We love creating ceremony setups at the beautiful Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. With a choice of 3 wedding lawns, each offering stunning greenery backdrops.
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.
Included wedding Chairs: When you book a wedding lawn at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, they include in your booking 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, if required, extra guest chairs and your choice of additional ceremony decor.
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.
Adding chairs: Our white americana wedding chairs blend seamlessly with the chairs provided by Mt Coot-tha, so adding extra chairs through us works perfectly.
The bamboo backdrop – this is 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 gold hexagonal arbour frames couples beautifully as they say ‘I Do’.
You can tailor your setting by adding add our fresh rose petal cones and aisle.
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.
You can view more of this secret garden style wedding on our blog here.
Circular Paved Area – While the bamboo backdrop above is a popular choice for weddings at Palm Tree Lawn, there is also the option to have the ceremony set up at the circular paved area.
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 pictured here 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.
Tropical leaves area – is an alternative ceremony backdrop for weddings at Palm Tree Lawn as pictured here, featuring our rose gold circular arbour and rattan mat.
To complement their deep red wedding palette this couple added a rose petal aisle.
Another happy wedding ceremony with Brisbane Wedding Celebrant Jamie Eastgate.
As Brisbane’s most experienced wedding ceremony stylists for weddings at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, we know the beautiful lawns extremely well.
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.
If you like the style of our ceremony set ups, we would love to hear from you! Check out our packages and pricing and contact us to confirm availability.
Area 2 – Exotic Rain forest – Fig 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 is our gold hexagonal arbour beside the beautiful grand old fig tree as Brisbane Celebrant Jamie Eastgate prepares for the elegant elopement ceremony. Images by The Infinity Collective.
Pictured, a morning ceremony with our gold hexagon arbour centered with the tree.
The following Fig Tree Lawn wedding at Mt Coot-tha opted to have a total of 100 guest chairs, so all their guests could be comfortably seated for the 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.
Small weddings and elopements are also well suited to this lawn, pictured beneath the beautiful fig tree our luxe white circular arbour.
Our elegant Endless Love Deluxe arbour with white draping and dried florals.
Our gorgeous gloss curved arch sitting pretty with the Fig Tree in the backdrop.
Pictured below simple settings with additional chairs so all guests had a seat.
See more of this simply stylish wedding decor at Mt Coot-tha’s Fig Tree Lawn here.
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.
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, Dreamlife Photography and Ben Monavari.
All designated wedding sites at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha can be booked through Brisbane City Council.
If you like the style of our ceremony set ups, we would love to hear from you! Check out our packages and pricing and contact us to confirm availability.