The Orchard Garden, near Clyde and Alexandra, Central Otago, is another of my favourite wedding venues.

It offers you so you many options and is one of my favourite Central Otago wedding venues for photography.

With the maze, interlinked high hedged gardens, secret wooded pathways, open green space, colourful flower beds and, of course, the iconic Blue Door, Orchard Gardens offers so many choices of space for your ceremony and photos.

The gardens also offer shade and protection from wind plus the indoor Packing Shed for your reception, all these take away any worry of what the weather might do on your wedding day.

And the people at Orchard Gardens are lovely - so accommodating and keen to make your day just as you dreamed it would be. 

I love photographing weddings here and each time discover new gems around the gardens.  

The gardens, as their names sake implies, have been converted from old orchards. The high hedges create a maze and several secret garden rooms for the ceremony, drinks gatherings and photos.

The reception room is in the beaut old fruit packing shed, full of character and warmth.