Help! Need venue for late wedding and buffet

Have you tried looking at midweek and off season dates? The venues are more flexible then re what packages they offer.

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Hi, I don't know the area so I'm sure you will get more specific advise from others but if costs are spiraling what about either a registry office wedding followed by your party at a nice country pub or a celebrant/humanist ceremony somewhere that isn't licenced for weddings. That would still need the registry office before or after to make it legal but would allow you a nicer ceremony that isn't legal to invite everyone to. Keep the registry office as just the legal bit that you don't invite people to. ?

Do you have any nice church halls near you? We have a gorgeous one in our village, it was restored a few years ago, and I have see pictures of it dressed up for weddings, and it looks gorgeous.

One wedding had the guests on long tables with benches, and the wedding party on a table across the top. They had decorated the tables really nicely and had a few decorations/fairy lights etc. They also had a buffet. The only thing is you'd probably have to apply for an occasional license for music and dancing, and to serve alcohol, but these are easy to obtain (although you wouldn't be able to sell alcohol - guests would have to bring their own or you'd need to supply it free of charge).

This is a wedding in Kent in a village hall which came up on an Internet search, and it looks fab - https://english-wedding.com/2013/09/a-colourful-traditional-floral-country-village-fete-wedding-in-kent/

It depends where you are. I haven't been but there's The Night Yard near Canterbury that looks .....interesting. They're on facebook and have a website though a bit crap.

There's a pub called the Blue Pigeon (I think though might need to come back and edit that) in Worth. My friends son recently got married there and looks lovely. You could also try the universities etc... ok so maybe not the most attractive buildings but somewhere like UKC has great views. Um.... there's also a place Margate way called Salmestone Grange.

Hope these help.

If you go on KCC's website, they have a lot of venues you can search through: http://www.akentishceremony.com/venues/

This might be a bit patronising, but have you tried just ringing and asking places you like? Some friends of ours did that and had a 1700 thursday ceremony at Muncaster Castle in Cumbria at an unfeasibly cheap price.