Planning a Wedding in Canberra

What better place to experience Australia for your wedding than in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, located at the northern end of the Australia Capital Territory. This city was chosen in the place of either Sydney or Melbourne, and its architects designed it with an eye to showcasing the area's natural flora and fauna.

You'll find historic townships and the Tidbinbilla Nature Preserve, filled with nature's most colorful flowers and the area's native animals, is nearby. The Canberra Wine District, nestled against the lush Brindabella Mountains, provides a respite for any honeymooning couple.

But let's start with the shopping. The urban center is rich with culture, housing Australia's national gallery, museum, and library. This is a city that was designed to be convenient to its citizens and visitors. You can make your first shopping stop at Canberra Center, replete with both large chain stores and small, smart specialty boutiques. If you need your bombonieres, chair covers or centerpieces for your wedding reception, invitations and other stationery, unique jewellery, or floral artists, you can find them here.

After your day of shopping, stop at Endota Day Spa.  There's a beautiful atrium and several treatment areas.  You can schedule treatments there for yourself and your bridesmaids, or you can go there after your wedding with your new husband.

The Bible Garden offers cedar of Lebanon, acacia, holly oak, date palms, stone pines, olive and pistachio trees, and others.  This lush flora rests among a setting of Christian culture that's both peaceful and magnificent.  Imagine taking your vows in this blessed venue of respect and religion.

The National Capital Authority also allows weddings to take place on its various natural venues.  Lake Burley Griffin is colorful, full of trees, flowers, ponds, and pathways. Walk through the archway of outdoor art in Reconciliation Place.  Say your promises to one another in the National Rose Garden.

There are many other park areas, such as Brittle Gum Lawn, a place with green lawns surrounded by beautiful flowers. The educational amphitheatre offers a timeless look of architecture alongside a natural green pond.

Mount Pleasant Lookout is a military memorial that offers a beautiful view of Lake Burley Griffin with the benefits of fewer regular visitors, a good choice for a bridal party seeking privacy.  You can also see the Brindabella and Ainslie mountains.  It offers Black Mountain, which leads you to Telstra Tower.  You and your guests will have to climb twenty steps, but the overlooking view is spectacular.

Cockington Green Gardens yields you the sense of an old English village, complete with flowers as vibrant as jewels.  You can take your vows beneath a grand gazebo and celebrate with your guests under an elegant tent, and visit its Enchanted Garden for your photos.  It's a short sprint from Canberra in Nicholls.  You can hire a limousine in Canberra to complete the perfection of your wedding day.

Other activities abound, such as an excursion on horseback throughout a 3500-acre land just outside of Canberra, in Burnlee, New South Wales actually.  Or tour the Bywong Gold Mining Town to see how a gold town operated a century ago.

When all is said and done, Canberra offers everything for your wedding day. There are splendid shopping malls, countless beauty spas and parlours, your choice of nature or urbanity for a wedding backdrop, and plenty to do afterward.  You'll find all the professionals you need, from celebrants to wedding DJs to videographers, for dance lessons or floral needs, all in one compact area.  It's the perfect place if you want all of these amenities without wasting to-and-fro travel time.

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