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Garden weddings

Turn a garden into a glowing venue after dark

Festoon between the trees, uplights through the canopy, a softly lit path home — garden weddings come alive at night when the lighting is done right.

After sunset

A garden wedding is two venues in one day

Every garden wedding has a hidden deadline: sunset. The setting that carried the whole afternoon — lawn, trees, borrowed landscape — simply disappears at dusk unless lighting takes over, and a couple of hired floodlights is how beautiful gardens end up looking like carparks. Designed garden lighting keeps the magic and changes its nature: festoon strung between trees creates a ceiling where there isn't one, uplights through the canopy give back the depth the darkness stole, and the garden becomes more atmospheric at 9pm than it was at 3. We design for both halves of the day — fixtures that vanish into the greenery in daylight and define the whole party after dark.
Festoon lighting strung between trees at a garden wedding

The palette

Trees, paths and lawn — each lit differently

Gardens give us the richest lighting palette of any wedding setting. Feature trees take warm uplighting that turns fig and jacaranda canopies into glowing architecture; open lawn takes festoon on discreet poles, framing the dining or dance area; pathways between ceremony, bar and reception get low-level lighting so guests in heels navigate garden beds gracefully; and hedges or garden walls take soft washes that extend the visual boundary of the party. Everything is battery-powered or discreetly cabled, all of it IP64 weather-rated and tested and tagged — gardens are living, watered, weather-exposed places and our gear is built for exactly that. It's the same layered thinking behind our reception lighting, applied to a landscape instead of a room.
Uplit trees and pathway lighting through a wedding garden

Private & public

Family backyards to botanic-scale estates

Garden weddings across the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers split into two briefs, and we love both. Private gardens — the family backyard grown for decades and finally hosting the wedding it deserves — need everything brought in: poles, power planning, rigging where there's nothing to hang from. Established garden venues and estates need a crew that respects plantings, follows venue rules and rigs without a trace. Ten-plus years covers both, and either way one crew delivers, installs, tests and packs down after the weekend. Browse the wider wedding lighting collection for the looks, then send photos of your garden through the contact page — a few phone snaps are enough for us to quote within 24 hours.
Garden wedding celebration under warm string lighting

Frequently asked

Yes — we bring discreet festoon poles that create hanging points anywhere on a lawn. Plenty of our best garden designs are strung entirely from poles you barely notice in photos.

No. Uplights sit on garden beds without digging, festoon poles use weighted or minimal-footprint bases, and cabling is routed around plantings. The garden is exactly as we found it after packdown.

Nothing — all our fixtures are IP64 weather-rated with sealed connections, built for wet gardens. We'd rather know your irrigation schedule so nobody gets surprised, but the gear itself is fine.

A mix of battery fixtures and planned cable runs from the house or venue supply. For bigger gardens we map the power plan during quoting so there are no leads across walkways and no overloaded circuits.

Backyard designs start around $600 to $900; larger gardens with tree uplighting and multiple zones typically run $1,200 to $2,500 including delivery, install and packdown. Quotes land within 24 hours.

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