10 AMAZING New Zealand Wedding Venues with a View
Ten of the top places to get hitched with a View & in our beautiful of New Zealand. One of the biggest stresses for myself was finding a Wedding Venue with a view so hey –
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Ten of the top places to get hitched with a View & in our beautiful of New Zealand.
One of the biggest stresses for myself was finding a Wedding Venue with a view so hey – I thought I’d put together a list of the top few I could possibly find!
1. Jack’s Point
Jack’s Point is a unique 3,000 acre settlement set in a spectacular location close to Queenstown and on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Backdropped by the Remarkables Mountain range it is the perfect place to get hitched!
Photography by Williams Photography
2. Boomrock
A typical Wedding at Boomrock begins by collecting guests and transferring them to the Lodge. Your ceremony will take place on the lawn with stunning views across the Cook Strait. Um Perfection right!! Stunningggg!!
Photography by Kate Robinson Photography
Nestled between Queenstown and Arrowtown – Stoneridge sits majestically amidst a picturesque garden and boutique vineyard, with breathtaking views across Lake Hayes and beyond to Coronet Peak.
Overlooking the beautiful Tauranga Harbour, Trinity Wharf Tauranga presents all the solutions required to create your perfect wedding day – be it a simple intimate gathering or a more lavish event.
A wedding at Fiordland Lodge is the event of a lifetime. The Main Lodge is remarkable, offering the finest accommodations and dining in a truly idyllic setting on the edge of Lake Te Anau. The romantic nature of the Lodge truly shines at a wedding.
6. Kauri Cliffs
The 6,000 acre property offers a number of ceremony and reception locations. Whether your wedding is for five guests or 100, our team truly excels in creating customized experiences for magical and romantic events
Skyline Queenstown in its ideal setting and breath taking location provides the perfect place to have your wedding. With its stunning, uninterrupted panoramic views it provides a beautiful back drop to your wedding photos.
Photo by Sam Ferrara
8. Leadfoot
The distinctive seaside Wedding Venue! Gorgeous view, barn, YES!
The Goldie Room on beautiful Goldie Vineyard on Waiheke Island is an elegant and sophisticated venue featuring rolling vineyards, a private beach and the iconic Pohutukawa tree, perfect for an unforgettable wedding. .
10. Te Manu Lodge
Stunning views, native bush and expansive lawns create an exceptional location for your special occasion. Only 10 minutes from central Rotorua, Te Manu’s breath-taking panorama is regarded by many as one of the best outlooks in Rotorua.
Photo by The Official Photographers
We seriously love Wedding Venues with a view! Yay! Just a small incite into New Zealand Venues with so much potential!
Head over to www.theweddingmap.co.nz to see more amazing spots!
Three months until our Wedding & I’m quite calm. Everyone keeps asking me, how is the planning going? And my response is – good. It’s done. I hope. Haha! Now we just need the day to be here. I’m super excited – It’s slowly all coming together nicely. Realistically, all you need to have a party is – a) venue b) food c) something to wear d) music e) photographer f) make it all look pretty g) someone to marry you! At the end of the day it costs $450 to legally be married, the rest is what you make it. So on that note, I have come up with a little help list, with wee incites along the way. There are seriously hundreds of these online, but this is my take from it all.
To do now:
Tell everyone your getting hitched! – Done. Facebook, hello!
Set the wedding budget – Done. We sat down and looked at the things we HAD to have and couldn’t compromise on. The rest we changed to suit the budget conscious Shannon. (Ah!)
1. Photography is #1 (Investing in your wedding photography isn’t a luxury. You are investing in your life, your memories. Your photos increase in value as time passes. Make sure you get a good photographer for gods sake!)
2. Attire. We both wanted to look badass! Designer dress & suit, why not.
3. Location / Venue. Venue with a view on the Coromandel. It had to be done. With the help of www.theweddingmap.co.nz of course!
Choose your Wedding date – We chose it because it was a long weekend, we wanted our guests to come & holiday with us at the beach. Another deciding factor will be the venue and the photographer. Make sure they are both free on the same date before you even start!
I t was a winters day. Probably not as windy as Wellington from where Tim & Nadine had travelled from, so it was a good day. The ocean still, the black sand sitting quietly. We chose to explore the hippy vibe of Raglan Beach on a Tuesday Afternoon. Whale bay, Manu bay and Beyond with our cameras in tow. What a great day it was, to be a photographer.
It was super fun exploring and just hanging out with like minded people to be honest. Fab!
Special Thanks to Tim & Nadine for exploring with us of Tim Kelly Photography!
So simple & to die for!
Serves 6-8
250g butter
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups self-raising flour
300ml carton sour cream
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup toasted flaked almonds
1 cup white sugar
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup pure or pouring cream
80g butter, extra
600ml thickened cream
375g bag white chocolate melts
1 Preheat oven to 160C. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper. Using an electric beater, beat butter and sugar for 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla; beat until combined. Sift in flour, then add sour cream and milk. Fold into batter. Pour into tin; bake for 1 hour until cooked through. Turn onto a wire rack and allow to cool.
2 Line a baking tray with baking paper. Sprinkle with almonds. Place sugar in a non-stick saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook for 5 minutes, shaking pan every 2 minutes until sugar is melted and a rich caramel colour. Pour over almonds; allow to cool and set. Break into pieces.
3 To make caramel sauce, place brown sugar, pouring cream and extra butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir for 5 minutes until melted. Cover and refrigerate until thickened slightly.
4 Heat half thickened cream in a saucepan until bubbles appear. Stand for 1 minute. Add chocolate; stir until melted. Transfer to a bowl. Cover and refrigerate until mixture thickens. Place remaining cream in a bowl; beat, using an electric hand beater, until soft peaks form. Fold into chocolate mixture.
5 Cut cake into 4 layers. Place one layer on a serving platter. Spread 1/4 chocolate mixture over cake. Drizzle with caramel sauce and sprinkle with praline. Repeat layers three more times and serve.
Super tasty – this was made for my mother in-laws birthday. As a cake maker herself, I needed to impress – but this was so so easy too! Love it!
Bought to you by Mindfood
What do you think?
When Aaron and I got engaged, the first thing we wanted to find was the perfect venue in the Coromandel which had a gorgeous view. After months and months of searching – we almost settled for something in Rotorua! We googled, we hunted book a batch, we asked friends. Nothing. So in turn, we created something that helps people like us (brides & grooms!) find their special place to get hitched! The Wedding Map.
It’s a map of New Zealand, showing the venues & everything they entail. So when brides are on the hunt for a venue with a forest in Hamilton, it narrows down the results!
It’s simple, easy to use & bloody helpful. It’s basically like the Air BNB for Weddings but the major UP on that is you can search by style!! One click and you can view all the “Beach Venues” or “Venues with a view”. Ideal! Finding the venue is the first step to your marriage – so by making it this simple, hopefully helps a lot of people out there 🙂
Adding that something extra!
We’ve seen a few invites in our time. With the internet being so amazing these days, its hard not to find a fab Invitation. But hey, we wanted to add that tiny thing to make them a “wow” factor! Gold Foil! Firstly, we designed the Invite in photoshop & had them printed with a company which used a laser printer (350GSM). This printer uses toner which reacts with Gold Foil. So make sure toner is used, not ink!
Next, we cut a piece of gold foil (found at any crafty stores!) to match the wording size. Lay the foil on top, with the gold facing upward.
Place another sheet of paper on top & put through a hot laminator.
Try & pop it through at least two times per sheet, then peel back the foil & there you go! Can be difficult with the smaller & thin lines but it works in the end! Take your time & have fun – these look super stunning afterwards + people have said how crazy expensive they look too! When they were just made at home (Yay!)
Special thanks to Aaron (Husband to be!)
Its one of those once in a lifetime kind of places. Where you go on a whim and hope like hell its worth it, and boy was it what. Looking back at the photos – I long for a day there again. It was like a dream world in winter. Five hours of daylight & the rest was darkness. But those five hours were sunrise & sunset all in one – a fairytale almost. Simply stunning.
Blue Lagoon, Reykjavík, Geysir, Gullfoss, Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Vik, Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon. It was like a land which has yet to be discovered. We drove for hours. Snow storms, zero light, ice as thick as the windscreen. It was madness & and wonderland all at the same time. I’m in love and I need to go back.
Hrifunesrustic & cozy Guesthouse
