Edenvale Heritage Precinct
wedding photographer

Edenvale Heritage Precinct is a whole heritage block in the middle of Pinjarra — a church, a homestead, old outbuildings and several gardens, all on the one site and all walkable. You can marry and photograph the entire day without anybody getting into a car.

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We photographed Jessica & Ben here across an afternoon: the ceremony in St John’s, then portraits out through the grounds and back to the heritage buildings. That is the argument for this place. Most venues give you one good backdrop and a drive to the second; Edenvale gives you a brick church, open lawn under enormous old trees, garden paths and weathered timber doors inside a few minutes’ walk of each other.

The church is the part worth planning around. St John’s hires from $400 a day and holds up to eighty people, and eighty is the number that decides your wedding. It is a small, quiet room with leadlight windows down both sides, so the light indoors is soft and even rather than contrasty — which is exactly what you want for a ceremony, and rare in a church this size.

Outside, the trees do most of the work. The grounds have very large old trees with low, spreading limbs, and they throw broken shade across the lawn through the middle of the day. That is genuinely useful: it means portraits at one o’clock are not a problem here the way they are on an open lawn, and you are not forced to hold everything until the last hour.

The heritage buildings give you the other half of it — brick walls, verandahs and old timber doors that photograph as texture rather than as backdrop. If your ceremony is early and the light is still hard, that is where we go first.

Two practical things. Pinjarra is about an hour south of Perth, so it is an easy day trip for guests but worth confirming travel with us when you enquire. And the precinct has a firm set of rules — no stakes or pegs in the ground, no confetti or rice, no glassware, and an alcohol permit if you are serving — so it is worth reading the Shire’s wedding pack before you buy anything for the day.