Southern Highlands
Wild, refined luxury, with a distinctly Australian heart.
Caoura Cliffs is a private country estate and wedding destination in the Southern Highlands of NSW. It's 1,100 acres of untamed Australian landscape, high above the Shoalhaven Gorge and around two hours from Sydney.
Welcome
Where the wild meets the refined.
Just two hours from Sydney in the heart of the Southern Highlands, Caoura Cliffs is 1,100 private acres with 4.5 kilometres of Shoalhaven escarpment frontage. The gorge falls away at the edge of it.
And it's old, distinctly Australian country: weathered sandstone ledges, stands of old gums along the farm tracks, and mist that lifts out of the gorge at first light.
The ceremony happens on the cliff edge, high above the river. The reception fills a glass pavilion, your closest people sleep at The Homestead, and from check-in to checkout, yours is the only booking.
The property
Three ways to gather
The Pavilion
Dinner in the Pavilion, with the escarpment still in the room.
Floor-to-ceiling glass opens to the escarpment on three sides. Cocktails and canapés start on the terrace as the sun drops, then dinner moves inside to the long tables, the 4.5-metre green marble bar and a fire in the hearth.
120
Seated guests
4.5m
Marble bar
270°
Escarpment views
Two nights included
Take over Caoura Cliffs for the whole weekend.
Every wedding here comes with two nights at The Homestead. You arrive the afternoon before, wake on the property on the morning of, and have one more slow morning together before anyone drives home.
Yours is the only booking. From 2pm the day before until midday the morning after, the only people on 1,100 acres are the ones you invited.
The evening before
Arrive & settle
Check in to The Homestead, gather your wedding party, and let the country quiet take over.
The day
Vows on the cliffs
A cliff-edge ceremony above the Shoalhaven, then dinner and dancing in the glass Pavilion.
The morning after
A slow recovery
A long breakfast at The Homestead with your closest, and one more morning on the land before you head home.*
* Morning-after gatherings at The Homestead are for up to 20 guests. See the FAQs.
Sustainability
Powered by the sun, built from the farm.
The Pavilion runs on solar power. Its structures and furnishings are crafted from reclaimed and locally sourced timber from the surrounding farm.
Solar
Powered by the sun
Local
Reclaimed timber
Your journey
Planned closely, from the first call to the aisle.
We host one wedding at a time and keep our calendar small, so planning here is close and unhurried. From the day you book, you work directly with your venue manager, and the milestones below move at the pace the two of you plan at.
On booking
Welcome
Your date is secured, and we call to introduce ourselves properly, talk through the flow of your day and share your planning run sheet.
9 months out
Your vision
We get to know you both: what matters most, who you're gathering, and how you picture the day.
6 months out
Back on the property
Key suppliers confirmed, and a second site visit to walk the property together. Decisions come easily standing where they'll happen.
3 months out
The details
Timings, layouts and styling come together, down to the little touches.
1 month out
Your run sheet
We go through your run sheet together, line by line, until the day reads the way you want it to.
Wedding week
Ready
The last details confirmed, so you arrive at The Homestead the afternoon before with nothing left to chase.
Between milestones, questions never wait for the next call.
Check your date
Who we are
Loved, lived in, and shared.
Caoura Cliffs belongs to Kathryn and David, who spent fifteen years restoring a derelict Tallong farm, and married on its cliffs themselves in 2019.
The family still runs it themselves, and shares it with a small number of couples each year.
Read our storyGallery
A glimpse of the wild
Real weddings, photographed across the property.
Escape to Elegance
Embrace the Wild
Two hours' drive from Sydney, on the quiet southern edge of the Highlands. The last four kilometres of Caoura Road are dirt, and the property ends at the gorge.
Site visits
Come and stand on the cliffs.
Site visits run by appointment and take about an hour. Bring your questions.