{"id":889082,"date":"2026-09-12T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889082\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:12:17","slug":"wattle-park-beloved-wedding-venue-burns-down-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889082\/","title":{"rendered":"Wattle Park: Beloved wedding venue burns down in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wedding venue near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/vic\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne <\/a>has burned down in a suspicious fire.<\/p>\n<p>Wattle Park Chalet in Wattle Park, in Surrey Hills east of the city dates back to 1928 and dubs itself one of the city\u2019s \u201cpremier wedding venues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wattle Park Chalet in Wattle Park, east of the city dates back to 1928 and dubs itself one of the city\u2019s \u201cpremier wedding venues,\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8a663e5f44b2e2c44b28621ffe4edcaa8e4d1868d1862dcb81c0b64079d32d07.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Wattle Park Chalet in Wattle Park, dubs itself one of the city\u2019s \u201cpremier wedding venues,\u201d but has now caught fire.\u00a0Facebook<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wedding venue near Melbourne has burned down in a suspicious fire.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9ae0e124241acd981e624459919ac6e95bf9c50f18ea76f3626538013a046514.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A wedding venue near Melbourne has burned down in a suspicious fire.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>Bosses say thousands of couples have tied the knot and held receptions at the heritage-listed Tudor-style building.<\/p>\n<p>School formals, debutante balls, fundraisers, anniversary parties, birthday parties, and christenings are also held there.<\/p>\n<p>Local One Nation candidate Jamie Baker said it was \u201cterrible news\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe woke to the sound of many fire trucks and unfortunately the Wattle Park Chalet has sustained serious damage.\u201d he said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/victoria-police-jei\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> confirmed they were called to the fire at 6.40pm and they\u2019re treating it as   suspicious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wedding venue near Melbourne has burned down in a suspicious fire. Wattle Park Chalet in Wattle Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-889082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}