Barrett Lane
wedding photographer

Barrett Lane is a private function centre on Lennard Street in Herne Hill, in the Swan Valley — a property with a history of grape-growing that goes back to the early 1900s, manicured gardens, a vineyard for a backdrop and a function room built with timber from a 70-year-old grape drying rack.

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We’ve photographed two weddings here: Natalie & Bailey in September under soft spring cloud, and Nat & Jordan in February in full summer sun. We also filmed Jess & Kieran here. Three very different days on the same property.

The ceremony options are what make it. Barrett Lane lists three: the natural arbour with its jasmine-covered archways, the sunken garden lawn between two ornamental pear trees and a magnolia, and the big lawn with the vineyard behind it. Both of our couples married under a big tree on the lawn with the vines rolling away behind them, which gives the wide frames a horizon and the close ones dappled light.

For portraits, everything is within a two-minute walk: the white timber doors, the pergola strung with lights, the gardens and the vineyard rows right beside the lawn. In summer the dry grass between the vines goes gold at the end of the day; in spring the cloud keeps everything soft.

After dark the archway lights up, and the reception runs in the air-conditioned function room beside the lawn, with white drapes under the timber roof.