Old Cheese Factory
OVERVIEW
With a variety of ways to celebrate your wedding day, their packages offer flexibility to suit all requirements, ranging from intimate gatherings for 20 guests to elaborate celebrations of 400 people. No matter the size of the dream celebration, Old Cheese Factory has tailored options that boast flexibility and charm, ensuring each couple finds the perfect fit to make their wedding truly magical.
For a truly grand affair, Old Cheese Factory presents the "Full Site Package", an all-inclusive experience that provides two hours in the wedding gardens for the ceremony and photo access. The reception occurs in either the elegant Function Room or the charming Middle Paddock, with exclusive bookings closed in the remaining ten hireable spaces to ensure privacy and exclusivity. The package includes all the amenities of the previous options, ensuring couples and their guests have everything they need for an extraordinary celebration.
What weddings at Old Cheese Factory are like:
Highlights of your Old Cheese Factory wedding:
About
Featuring the 1860s historic Springfield Homestead, Cheese Factory and Kitchen Wash House, the Old Cheese Factory stands as a tall reminder of Australia's early colonial history. We also offer beautiful gardens, a large children’s playground and barbecue/picnic facilities.
Kristy Pole
Business Owner
Venue Features
Indoor / Outdoor Ceremony
Min 10 / Max 400 Reception guests
3rd Party Catering
Music must end by 12:00 AM
Packages
Function Room Packages
For couples wanting to celebrate their wedding with everything in one location while allowing you to customise to your taste.
Ceremony and Reception
Two hours in the wedding gardens for your ceremony and photo access
Access to the Function Room from 9.00 am – 12.00 am for your reception.
Cost: $2157
Package includes:
-Your selection of ceremony location within the gardens
-Use of gardens and grounds for your wedding photography
-Complimentary signs directing guests to your wedding ceremony
- 40 white americana chairs, signing table and chairs for your ceremony
-Function room use from 9.00 am to 12.00 am for wedding reception, including up to 100 chairs, 12 white round tables, 10 trestle tables, and a portable dance floor and stage
-Function room includes catering kitchen and private bathrooms
Optional Extras
- Night Before Access $550 Night before access for set up from 6.00 pm – 12.00 am
-Morning After Access $300 Morning after access for clean up from 7.00 am – 9.00 amm
Marquee Reception Package
Ceremony and Reception
Two hours in the wedding gardens for your ceremony and photo access
Reservation of the Middle Paddock for your marquee, including day before and day after access
Cost: $1645
Package includes
-Your selection of ceremony location within the gardens
-Use of gardens and grounds for your wedding photography
-Complimentary signs directing guests to your wedding ceremony
-40 white americana chairs, signing table and chairs for your ceremony
-Reservation of selected outdoor marquee location for full day use on your wedding day
-Access to the Middle Paddock the day before your wedding for marquee set up
-Day after access until 12.00pm for marquee pack down.
Optional Extras
Overnight storage $320 - Overnight storage in a secure building from 6.00 pm – 9.00 am
Full Site Package
Package includes:
-2 hours in the wedding gardens for your ceremony and photo access
-Access to the Function Room or Middle Paddock from 9.00 am – 12.00 am for your reception
-Your selection of ceremony location within the gardens
-Use of gardens and grounds for your wedding photography
-Complimentary signs directing guests to your wedding ceremony
-40 white americana chairs, signing table and chairs for your ceremony
-Access to the Function Room or Middle Paddock for your reception
-Bookings closed in the remaining 10 hireable spaces to ensure exclusivity.
*Public can continue to access the grounds and playground but bookings will not be available
Cost: $5000
Optional extras
Overnight storage $320 - Overnight storage in a secure building from 6.00 pm – 9.00 am
Chapel Packages
For couples who are looking for an indoor venue for a relaxed, intimate wedding.
Ceremony and Evening Reception
Two hours in the wedding gardens for your ceremony and photo access
Access to the Chapel from 9.00 am – 12.00 am for your reception.
Cost: $1905
Package includes:
-Your selection of ceremony location within the gardens
-Use of gardens and grounds for your wedding photography
-Complimentary signs directing guests to your wedding ceremony
-40 white americana chairs, signing table and chairs for your ceremony
-Access to the Chapel for your wedding reception including up to 60 chairs, and 10 trestle tables
Optional extras
Night Before Access $400 - Night before access for set up from 6.00 pm – 12.00 am
Wedding Photos
This option is designed for couples who would like to capture special memories with photographs taken within the gardens and around the historic buildings.
Package includes
-One hour reserved to use the formal gardens for photos.
-Access for bridal car only within wedding/ rose garden area, subject to weather conditions.
Cost: $220
Garden Package
For couples wanting to celebrate their wedding in the beautiful, landscaped gardens.
Package includes:
-Access to the wedding gardens from 9.00 am – 1.00 pm for your ceremony, photos and reception
-Access to the Cheese Factory from 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
-Your selection of ceremony location within the gardens
-Use of gardens and grounds for your wedding photography
-Complimentary signs directing guests to your wedding ceremony
-40 white americana chairs, signing table and chairs for your ceremony
-Access to the Cheese Factory for your wedding reception, including 40 chairs and 8 trestle tables.
Cost: $1225
Optional extra
Night Before Access $270 - Night before access for set up from 6.00 pm – 12.00 am
Videos
Location
34 Homestead Road, Berwick, Victoria
FAQ
On site parking as well and street parking is avaialble for your guests to use when they attend your event. Over flow parking is also avaialble in the surrounding paddocks of the Old Cheese Factory for larger functions.
Decorations are permitted in all spaces, however, they must be fixed via existing hooks or by mean which do not dame the walls or fixtures.
All decoration must be removed before concluding your booking.
Stricklty no confetti, rice, fake flower petals or fire is allowed on the grounds. All helium balloons must be weighted down. No balloons are to be let loose in the air or to the roof of the room booked.
The set up and decoration of your hired space is strictly within your confirmed booking times, which also applies for all third party providers
Yes, hirers are responsible to pack down and clean their hired space as per the departure checklist displayed in your hired space prior to departure and within their approved hire times. Vacuums, Mops and cleaning supplies are provided in the room.
We do not offer catering on site however you are more than welcome to hire an external party to provide catering. They just would just be required to hold their own public liability insurance and safe food handling certificate.
Sound must be kept within the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)’s regulations.
Please respect other site users and neighbours and keep your volume to a minimum.
All amplified sound, must adhere to prohibited times:
Monday to Thursday before 7.00 am and turned off by 10.00 pm,
Friday and Saturday before 7.00 am and turned down by 11.00 pm and off by
midnight,
Sunday and public holidays, before 9.00 am and turned down by 11.00 pm and off by
midnight.
Responsible Consumption of Alcohol is permitted at the Old Cheese Factory
Third Party providers offering, selling or providing alcohol for events must be licencsed and all staff must hold a valid Responsible Service of Alcohol Certifciation.
Booking Changes
Requests for booking changes for times and spaces may be accepted before four (4) weeks prior to the booking.
Cancellation
A 50% non-refundable deposit applies to all bookings to cover administrative costs associated with the booking.
For bookings cancelled on the day or up to four (4) weeks prior to the booking a 100% cancellation fee will apply. Any money paid above the cancellation fee will be refunded.
If a booking is cancelled due to inclement weather it will be treated as a cancellation.
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