Rustic Warehouse Weddings with Exceptional Food and Seamless Service
If you’re dreaming of an urban warehouse wedding with authentic charm, Gather & Tailor is the perfect backdrop for your big day. Located just minutes from Melbourne’s CBD, this venue offers the best of both worlds: a rustic, character-filled space with all the convenience of a city location.
Essential Catering brings over 16 years of experience delivering fresh, vibrant menus and seamless service to Melbourne’s most loved venues, including Gather & Tailor. We’ll help you create a wedding day that’s relaxed, memorable, and completely tailored to your style.
This versatile warehouse space lets your vision shine, while Essential Catering brings seamless food and service to complete the experience. We’ve catered hundreds of Melbourne weddings, delivering delicious menus, attentive wait staff, and complete care for every couple.
Whether you’re hosting a relaxed cocktail-style celebration, a shared banquet, or a formal seated reception, our team will handle every detail so you can focus on celebrating.
Every wedding is unique, and your menu should reflect that. Our flexible catering options allow you to create a food experience that suits your style, complements the space, and keeps your guests happy.
Popular catering styles for Gather & Tailor weddings include:
Our chefs work with fresh, high-quality ingredients to craft menus that taste as good as they look, with options for all dietary needs and preferences.
Get In TouchWe believe your catering experience should be seamless, stress-free, and all-inclusive. With Essential Catering, you’ll receive everything needed for flawless food service at Fior, without unexpected charges or last-minute surprises.
You can relax knowing our team handles everything behind the scenes, so you and your guests can simply enjoy the celebration.
Pre-wedding menu tasting to perfect your selection
Professional wait staff keeping food and drinks flowing
A dedicated event manager overseeing every element of service
Complete set-up, pack down, crockery, glassware, and tableware provided
Full consideration of dietary requirements, from allergies to preferences
Gather & Tailor is known for its rustic elegance with timber floors, exposed beams, natural light, and flexible spaces that suit your vision. Our experienced team works behind the scenes to ensure your food and beverage service enhances the atmosphere, without interrupting the flow of your day.
From casual pre-ceremony drinks on the deck to formal dining or vibrant cocktail parties in the reception space, we’ll tailor every detail to suit your style.
Gather & Tailor is the ideal venue for couples wanting creative freedom. With its raw, industrial character and open-plan design, the space can be transformed to reflect your personal style, and Essential Catering ensures your food service feels equally personalised.
We’ll help bring your wedding vision to life with:
With over 16 years’ experience catering Melbourne’s most memorable weddings, Essential Catering brings genuine care, flawless food, and thoughtful inclusions to every event.
Couples trust us for:
We take the stress out of wedding catering, so you can focus on celebrating your love story.
Ready to bring your rustic warehouse wedding to life? Gather & Tailor offers the perfect backdrop, and Essential Catering provides the flawless food, seamless service, and complete care to match.Contact our team today for a fast, personalised quote or to book your wedding menu tasting.
Call (03) 9761 4188 to speak with our wedding catering team.
Yes — all our wedding catering packages include a pre-event tasting so you can perfect your menu.
Absolutely. We cater for all dietary needs, including gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, and allergy-specific requests.
Yes — we provide tailored menus and flexible service formats to suit seated dining, cocktail receptions, or a combination of both.
Yes, our dedicated events manager Katrina has put together menus for hundreds of Melbourne weddings and she will be delighted to share her advice.
Simply contact us and chat to our events manager Katrina and she will put together an itemised wedding catering quote for you.
Yes, you pay an initial installment to lock in your booking, and the balance is due 10 business days prior to your event.
Yes, we have a variety of mobile kitchen equipment we can bring, including oviens. We just need allocated space to work from that has access to power.
Yes, we do charge additional fees if there is not a kitchen we can use to prepare your catering. We will itemise all the details of the additional charges in your custom quotation.
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Yes, we cater to any dietary request that you or your guests may have. In order to plan the menu, we ask that you provide a list of each guest and their specific dietary requirements at least ten days in advance of your wedding. If your guest has a specific food intolerance, we will prepare a dish specifically for that guest. Plus, if there’s a dish you love, we can make it gluten free, vegan, dairy-free, nut free, etc. For each request that deviates from our main menu, we charge an additional $12 per person.
We invite you to our commissary kitchen in Bayswater North to taste a selection of yummy delights prepared by our team of foodies. Have your questions answered, taste a selection of amazing dishes from your menu of interest and our events teams will work with you to develop a draft schedule for your big day. Our chef and sales manager are on site to answer any questions you may have about finalising your menu. You are sure to leave with confidence that your wedding catering is in good hands.
Yes, for children aged 2-12 we can provide a child’s meal for $18 per person. Alternatively, if the children are eating the same food as the adults, we offer a 25% discount off the adult price.
Typically, we ask to know the numbers two weeks prior to the wedding so we can start preparing for your event in advance.
Our menu prices are based on at least 40 guests. We can cater for smaller numbers, but a surcharge will apply.
It depends on the style of the event. For finger food events, we allow one food waiter per 50 people and for seated events we allow one waiter per 25 people. We believe plenty of staff make for a smooth, stress-free event for your guests so we always have more than adequate numbers of waiters and bartenders for your wedding. We also provide a dedicated event manager on site to supervise the waiters and bar staff during the food service at your wedding.
As per our terms and conditions, if you wish to cancel:
If you wish to postpone: