Chapel Farm Estate
wedding photographer

Chapel Farm Estate is a family-owned venue on Toodyay Road in Middle Swan — a farm established in 1905, bought by the Walker family in 2000, now a winery, brewery and distillery with gardens, waterfalls, a private lake and vineyards, and two venues: Chapel Farm and the Estate at Chapel Farm.

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We photographed Zaine & Larrissa here in March: white drapes over the covered deck for the ceremony, the vines in the last of the sun, and long tables under a chandelier and stained glass for dinner.

The venue lists the Courtyard, a semi-outdoor space with a jarrah dance floor and festoon lighting seating 150; the cellar beside it with lounge booths and stained glass; the Church Barn, built with stained-glass windows from the 1800s and seating up to 250; and the Jane Brook deck over the back-block vineyard. It says it hosts upwards of 175 weddings a year, and that outside food and drink are not permitted.

For photographs there is a lot in a small radius: the vineyards, the lake with the Perth Hills behind it, gardens with waterfalls and creeks, the Chapel ruins and a century-old sugar gum. The ceremony deck and the vines are a short walk apart.