Yanchep
wedding photographer

Tuart forest, wetlands and limestone caves inside a national park, the coast a few minutes away, and bush blocks where the light goes gold at the end of the day — Yanchep is an hour north of Perth and gives you a wedding that looks nothing like the city.

We’ve photographed weddings across Yanchep: under the willows by the lake in Yanchep National Park, at the heritage-listed Yanchep Inn with the reception underground in Cabaret Cave, and on private bush blocks where the ceremony was a tree, a strip of white fabric and the two of them.

The national park is the anchor. Its lake and wetlands, the tuart and paperbark forest, timber footbridges and the cave entrances are all within a short drive of each other, and Cabaret Cave is the only venue cave for hire in Perth — 120 seated or 200 cocktail, according to the park.

Outside the park, the bush does the rest. Autumn and winter light comes low through the trees, the ground is red, and a simple ceremony under a tree photographs better than most marquees.

It is an hour from Perth, so we plan the day around the drive and the light: ceremony mid-afternoon, portraits in the last hour, and the reception inside once the sun is gone.