Yandina Creek QLD 4561
Wedding venue at Yandina Creek, Sunshine Coast hinterland
Yandina Creek is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, and it is not the town of Yandina. The station has been on this ground since 1853 and has run functions here since December 1996.
Suburb
Yandina Creek
Not Yandina. Several listings have this wrong.
To the airport
20 km
Distance only. We do not publish a drive time.
Cattle run since
1853
Established as the Yandina run
Venue since
Dec 1996
Restored homestead, then the Dairy Barn
Two different places
Yandina Creek is not Yandina
Yandina is the town on the Bruce Highway. Yandina Creek is the rural locality east of it. The station address is 684 North Arm - Yandina Creek Road, Yandina Creek QLD 4561. Directory listings shorten that to Yandina often enough that it is worth putting the full address into a car rather than the venue name.
Guests arriving by air land at Sunshine Coast Airport, 20 kilometres away. We do not publish a drive time, because every figure in circulation was worked backwards from that distance and none of them agree.
What the hinterland does
Ranges on one side, the coast on the other
Inland puts hills behind the ceremony. Two of the locations on the property are named for what you look at from them, the Mt Coolum Lawn and the Mt Ninderry Deck. That is a horizon, and it is the thing a beachfront venue cannot borrow.
The property runs cattle. Livestock graze the same paddocks the photographs are taken in, which is a fact about the address rather than a look that was chosen.
On the ground
Six ceremony locations, one reception room
The property carries its own place names. Most of them come from the land rather than from a brochure.
The Mt Coolum Lawn
Open grass, a Moreton Bay Fig, and the mountain the lawn is named for.
The Pavilion Deck
Timber, raised, guests to either side of the couple rather than behind them.
The Dairy Barn
The reception room. Windows onto pasture down one whole side.
The lawns
Long tables outdoors when the weather holds.
The cottages
Three of them, carrying names from the 1856 cattle runs.
Nearby, for guests staying off site
Yandina, Eumundi and Coolum are the closest towns with rooms. Two of those names, Eumundi and Yandina, appear in the 1856 lease record for this head station, which is a coincidence of geography that has lasted about 170 years. The history page sets out the rest of it.
Yandina Creek
Put the address in and come out
Tours by appointment. The drive in tells you more about the setting than any photograph will.