Engagements venues

Cupitt's Estate — Ulladulla

Winery, brewery, fromagerie and award-winning dining stacked on one family estate overlooking Burrill Lake.

120 seated · 200 standing

Clovelly Bowling & Recreation Club — Clovelly

Clifftop bowlo with a dance floor, a stage and the best ocean view per dollar in the East.

100 seated · 100 standing

Raes on Wategos — Byron Bay

Mediterranean-white glamour perched above Wategos Beach with the region's most storied dining room.

50 seated · 75 standing

Rowlee Wines — Nashdale

Croquet lawn ceremonies, stables or marquee receptions and estate wines among the vines — with helicopter transfers on request.

175 seated · 250 standing

Coorabell Estate — Coorabell

A rainforest-wrapped private estate where you set the guest list and the caterer and the hinterland does the styling.

40 seated · 150 standing

Frida's Field — Nashua

An architectural farmhouse restaurant on 120 regenerative acres where the paddocks write the menu.

120 seated

Shangri-La Sydney — The Rocks

Sydney's pillarless grande dame of ballrooms, with five-star polish from valet to petit four.

492 seated · 700 standing

Belmont 16s Sailing Club — Belmont

A gleaming club built out over Lake Macquarie, where the South East View room pairs a private bar and terrace with a white marble dance floor.

350 seated · 600 standing

Borrodell Estate — Orange

A hillside vineyard, orchard and truffière above the Towac Valley, with cellar-door polish and estate suites to sleep it all off.

140 seated · 200 standing

Vagabond Cruises — Pyrmont

Your whole party on a three-deck harbour boat with a dance floor — the skyline does the styling for you.

240 seated · 350 standing

Condell Park Community Hall — Condell Park

Bargain-bracket council hall — cheapest tier in all of Canterbury-Bankstown.

25 seated

Headlands Austinmer Beach — Austinmer

Architecturally designed event rooms perched on the Austinmer headland — floor-to-ceiling Pacific and private balconies for sundowners.

350 standing

Terrey Hills Golf & Country Club — Terrey Hills

A polished private country club ringed by Ku-ring-gai bushland, chandeliers and fairway views included.

160 seated · 200 standing

The Oaks Hotel — Neutral Bay

The famous oak-tree beer garden pub - a lower North Shore rite of passage.

100 seated · 130 standing

City Beach Function Centre — Wollongong

Floor-to-ceiling ocean views, starlit fibre-optic ceilings and festoon-lit private terraces — Wollongong's polished big-night stalwart.

200 seated · 300 standing

Newtown Hotel — Newtown

140 years on King Street with a private caravan room, party lighting and a free digital jukebox.

200 seated · 200 standing

Royal Hotel Paddington — Paddington

Grand old Five Ways pub with a rooftop and rooms named after elephants.

55 seated · 100 standing

Stockton Bowling Club — Stockton

A beachside bowlo established 1914 where barefoot bowls, cold schooners and ocean air do the heavy lifting for your party.

Merewether Surfhouse — Merewether

An award-winning glass pavilion perched over Merewether Beach, where 270-degree ocean views and a wraparound balcony do most of the decorating for you.

350 standing

Q Station — Manly

A former quarantine station on North Head — heritage buildings, harbour views and a resident ghost tour.

Gunners' Barracks — Mosman

An 1870s sandstone army barracks hidden in Mosman bushland with 180-degree harbour views and high-tea energy.

130 seated · 180 standing

Aria Restaurant Sydney — Circular Quay

Hatted fine dining beside the Opera House, with private rooms that put the Harbour Bridge on the guest list.

100 seated · 100 standing

Audley Dance Hall — Royal National Park (Audley)

A 1920s timber dance hall on the Hacking River — full-room dance floor, wraparound verandah, kookaburra soundtrack.

200 seated · 200 standing

Crows Nest Hotel — Crows Nest

100-plus years of North Shore nightlife with a heritage ballroom and a rooftop tacked on.

90 seated · 500 standing

Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club — Freshwater

Four rooms over Freshie beach, from an intimate 50 up to 250 cocktail-style.

200 seated · 250 standing

Gledswood Homestead & Winery — Gledswood Hills

Convict-built sandstone, sweeping lawns and estate wine barely 45 minutes from the CBD.

450 standing

The Boathouse Shelly Beach — Manly

Barefoot-luxe pavilion right on Shelly Beach, where the ocean quietly does the styling for you.

80 seated · 200 standing

Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel — Watsons Bay

Crisp white beach-club luxury on the harbour - the premium end of the Sydney party spectrum.

150 seated · 300 standing

Clovelly Hotel — Clovelly

Local ocean-view pub where the function room comes with its own private terrace and bar.

180 seated · 120 standing

Curzon Hall — Marsfield

A sandstone castle on three acres of manicured gardens, where receptions arrive with full fairytale energy.

500 seated · 2300 standing

Kyah — Blackheath

Blackheath's design-led boutique stay, where parties orbit Blaq's sculptural oval bar between roaring fires and curvy archways.

160 seated · 250 standing

Lowe Family Wine Co (The Zin House) — Mudgee

A 1,000-acre organic estate where you can marry in a bush chapel, feast among wine barrels and finish under Pavilion chandeliers.

180 seated · 250 standing

Melross & Willows Estate — Kangaroo Valley

270 acres of Kangaroo Valley farmland with elegant country homesteads and a polished barn seating 170.

170 seated

Northies Cronulla Hotel — Cronulla

Cronulla's beachfront big-hitter - Glasshouse views of the sand and a balcony over the esplanade.

120 seated · 250 standing

Oatlands Estate — Oatlands

An 1823 Georgian manor on five acres of gardens and vineyard, doing grand ballroom romance at serious scale.

580 seated · 1800 standing

Sergeants' Mess — Mosman

A glamorous white dining room and wraparound deck hanging over Chowder Bay — pure harbour theatre from every seat.

250 seated · 350 standing

The Carrington Hotel — Katoomba

Katoomba's 1883 grande dame — chandeliers, stained glass and one of the last working Victorian dining rooms in Australia.

200 seated

The Shellharbour Club — Shellharbour

The local club polished up: six flexible rooms, private bars and a weather-protected terrace without the venue-hire drama.

80 seated · 120 standing

Centennial Homestead — Centennial Park

A breezy pavilion in the middle of Centennial Park where the lawns roll on forever and the city feels politely far away.

380 seated · 900 standing

Crooked River Estate — Gerringong

A hilltop vineyard estate where the vines roll toward the Pacific, with luxury villas and an award-winning restaurant on the grounds.

150 seated · 200 standing

Harbourfront Restaurant — Wollongong

A glass-walled seafood fine diner gazing over Belmore Basin, where the harbour lights handle most of the decorating.

150 seated · 150 standing

Honeysuckle Hotel — Newcastle

A harbourside pub on Honeysuckle's boardwalk whose glass-walled Harbour Room sits practically over the water, working port and sunsets included.

220 standing

The Robertson Hotel — Robertson

A sprawling 1924 grand hotel on 14 acres where the white dining room, ballroom and moody corridors bring serious old-world theatre.

130 seated · 200 standing

Merewether Functions (Merewether SLSC) — Merewether

The surf club's upstairs room and Pump House Bar, with a balcony sweeping 180 degrees from Cooks Hill to the Merewether Baths and drinks at club prices.

100 seated

The Vinegrove — Buckaroo

An all-inclusive private estate five minutes from town where the styling team handles everything and the party spills out under the stars.