A mark built around the feeling.
We created the logo and identity from scratch, made to carry the estate's elegance and its lost-in-nature feel across every page.
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Longmeadow Estate Accommodation and weddings, Shipwreck Coast, Victoria
A beautiful place needed its own front door.
Longmeadow Estate is an accommodation and wedding venue on Victoria's Shipwreck Coast. They wanted a website of their own: somewhere people go straight to, without a booking marketplace in the way.
- What we did
- Logo and brand mark, website design and build, wedding brochure with automated delivery
- Pages
- The estate, Weddings and Gallery
- Now
- Hosted and managed by us since launch
Couples want to fall for a place. A listing page isn't built for falling.
On a booking marketplace, a venue is one thumbnail in a row of thumbnails, judged on price and filters. Longmeadow had the historic homestead, the gardens and the coast. What they didn't have was a website of their own, or a logo to put on a brochure or a sign.
The brief: capture the elegance of the place and that lost-in-nature feeling, using imagery they already had.
Three calls that did the heavy lifting
Their own photos do the selling.
The site is built entirely on imagery Longmeadow already had. No stock, no filler. For a venue, the photography is the argument, so it leads on every page.
The brochure arrives on its own.
A couple who enquires gets the wedding brochure by email straight away, while their interest is highest. Longmeadow gets the contact to follow up. Nobody sits refreshing an inbox.
What they needed, what they got
The needWhat we built
WebsiteOnly listings on someone else's platformA website of their own, to be visible and sell directly
BrandNo logo, no consistent identityA logo and mark built around the place
PhotosBeautiful imagery of the estateThe estate, Weddings and a Gallery, all led by their own photography
WeddingsCouples wanting the full detailA wedding brochure, sent automatically by email the moment they enquire
Questions this project usually raises
We already get bookings through listing platforms. Why have our own site?
Because a listing is a comparison page, and your own site is not.
Longmeadow's website gives couples and guests a place to fall for the venue on its own terms, with the brand, photography and detail a marketplace listing strips out.
Our photos are our best asset. Will you use them or stock images?
Yours, always, when they're good.
Longmeadow's site was built entirely around imagery they already had. No stock, no filler. If your photography isn't there yet, we'll tell you what's worth shooting.
What does the ongoing arrangement cover?
Hosting and management, month to month.
The site stays online, secure and up to date, and changes are handled without the venue needing to touch anything.
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