Best Sutherland Shire Wedding Venues
Wedding Venues: Sutherland Shire | Sydney | Illawarra | South Coast
Looking for a wedding venue in Southern Sydney? These 8 beautiful Sutherland Shire wedding venues offer an incredible choice of picturesque ceremony locations and spectacular reception rooms. From oceanfront wedding venues in Cronulla & Sans Souci to stunning reception spaces hidden within the Royal National Park, South Sydney offers a wonderfully diverse collection of incredible wedding venues.
The best places to get married in the Sutherland Shire range from grand reception venues such as pillarless ballrooms with luxury facilities to beachfront wedding locations with stunning ocean views. There's beautiful garden venues, chapels & churches, sailing clubs on the waters edge, restaurants for foodies and outdoor venues immersed in nature.
Here are 8 highly recommended Sutherland Shire wedding venues. They are the most beautiful places to get married in Sydney's southern suburbs.
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Doltone House Sylvania Waters
- Location: 223 Belgrave Esplanade, Sylvania Waters, NSW 2224
- Capacity: 500
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Doltone House Sylvania Waters has two of the Sutherland Shire's grandest reception venues, both seating up to 500 guests in elegant pillarless ballrooms. Affordable wedding packages start at under $100/pp and come with award winning catering, full service staff including an on-the-day coordinator to arrange styling. The venue has two outdoor ceremony spaces as well as an indoor room for your wet weather back up plan.
The Pavilion Reception Centre
- Location: 2 Bong Bong Street, Kiama, NSW 2533
- Capacity: 80 - 400
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Just south of the Sutherland Shire is a waterfront reception venue with one of the best ocean views on the southern coastline of NSW. From its expansive windows, The Pavilion overlooks Kiama surf beach taking in sweeping views over the foreshore to Kiama Lighthouse.
The affordable reception venue comes fully furnished and catered, with free spaces for indoor & outdoor ceremonies if required. The incredibly convenient location is just 40 minutes from Wollongong and a short walk to hotel accommodation just across the road for any guests who wish to stay the night.
Esplanade Events
- Location: 38 Gerrale Street, Cronulla, NSW 2230
- Capacity: 50 - 280
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Esplanade Events is the joint venture of two Sutherland Shire wedding locations - the Cronulla RSL and local Surf Club. Collectively, the two waterfront venues offer an affordable collection of ceremony and reception venues with picturesque ocean views over the Cronulla foreshore.
The popular function venue Soldiers on the Esplanade at the RSL caters for weddings from 50 to 280 guests with views across Bate Bay and Cronulla Beach. While the Surf Club has two modern spaces overlooking the ocean that seat up to 60 and 130 guests respectively. A range of terraces offer the option of covered wedding ceremonies with an ocean backdrop.
Lords Estate Chapel
- Location: 313 Seven Hills Rd, Seven Hills, NSW 2147
- Capacity: 2 - 100
- Ceremonies: Chapel
- Receptions: Chapel, private dining room
If you're looking for a weatherproof ceremony venue that's close to the Sutherland Shire, Lords Estate offers an intimate, non-denominational space with surrounding gardens for wedding photos. The refurbished 140 year old chapel also offers a one-of-a-kind setting for small wedding receptions seating up to 30 on one long table indoors, or more on the exterior grounds.
Inside the chapel has a modern wedding hall feel, with polished timber floors, white walls, removable pews and professional audio system. The grand building creates an atmospheric backdrop for weddings both indoors & out with an amazing lighting set up offering the option to illuminate the exterior of the chapel in personalised colours.
Audley Dance Hall
- Location: 2 Lady Carrington Dr, Royal National Park NSW 2233
- Capacity: 20-200
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
- Accommodation: Sleeps 5
Audley Dance Hall is an all-in-one wedding location in Sutherland Shire's Royal National Park. The unique setting offers a waterfront location for wedding ceremonies, outdoor spaces for seated receptions immersed in nature, and a wedding hall with incredible views down the Hacking River and across the Audley Valley.
Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan
- Location: 362 Narellan Rd, Mount Annan, NSW 2567
- Capacity: 2 - 600
- Ceremonies: Gardens & lawns
Receptions: All inclusive wedding packages
Just one hour from Sutherland Shire reception venues is the popular Australian Botanical Gardens. Set across 400 hectares these beautiful gardens offer 6 different backdrops for wedding ceremonies as well the option for affordable receptions onsite.
The most popular wedding area is The Connections Garden, a private outdoor space within an intimate rainforest setting that can seat up to 50 for ceremonies and outdoor receptions, or more standing. Other backdrops include woodlands, waterfront lawns and flower beds.
St George Sailing Club Sydney
- Location: 2 Riverside Drive, Sans Souci, NSW 2219
- Capacity: 150 - 250
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive from $170/pp
Situated on the foreshore of Botany Bay, The St George Sailing Club is one of the Sutherland Shire's most popular wedding venues. This waterfront reception venue is a light-filled space that seats up to 150 guests with stunning views over the bay. The room is styled in a coastal theme and has a private deck for wedding ceremonies, or couples sometimes opt for a beach wedding on the edge of the Georges River next to the venue.
All inclusive wedding packages start at $170 per person and include canapés, with a choice of a shared banquet or alternate plated menus. A minimum spend of $20,000 applies for weekend weddings (less on weekdays).
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Growwild Wildflower Farm
- Location: 916 Old Hume Hwy, Alpine, NSW 2575
- Capacity: 145
- Accommodation: Next door
- Wedding Packages: DIY/BYO
Just over an hour south of the Sutherland Shire is one of Southern Sydney's most beautiful venues for garden weddings. Growwild Wildflower Farm features 25 acres of native trees & wildflowers where a secret valley ceremony site and two elegant reception venues are connected by beautifully lit paved paths.
Growwild's premium event space is a grand marquee that has an adjoining festoon-lit courtyard that are both situated on an elevated setting that overlooks beautiful views of the gardens. For intimate weddings there is a gorgeous reception barn that seats up to 50 guests and has courtyard suitable for dining outdoors. Amazing value!
The Lodge Jamberoo
- Location: 406 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo, NSW 2533
- Capacity: 300
- Accommodation: Sleeps 136
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
The Lodge is an ideal wedding destination for couples seeking a weekend celebration where all guests stay onsite with you. This newly renovated 43 room hotel surrounds a huge outdoor swimming pool and has function facilities for wedding receptions of up to 300 guests.
Also onsite is an incredible open air chapel set under a natural forest of pine trees, two dedicated getting ready rooms that cater for the entire bridal party, a luxe reception hall, outdoor avenues perfect for long table celebrations under the stars and a late night bar where after-party revellers can collude.
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