One wedding a day · Swan Valley
Quarrylight: a restored packing shed in Henley Brook, yours for the whole day.
One wedding a day, the whole site, and the prices are right here. Put your guest count and a date in for a total.
Certificate of approval PB0000 — 180 persons maximum. Our seated layout holds 140. All prices include GST.
What it costs
Six lines, and there is no seventh.
Food, drink and the venue. Everything else on this page is either included or named as not included — there is no service charge, no cakeage, no per-head styling fee and no Sunday surcharge hiding underneath.
Cocktail reception
Nine canapés and two substantial plates passed across four hours, plus the classic beverage package. The cheapest complete way to do a wedding here.
from $167 a guest · canapés $98 + beverage $69Three-course shared feast
Entrée boards, two mains and two sides down the middle of the table, dessert plated. Cooked in our kitchen, not trucked in.
$118 a guest · food onlyClassic beverage package
Four hours. Two Swan Valley whites, two reds, a sparkling, two tap beers, a cider and the soft drinks. Spirits on consumption, billed after.
$69 a guest · four hoursWhole-venue hire
The Barrel Hall, the terrace, the lawn, the car park and the getting-ready room, from 8am to midnight. Nobody else is on site.
$3,200 a Saturday · $2,200 Friday or SundayCeremony on the vine terrace
Chairs, signing table, PA and the wet-weather move inside if it comes to that. Add it to a reception or take it on its own.
$950 flat, up to 180 seated outdoorsMinimum spend
A floor on the day, not an extra charge. If your food, drink and hire already clear it you never see it — and we will show you the Friday that removes it.
$22,000 a Saturday · $9,000 any other dayAll inc GST. Spirits, late-night extensions past midnight, celebrant, photographer, cake and accommodation are not ours and are not in these numbers. For what it is worth, Easy Weddings’ 2026 venue-cost guide says “Our friends out west reported an average wedding venue hire price of $16,074 in 2026” and that “you can expect to pay around $170 to $220 per head for your venue”. Most of what this room produces lands inside that range. A small wedding on a Saturday lands a long way outside it, and the estimate above shows you exactly why rather than letting you find out later.
The number before you drive out
Will we fit, and what’s it come to?
in the room
Sat 13 Mar 2027
Fits110 seated on 11 tables, inside our 140-seat layout.
Sat 13 Mar 2027$23,770
Plan of the Barrel Hall: 268 m² of shed, 180 m² counted once the kitchen, the stage, the toilets and the floor behind the bar come out. The dark plate is the certificate of approval, displayed in the main entrance where regulation 8(1) says it belongs.
An estimate, not a contract — but it is the same arithmetic we use to write one, and nothing is hidden underneath it. Spirits on consumption and anything you bring in yourself sit outside it.
What the numbers mean
Where 180 comes from, and why 140 is a different kind of number.
Two capacity figures appear on this page and they are not the same species. One is on a certificate issued under Western Australian law. The other is what fits once you put tables and a dance floor in the room. Venues blur them constantly; here is the difference in full.
180 is the legal one
A wedding venue is a public building. Under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911, section 178, a public building holds a certificate of approval that specifies “the purpose or purposes for which the public building may be used” and “the maximum number of persons that the building may be used to accommodate”. The same section makes it an offence to “accommodate any number of persons in excess of the number specified in the certificate of approval” — and section 178(4) is blunt about it: “A person who contravenes a provision of this section commits an offence.”
Ours says 180. Certificate of approval PB0000, for the Barrel Hall. That is the number a venue cannot argue with, cannot round up for you on the night, and should be able to show you on request.
“Subject to this regulation and regulation 9A, the maximum number of persons that may be accommodated in a public building other than large licensed premises shall be ascertained in accordance with the Table to this subregulation.” Health (Public Buildings) Regulations 1992, regulation 7(1) — legislation.wa.gov.au
The Table is area per person, in square metres. Four of its rows, quoted exactly as they appear — they are separate rows, and they are not the whole Table:
| Row, as written | Square metres per person |
|---|---|
| Hall | 1 |
| Restaurant | 1 |
| Cafe, church, dining room | 1 |
| Conference room — unfixed seating | 0.5 |
There is no single row that combines restaurant with dining room. If a venue quotes you one, they are describing something that is not in the Regulations.
What gets left out of the floor area — and this is the part worth knowing
The area is not the building. Regulation 7B(d) says that “kitchens, stages, sanitary areas, and staff areas, including staff areas behind counters, shall not be included.” The Barrel Hall is a 268 m² shed. Take out the kitchen, the stage, the toilets and the floor behind the bar and 180 m² is counted. At the Hall row’s 1 m² a person, that is our 180.
This is why two venues with the same footprint can carry very different certificates, and why a room that “feels bigger” sometimes holds fewer people. Ask which areas were excluded. A venue that knows the answer has read its own certificate.
And it is meant to be on the wall
Regulation 8(1) says the certificate “shall be displayed in a conspicuous position in the main entrance” — in, not at. Ours is in a frame on the left as you come through the sliding doors of the Barrel Hall. Look for it when you tour any venue; it takes four seconds and it settles the capacity question for good.
140 is ours, and it is an operational number
Fourteen round tables of ten, a dance floor, a bar run and the service lanes between them. That is what the Barrel Hall lays out to, and it is 140 seated. It is not a legal limit, we are not required to publish it, and nobody would prosecute us for laying out a fifteenth table — the room would just be a worse night. Standing, with the tables out, the certificate’s 180 is the number that binds.
We have not published a renewal or expiry interval for the certificate anywhere on this page, because the current Regulations do not set one. If another venue tells you its certificate “expires” on a date, ask what they are actually referring to.
You get a total on this page
Guest count, seated or cocktail, a date. No form, no “download our pricing guide”, no waiting three days for a PDF with a per-head figure and an asterisk.
We hold the date for seven days
Free, no deposit, no pressure. If you go elsewhere, tell us and we release it. Booking takes a signed agreement and 25% of the estimate.
One wedding, one team, one day
We do not run a second function in the paddock. The whole site is yours 8am to midnight, and the same coordinator runs your tour, your tasting and your night.
When we are the wrong answer
Three of them, and each one costs us money to say out loud.
- More than 140 seated. We can seat 140. If your list is 165 at tables, we are not your venue — and no amount of clever floor planning changes that. Ask a bigger room the three questions above.
- A small wedding on a Saturday. The Saturday minimum spend is $22,000 and it is real. On the estimator’s five-guest steps a seated Saturday only clears it at 105 guests; at 100 it is $100 short, and at 45 guests you would be paying $10,385 for nothing. Take the Friday. The estimate says so itself, with the figure.
- You want your own caterer. We cook everything in our own kitchen and we do not release it. That is exactly why we can publish $118 a guest instead of “from $ enquire” — but if the food is the reason you are choosing a venue, book one with an open list.
Demonstration reviews
What couples say afterwards.
Written as demo copy for this build, not collected from real guests, and deliberately not marked up as review data.
We had 132 and were told by two other places that we would “probably be fine” at capacity. Anthea walked us to the certificate in the entrance and showed us the 180, then said the seated layout was 140 and we would be tight but right. That was the moment we booked.
Priya & Tom
October 2025, 132 seated
We wanted a Saturday in March. Quarrylight emailed back the same night with both numbers side by side and told us the Friday was eleven thousand cheaper for our 45 people. No venue had ever argued us down before. We took the Friday and spent the difference on the band.
Georgia & Nathan
March 2026, 45 seated, a Friday
Rain from eleven in the morning straight through. The terrace ceremony moved inside at 1:40pm and was set by 2:15 with the barrels rolled back against the wall. Nobody asked us to decide anything. The final invoice matched the estimate to the dollar apart from the spirits.
Marcus & Elle
July 2026, 96 cocktail
The site
Eleven acres, one gate, and everything inside it is yours.
Henley Brook, in the Swan Valley — about half an hour from the Perth CBD on a clear run, and a shorter one from the airport. Guests park on site; there is no shuttle to organise unless you want one.
Scroll the plan sideways to see the whole block — it is drawn to one scale rather than shrunk to fit.
Getting ready in the Loft from 8amCeremony on the terrace, 4pm in MarchReception in the Barrel Hall until midnight
Asked every week
The seven questions that come in first.
What is the most people you can have?
180. That is the maximum on our certificate of approval, PB0000, and it is the number that binds no matter how the room is set. Seated at round tables we lay out to 140, because tables, a dance floor, a bar run and service lanes take floor that standing guests do not.
Is the capacity number a legal figure, or a venue’s opinion?
The 180 is legal. Under section 178 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 a public building’s certificate of approval specifies “the maximum number of persons that the building may be used to accommodate”, and it is an offence to “accommodate any number of persons in excess of the number specified in the certificate of approval”. The maximum itself is worked out under regulation 7(1) of the Health (Public Buildings) Regulations 1992, from an area-per-person Table — and regulation 7B(d) excludes “kitchens, stages, sanitary areas, and staff areas, including staff areas behind counters” from the floor area that gets counted.
The 140 is ours. It is an operational layout figure, not a legal one, and we will never present it as one.
What is the minimum spend, and why does it exist?
$22,000 on a Saturday, $9,000 any other day, inc GST. It is a floor on the whole booking — food, drink and venue hire all count toward it — not a charge on top. A Saturday takes the same eleven staff and the same closed site whether there are 45 guests or 140, and the minimum is how a single-booking venue survives the small ones.
If your booking clears the floor you will never see it. If it does not, the estimate prints the shortfall as its own line called Saturday minimum spend top-up, and then tells you what the same wedding costs on a Friday. On the estimator’s five-guest steps a seated Saturday clears the floor at 105 guests.
Can we bring our own caterer?
No. Everything is cooked in our kitchen by our chefs. It is the reason we can publish $118 a guest for the feast rather than a range with an asterisk, and the reason the invoice matches the estimate. You can bring your own cake with no cakeage, and we will plate and serve it.
What happens if it rains?
The ceremony moves into the Barrel Hall. We hold the call until two hours before the ceremony time, we make it rather than asking you to, and the changeover takes about twenty minutes because the barrels are on castors. There is no wet-weather fee and no separate marquee to hire — the indoor ceremony is the same $950.
What is not included in the numbers on this page?
Spirits, which are on consumption and billed after the night. Anything past midnight. Celebrant, photographer, florist, band or DJ, cake, and accommodation. Styling beyond our own tables, linen, glassware, crockery and candles. If you want us to quote a coordinated version of the lot we will, but it will be a separate line and you will see the margin on it.
Will you hold a date while we decide?
Seven days, free, no deposit, once. A held date shows as Held — ask us on the estimator above rather than disappearing, so you can still see it. To book we need a signed agreement and 25% of the estimate; the balance is due fourteen days before.
Next step
Send us the numbers and we will confirm them.
A real person reads this, checks the date is still open and replies with a written estimate on the same arithmetic you just ran. No sales call, no pricing guide to download.
Got it — we would reply within one business day.
On a real booking this lands in the venue inbox and the coordinator checks the date against the diary before answering, so you get a yes or a no rather than a brochure.
This is a demonstration page, so nothing was sent anywhere and no details left your browser. On the live version this same form writes straight into the venue’s booking system.