Caoura Cliffs
Caoura Cliffs
The venue's vintage Rolls-Royce pulling up to the Pavilion in the late afternoon sun, guests gathered on the terrace to welcome the couple

Your wedding day

What does your day look like?

A walk through a wedding day at Caoura Cliffs, from a slow morning on the land to dancing under the stars.

A day on the cliffs

Unhurried, from first light to last dance.

With exclusive use of all 1,100 acres, the day runs to your schedule and nobody else's. Here is how it tends to unfold, yours to shape from here.

Nothing below is fixed. Couples move the ceremony, stretch the afternoon, or start the night earlier, and the timings move with them.

  1. Morning

    Wake on the land

    Coffee on the verandah at The Homestead, the escarpment catching the early light. Hair and make-up with your people close by, the whole property quiet and yours.

    The Homestead's corrugated-iron verandah under the gums, the lawn running away toward the paddocks

  2. Midday

    The calm before

    A long, easy lunch. Final touches come together while the team sets the ceremony and the Pavilion. Nothing to do but be present.

  3. Early afternoon

    The Rolls at the door

    The venue's 1968 Rolls-Royce waits at the Homestead to carry you across the property: through the gums, along the farm track, to your guests gathered above the gorge.

    The venue's vintage Rolls-Royce on the dirt track through the gum forest, ribbon across the bonnet

  4. Afternoon

    Vows on the cliffs

    Your guests gather on the clifftop above the gorge. You exchange your vows beneath open sky, the country falling away beneath you, timed to the golden afternoon light.

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    Guests seated on timber benches at the clifftop ceremony, the Shoalhaven gorge and escarpment stretching away behind the couple

  5. Golden hour

    Canapés on the terrace

    Cocktails and canapés on the Pavilion terrace as the sun dips and the gorge glows. Photographs in light you'll find nowhere else, while your guests settle in.

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    Guests with drinks on the Pavilion terrace beneath white umbrellas, the low sun flaring behind them

  6. Evening

    Dinner in the Pavilion

    Move inside as the glass room warms: a long-table banquet, speeches by the hearth, and the fire crackling as night falls over the escarpment.

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    Guests seated at long tables inside the Pavilion beneath a cloud of paper lanterns, the escarpment glowing through the glass gable

  7. Late

    Dancing under the stars

    The dance floor runs late, the bar stays warm, and the night sky out here is something else entirely. When you're ready, your bed is a short walk away.

    A couple dancing alone on the Pavilion floor under the lanterns, their guests watching from the long tables

  8. The morning after

    A slow recovery

    No rushing off. A long breakfast and one more morning together on the land before you head home.

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Every day here is shaped around the couple whose day it is. From here you can read what a wedding here includes or how the property sits together.

Hour by hour

How your wedding day at Caoura Cliffs looks.

A wedding day here is built around two fixed points — the ceremony, which you choose, and the finish, which you don't. Everything else sits between them.

Below is how that tends to fall, against the two ceremony times couples pick most often.

7:00
A slow morning at the Homestead
7:30
Hair and makeup begins
10:00
The ceremony site is set at The Cliffs
12:00
Photographers arrive
1:10
Guests board the coach at the car park
1:30
Guests arrive at The Cliffs
2:00
Ceremony
2:30
The ceremony ends, then group photographs
2:45
Coaches return to The Pavilion
3:00
The bar opens and the fires are lit
3:30
Canapés on the Terrace
4:00
The Rolls arrives with the couple
4:15
Guests move inside and take their seats
4:35
The entrance
4:55
Entrée
5:10
The couple slip away for sunset portraits
6:00
Mains
6:45
Speeches
7:15
Cake, then dessert
7:45
The first dance, and the floor opens
9:55
A final song
10:00
The event concludes and farewells begin

Illustrative, not a fixed schedule. Your run sheet is built with you, and no two have matched yet.

Why a winter ceremony usually starts earlier
Sunset is around 5:35pm in late August and closer to 8:15pm in January, so the light is what moves, not the venue. Couples marrying in winter tend to choose 2:00pm to keep the portraits in the golden hour; in summer 3:00pm is the more common pick. It is your call rather than a house rule — ceremonies at The Cliffs run between 2:00pm and 3:30pm. The evening doesn't get shorter either way. The day just starts earlier.
Getting everyone down to The Cliffs
The ceremony site sits about 3km from The Pavilion, and guests travel down by coach. Larger weddings need two trips, which pulls boarding earlier. Guests park once, at the car park, and are looked after from there — the coach drops at the ceremony point, returns to the car park for the ceremony itself, and comes back down afterwards. Whatever the month, guests reach The Cliffs about half an hour before you do.
How the night ends
Every wedding here has an agreed finish, and for most it is 10:00pm. Amplified music and speeches end, the Pavilion doors close, and guests leave the property at that point. It is a condition of our development approval and a term of the agreement rather than a house preference, so the last half hour runs to a fixed clock. Worth knowing when you are choosing a band — and worth telling your coach operator, who needs to be on site and ready to board before the finish rather than pulling in for it.
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