The Queensland Homes team visited Lagnicourt on its opening night, as the last light settled over the dam and the courtyard garden. Four generations of the McMahon family, a century of history on this land in Pozieres, and a new wedding and events venue that carries it all forward.
Lagnicourt is the newest Granite Belt wedding venue, and for anyone who knows the region, it fills a gap that has been there for a while. The area is well known for its wineries, orchards and long lunches, but there has never quite been a venue built specifically for weddings. Now there is.
The Stanthorpe Family Story Behind This Granite Belt Wedding Venue
In 1925, the McMahon family began farming the volcanic soils around Stanthorpe. Four generations later, they are still there, known nationally through McMahon Bros Orchards as certified organic growers of apples, pears, strawberries and seasonal vegetables.
Lagnicourt sits on the fthe amily’s own land in Pozieres, a short drive from the McMahon farm. In that sense, the venue is simply an extension of ground the family has worked for a hundred years. Even the name carries history. It was given by Clyde McMahon on his return from the First World War, in memory of a battlefield in Northern France where he served.
David and Emily McMahon, who met on television’s Farmer Wants a Wife, have led the project alongside the wider family. Speaking on opening night, they described it as more a labour of love than a business venture, built to honour four generations on the land while giving the region something it has long been missing.
Lagnicourt: A New Destination for Granite Belt Weddings
The design draws clearly on the French countryside: soft limewash walls, checkerboard floors, candlelit tables. Nothing about it feels imported or out of place. If anything, the aesthetic sits comfortably alongside the Granite Belt’s own long-standing love of good food, good wine and slow, unhurried gatherings.
Beyond the design, Lagnicourt has clearly been built with weddings in mind. There is a main reception room for dining and dancing, two separate outdoor ceremony spaces, and capacity for up to 150 guests. Couples are free to bring their own caterers and vendors, with the McMahon family on hand throughout for local knowledge and recommendations, a nice reflection of a region that has always done hospitality on its own generous terms.
That flexibility matters because Lagnicourt is not just a Pozieres wedding venue in isolation. It sits twenty minutes from Stanthorpe and 2.5 hours from Brisbane, right in the middle of Granite Belt wine country. With the region’s cellar doors, produce stalls and growing range of Granite Belt accommodation nearby, there is a good case for treating a wedding here as a proper weekend away rather than a single-day event, guests arriving Friday and staying through to Sunday.
It is this combination, a venue with real history behind it, set inside a region that already knows how to host people well, that makes Lagnicourt worth watching as a genuine destination wedding Queensland option outside the usual coastal and hinterland choices.
Lagnicourt is now taking wedding and event bookings for the 2026 and 2027 seasons.
Photography: Sapphire, Duke of August
