Choosing wedding venue - Please help!

Where abouts do you live Perfectionist? In Manchester there is a beautiful place called The Monastery https://www.themonastery.co.uk/

this was my dream venue but it was just too big for us to be able to fill. It's an old Monastery which went derelict and then someone bought it and nursed it back to health bringing back a lot of the old features. Its like a cathedral - but is licenced for civil ceremonies only.

If it's not too far for you, you should take a look - definitely ticks the gothic box!

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Excellent! Thank you very much xtine88xx – this looks perfect! I had been trawling the Internet (what with my ineptitude regarding these matters) and found myself a bit discouraged. I had not been a member of this website community but an hour until you replied with a brilliant suggestion. (I’m actually despairingly picky sometimes, so you have my absolute respect!)

I was just gonna say, you can get married anywhere at all you like with no license if you go for a humanist, but if its in England then sadly it won't be legal til you then visit a registry office and make it official.

We're having a humanist ceremony but in Scotland where its all legal

hi there, I do not know the wedding venue, but suggest you send your confuse to different article, then more people could see it , then help you figure it out.

Hello,

This is my dream venue but was a little out of my budget and a bit far for my guests to travel:

https://www.mansfieldtraquair.co.uk/

Good luck with the venue search x

Natural History Museum? Although it is only available for receptions... Looks bloomin cool though :o)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-centre/exclusive-events/private/weddings/index.html

Same for The Science Museum... also cool - appeals to the physics teacher/science grad in me :o)

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/doing_business_with_us/corporate_and_private_events/weddings.aspx

Imperial College in London:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/communication/

Sorry, all very London based, but the idea could equally be applied to anywhere else in the UK, maybe one of Cambridge or Oxford Colleges?

A friend of a friend got married at the Monastery in Manchester and I've seen the pictures, it looks amazing!

National Railway Museum York, Kew gardens,
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

My wife is a wedding planner and specialises in finding suitable venues!

This venue is a former steelworks in South Yorkshire - haven't been for a wedding so can't comment on that.

http://www.visitmagna.co.uk/content/202/weddings-at-magna

It is gorgeous at the Monastery! there's a video on the website of the first wedding they did and i've watched it about 10 times and everytime I have cried!

Why not come down to the Garden of England - Kent. We have some fantastic venues... Eastwell Manor in Ashford being one of the best I've photographed a wedding at!

Depends where you are happy to travel to but in Manchester you could either try:

MOSI ( Science and industry museum)

Or Gorton Monastery - Which is absolutely stunning! I went a while back and was told that it had lots of weird windows, and they couldn’t understand why, and it was so when the sun shone on ( e.g) St Georges day the light would shine through a particular window onto the St George! defiantly worth a look!

How about https://legothique.co.uk/Weddings.html

Most of these are only available to alumni or people with a connection to the college, certainly for the chapels. More and more are becoming licensed for civil ceremonies though, so it might be worth a try.