We LOVE creating ceremony setups at the beautiful Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.
As Brisbane’s most experienced wedding ceremony stylists for weddings at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, we know the beautiful lawns extremely well.
Choose from 3 wedding lawns, each offering its own unique botanical backdrop.
2. Fig Tree Lawn 3. Lychee Lawn
Area 1 – Palm Tree Lawn
Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Palm Tree Lawn is the most popular choice for wedding ceremonies and post ceremony cocktail hour celebrations. Surrounded by lush tropical greenery providing privacy amongst the beauty of nature.
Pictured our chic wooden arbour with ivory, beige and neutral dried florals. You can view more of this gorgeous neutral toned wedding on our blog here.
Lawn Bookings: You can book your choice of lawn at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens through Brisbane City Council for your exclusive use on the day.
Included wedding Chairs: When you book a wedding lawn at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, they provide 20 chairs (18 guest chairs, 2 signing table chairs). So, for our Mt Coot-tha couples we customise the ceremony setup with your choice of arbour, wedding aisle, signing table, and if required, extra guest chairs and your choice of additional ceremony decor e.g. ice filled drink tubs for cocktail hour drinks.
Adding our chairs: Our white americana wedding chairs blend seamlessly with the chairs provided by Mt Coot-tha, so adding extra chairs through us works perfectly.
Palm Tree Lawn offers a variety of beautiful ceremony backdrops to choose from.
Select the backdrop option below or scroll through to see our different wedding arbours and set ups at each backdrop.
Circular Paved Area
Bamboo Backdrop
Tropical Leaves Backdrop
Circular Paved Area – Wedding ceremonies at Palm Tree Lawn can be set up at the circular paved area, which has a beautiful backdrop.
Our chic wooden arbour looks stunning at the gorgeous Palm Tree Lawn.
You may also like to add our beautifully presented wedding bubbles. See more of this beautiful day on the full blog post here: Chic Wedding Ceremony Decor at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens
Pictured here is our elegant white rectangular arbour with an upgrade to a corner fresh flower arrangement at the circular paved area of Palm Tree Lawn.
Our chic wooden arbour with an extra-large fresh flower arrangement.
You can view more of this wedding with our chic wooden arbour on our blog here.
Pictured here our white endless love deluxe arbour with white draping and soft pink dried flowers. View the full blog post of this gorgeous soft pink styled wedding here.
Pictured below our luxurious tall aisle plinths ‘Pure Love’ ceremony decor package.
Pictured below our rose gold circular arbour with arbour florals in soft pink and burgundy.
Our white aisle pillars create a simply elegant ceremony backdrop.
Our four-poster arbour with white draping and dusky blue dried floral arrangement.
The Bamboo Backdrop
A beautiful choice of wedding ceremony backdrop at the Palm Tree Lawn. Pictured here with our gloss white curved arch.
With 100 guests attending their Palm Tree Lawn wedding, this couple added additional chairs, so a total of 40 guests could be seated with 60 guests standing, and there was still plenty of space on the lawn had more guests been attending.
You can view more of this wedding featuring our white gloss curved arch here.
Pictured below is our chic wooden wedding arbour adorned with a length of draping and fresh florals, fitting perfectly with the lush botanic gardens. Image Eric Wang
Also pictured here adorned with a length of white draping and a beautiful corner fresh floral arrangement.
Our chic wooden arbour is pictured below alongside our perfectly coordinated wooden Hampton style signing table.
Our Pure Love decor plinths create a simple and elegant ceremony backdrop. You can view the full blog post of this elegant and intimate Mt Coot-tha wedding here.
Our gold hexagonal arbour frames couples beautifully as they say ‘I Do’.
You can view more of this secret garden style wedding on our blog here. You can tailor your setting by adding add our fresh rose petal cones and aisle.
Tropical Leaves Area
This alternative ceremony backdrop for weddings at Palm Tree Lawn as pictured here, featuring our rose gold circular arbour and rattan mat.
You can view the blog post of this elopement wedding here.
Another wedding featuring our rose gold arbour at the tropical leaves backdrop.
Pictured below, our gloss white curved arch adorned with a stunning ‘Tropical Luxe’ style premium fresh flower arrangement, fitting perfectly with the tropical backdrop.
To complement their deep red wedding palette this couple added a rose petal aisle.
Another happy wedding ceremony with Brisbane Wedding Celebrant Jamie Eastgate.
Please note: As there is no vehicle access to the lawns at Mt Coot-tha, an additional labour time fee is added to quotes for all Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden weddings.
Garden party & cocktail hour celebrations
Why not make the most of this beautiful ceremony lawn by celebrating with a garden party style cocktail hour after your ceremony. Some of our couples have chosen to forego a sit-down meal at a venue and instead have an all-in-one wedding ceremony and cocktail style reception at the gorgeous and private Palm Tree lawn.
We can provide our beautifully presented ice filled metal drink tubs and/ or our chic Hampton style bar for your celebratory drinks and our cocktail hour bar tables and stools are always a huge hit!
We’re seeing more couples making the most of the beautiful Palm Tree Lawn and choosing to have an ‘all-in-one’ wedding ceremony and reception, with relaxed and enjoyable cocktail style celebrations taking place on the lawn, instead of heading off elsewhere. This ceremony venue works perfectly for this concept.
You can upgrade to our ribbed signing table which looks beautiful on the round paved area.
If you like the style of our ceremony set ups, we would love to hear from you! Check out our packages and pricing.
Area 2 – Exotic Rain forest – Fg Tree Lawn
The Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens Fig Tree Lawn features a beautiful old Fig tree providing a stunning backdrop and shade for wedding ceremonies.
This spacious lawn is well suited to those with a large number of wedding guests.
Pictured above our gold hexagonal arbour beside the beautiful grand old fig tree as Brisbane Celebrant Jamie Eastgate prepares for this elegant elopement. Below a shaded morning ceremony with our gold hexagon arbour centred with the tree.
The following Fig Tree Lawn wedding at Mt Coot-tha opted to have a total of 100 guest chairs, so all guests could be comfortably seated for their ceremony.
With 20 chairs supplied by Mt Coot-tha within the lawn booking, we provided a further 80 guest chairs + 2 signing table chairs with our luxe white circular arbour. The sloped lawn elevates the back rows for an even better view of the ceremony.
Conversely, small weddings and elopements are also well suited to the Fig Tree Lawn. Below is our luxe white circular arbour beneath the beautiful fig tree.
Our gorgeous gloss curved arch sitting pretty with the Fig Tree in the backdrop.
Pictured below simple settings with additional chairs so all guests could be seated.
View the blog of this wedding Mt Coot-tha’s Fig Tree Lawn here.
contact us to check availability
Area 3 – Exotic Rain forest – Lychee Lawn
Just past the other 2 wedding lawns, on a quiet footpath is the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Lychee Lawn, this lawn is surrounded by tall trees and lush greenery.
Pictured here is our gold hexagonal wedding arbour with our burnt orange and peach ombre dried floral arrangement. Our hexagon wedding arbour fits perfectly with the geometric sandstone sculpture in the backdrop.
Images by Brodie James Photography
Pictured below is our gold hexagonal arbour with a fresh floral arrangement and fresh flowers in glass bottles on aisle chairs.
See more of this Lychee Lawn wedding on our blog here. Pictured our luxe white circular arbour with a dried floral arrangement at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Lychee Lawn.
While we don’t normally set up our ceremonies in this direction, due to the slope throwing the aesthetics of the setting off and making arbours sit wonky, being completely round, our luxe white circular arbour minimised the slope a little.
You can view the full blog post of this garden party style wedding here.
Our white round plinths adorned with fresh flowers by the couples Florist.
Garden party style cocktail hour celebration drinks are always a hit with guests!
The Bandstand – Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens wet weather option
If you have booked one of Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens designated wedding lawns for your wedding, and rain is potentially forecast this area may potentially be your wet weather option.
View the full blog post of this chic pastel themed wedding here.
Pictured here our white gloss curved arbour, with the elevated bandstand providing a stunning backdrop for the couples’ ceremony and cocktail hour celebrations.
The following wedding ceremony setup included 40 x guest chairs (with space for more) and serving tables for post ceremony cocktail hour drinks and nibbles.
Bush Chapel at J.C Slaughter Falls, Mt Coot-tha Reserve
We are particularly fond of the private and somewhat secret Bush Chapel at Mt Coot-tha. This designated site that can be booked through the council. and offers privacy and tranquility.
Well and truly off the beaten track this hidden gem is located just a short walk up a footpath in Mt Coot-tha Forest. This outdoor chapel offers a woodland setting with log seating.
Pictured here with our Hampton style backdrop and aisle pillars to enhance the surrounding rain forest backdrop.
The area has built in log seating and is perfect for weddings and elopements with a small number of guests.
Decorating the Mt Coot-tha Bush Chapel can really bring this area to life.
Additional images featured on this page by Neil Hole, V for Vision, By Ebony, Murray Redpath, The Infinity Collective and Ben Monavari.
All designated wedding sites at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha can be booked through Brisbane City Council.
If you love the idea of the convenience of our set up service, we would love to hear from you! Check out our packages and pricing and get in touch to confirm availability.