Elopements · 288 North Terrace, Adelaide
Your ceremony and a long lunch or dinner in our historic Library, for up to ten guests. Food, drinks and your own event manager included, for a set price of $2,000, Monday to Saturday.
Two ways to marry small
For couples who would rather spend the budget on a holiday or a house deposit, and share the day with the people who matter most. Nothing about either is scaled down: the same kitchen, the same rooms and the same event manager as a wedding ten times the size.
2 to 10 people · The Library
$2,000Set price · Monday to Saturday
Your ceremony and your lunch or dinner are both in the Library: say I do at one end of the room, then sit down together at its one long table. The same price whether there are two of you or ten. Sundays and public holidays are 15% more.
Up to 24 guests · Library & Ballroom
$4,000$1,000 room hire + $3,000 minimum spend
Marry in one room, take photographs in the gardens, then move into the other room for your reception, with no waiting while a room is reset.
How it works
We reply by the next business day.
They take care of the legal paperwork.
Three courses, two options each.
Then stay for lunch or dinner.
We provideThe room, food and drinks, tables and linen, and cake cutting.
You bringYour outfits, celebrant, cake, and any flowers or centrepieces.
A bluestone house on North Terrace, built in 1846, with gardens of its own and the Botanic Garden directly opposite. The tram stops at the front door.
Eloping in Adelaide
The Elopement is $2,000, one price for two to ten people, Monday to Saturday. That covers your ceremony in the Library, lunch or dinner around its one long table, five hours of drinks and your cake cut and served. Sundays and public holidays are 15% more.
A three-course menu with two options every course, ordered on the day; five hours of Premium II drinks with canapes before you sit down; your cake cut and served; dedicated wait staff; tables, chairs and linen; and an event manager to guide you.
Every elopement is held in the Library: a small, elegant room with bookshelves down one wall, a marble fireplace at the end and one long table. You marry at one end and eat at the other. Photographs are in our gardens or the Botanic Garden across North Terrace.
Yes. Australian law needs two witnesses aged 18 or over, and they can be two of your guests.
Yes. You book your own authorised celebrant, and your photographer is welcome all day. Our team will look after both on the day.
Your celebrant lodges a Notice of Intended Marriage with you at least one month, and no more than eighteen months, before the date. Book your celebrant early and they will take you through the rest.
Your outfits, your celebrant, your cake, and any flowers or centrepieces you would like on the table. We provide the venue, the food and drinks, the tables, chairs and linen, and we cut and serve your cake. If you bring centrepieces, we will set them on the table for you.
The Micro Wedding is for up to twenty-four: $1,000 room hire and a $3,000 minimum spend across the Library and the Ballroom, with the same menu, drinks and event manager. Above twenty-four, our wedding packages start from $176 per head.
Planning something bigger? See our wedding packages, from $176 per head for up to 350 guests.
Ask about your date
Every enquiry goes to one of our event managers, who will check your date and come back to you personally. We would love to hear what you have in mind.
Would you rather talk it through? Call (08) 8224 0666
or email info@ayershouse.com.au
