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October. The walk is in full white flower for about three weeks. Ask about October

White wisteria, a stone house and one long table.

Near Mylor in the Adelaide Hills: marry under the walk, dine in the long room for up to 140, and everything comes from our own kitchen, halal on request.

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The front of the stone house: a pale limewashed upper wall over a loggia of round sandstone arches, one long table set on the flagstones with white flowers and water jugs, and the lawn falling to the dam in late sun

October

What the walk, the garden and the kitchen are doing this month.

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In the walk

The white flowers open from the top of each strand to the tip over about three weeks, so an early-October ceremony stands under half-open buds and a late one under full hanging white. The leaves are only just breaking, so the light under the walk is bright.

From the garden

The first broad beans and peas, asparagus from the bed by the east wall, artichokes, new season's herbs and the last of the blood oranges. The pear espaliers are in blossom and the lawn is at its greenest. The Hills cool quickly after five, so bring a wrap.

At the table

  • Broad beans with lemon and dill
  • Spring lamb shoulder, slow-cooked over orchard prunings
  • New potatoes with garden butter
  • The first strawberries with rosewater cream

In the jugs: blood orange pressed with mint, sparkling water, tea

Seven places, all of them yours for the day.

We hold one celebration a day. The gate opens to you at ten, and the house and garden are yours until the last car leaves.

The wisteria walkCeremonies, up to 140 seated See the walk The loggiaArrival, water and cordials, up to 140 standing See the loggia The long roomDinner for up to 140, dancing after See the long room The covered terraceThe rain plan, seats 140 See the terrace The walled kitchen gardenPhotographs, small lunches for up to 40 See the garden The two rooms upstairsGetting ready, and a quiet half hour See the day The lawn to the damGames, the long photograph, the evening walk See the lawn
  • The wisteria walk Ceremonies, up to 140 seated See the walk
  • The loggia Arrival, water and cordials, up to 140 standing See the loggia
  • The long room Dinner for up to 140, dancing after See the long room
  • The covered terrace The rain plan, seats 140 See the terrace
  • The walled kitchen garden Photographs, small lunches for up to 40 See the garden
  • The two rooms upstairs Getting ready, and a quiet half hour See the day
  • The lawn to the dam Games, the long photograph, the evening walk See the lawn

From the gate at ten to the last car at eleven

The gate opens to you at ten. Your florist and photographer come in by the loggia, and the two rooms upstairs are yours to get ready in. At half past two your guests arrive on the lawn, to water and garden cordials in the shade of the arches.

The wisteria walk in the afternoon: sandstone piers and timber beams hung with long white flowers over empty flagstones, the dam and hills beyond

Three

The ceremony, under the walk

Chairs go on the flagstones and the lawn either side, for up to 140. The couple waits in the cool of the loggia and walks out under forty metres of white flower, which opens from early October for about three weeks.

If the sky looks doubtful, a canvas cover rolls over the walk the morning before.

October: the walk as it is here, in full white flower. The rest of the year it is leaf, gold or bare wood. See it in July

The lawn falling to the dam in late afternoon sun, two timber benches and a water jug by the water, the corner of the stone house at the left

Photographs on the lawn, down to the dam

After the ceremony the kitchen sends out small plates, and there are benches and jugs of water down by the dam. The sun comes low across the grass from about four, which is when the long photograph is taken.

Four

A long limewashed room with timber trusses, set with one long table, white flowers, water jugs and tumblers

Half past five

Dinner in the long room, for up to 140

Tall windows run down one side and open onto the loggia, so on a warm evening the room and the arches become one space. We set one long table down the middle, long tables in rows, or rounds, whichever suits the way you'd like people to talk.

Speeches come between the courses. After dinner the tables are cleared and the parquet is yours for dancing. The fireplace at the far end is lit from May to September, and jugs of water stay on the tables all night.

The music finishes at half past ten, and the last car is through the gate at eleven. The times are the same for every celebration: our neighbours are close. Next morning we pack whatever you left, and you collect it before noon.

Cooked here, from the garden where we can.

Everything on the table comes out of our own kitchen, and much of it from the walled garden first. Tell us when you book if you'd like the kitchen halal, and the whole day is cooked that way, from the first plate to the last.

We don't serve alcohol, and it isn't brought in. The garden gives us juices and cordials, and there is sparkling water, tea and coffee all day.

We ask about allergies early and cook for them.

A tasting lunch for the two of you, a few months before, settles the menu.

Raised beds of broad beans and herbs inside an old walled kitchen garden, a pear trained flat against the stone
A cook's hands placing peas and broad beans on a plate of slow-cooked lamb at a steel pass
October at the pass: spring lamb shoulder, slow-cooked over orchard prunings, and the first strawberries with rosewater cream.
Rain falling past the open side of a covered stone terrace, a long table with white flowers dry beneath the roof

If it rains

The ceremony moves under the covered terrace, twenty steps from the walk, and nothing else changes. We make the call with you by nine the morning before.

The terrace, the long room and the kitchen share one roof line, so nobody needs an umbrella.

October: showers are short, and the flowers stand up to them. If the call is rain, the ceremony is on the terrace, facing the walk.

No alcohol is served or brought in. The music finishes at half past ten, and the last car leaves by eleven.

Plain answers

Can we bring our own caterer?
Everything comes from our kitchen.
Is the kitchen halal?
On request, for the whole day.
How many guests?
Up to 140 at dinner in the long room, and 40 for a small lunch in the walled garden.
What if we're not marrying?
Engagements, nikah and walima, anniversaries and big birthdays all happen here.
Is it step-free?
From the car park to the lawn, the loggia and the long room, yes.
Can we see it first?
Yes. Ask below and we'll walk it with you.

Ask about a date, or come and walk it first.

Tell us the month and roughly how many are coming, and we'll write back with what that month looks like here.

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The celebration
Roughly how many guests
Ceremony here too?
Should the kitchen cook halal for the day?