Wedding Forum - Wedding Venues...

Hi everyone, I am just wondering out of curiosity where people have booked their wedding venue for? Who has gone for the traditional church wedding with separate reception venue and who has gone for the more modern manor house wedding/reception, or even anything different? I love hearing stories from people about their wedding, where they had it and what they did etc. It always makes me well up a little out of happiness whenever I think of our wedding. We have just booked ours for 18th April 2017 at Middleton Lodge in Richmond. The perfect dream wedding (I think)!

We are going for an all in one affair too.. our venue is a country house/luxury hotel - Beechfield House Hotel. :) it was the only venue we looked round and both fell in love with it instantly. The staff were amazing as soon as we stepped foot through the door and have been even more amazing since. No one we know had heard of it.. we feel really lucky to have found it. A little gem :)

I've just searched your venue online - it looks stunning. Right up my street :) xx

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Our venue is 30 mins away from us as well :) the key thing for us was to just have somewhere different. We didn't want our wedding where loads of people who live by us have been married.. not being snobby or anything, lol.

We looked at quite a few barns online.. there are quite a few quite local to us. Really liked that idea as well but we fell in love with our venue and the rest as they say is history! xx

It's called Beechfield House Hotel, in Wiltshire near Melksham. We live in Swindon.

Yeah it's an ideal distance to be somewhere 'different' but also close enough as to not inconvenience any of your guests! Most of our guests will be staying the night of the wedding as well so it's a bit of a 'get away' for the weekend for them :) x

We are getting married in a church and then having the reception in a hotel 30 mins away x

Hi KatieD, do you find it more stressful to have two different venue's? How are you managing with your planning?

And yes, FutureMrsPx, that is what we thought as well. If we were to have our wedding on the weekend, not only would it cost at least three grand more, the minimum number of guests also went up as we felt that we would be inviting people just to bump up the numbers and not necessarily because we wanted them there. At the moment we have roughly 70 guests including children, which consists of a select few close friends, immediate family and a few great aunties-uncles and cousins. It is so much easier when you have smaller numbers, although I still feel that 70 is quite a lot but nevertheless it is the people we want there xx

No I've always wanted to get married in a church and then travel to the reception in a nice vintage wedding car. It's not going to be any trouble at all (hopefully lol) Plans are going well :) x

Was gonna post a pic of venue but it had venue name on and don't think it's allowed

Oh yeah, forgot about not being allowed to mention names.. oops :)

The wedding breakfast is just the fancy name for the meal after your ceremony.. so not a breakfast at all, will be a late lunch/early dinner really haha!

If you set things up at home, like your centre pieces for the tables and stuff, you can also take photos so they will have a visual reference to go by as well :) it's going to be hard trusting someone else to set everything up and get it looking perfect, but they do it so often I'm sure it will be amazing!

The bar stops serving all guests who aren't staying at the venue at midnight, but if people are staying they will keep serving until everyone has gone to bed.. considering the majority of people will be staying at our wedding, I think it's going to be a late one!

Yes, our days and venues do seem very similar! :) we are also going for a vintage theme (haha), combined with a country garden theme and are having a pastel colour scheme. All 4 of my bridesmaids will be wearing different colours and my little flower girl in a different colour as well xx

We knew which Venue we wanted so went and had a look and fell in love with it. Didn't even look at any others. Our colour is hot pink x

I think it is lovely when you can walk into somewhere and know straight away that you want it, KatieD. And you can get plenty of hot pink wedding decorations for it as well (there are some ideas on Pinterest). I have seen some lovely ideas where the bridemaids are wearing hot pink with soft pink flowers etc. And it looks surprisingly good on the grooms men as well!
I don't have an Etsy account, but love Pinterest. I have known for ages exactly what kind of dress I want (I just hope it actually suits me), and what kind of decorations etc I want. Thank fully my fiance loves all the ideas I have put forward, although he does keep saying that the day is really for me and that he is happy as long as I am! Typical men. I keep saying to him that if we were to go on Don't Tell the Bride, we would have everything done perfectly because we talk about it so frequently and discuss different things we can do, although I don't think they take on people who know so much about what the other half wants. I know it is just under three years away but I can't help but get excited, and can't help but plan how I want certain things already. We have already started compiling our playlist. There are a few more songs to put on it but the rest we are just going to leave to the guests. Pinterest idea... on the bottom of your invites leave a section for the guests to provide a song which they would like played at your reception and then either put it on your playlist or give it to your DJ along with the rest of the songs. Means half the work for you! x

Mine is at the science and industry museum in manchester :)

Wow, these venues all look amazing! I think it is great when you can have something which has a lot of meaning to you personally, especially when your other half agrees! And as for the museums, they are such an unusual and unique place and yet so beautiful as well... I love it! People will definitely remember your weddings, they will definitely stand out in their minds :) what was your reasoning behind the venue? x

That looks lovely MrsJennKirby2b! Do you get to hire this exclusively and stay overnight? I imagine you will get loads of lovely pictures out in the gardens! x

We are having a 'all in one affaire' we just though it would be easier that way. We looked at about 10 different venues but when I walked in to the one we picked I just knew it was the one :). We are getting married on a Sunday to make is affordable so we can get married there. It a place called the Elevtham Hotel, it's in a little village called Hartney Whitney about 20 mins from where we live in Basingstoke :).
This is what it looks like.

I am loving all these venues :)

That is exactly what you want in a venue, somewhere which is unique to you and your h2b so that it is very memorable for yourselves and for your guests. It is why we chose our venue, because it isn't local and nobody we know or any of our guests know has been there before. Plus it is beautiful. Yours sounds lovely! :) x

It is a huge venue with 120 rooms, so no exclusive hire but we are the only wedding booked there for our weekend :)

Definitely Jessica. It was everything we hoped it would be :) We are so lucky to have the church too as it isn't our parish church but we've always wanted to get married there and it's near my parents, although they are just outside of the parish. Xx

We don't really have a specific theme but we are having roses in fish bowls for the centre pieces and on the cake and in the bouquets xx

Ours is in gretna green In Scotland then reception in Carlisle .

We are getting married in our parish church and then reception is about 15 mins down the road in a beautiful manor barn with exclusive use of the grounds surrounding it.

Gretna looks lovely on a night! I must admit, I wasn't fond of the idea of getting married at gretna when my mother in law (to be) mentioned it, as it is too far away for all the people we want to be there and I wanted something in a big house! I know someone who got married there though. And Carlisle is a lovely place!
Your reception sounds so beautiful, ErinV! We looked at barns before, even a treehouse venue, but they were all a bit too far away for us :(
It definitely sounds like you are going with a rose theme there KatieD, haha. It sounds nice. I saw this idea on pinterest where the guests were given cones filled with lavender buds or violet petals (perfect for my wedding with the colours), maybe you could do something like that too but with roses? Or maybe have something with rose scent? x