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Encore St Kilda

A St Kilda beachfront wedding venue with modern interiors, bay views, and a polished city-meets-coast atmosphere.
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Venue Details

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03 9593 9033
info@encorestkilda.com.au
https://encorestkilda.com.au/
10/18 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda VIC 3182

Planning Snapshot

Seaside/Beach
St Kilda
Up to 400 seated or 700 for cocktail format across the full footprint with the operable walls fully open. The walls fold in to drop capacity down to 50-guest intimate configurations, so a weekday-evening micro wedding fits the same building that hosts a 700-strong Saturday reception. Mid-range counts of 150 to 300 work the most natural balance between bay-view scale and density.
Two formats sit on the property. The function room handles year-round indoor ceremony with bay views as the standing backdrop, working through any weather without a contingency call. The rooftop runs as a summer ceremony alternative when bay-side wind isn't pressing, with skyline behind the celebrant. Couples pushing the rooftop format outside the warm months should expect a wet-weather move back to the function room mid-week.
The bay sits west of the property, so sunset crosses the visible horizon directly. Summer lands that around 8:15pm to 8:45pm; winter pulls it back to 5pm. The portrait window opens about 90 minutes before sunset, when side-angled light skims the building's eastern face, and stays open through to civil twilight when the rooftop deck lights against a still-bright sky. Mid-day shots inside the function room work in any season because the room's eastern glazing supplies even daylight regardless of cloud.

Why this venue works beautifully

Encore St Kilda is at the southern end of St Kilda Beach, with floor-to-ceiling windows facing Port Phillip Bay and an outdoor terrace running across the front of the building. Inside, operable walls divide a single large function room into smaller configurations, with a built-in dance floor, two private bridal suites, and a rooftop ceremony space that’s available through the summer months.

Beach views from a function venue aren’t unique in St Kilda, but Encore’s scale changes what’s possible. The flexible-wall layout flexes from 50-guest intimate weddings up to 700-cocktail receptions in the same building, which is uncommon for a waterfront site. Rooftop ceremonies in summer add an outdoor option that’s genuinely separate from the indoor reception space, not a marginal balcony.

How we’d photograph it

Time the ceremony for the second half of the afternoon. The eastern glazing fills the room with reflected bay light at that point, and direct sun on guests stays low enough not to squint.

Rooftop ceremonies are summer-only logistics. Plan the format around November to March; outside that window, the wind speed across an exposed rooftop becomes the limiting factor, not the temperature.

Two bridal suites mean parallel prep coverage. Send a second shooter to the partner suite for symmetric morning photos; the layout was built for that and most couples leave the option unused.

The operable walls reshape the room between ceremony and reception. Pre-shoot the empty floor configuration during setup so you’ve documented the architectural skeleton before styling buries it.

Bay-light portraits work strongest from the eastern terrace, not the rooftop. The terrace sits one level below with a closer water-edge crop; rooftop portraits tend to flatten the bay into background pattern.

Ceremony setup

Two formats sit on the property. The function room handles year-round indoor ceremony with bay views as the standing backdrop, working through any weather without a contingency call. The rooftop runs as a summer ceremony alternative when bay-side wind isn't pressing, with skyline behind the celebrant. Couples pushing the rooftop format outside the warm months should expect a wet-weather move back to the function room mid-week.

Best light of the day

The bay sits west of the property, so sunset crosses the visible horizon directly. Summer lands that around 8:15pm to 8:45pm; winter pulls it back to 5pm. The portrait window opens about 90 minutes before sunset, when side-angled light skims the building's eastern face, and stays open through to civil twilight when the rooftop deck lights against a still-bright sky. Mid-day shots inside the function room work in any season because the room's eastern glazing supplies even daylight regardless of cloud.

Reception atmosphere

Operable-wall flexibility along the St Kilda foreshore is what couples book Encore for. The same building scales from intimate sit-down dinners through to 700-guest cocktail formats by retracting the dividers; styling can run black-tie formal or coastal-casual depending on the floor configuration. Bay views carry through the eastern wall, and the building's elevation lifts those views above the foreshore traffic.
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Weddings we’ve photographed here

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