardens, ancient rock backdrops and indoor settings including beside the retreat's striking bluestone fireplace. With a venue takeover you have the personalised service of all resort staff dedicated to your special day and luxury accommodation in 8 exquisite suites. There's a deck for outdoor receptions with Hawkesbury views and a candlelit dining room for indoor events.
Cooks Shed Weddings
- Location: 2 West Portland Road, Sackville, NSW 2756
- Capacity: 130
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Cooks Shed is a beautiful Hawkesbury wedding venue featuring a rustic shed and a cliff-top ceremony space with stunning views over the Hawkesbury River. The wedding shed has a new kitchen with a wood-fired oven, built-in bar (fully licenced) and a vast deck with an outdoor BBQ overlooking quintessential Aussie bush. Venue hire is DIY so you can choose caterers that fit within your budget.
Riverside Oaks Resort
- Location: 74 O'Briens Rd, Cattai, NSW
- Capacity: 80 - 250
- Accommodation: 33 hotel rooms
- Wedding Packages: From $120/ph
Riverside Oaks Resort is the Hawkesbury Valley's premier golf wedding venue and sits on 587 acres of lush bushland and spectacular riverside scenery in Cattai, 20 minutes from Windsor. This vast rural property is best known for its stunning wedding photo locations which include rustic ruins, heritage stone bridges and picturesque forest and water backdrops.
The spectacular reception room has a huge cathedral style window overlooking breathtaking views of the golf course and comes with comprehensive wedding packages from just $120 per person. With 33 well appointed rooms providing onsite accommodation for your guests, the resort offers a budget friendly all-in-one wedding location in the heart of the Hawkesbury's scenic Cattai National Park.
Australian Bushland Weddings
- Location: 256 Webbs Creek Rd, Wisemans Ferry, NSW
- Capacity: 250
- Accommodation: Sleeps 200+
Australian Bushland Weddings is located at The Outdoor Adventure Company in Wisemans Ferry and is the ultimate wedding venue for DIY couples wanting an immersive weekend in nature. This property has two secluded bush camps with rustic reception sheds that each come with cabins & huts sleeping 200+ guests. There's also a new Bedouin tent to hire from $3,500 with furniture.
Budget friendly wedding packages are priced from $80 per person including venue hire and accommodation, with catering from $65 per person. BYO drinks. No curfew.
Wisemans Retreat
- Location: 5564 Old Northern Rd, Wisemans Ferry, NSW
- Capacity: 200
- Accommodation: Sleeps 100+
- Wedding Packages: From $110/pp
Wisemans Retreat sits directly on the banks of the Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry and has 54 well-appointed hotel rooms making it an ideal wedding location for couples who want guests to be able to book their own accommodation onsite.
The retreat has a charming function centre that seats up to 150 guests and a huge riverfront lawn suitable for marquee receptions with up to 400 people. There's also serene riverfront ceremony spots, gorgeous gardens for wedding photos, a tennis court, golf course and onsite restaurant.
Windsor Country Club
- Capacity: 150
- Location: McQuade Avenue, South Windsor, NSW
- Wedding Venues: Function centre, gardens, lake
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Windsor Country Club is an 18-hole championship golf course that offers an affordable all-in-one location for weddings in the heart of the Hawkesbury region. Wedding ceremonies are offered on lakeside lawns overlooking a picturesque fountain while receptions for up to 150 guests are held within the club's well appointed function rooms. With rolling greens and pretty lakes surrounded by bushland, the club offers a wide variety of beautiful wedding photo locations.
Hawkesbury Function Centre
- Capacity: 250
- Location: Londonderry Road, Londonderry, NSW 2753
- Wedding Venues: Gardens + Function Rooms
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
- Accommodation: Next door
Hawkesbury Function Centre is one of Richmond's most popular wedding venues and caters for large ceremonies and receptions for 60 - 250 guests. The main function room is a circular event space with a licensed bar, raised stage and large sunken dance floor with built in laser lighting. A garden Gazebo offers a peaceful setting for outdoor wedding ceremonies set against a picturesque Blue Mountains backdrop, and receptions are fully catered and well suited to couples on a tight budget.
Crowne Plaza Hawkesbury Valley
- Location: 61 Hawkesbury Valley Way, Windsor, NSW 2756
- Capacity: 130
- Accommodation: Sleeps everyone
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Crowne Plaza Hawkesbury Valley is located in the heart of Windsor's historic town centre and is a premium hotel wedding venue that accommodates all your guests overnight in rooms they're able to book themselves.
The hotel has one of the only wedding chapels in the Hawkesbury Region, plus 8 hectares of landscaped gardens offering a myriad of beautiful spaces for outdoor wedding ceremonies. Five reception spaces include a grand ballroom and conservatory style gazebo room that seat 120 - 130 guests, and a lakeside lawn for outdoor receptions with up to 70 guests. All inclusive wedding packages start at $195 per person and packages with authentic Indian catering are available from $175 per head.
The Lakehouse Weddings & Events
- Location: 41 Yobarnie Avenue, North Richmond, 2754
- Capacity: 120 Seated, 180 Cocktail
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
The Lakehouse is located in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in North Richmond and is a modern reception venue that seats up to 120 guests overlooking Redbank Lake. Its one of the most convenient wedding venues in the Hawkesbury for Sydney guests as its only one hour from the CBD and has lots of accommodation options within 10 minutes drive.
The contemporary space features huge windows with lake views, is exclusively yours for the duration of your event and comes fully catered with accessible minimum spends instead of a venue hire fee. With an adjoining outdoor terrace immersed in rural surrounds, this venue is perfect for couples wanting a convenient location with modern facilities and country charm.
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