Picture-perfect weddings – QAGOMA Blog

Contemplating of tying the knot in model, or know anyone who might be? Regardless of whether your vision is basic or operates to the avant-garde, QAGOMA delivers three amazing venues for standout weddings.

You know QAGOMA as a Brisbane riverside landmark, home to beautiful artworks and awe-inspiring exhibitions. You may possibly have sampled some award-profitable fare at GOMA Restaurant and stayed Up Late to take in Brisbane’s glowing nightlife. But did you know that the Gallery’s following masterpiece could be your really possess massive day? Throughout its two acclaimed riverfront web pages, QAGOMA presents three image-excellent venues to accommodate wedding ceremony receptions from the grand to the intimate.

Roof Terrace, Gallery of Modern Art

Featuring a adaptable selection of in-property catering and styling options, the Gallery’s all-inclusive offers make it possible for you to embrace the resourceful risk of our venues and entrust our professional team with the finer particulars. For medium- to substantial-scale weddings, QAGOMA gives two earth-class party spaces — the classy Watermall and glamorous Roof Terrace — when our luxe-nonetheless-laid-back again GOMA Restaurant suits additional intimate receptions.

The grand Watermall in the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is a area architectural treasure, with soaring three-storey ceilings and a dynamic rotation of remarkable Australian and international works of art. A path established around the central drinking water feature delivers the ideal walkway for an unforgettable entrance. Up to 200 guests can banquet in model in the Watermall, with pre-reception beverages in the Sculpture Courtyard and exceptional after-several hours gallery viewings at QAG. A timeless room that lends itself to transformation, the Watermall provides limitless choices for table settings, styling, band and dancefloor — a really magical space to rejoice all night time extended.

Queensland Artwork Gallery Watermall

A handful of techniques away, the Gallery of Fashionable Art’s (GOMA) Roof Terrace supplies a stunning lined outside placing, with sparkling 180-degree sights of the city, Brisbane River, Kurilpa Bridge and beyond. Accessed by private elevate, company look at the lights of the town twinkle about the river from a quintessentially Queensland balcony. Accommodating up to 200 visitors (160 banquetstyle or 200 cocktail), the multipurpose Roof Terrace allows you get the celebration commenced, with area to tailor table settings, decorations, home furnishings and the dancefloor. A significant picture window features a view onto the at any time-transforming gallery in, whilst GOMA alone lights up at dusk with James Turrell’s energetic operate Evening Lifestyle 2018 (illustrated).

James Turrell ‘Night Life’, Gallery of Modern Artwork

For intimate receptions, GOMA Restaurant — a stylish venue overlooking Brisbane River and the William Jolly Bridge — is an epicurean dream suited to 30–80 attendees (up to 50 banquet-type or 80 cocktail). Upstairs, the loft lounge lets the pleased few or wedding ceremony get together to steal a private moment ahead of earning a official entrance into the principal reception house.

GOMA Restaurant’s contemporary indoor space delivers an award-profitable dining expertise. Outside the house, on the roomy timber-decked terrace, your attendees can mingle for pre-reception beverages or dance the night away to your band or DJ.

With a culinary crew of much more than 100 qualified personnel working across QAGOMA’s in-residence restaurant and catering companies, and our emphasis on sourcing the freshest area seasonal generate, our mouth‑watering occasion menus wow company of all palates. (This year alone, GOMA Restaurant was listed as a Best 10 Queensland Restaurant by Connoisseur Traveller and rated #7 of Queensland’s greatest dining places in QWeekend’s Delicious 100.)

GOMA Restaurant, Gallery of Modern-day Artwork

Guiding the scenes

Found in South Brisbane’s Cultural Centre — correct by the lush South Lender parklands and around the bridge from the metropolis alone — QAGOMA is simply accessible by car or truck, bus, teach and ferry. Couples who hold their weddings on the Watermall or Roof Terrace in 2022 can also love a complimentary one particular-night remain in a Amazing King Place at W Brisbane, our favorite 5-star hotel, just throughout the river.

Our wedding ceremony authorities know there’s a ton to system. Permit the team at QAGOMA curate each individual element — from the very first sip to the final dance — for a masterpiece celebration to remember.

To explore our venues or discover out much more, get hold of our skilled Events staff on (07) 3842 9945 or [email protected]

Zenobia Frost is a author, editor and serial bridesmaid primarily based in Brisbane.

Showcased picture: QAGOMA Weddings, Sculpture Courtyard, QAG / Photograph: Ever New Studio Photography

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