Meelup Farmhouse
wedding photographer

Meelup Farmhouse sits in Meelup Regional Park, in the bush between Dunsborough and Eagle Bay. It is a working hobby farm with a restaurant attached — and it caps at sixty guests, which is the whole point of it.

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We photographed Steph & Brad here across a South West afternoon — bush, open paddock and the water, all within a short walk of each other.

The sixty-guest limit is the thing most couples are actually looking for and cannot find. Most South West venues are built for a hundred and fifty; Meelup is built for the wedding where you can genuinely talk to everyone who came. That changes the photographs more than people expect. Nobody is queuing to speak to you, so the day has gaps in it, and the gaps are where the good frames happen.

It is a hobby farm, so there are alpacas, highland cattle, goats and geese on the property. We mention it because it is the kind of detail couples either love or want kept out of frame entirely, and it is worth telling us which before the day rather than on it.

The bush here is low and open rather than tall karri, so the light stays soft and even through the afternoon instead of breaking into hard patches. The water and the open paddock give you two completely different backdrops without a drive, and the tree line does the work of a backdrop by itself in the last hour.

One practical thing: Meelup is roughly three hours south of Perth, so this is a weekend rather than a day trip. Travel for South West weddings is confirmed on enquiry rather than assumed.