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Navarra Venues
Self Catering
Navarra Venues offers self catering options for clients who prefer to use their own caterer. To accomodate those who have specific preferences such as cultural catering or stricter dietary requirements, we can tailor food service accordingly.
Plan Your Self Catered Event at Navarra Venues
Flexibility & Personalisation
Navarra Venues understands that in some cases there may be unique cultural or dietary requirements. For this reason we offer flexibility for clients who want to use cultural specific catering teams, family-run catering and sometimes even celebrity chefs.
Venue Back‑of‑House Support
When our guests choose to use a different catering service, we still offer kitchen and infrastructure access, service staff, bar coordination, logistics support, cleaning, waste management and permits coordination where required.
Commercial Kitchen access
- Kitchen hire including use of ovens, stove-tops, benches for food prep, dish washing – all food to be prepared off site by the caterer (commercial kitchen hire is non-exclusive).
- Navarra Venues kitchen hands included.
- Kitchen access 3 hours before event at venue discretion.
Self Catered Wedding Inclusions
Venue & Atmosphere
- Room hire for breakfasts, luncheons or dinner events. Venue takeover options also available.
- Elegant red carpet arrivals
- Exquisite ballrooms with chandeliers, plush carpets, high ceilings and refined décor*
- Polished parquetry dance floor*
- Round banquet tables with chairs, white linen, crockery, cutlery and glassware
- Bridal and cake table with silk pleated dressing (or staging if preferred)
- Gift table and guest book station
- Complimentary onsite parking for guests
*rooms differ in features and fixtures according to venue and capacity
Service & Coordination
- Room manager and private host throughout your event
- Cake cutting and serving to each table
- Uniformed wait staff
- Ushers to greet guests and manage guest list
- Wireless microphone and lectern for speeches
- Assistance with place cards, bonbonniere and special gift placement
- Dedicated wedding producers to oversee all details
Selected cultural wedding packages may include:
- Unlimited non-alcoholic beverage package
- Canapés service for dinner events and entrée served to table by Navarra staff
- Buffet tables for main course and dessert (to be served by your caterer’s staff)
Cultural Weddings
Celebrate your wedding with tradition at one of our stylish venues. Navarra Venues is Sydney’s cultural wedding specialist with five decades of experience in creating unique cultural weddings. Explore our award-winning cuisine packages, traditional catering options and unique ceremony spaces.
Compliance & Quality Assurance
We require that all external caterers must meet NSW food safety standards, hold current Gold License status, and carry any applicable insurances.