Evan Walker Bridge, love along the Yarra

In the heart of Southbank, the Evan Walker Bridge spans the Yarra facing Melbourne’s skyline. Thousands of couples have hung their promise there, one love lock at a time. Padlove carries on the gesture: your vow lives on the map, with both your names, without ever weighing on its railings.

The story of the place

A pedestrian bridge thrown across the Yarra, the Evan Walker Bridge links the two banks in the heart of Southbank, Melbourne’s liveliest district. You cross it to reach the quays, between reflections of the skyline and the city’s comings and goings. Its central location made it, almost naturally, a meeting point for lovers coming to leave a trace of their passage.

For years, its railings filled with love locks. Thousands of couples sealed their promise there, each adding a link to this chain of vows suspended above the water. The bridge thus became, like so many others around the world, a place where people came to say “forever” facing the quays and the skyline.

In 2015, the city removed these locks: their weight and safety concerns demanded it. The gesture, though, did not have to disappear. That is where Padlove takes over: your love lock lives on the map, never on the railing, carrying on the bridge’s tradition without a gram on its railings or the slightest harm to its heritage.

Why seal your love lock here

• Seal your vow at Southbank, where thousands of couples have said “forever” facing the Yarra.
• Carry on the tradition of the locks removed in 2015, without ever weighing on the railings or damaging the bridge.
• Fix your promise with both your names, legible forever, where the metal is gone but the love remains.

Continue the journey

• Pont des Arts — The bridge of lovers from all over the world, made eternal.
• Pont de l’Archevêché — The narrowest of Paris bridges, the widest for hearts.
• Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor — From the Musée d’Orsay to the Tuileries garden, a pas de deux.