The Orchard Gardens

When you think of a secret garden, you often picture distant and secluded places, far outside city limits, or traveling somewhere that compliments the perfect garden environment. But what if you found this stunningly beautiful only a short drive away? The Orchard Garden has a one-of-a-kind romantic ambiance that will captivate you with its infinite gorgeous greenery. With the renaissance of an old stone fruit orchard transformed into a romantically delicate garden, bordered with hedges taller than you, calm ponds, and lawn so organically pristine, you'll know you've fallen into your dream wedding venue.

Most fascinating of it all is the delicately structured hedge maze idyllically located in front of the courtyard, making it the perfect backdrop for wedding ceremony photos. The fun that accompanies a wedding party located in a hedge maze truly is unparalleled, and it makes for the ideal spectacle for any Auckland wedding photographer to capture. Your guests can be challenged by following a trail of wedding petals that will lead them to you, waiting and ready to say "I Do"!

Let's not forget, you won't need to worry about entertaining your children because there is a fantastic enclosed play area with sandpits, swings, and forts for them to do their own mingling.

The Orchard Garden is a one-stop-shop that can satisfy every detail you dream of including in your wedding. They offer venue styles that will surprise you with their uniqueness, including; The Shed, The Old Factor Shed, The Cafe, Round Table, Maze, and Tractor Shed Garden. All rooms and function areas can occupy up to 200 guests, so whether you need something small and intimate or grandiose and plentiful, this is the place for your wedding.

To polish everything off, all you need to do is know what you want; they will take care of the rest and style your day perfectly pretty. After all, it's your wedding day, so relax and rejoice!

Now enough of me, here’s a few words from some super stoked people that were thrilled with their day at The Orchard Garden.

Wendy and Dale are just both amazing people, with putting our first wedding off they were both supportive and very helpful, we finally got to marry in the maze and the food and service was just fantastic!

We would recommend in a heartbeat. They are both very friendly and easy going. Thank you so much for everything Wendy and Dale.

- Vanessa

Gorgeous and special place. Great service and food and even more breathtaking incredible gardens! Very appreciative of all the hard work the owners have put in to share with anyone and everyone. Highly recommended to anyone wanting to explore something stunning.

- Alysha

You will not find better for fresh tasty food prepared on site. So tranquil and relaxing and a massive garden including challenging maze and plants and bits shop too. This is the best wedding venue . Everything is done for you and is on site. Don't have to hire everything in like most of the other venues in Central Otago. They also actually put water on the table which some venue hosts don't seem to understand around here. The shade in all the themed gardens is quite helpful in the hot summer climate. (They don't charge extra for umbrellas, the trees do that for you). They have been in the game for more than 25 years so they have probably got it right by now.

- Kevin